Why have we never played Penn State in hoops?

[HuskyV]

I would figure that we would have run into each other by accident at some point over the years.

Love to play them in football. For many reasons we need to have a something that resembles a relationship with this school.

Please refrain from turning this into a discussion on past assistant football coaches & the bad decisions of the past administration.

 

[Gurleyman]

I would figure that we would have run into each other by accident at some point over the years.

Love to play them in football. For many reasons we need to have a something that resembles a relationship with this school.

Please refrain from turning this into a discussion on past assistant football coaches & the bad decisions of the past administration.

General rule of thumb: bad major conference schools don't play many good major conference schools out of conference, figuring they have a tough enough road in their own league. They don't want to add to the loss column. When you think of typical big conference doormats, we haven't played most of them (or rarely) Auburn, Northwestern, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Washington State, Oregon State, Texas Tech, Colorado, Nebraska, etc. Penn State is geographically closer, but still not so close as to add much to the game.

Plus, there's a bit of a Dairy Bar rivalry. They actually claim theirs is better, so f them.

 

[UC990411]

Better question, why would we play them in hoops? They're worse tha Rutgers

 

[HuskyV]

Makes sense for recent history - but from 1945-1988 - never?

Were we unable to take a bus though NY & NJ? Were they honoring the B1G principal of connecting state borders?

Gloves are off, if they start talking down the Dairy Bar.

 

[HuskyV]

Better question, why would we play them in hoops? They're worse tha Rutgers

Because it would have been nice if our AD/Pres/schools had a relationship that started before we were pleading for a life raft.

Networking. Rivalry. Familiarity.

364 miles, let's get some directions.

 

[UConnJim]

We should play Penn State in all sports going forward. I think the reason UConn never played Penn State in men's basketball is probably due to who UConn historically played pre Big East which was primarily Yankee Conference schools, New England Schools, the Ivies, and Northeastern city schools. After the Big East was formed we played mostly Big East schools plus some historical rivals. As for post season games, the NCAAs were much smaller back in the day and Penn State hasn't fielded a top men's basketball program to consistently qualify for post season tournaments.

 

[Irishboy9780]

Really no reason to have played them... as stated pre big east we played almost excluisively NE schools... still do pre conf season.Theres not really any reason to play them in BBall. Just like them to play us in FB.

 

[husky99]

Sorry i do not care about uconn football and i understand that is foolish for the future of the program.. so f penn st.
i want to play osu, iu, puke, unc, zona, Florida, hell cuse, ku or uk.. i want something which helps our ooc in basketball

 

[sledog]

College Park is way the hell out there, litrly in middle of state - 10 hr bus ride.

 

[HooperScooper]

College Park is way the hell out there, litrly in middle of state - 10 hr bus ride.

UConn isn't putting the basketball team, women's or men's, on 10 hour bus rides. Thankfully UConn is way past that.

 

[Antiobserver]

PSU stuck to playing it's Eastern football rivals and Eastern 8/A10 teams on the court.

 

[uconNYC]

Think we should schedule PSU, RU and Maryland as much as possible in all sports - for obvious reasons.

 

[Inyatkin]

UConn had never played Kentucky until the 2006 NCAA tournament. Sometimes it works out that way. If Penn State gets a semi-competent basketball program going, we'll play them somewhere down the line.

 

[Ts5034]

I have no problems with the out of conference schedule over the past 15 years or so. I think JC did an excellent job of adding the best teams to the schedule to go along with an already tough Big East. Think about it, since the mid 90's we have had home and home with...Kansas, MSU, Arizona, N Carolina, Indiana, Michigan, Oklahoma, LSU, Texas. I remember reading an article in the CT post at least 5-6 years ago where Calhoun said they were trying to schedule Kentucky but that obviously never worked out. Now, more than ever the athletic department has to keep this up to salvage RPI and SOS. We may catch a break by getting into good November tournaments like Maui but Warde and KO have to work on adding as many top teams to the schedule every year.

 

[Irishboy9780]

We may catch a break by getting into good November tournaments like Maui but Warde and KO have to work on adding as many top teams to the schedule every year.

So long as Uconn stays competitive then i see no reason on worrying about our scheduling OOC. It's one really nice assest that Uconn has been able to fall back on now that the big east is gone, we can and do get great OOC games.

 

[UCFBfan]

College Park is way the hell out there, litrly in middle of state - 10 hr bus ride.

Try 6 hours....but still, it's remote

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[Husky1972]

Try 6 hours....but still, it's remote

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He must have meant State College. College Park is no more remote than Georgetown: 10 miles away. 10 Miles from The White House.

 

[BoatShow]

Same reasons Penn State hasn't played us in football.

 

[Danzz]

College Park is way the hell out there, litrly in middle of state - 10 hr bus ride.

People don't realize how big PA is. Just keep driving and play Ohio State or Indiana.