Xavier Post Game Thread

[FlippinCrazy!]

How long does it take for Peacock to upload replays usually?

 

[Deepster]

Time to put the bandwagon in drive. I fear no other team.

Been saying it all year.

 

[UCMB88]

Great game but that flagrant on Malachi was garbage.

I have never seen a ref call something off of a replay that wasn't called on the floor, and in my opinion that's BS! If they called a foul on Malachi and upgraded it to a flagrant upon review, that's one thing, but there was no foul call on that play. Fanta and Donny said Hurley was challenging the out of bounds call. (And BTW, no, it was not a flagrant foul!)

It's like reviewing a catch/no catch in football and the ref says "oh by the way there was a facemask there."

Mabye there's something in the NCAA Rule Book specifically about flagrant fouls, but if it's not called on the floor, it shouldn't be allowed to be a new call based on a replay review.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

How long does it take for Peacock to upload replays usually?

20 minutes

 

[Donyell 360]

Roll into Storrs South on Friday with absolute menace and intimidation on our minds. I want to paste two Pitinos in four days.

18 in a row. Stack. Them. Up.

They shouldn't admit it, but these last two wins have put St. John's on notice. They aren't catching us at a good time.

 

[Donyell 360]

Did anyone else have any studio commentary from Peacock at halftime? All I saw was Super Bowl talk. Kind of disrespectful to the game at hand. Oh well. Not like they have much valuable to say anyway, but I like hearing the neutral media praise UConn.

 

[uconngb]

I don’t like Solo’s shot selection most games. He’s forcing and missing. However, I loved his last two plays of the game. He could have easily forced two more shots, which wouldn’t even have been bad shots. Instead, he passed to his teammates and got two nice assists. Donny basically said the same thing. Great overall performance by the team. Might be the first ever Big East team to go undefeated in conference play.

No you didn’t

 

[Mister P]

U might think im crazy but for various reasons we do not want St. John’s to lose to DePaul

Sure we do.
That would give us a 2 game advantage on them going into the game.

 

[FearThePups]

I don’t know about you guys but I liked the uptempo pace of the team tonight. Something I haven’t seen much in a long time. Maybe trend in this direction going forward depending on the opponent. I also sensed our guys enjoyed this type of style.

 

[caw]

U might think im crazy but for various reasons we do not want St. John’s to lose to DePaul

There are reasons not to want it, but there are reasons to want it also. Putting SJU in a 2 game hole for the regular season wouldn't be a bad thing. Looks like it isn't happening anyway. SJU does play really good defense. Darling looks a bit sus though.

 

[Mike Honcho]

I have never seen a ref call something off of a replay that wasn't called on the floor, and in my opinion that's BS! If they called a foul on Malachi and upgraded it to a flagrant upon review, that's one thing, but there was no foul call on that play. Fanta and Donny said Hurley was challenging the out of bounds call. (And BTW, no, it was not a flagrant foul!)

It's like reviewing a catch/no catch in football and the ref says "oh by the way there was a facemask there."

Mabye there's something in the NCAA Rule Book specifically about flagrant fouls, but if it's not called on the floor, it shouldn't be allowed to be a new call based on a replay review.

This is fairly prevalent in the NBA.

 

[boog204]

Smith played 15 minutes and I can't recall one positive play. That was a bogus tech but even that didn't go his way. I guess he had 2 rebounds but he seems lost out there. Not sure why Hurley waited until 2 minutes left to put in Millender. Seemed like a good opportunity to give him a look. Of course he air balled a corner 3 but would like to seem him get more opportunities in a game like this.

Malachi just had 12 and 7 off the bench in a tight win against PC, and he's shooting 48% from 3 on the year. He legit was our better point guard in our crazy non-con run when Silas was struggling. Yet, this board is obsessed with a D2 player who was legit brought here to be a warm body in practice and apparently be the commissioner of the players' College Football league. It's just bizarre.

 

[CTBasketball]

Another fun night in Hartford!

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

Brian O’Connell is a loser bum thumb sucker

You’ll get no argument from me.

