What will you remember the most about this Championship Team?

[jayp123669]

Outside of Big East, they were totally DOMINANT...kinda makes you go hmmm at this point.

 

[Magic32]

How tight this team is, they truly are a family.

 

[UCHuskies08]

How easy they made it

 

[navery12]

The 2 captains, Adama and Andre. Earned every single second of being a captain of a national championship team

 

[CTBasketball]

You are all my friends

 

[Magic32]

The steamroller through the tourney and the taste of the salt in the orange tears.

This steamroller

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

The improvement and adjustments

 

[BarkingDog]

Adama.

 

[EnochRoot]

What I will remember most about this team? Their motion on offense was so efficient it appeared like they were freakin synchronized swimmers.

 

[Gator 8202]

I'll remember a team that legitimately went 9 players deep

 

[jayteeman]

You Better Get Us Now!!!!

 

[F101Voodoo]

The fact that this team fought back after the January near disaster and went on to be champions of champions. Knocked down but not knocked out. That shows that they have basketballs.

 

[RF79]

I’ll remember how many people were writing us off before the season started. No true PG. Bench Ajax…then the tourney started and we never looked back. Pitino telling Dan Hurley that this team can win it all. After that I knew #5 was coming

 

[87Xfer]

That I never thought I would see us have a big as dominating and Mek than along came Adama. Absolute beast

That. Then Clingan coming in to spell him and making things possibly worse for the bad guys. Unreal!

 

[FfldCntyFan]

 

[SallyH]

Just how much they've grown during the course of the season. This is all Hurley. I don't want to revisit all the drama about Ollie's championship (while it's really Uconn's, as is this one) - it wasn't his recruits (ad nauseum).

And, for the record, I'm an enormous KO fan - UConn born and bred, as a player and a coach - just to clear up.

But WHAT THE HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NC#5

 

[WeAreUCONN]

They played like a real team. No one was above anyone else. From the last man on the bench to the best player, whichever player that is, they all competed, contributed, and played hard, on their way to a dream season.

 

[huskypantz]

The contributions from so many different players. This was truly a team. What an incredbile run and every player had a key role. Wow.

 

[jake14mw]

The balance and the depth. They were not reliant on any one player to play well. A true team effort!

 

[UCTitleTown]

Two things. Sanogo's drop step and Joey C's enthusiasm.

 

[Matrim55]

I'll remember the way they played -- the way they ran their sets, the way they hedged & recovered. It was all NBA-level execution from a bunch of 19-to-22-year-old kids.

You don't see that often. It was brilliant, and I'm so happy for these kids.

 

[Pmac923]

The second half against Xavier at Gampel . The crowd, the resolve and the toughness to dig deep out of a hole. Gampel was bumping that night.

 

[asteinindc]

yeah. i think from a technical standpoint, this was the best uconn team of all the ones who won a natty. in 99, the team all knew their roles and played brilliantly. In 04, the talent was just overwhelming. in 11 it was Kemba's magic that carried us. In 14, who the knows why we actually won.

This year, it was evident that we were simply a more sophisticated, smarter team than anyone else out there. Having spent decades (calhoun years too) lamenting that we seemed to never have that level of offensive acumen, this year's team was a total revelation. It never felt like we didn't have an answer. It was just a matter of execution.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

There has not been a UConn team since 2004 that looked this dominant out of the gate.

 

[SL Husky]

So many puzzle pieces that came to fit together perfectly, lots of guys giving up individual stats for the good of the whole.

Also, a super fun weekend in Vegas to win the West Regional (but now regret I couldn't make it to Houston, too).

 

[elmcityboy]

the dismal, dismal feelings in the summer of 2022 after nmsu and the transfers, buoyed slightly by the idea that we had a returning core of jackson, hawkins, and sanogo that could still somehow, someway be one of the best in college basketball.

then watching karaban and clingan for the first time in the fall and being genuinely excited. to be honest, after PK85 and 14-0, the only truly surprising thing that happened was the downswing. it was clear in november and december that we could win it all.

this team was so fun to watch.

 

[Chin Diesel]

The early season dominance.

The adjustments offensively and defensively after the January swoon. Karaban started to be able to guard the 4 spot and that was huge.

The dominance in the tourney.

A three act play.

 

[Tommyboy]

I am so thrilled I got to see the team in person when we rolled the gators. Love this team. They were so easy to pull for. Great kids.

 

[giddyup]

When they would click on all cylinders, they just played so spectacularly it was a thing of beauty. This was a team’s team with everybody just contributing and carrying the next guy. They came together and guys found their strengths and how to use them for the whole.

 

[NCHusky91]

The fact they buried the cock-a-roaches of conference realignment (Swofford, BC, Rutgers lucky sperm club, the AAC) and the fact that none of these parasite football schools ruining college sports came close to winning.