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*whispers* St. John's isn't that bad

superjohn said:
UConn isn't currently a bubble team, without the team healthy I think most think we will be a bubble team with the upcoming schedule. Need to get healthy.
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I don't think we're a bubble team either but I didn't feel like arguing that one small part of his post when everything else was just blatantly wrong
 
Waquoit said:
My hope is this win by the Johnnies will cause many of the nitwits on the Yard who went DEFCON 1 after UConn's loss to do some much needed self-reflection. But that's not the way to bet.
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Well in fairness UConn started off that game very well and was up big. It was looking like a nice easy win and then things changed awful quickly. So I think that is where some of the frustration came from. Not just that it was St. John's.
 
HooperScooper said:
Well in fairness UConn started off that game very well and was up big. It was looking like a nice easy win and then things changed awful quickly. So I think that is where some of the frustration came from. Not just that it was St. John's.
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I don't think things changed quickly. They had that 14 point lead with 12 minutes left in the first half, but St. John's slowly and methodically closed the gap during the course of the rest of the game. By halftime they were only down 3. With 7 or so minutes left in the second they started to exchange lead changes until they took the lead and didn't look back. I think they had that early lead because Cole went off at the beginning of the game. If he didn't get hot early, it could have been a much uglier loss.
 
while the two upsets yesterday should result in a positive shift in the media's perception of the BE as the top to bottom 3rd strongest conference, i'm skeptical. Nova might drop 10 spots in the rankings and creighton might fall all the way out leaving 1 ranked team. hopefully they prove me wrong and hopefully if we beat Hall this week we get ranked again.
 
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Big Cranky said:
I don't think things changed quickly. They had that 14 point lead with 12 minutes left in the first half, but St. John's slowly and methodically closed the gap during the course of the rest of the game. By halftime they were only down 3. With 7 or so minutes left in the second they started to exchange lead changes until they took the lead and didn't look back. I think they had that early lead because Cole went off at the beginning of the game. If he didn't get hot early, it could have been a much uglier loss.
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The game totally changed when Sanogo was inexplicably taken out of the game and never put back in. They had nobody to guard him and he was getting what he wanted.
 
Hey Adrien! said:
mayyyyybe.

Despite their streak, they're still 12-7. I can't see a 10-loss team make the tourney so unless they win the Big East, they need to go 6-1 the rest of the regular season to finish the season with nine losses.
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i think they stay/finish 6th in the BE and end up on the bubble but only 5 teams get in
 
Hey Adrien! said:
mayyyyybe.

Despite their streak, they're still 12-7. I can't see a 10-loss team make the tourney so unless they win the Big East, they need to go 6-1 the rest of the regular season to finish the season with nine losses.
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Math does not check out.
 
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Hey Adrien! said:
Assuming a loss in the Big East tourney + 6-1 in regular season = 9 losses.
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The context clues were all there and I whiffed. Even still, I think 5-2 with a couple wins in the tourny would get them there at 19-10 with no bad losses. I think for them it comes down to for each loss in regular season they need a tourny win. So 6-1 with 1 win or 5-2 with 2 wins, etc.
 
Big Cranky said:
I don't think things changed quickly. They had that 14 point lead with 12 minutes left in the first half, but St. John's slowly and methodically closed the gap during the course of the rest of the game. By halftime they were only down 3. With 7 or so minutes left in the second they started to exchange lead changes until they took the lead and didn't look back. I think they had that early lead because Cole went off at the beginning of the game. If he didn't get hot early, it could have been a much uglier loss.
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UConn had the lead. St. John’s closed the gap when we went small. Second half, two bigs, built the lead again. Then, with Sanogo dominating them, we went small again and lost the lead for good. I never cared that it was St John’s we lost to, only that it was a team we crushed when playing big and a team that crushed us when we played small. So we stayed small for the entire last 1/2 of the second half.

I’m glad the loss doesn’t look as bad for our NET, but we had no business losing that game.
 
HuskyHawk said:
UConn had the lead. St. John’s closed the gap when we went small. Second half, two bigs, built the lead again. Then, with Sanogo dominating them, we went small again and lost the lead for good. I never cared that it was St John’s we lost to, only that it was a team we crushed when playing big and a team that crushed us when we played small. So we stayed small for the entire last 1/2 of the second half.

I’m glad the loss doesn’t look as bad for our NET, but we had no business losing that game.
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seemed to me like a coaching miss. he was being too reactionary to the sju roster changes. could happen to the best of them, but i hope hurley sees it that way and just learns from it.
 
AntG168 said:
It’s a frustrating loss not a bad one. Losing to eastern Carolina, Tulane, Tulsa, and any other bad mid major is a bad loss
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Houston lost to EAST Carolina but Houston would still be at the top of the NBE if they were in the league. UConn isn’t in the AAC anymore so let’s move on
 
gtcam said:
Houston lost to EAST Carolina but Houston would still be at the top of the NBE if they were in the league. UConn isn’t in the AAC anymore so let’s move on
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That wasn’t a knock on the AAC. I could care less about he AAC. You see I said “bad mid major” team. There are plenty of good mid major teams. I used those teams because those are the mid majors I’m more familiar with. Stand Down. And that was a BAD LOSS for Houston. That was my point
 
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navery12 said:
Lol at thinking Houston is better than Villanova
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I don’t think anybody can confidently say that they are or they aren’t. That’s a toss up game.
 
SJU continues to roll. Another win today. Looking forward to rematch with Bouk.
 
St. John’s has won its last 6 games ..... 7 of its last 8 games ...... with 4 of its recent 6 wins having been road games. It has accomplished this with a roster of 3* players which makes be believe that Anderson is a very good coach.
 
Man that was a comical read. You losing to us is a bad loss? We're better than you, will be better than you next year when we return our entire team, and probably for the foreseeable future, considering your coach is a buffoon who couldn't hold Mike Anderson's jock strap.

Welcome back to a real conference boys.
 
No question that St. John's is playing better than UConn right now...mainly I think because our season has stopped & started 3 times and we've missed our best player. But SJ looks good right now winning 6 in a row.

So as of this moment SJ is more deserving of a tourney bid than we are....I think the BE should have 6 teams in right now, UConn being the last & on the Bubble.....of course it only matters how things look in a month.

We simply haven't played enough games or beaten the top-tier of the BE so we'll see how things look in 4 weeks, but we better wins some games vs Xavier, Nova, Providence, SH, etc.
 
St Johns said:
Man that was a comical read. You losing to us is a bad loss? We're better than you, will be better than you next year when we return our entire team, and probably for the foreseeable future, considering your coach is a buffoon who couldn't hold Mike Anderson's jock strap.

Welcome back to a real conference boys.
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Lol, love these fans of teams that get a whiff of success and completely lose their sh#t. Congrats on beating us without our All-American by 4 points.
 
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St Johns said:
Man that was a comical read. You losing to us is a bad loss? We're better than you, will be better than you next year when we return our entire team, and probably for the foreseeable future, considering your coach is a buffoon who couldn't hold Mike Anderson's jock strap.

Welcome back to a real conference boys.
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drive off 50 cent GIF
 
6 1/2 mins to go and Butler's doin' it!! Up 60-56
 
Okay...down 1 Butler just took 10 seconds to dribble to the half court line. Maybe fading here.
 
66-66 with a minute and 22 to go. Butler with the ball. Timeout called.
 
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