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Message: [QUOTE="ctchamps, post: 4879775, member: 37"] I was torn between two responses. The first, like you, is "everyone" because UConn is rapidly being identified in the mens college basketball world as the team that has had the most success in the modern era. The team that casual fans who root for underdogs identify as the name they most want to see lose. However that does little to satisfy the issue of a rival because as UConn fans we don't identify "everyone" as teams we get delight when they lose. If there is something that riles up the passion of UConn fans to a similar degree I'd say it's UConn versus the blue bloods. Every time an article is written that does not include UConn as a blue blood we have a thread with many indignant posters feeling slighted. Every time one of the so called blue blood loses a predominant number of our fans feel satisfaction. Concurrently fanbases of those so called blue bloods teams have professed an interest in targeting the UConn coach to replace their unsuccessful one. They are envious of our success. Thus I propose our rivals are Duke, North Carolina, Kentucky and Kansas. Either way UConn is analogous to the Roman Empire. Like Rome we took out Syracuse first and then one by one the blue bloods in the Mediterranean came under their control. [/QUOTE]