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I thought Final Four team in November and then when we pasted Arkansas I didn’t think there was a team that would beat us.

I gotta say, I was the most calm, un nerved with no butterflies during this tourney run than any other championship run we had. The eye test all year must have made me realize that we were not going to lose.
That or I’m spoiled and arrogant.
 
TheChamps990411 said:
I recently made a comment a bit tongue in cheek about nobody thought before the season that a title was realistic. I heard a lot of S16, some E8 predictions and some 2nd round exit expectations. Now once the season started it didnt take long for this team to show that it was a legit title contender but then they went into that horrible January slump and things looked pretty dicey for awhile. I must admit i lost faith in the dream of a title during that time and was simply hoping we could win a game or two which would at least be progress. But the moment that sticks out for me where i said to myself this team is cutting down the nets and there isnt a damn thing any team in this tournament can do about it was the opening of th second half of the Gonzaga blow out. I completely believed then and there it was over not only for the Zags but for everyone else in the tournament. Sure the Zags werent the Zags of previous seasons but that was a really good team that was in the top 10 most of the season and could score with anybody and they were shut down to 59 points. I had the same feeling in 2011 when we beat Arizona and in 2014 when we beat MSU.
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I had that "feeling" in November, but finally stuck my neck out here:

Dean Wormer​

One for the thumb!
That’s my theme for this season. We’re gonna get better and better, and we are winning it all."


You're welcome! ;)
 
When we went undefeated in non-conference play after being unranked preseason. Had a few wavering moments during conference play.
 
superjohn said:
I was extremely confident after we blasted Arkansas. When we were in the process of pasting Gonzaga and the guy next to me at the bar who put a ton of money on the Zags turned to me and said he had no idea how good we were and walked out it felt pretty damn good. Didn't know for certain but I didn't really feel any nerves for the final 4 games like I normally do...

The only other times I felt like that were in 2004 after getting through Duke (I've never been that nervous for a game in my entire life and I had every emotion from despair to ecstacy during that game.) That was the title game and there was no way we were losing to Georgia Tech again. I felt that same way in 2014 when we easily beat Florida in the semis. Had zero nerves playing Kentucky and treated the Florida win like it was the national championship
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Ah yes the Harrison twin massacre. Most satisfying win over UK/Squid of the two in the tourney. Watching their hyped backcourt absolutely terrorized by Bazz and Boat was beautiful.
 
I think a bunch are you are mistaken.

In January I responded a few times in a thread which was predicting disaster after our losing streak. My point was the Kemba team had a similar rough period and that it was way too early to give up on the team.

Boy did I catch hell for my posts, most saying no one is like Kemba and this year’s team is flawed. I recall only 1 or 2 other posters agreeing with my position.

I bring this up not to brag, but to remind many that they in fact lost faith in January.

That said I do realize no one ever makes mistakes on an anonymous internet board.
 
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A WVU buddy asked me what I thought about their chances after selection Sunday and I told him, “They could win it all or they could lose to Iona.” After the Gonzaga beat down, I didn’t think there was a team that could stay with them…except Creighton. When Creighton lost, I knew.
 
During the winning streak I was thinking, damn we’re good… but after the rough mid-season stretch and BET I took it game by game.

I was happy with a tournament win heading into the season. Still shocked we won it in such dominant fashion.

This is the exact moment I knew we would win it:

 
For me it was twice. After the first 14 games, I was sure they were a contender. So I thought definite FF team then. After we beat Gonzaga I was pretty confident we would have two fairly easy games to get chip 5. I will be honest Gonzaga worried me. Cold sweats remembering 1999…and they are so good offensively. We made them look almost mid major like. At that point I knew it was ours.
 
CL82 said:
Lol the best part of that realization is that you can't actually say it out loud. You just kind of think it to yourself. [Holy sh.it, we could win this whole thing!]
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Being in the moment is always a feeling you can never describe.
 
NEforceUConn said:
I think a bunch are you are mistaken.

In January I responded a few times in a thread which was predicting disaster after our losing streak. My point was the Kemba team had a similar rough period and that it was way too early to give up on the team.

Boy did I catch hell for my posts, most saying no one is like Kemba and this year’s team is flawed. I recall only 1 or 2 other posters agreeing with my position.

I bring this up not to brag, but to remind many that they in fact lost faith in January.

That said I do realize no one ever makes mistakes on an anonymous internet board.
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You’re not wrong. The good vibes from the last two months have erased what was a pretty miserable season on this board, right up through halftime of the Iona game. A lot of people are kidding themselves with the benefit of hindsight.
 
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When I saw this thread at halftime of the Iona game...

