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We haven't played Duke since 2014? Izod center?

SubbaBub said:
They don't want to play here, that simple.
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Someone please correct me if I am wrong, but I believe UConn and Duke had conversations about a home and home series years ago, but Duke insisted the games be at Cameron Indoor Stadium for their home games while the return home game be at MSG instead of at Gampel or Hartford.

If that is true, then sorry Duke that is a "no".
 
gsmooth said:
Someone please correct me if I am wrong, but I believe UConn and Duke had conversations about a home and home series years ago, but Duke insisted the games be at Cameron Indoor Stadium for their home games while the return home game be at MSG instead of at Gampel or Hartford.

If that is true, then sorry Duke that is a "no".
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This is true.
 
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Not defending Duke, but they have 20 conference games plus the ACC/SEC Challenge. Throw in one other event plus a MSG event and it is tough for them to schedule home and homes. Before COVID, the ACC played 18 conference games.

With the ACC down in basketball, playing a 20 game conference schedule really hurts teams' strength of schedule.
 
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UConnJim said:
Not defending Duke, but they have 20 conference games plus the ACC/SEC Challenge. Throw in one other event plus a MSG event and it is tough for them to schedule home and homes. Before COVID, the ACC played 18 conference games.

With the ACC down in basketball, playing a 20 game conference schedule really hurts teams' strength of schedule.
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You’d think they’d want to play at least a couple of hard games a year. A true home and home series would help them come tournament time but they don’t want that. Just keep the HS stars passing through on the treadmill to the NBA with a couple of college tourney wins to their credit. Good job.
 
cwh20 said:
You’d think they’d want to play at least a couple of hard games a year. A true home and home series would help them come tournament time but they don’t want that. Just keep the HS stars passing through on the treadmill to the NBA with a couple of college tourney wins to their credit. Good job.
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Generally, they play 3 hard games OOC each year.
 
puke needs to learn:


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Ripper32 said:
Has it been that long?
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We shouldve played them last year in the tourney but the commitee protected them from getting embarrassed on national tv and when questioned on it gave such a nonsense response the TNT guys just looked at each other with the "i call bs" expressions on their face. It was pretty comical. They later on called it out. But we all know what happened.
 
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nomar said:
Yeah, this is clearly fake but we're getting reeeeeeaaaaaallllllyyy close to it being indistinguishable from the real thing.
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If the "creator" had used a more believable script it could easily be mistaken for real
 
UConnTrumbull said:
If they don’t want to do a home-and-home let’s just meet at MSG and call it a day
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That's the game the people want. Right there. .. CBB fans across the country. I said above in another thread and I couldn't agree more.

Week between Christmas and New Year before the college football playoffs get serious. That championship game is January, 19, 2026.
 
I remember when I was very upset about not getting an ACC invite. Don’t care about Duke or any of those schools. They sold their identity and lost the lure they once had. Glad to be in the Big East.
 
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We currently have six trophies (the most important ones) while they only have five.

I am immensely confident that we will add to our number before they add to theirs. At some point they will need a game against us more than we will need a game against them. I'm willing to wait for them to call, we will have the negotiating advantage when we answer.
 
There are plenty of die hard Duke fans that were around and cocky as hell in 1998. In 1999, we shocked the world.

Now put yourself in the place of that 1998 Duke fan.

Count to 5. Stop.

Count to 6. Cry.

This has to eat at every damn one of them.
 
FfldCntyFan said:
We currently have six trophies (the most important ones) while they only have five.

I am immensely confident that we will add to our number before they add to theirs. At some point they will need a game against us more than we will need a game against them. I'm willing to wait for them to call, we will have the negotiating advantage when we answer.
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I don't think you are wrong except for one point that I want to correct, UConn does not * need * a game against Duke at all. It would behoove Duke to set up a real home and home with UConn, none of this "we play at Cameron and when it's turn for your home game we play you at MSG" nonsense. If UConn and Duke had a legitimate home and home series for at least 2 years or 4 years, it would be fantastic for both schools as well as the interest of the sport.
 
UConnJim said:
Not defending Duke, but they have 20 conference games plus the ACC/SEC Challenge. Throw in one other event plus a MSG event and it is tough for them to schedule home and homes. Before COVID, the ACC played 18 conference games.

With the ACC down in basketball, playing a 20 game conference schedule really hurts teams' strength of schedule.
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We also played 20 conference games and were in a conference challenge. Then we played in an MTE (Maui) and had 2 H&H games with Gonzaga and Texas. On the other hand Duke played a game in the champions classic and a game in the Vegas showdown and had a H&H game with Zona.

Assuming we replace MTEs with one off showcase type things then that’s the same number of high profile OOC games as Duke.
 
I don't care if we play Dook, but I do want home and home series against at least 2 top programs. Maybe 4, and replace those 3 games in 3 days tournaments. An MSG series is also acceptable for me

I want to move our cupcakes from 350ish to 150ish. That's how programs play the metrics game. Play a team you're supposed to beat by 20 instead of 30, and metrics tell you you're better. Whatever

More competition is fun
 
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