What is it about Syracuse...

[sarals24]

...that causes one of our players to always have a monster game against them?

 

[ThisJustIn]

...that causes one of our players to always have a monster game against them?

I believe that, deep down in their DNA, they just don't like orange.....

 

[pap49cba]

To your point....

NHRJimFuller Jim Fuller

In #UConn's history, there have been 17 games where a player has scored at least 34 points. 4 have come in last 5 games vs. Syracuse

 

[Aluminny69]

What is it about Syracuse

that causes one of our players to be seriously injured?

 

[ursusminor]

Maybe they're still holding a grudge. Wasn't there a really rough game a few years back where the team made a conscious decision to run up the score? I think somebody got hurt and Geno asked them how they wanted to respond to the roughness. Final score was something like 100-40. Geno said afterward that they were mad and wanted to embarrass Syracuse.
Seems like ever since then every game against them has had a little bit of that attitude.

 

[Icebear]

I believe that, deep down in their DNA, they just don't like orange.....

And yet somehow the team is now being subjected to the embarrassment of wearing gray and orange, hmmmm. I smell a conspiracy theory.

 

[Icebear]

Maybe they're still holding a grudge. Wasn't there a really rough game a few years back where the team made a conscious decision to run up the score? I think somebody got hurt and Geno asked them how they wanted to respond to the roughness. Final score was something like 100-40. Geno said afterward that they were mad and wanted to embarrass Syracuse.
Seems like ever since then every game against them has had a little bit of that attitude.

Yes, the night Caroline got hurt and Maya rained down 40.

 

[phil sampieri]

Yes, the night Caroline got hurt and Maya rained down 40.

I recall SU coach saying any one of his players could effectively guard Maya, Maya answered back with 40

 

[VAUConnFan]

Maybe they're still holding a grudge. Wasn't there a really rough game a few years back where the team made a conscious decision to run up the score? I think somebody got hurt and Geno asked them how they wanted to respond to the roughness. Final score was something like 100-40. Geno said afterward that they were mad and wanted to embarrass Syracuse.
Seems like ever since then every game against them has had a little bit of that attitude.

So that the truth does not get twisted, Caroline's injury had nothing to do with UConn's decision to run up the score.
The injuries to Caroline and to Mel Thomas the year before occurred on plays that did not involve contact with a Syracuse player. The closest player to Caroline when she got hurt was Renee Montgomery, and Thomas' injury occurred as she changed directions on her dribble near the left baseline.

 

[VAUConnFan]

I recall SU coach saying any one of his players could effectively guard Maya, Maya answered back with 40

If you can find the quote, I will apologize.

 

[Olde Coach]

So that the truth does not get twisted, Caroline's injury had nothing to do with UConn's decision to run up the score.
The injuries to Caroline and to Mel Thomas the year before occurred on plays that did not involve contact with a Syracuse player. The closest player to Caroline when she got hurt was Renee Montgomery, and Thomas' injury occurred as she changed directions on her dribble near the left baseline.

+1 VAU. Those are the facts re Caroline and Mel's injuries. NT

 

[Wonkster]

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I think they are dazzled by the shine from Q-Ball's polished noggin...

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[justML]

Wasn't it a Syracuse player that tripped Geno in the handshake line a few years back?

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[VAUConnFan]

Wasn't it a Syracuse player that tripped Geno in the handshake line a few years back?

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We all know the answer to that.

 

[Sargassoc]

So that the truth does not get twisted, Caroline's injury had nothing to do with UConn's decision to run up the score.
The injuries to Caroline and to Mel Thomas the year before occurred on plays that did not involve contact with a Syracuse player. The closest player to Caroline when she got hurt was Renee Montgomery, and Thomas' injury occurred as she changed directions on her dribble near the left baseline.

Yes, true-- but I was at the Doty-injury game and it wasn't long into that game that I turned to my friends and said, "the refs better do something soon or someone's gonna get hurt." No, Doty wasn't injured by another player, but the play itself in that game was as chippy as I'd seen in a long, long time. I get the difference between physical and chippy-- and that was chippy.

AND that was the infamous Nicole Michael "trip" after the game. . . not a shining moment by anyone's standards.

 

[Icebear]

So that the truth does not get twisted, Caroline's injury had nothing to do with UConn's decision to run up the score.
The injuries to Caroline and to Mel Thomas the year before occurred on plays that did not involve contact with a Syracuse player. The closest player to Caroline when she got hurt was Renee Montgomery, and Thomas' injury occurred as she changed directions on her dribble near the left baseline.

Didn't mean to imply that but understand how it looked.

 

[ursusminor]

So that the truth does not get twisted, Caroline's injury had nothing to do with UConn's decision to run up the score.
The injuries to Caroline and to Mel Thomas the year before occurred on plays that did not involve contact with a Syracuse player. The closest player to Caroline when she got hurt was Renee Montgomery, and Thomas' injury occurred as she changed directions on her dribble near the left baseline.

Thanks for clarifying that. My memory wasn't clear. I thought someone was hurt at that game, but I wasn't even sure it was Caroline. I was using the fact of the injury as something as a memory jog; I thought our team had decided to run the score once due to rough play, and I couldn't remember the details.
I do not believe any player has ever deliberately caused a serious injury to someone, and I apologize for implying that.