Official Fire Hurley Thread

More realistically I felt pretty confident after that first weekend - no Kansas, Creighton, or Marquette - along with the PK85 team showing itself again outside the Big East.
 
aburks41 said:
Yup. I was terrified of Iona and St Mary’s because I felt like Hurley just had to get the monkey off his back. Once we got past them and blasted Arkansas I knew we were going all the way
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A little bit of this.

UofCT said:
Once Creighton got eliminated
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A little bit of this.

FfldCntyFan said:
Yes. About ten minutes into the Arkansas game I was convinced nobody would stop us.

By the end of the Gonzaga game I was afraid we'd break the damned tournament.
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And a lot of this.

I’m very superstitious and I’m a Viking fan who has seen hope turn into horror in an instant, so I don’t think in terms of ‘we’re going to win the whole thing’, but after Arkansas, I really had trouble finding a team that I thought could beat us.

After Gonzaga, I felt like it was over, but I caught myself whenever I thought it. I was still panicky during the SDSU game…I watched it on my phone pacing around a parking lot on Florida. My inlaws were visiting us and I just could not watch the game with people who would be talking.

So I walked four miles in the parking lot. It was hot so I got a drink of water at halftime and then paced the rest of the game.
 
AreBee1969 said:
A WVU buddy asked me what I thought about their chances after selection Sunday and I told him, “They could win it all or they could lose to Iona.” After the Gonzaga beat down, I didn’t think there was a team that could stay with them…except Creighton. When Creighton lost, I knew.
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And even then, I think UConn would've beaten Creighton in the finals. In fact they should've beaten Creighton in Omaha for the season sweep.
 
PK classic. I thought there was not a single team better than us. Just had to get back to form.
 
After the Gonzaga game.. I said to my daughter “ He we go. Your going to see something special “
 
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I think I knew we were capable when we went out west in November, but the comeback against G'Town was the clincher for me.
 
Once Miami knocked off Texas. The thought of a home crowd like MSU in 09 (plus a potentially healthy Disu) was the only thing I could see stopping the party.
 
I believed after Iona, and I knew when Chreighton and Marquette were eliminated.
 
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Dove said:
Phil Knight Tournament for me.
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Same, I honestly told everyone I knew since November we had the type of team make up that could win it all which is why all of the frustrating losses later on in the season made me rip my limited hair out and post some salty stuff during game chats. I didn’t think we would mop the floor with anyone in our path in the tourney, however.
 
gtcam said:
In 2013-2014 they started 12-1 with only loss by 2 to Stanford and only had 8 losses total. Yet you never felt it - even during the NCAAs? Must be KO hate syndrome
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I completely underestimated how good Bazz was - I was spoiled by Kemba a few years earlier, and he never seemed close to Kemba in my mind. And during the NCAA’s - I just kept expecting them to finally lose. Don’t get me wrong, I watched them, but that’s the one title team that I will tell you I’d be bullshitting if I said I thought they could go through Iowa state and Michigan state. Florida was obviously possible, but I still look back at that team as overachievers.
 
Cassius Klaiber said:
Once Miami knocked off Texas. The thought of a home crowd like MSU in 09 (plus a potentially healthy Disu) was the only thing I could see stopping the party.
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It's interesting you say that along with others. I saw that Miami-Houston game and then the Miami-Texas game. I didn't think UConn caught any break even with Houston and Texas having a home court advantage so to speak. Especially after the Houston game, I kept thinking and was concerned how UConn would handle Miami. Miami's offense and their unconventional style scared the hell out of me.
 
Yes that exa
CL82 said:
Lol the best part of that realization is that you can't actually say it out loud. You just kind of think it to yourself. [Holy sh.it, we could win this whole thing!]
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Yes, that is exactly it. I did not want to say it out loud or to write it b/c was afraid to jinx us. In fact when I thought about it I thought quietly.
 
After we won the PKI for me. It’s a running joke that I talk about UConn too much from recruiting to previous seasons with my friends and family. My brother even included something about it in his best man speech in 2019, joking that “they’ll be back…. someday” which caught a laugh in the crowd. This past season was so fun bc my wife met me after the 2015 season and just had no idea what I would be like with a tournament run
 
gsmooth said:
It's interesting you say that along with others. I saw that Miami-Houston game and then the Miami-Texas game. I didn't think UConn caught any break even with Houston and Texas having a home court advantage so to speak. Especially after the Houston game, I kept thinking and was concerned how UConn would handle Miami. Miami's offense and their unconventional style scared the hell out of me.
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I get that. I just saw how much UConn struggled in true road games and wanted to avoid anything like one at all costs. Neutral court, I would’ve taken them against anyone the way they were playing.
 
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