crashcarson15 Posted April 4, 2023 Share Posted April 4, 2023 8 hours ago, See Red said: That would be Kevin Ollie, who won with Calhoun's guys and proceeded to run the program into irrelevance . Dan Hurley built this buzzsaw. Nothing random about it. Yeah, like, this UConn team was very comfortably the best team in the country outside of the like, four weeks in the middle of the season where they entirely forgot what they were doing. Finished at No. 1 in KenPom by more than 2 points despite having a 2-6 run in the middle of the season — without that stretch, they would've been a clear No. 1 overall seed and favorite in the tournament, and all our parity narratives would've been at least a little different. Extremely good basketball team, in contrast to 2014, which just kinda went on a random heater. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
See Red Posted April 4, 2023 Share Posted April 4, 2023 6 hours ago, crashcarson15 said: Yeah, like, this UConn team was very comfortably the best team in the country outside of the like, four weeks in the middle of the season where they entirely forgot what they were doing The problem was they got into conference play where the opponents are more familiar with them and figured out that if you sag off of Jackson and use his guy to double Sanogo, Jackson's too poor of a shooter to make you pay for it. Hurley figured out he had to be more creative with Jackson as a cutter and screener which turned Jackson into a far more effective player and made Sanogo impossible to defend without opening up the rest of the offense. Pretty good chance UConn will be better next year, too. Sanogo falls into that dominant college player that doesn't have great NBA prospects category, so he may come back (although he can't make NIL, so maybe not), and Jackson said he's coming back. Hawkins will enter the draft, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unocal Posted April 4, 2023 Share Posted April 4, 2023 51 minutes ago, See Red said: The problem was they got into conference play where the opponents are more familiar with them and figured out that if you sag off of Jackson and use his guy to double Sanogo, Jackson's too poor of a shooter to make you pay for it. Hurley figured out he had to be more creative with Jackson as a cutter and screener which turned Jackson into a far more effective player and made Sanogo impossible to defend without opening up the rest of the offense. Pretty good chance UConn will be better next year, too. Sanogo falls into that dominant college player that doesn't have great NBA prospects category, so he may come back (although he can't make NIL, so maybe not), and Jackson said he's coming back. Hawkins will enter the draft, though. UConn may be better, but they won't have the luck of avoiding top 2 seeds and getting to face THREE 5 seeds and an 8 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
See Red Posted April 4, 2023 Share Posted April 4, 2023 1 hour ago, Unocal said: UConn may be better, but they won't have the luck of avoiding top 2 seeds and getting to face THREE 5 seeds and an 8 Maybe the teams that couldn't beat the teams that couldn't beat UConn would have beaten UConn. They were undefeated in non-conference play winning, everyone of those games by double digits, all but one by 15+, and by an average of 25 pts. They won all of their tournament games by 13+ and by an average of, like, 20 pts. They had walk-ons playing garbage time during every single tournament game. They were clearly the best team in the country. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Wolf Posted April 4, 2023 Share Posted April 4, 2023 18 hours ago, GDAWG said: People are saying that Angel Reese and Kaitlyn Clark are the future of the WNBA. I can see that with the way they played in the tournament. Caitlin. Is there a name that is spelled in more different ways? 17 hours ago, Unocal said: Worst. Tournament. Ever. All these wacky upsets just to give us a Final Four that was UConn and 3 Jokers. This is what happens when you have too many upsets. Is it? The upsets happened because the other teams weren't special. If they were they would have won. Did you really expect big things from Purdue? If they were capable they wouldn't have lost to Fairleigh Dickinson, a team I had only heard of because their logo is a chess piece. In a normal year FDU wouldn't have even been in the tournament. Houston was beat down by Miami. It wasn't close. Would a Houston matchup have actually been any better? Alabama got beat by San Diego State and it wasn't that close. KU lost to Arkansas in a close one, but Arkansas was underperforming before tourney time. Why would a team that lost to Arkansas not lose by 20+ to UConn? Who was supposed to realistically stand up to UConn here? Upsets got nothing to do with it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
See Red Posted April 4, 2023 Share Posted April 4, 2023 It would be a compelling argument if UConn was eking out wins against Arkansas, SDSU, Miami, etc. Not when they're trouncing them the way they did. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Wolf Posted April 4, 2023 Share Posted April 4, 2023 3 minutes ago, See Red said: It would be a compelling argument if UConn was eking out wins against Arkansas, SDSU, Miami, etc. Not when they're trouncing them the way they did. Exactly. Arkansas was a good team and they were dead in the water. Miami was a good team as well and never stood a chance. Why would Texas, Houston, or Kansas fare any better? Because we've heard of them? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dilbert Posted June 18, 2023 Share Posted June 18, 2023 Bob Huggins has resigned as head coach at West Virginia. Huggins was arrested in Pittsburgh for DUI on Friday. He was already on thin ice. This comes just over month after he said a homophobic slur on Cincinnati radio. He was suspended for the first three games, received a pay cut and his contract changed from a multi year agreement to a year by year agreement. Huggins was arrested for a DUI in 2004 in Cincinnati as well. He was forced out of University of Cincinnati a year later. 1 Quote Signature intentionally left blank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burkell007 Posted June 18, 2023 Share Posted June 18, 2023 46 minutes ago, Dilbert said: Bob Huggins has resigned as head coach at West Virginia. Huggins was arrested in Pittsburgh for DUI on Friday. He was already on thin ice. This comes just over month after he said a homophobic slur on Cincinnati radio. He was suspended for the first three games, received a pay cut and his contract changed from a multi year agreement to a year by year agreement. Huggins was arrested for a DUI in 2004 in Cincinnati as well. He was forced out of University of Cincinnati a year later. even if it’s only for one year they would be stupid not to ask john beilein if he’s bored and wants to coach D1 again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.