 

[uconnfan68]

He was so dominate early I was starting to wonder at what point does he become our best player? Seems we are not quite there yet but it feels like it is coming. Not sure why he sat so much in the first half. Wish Hurley played him more.

Hoping he’s just taking care of him.

 

[DogMania]

I have never seen a ref call something off of a replay that wasn't called on the floor, and in my opinion that's BS! If they called a foul on Malachi and upgraded it to a flagrant upon review, that's one thing, but there was no foul call on that play. Fanta and Donny said Hurley was challenging the out of bounds call. (And BTW, no, it was not a flagrant foul!)

It's like reviewing a catch/no catch in football and the ref says "oh by the way there was a facemask there."

Mabye there's something in the NCAA Rule Book specifically about flagrant fouls, but if it's not called on the floor, it shouldn't be allowed to be a new call based on a replay review.

I don't know what they were looking at. It didn't look like a flagrant foul on Smith, but if you're going to call it on Smith why didn't the Xavier player get a flagrant as well, hitting Smith in the face and drawing blood. Just a bizarre call all around. If it was hockey it would be a 4 minute minor on the Xavier player.

 

[HW611]

Love Ross. Not taking much out of Xavier quitting in the second half lol

 

[Spaceman213J]

Between the last two men's game and the 2nd half of the women's game against Tennessee, over the past week UConn fans have been treated some beautiful & great basketball.

I still don't get the flagrant on Malachi. He took a shot and shoved the guy with his eyes closed to keep from getting runover and further damaged. If pushing a guy like that is a flagrant, Hurley could submit about a dozen videos of Mullins getting pushed like that off the ball on defense. Like I said, I just don't get the call.

 

[willie99]

Turn the page

 

[DogMania]

I don’t know about you guys but I liked the uptempo pace of the team tonight. Something I haven’t seen much in a long time. Maybe trend in this direction going forward depending on the opponent. I also sensed our guys enjoyed this type of style.

I noticed that too and commented during the chat. Seems the past two games they started pushing the ball to get some easier transition baskets. It's not only fun to watch but it's also better balanced basketball.

 

[businesslawyer]

Smith played 15 minutes and I can't recall one positive play. That was a bogus tech but even that didn't go his way. I guess he had 2 rebounds but he seems lost out there. Not sure why Hurley waited until 2 minutes left to put in Millender. Seemed like a good opportunity to give him a look. Of course he air balled a corner 3 but would like to seem him get more opportunities in a game like this.

I do not understand why folks ask rhetorical questions like that. Hurley didn’t put Millender in earlier to “give him a look” because Hurley doesn’t need a look to know that Millender isn’t getting Smith’s minutes. It’s fine if you aren’t sure that Millender couldn’t do better, or even if you think Millender could do better, but you really don’t think it’s obvious why Millender is only getting garbage time minutes at this point (barring injuries or a lot of foul trouble)?

 

[uconnblueinky]

If anyone caught the post game press conference with Hurley, was he insinuating that there are issues with Reibe and his people not being thrilled about his playing time?

 

[UCLJ0211]

Biggest takeaway from the game for me is that Xavier has someone who is actually named “All Wright.”

 

[noelle]

this train is picking up steam

 

[DogMania]

Lot of good things to talk about and most of it has already been said. Nice all around performance on both ends of the floor.

One strange observation was Reibe was probably fouled about 4 to 6 times throughout the game and didn't get many calls. I thought Reed also got fouled a number of times including that travel where the guy had his arms all over him. Granted it was one of those pull the chair out from under him, but also grabbed him by the arm and pulled him backwards as well. Which I think in most cases is considered a foul. I also thought Stewie got fouled the number of times without getting any calls.

I don't mind allowing the physical play as long as it's the same on both ends of the floor. But watching a replay of the game, Xavier does a lot of grabbing and bumping while UConn doesn't seem to grab and clutch as much as our opponents do.

Obviously the officiating didn't factor in the outcome of the game. I'd rather have less fouls than more, but it was just annoying watching it at times. Props to the huskies for filling it up even with a lot of non-calls.