thornski
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Post by thornski on Mar 9, 2010 13:58:57 GMT -5
A rematch with the bulls it is...let the tournament of revenge begin!
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vcjack
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Post by vcjack on Mar 9, 2010 14:39:34 GMT -5
If people are still looking for tickets start hounding UConn fans for theirs.
Unless something drastic happens stick a fork in the Huskies
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sleepy
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Post by sleepy on Mar 9, 2010 15:11:29 GMT -5
If people are still looking for tickets start hounding UConn fans for theirs. Unless something drastic happens stick a fork in the Huskies Atleast we kept it close with St Johns last year.
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SFHoya99
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Post by SFHoya99 on Mar 9, 2010 15:14:33 GMT -5
UConn's season is eerily like ours last year, except they actually start three seniors.
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Post by HoyaSinceBirth on Mar 9, 2010 15:52:38 GMT -5
Ugh this game is ugly. Turnovers all over the place. Uconn playing like crap but still within striking distance.
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vcjack
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Post by vcjack on Mar 9, 2010 16:10:12 GMT -5
Jerome Dyson has a 1:4 Assist to TO ratio
Do people still think they would have been national champions last year if he wasn't injured?
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Post by FrazierFanatic on Mar 9, 2010 16:13:44 GMT -5
UConn was never the same after we smoked them from behind.
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GUJook97
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Post by GUJook97 on Mar 9, 2010 16:16:16 GMT -5
St John's in a revenge game against Marquette, hunh?
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gutuna
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Post by gutuna on Mar 9, 2010 16:16:45 GMT -5
Ugh this game is ugly. Turnovers all over the place. Uconn playing like crap I hope this is the final chapter of Jim Calhoun's career. Couldn't be a finer postscript to how he has approached college basketball.
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Jack
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Post by Jack on Mar 9, 2010 16:19:56 GMT -5
UConn's season is eerily like ours last year, except they actually start three seniors. Right down the loss to SJU in the BET. Really just a bizarre team.
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CAHoya07
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Post by CAHoya07 on Mar 9, 2010 16:21:46 GMT -5
UConn's season is eerily like ours last year, except they actually start three seniors. Right down the loss to SJU in the BET. Really just a bizarre team. Yep. More or less, 2009-10 UConn Huskies = 2008-09 Georgetown Hoyas. 7-11 conference record. Some big wins, some bad losses, home and away. 12 seed. Ousted by St. John's in the first round of the Big East Tournament on Tuesday in the 2pm game. Now, all they need to do is lose in the first round of the NIT. Their overall record wouldn't exactly be the same, but only because they played more games - 17-16 vs. 16-15. It's a final - St. John's 73, UConn 51. Wow.
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Post by FrazierFanatic on Mar 9, 2010 16:25:59 GMT -5
Yeah the UConn board is even worse right now than this one was last year.
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PhillyHoya
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Post by PhillyHoya on Mar 9, 2010 16:26:43 GMT -5
Right down the loss to SJU in the BET. Really just a bizarre team. Yep. More or less, 2009-10 UConn Huskies = 2008-09 Georgetown Hoyas. 7-11 conference record. Some big wins, some bad losses, home and away. 12 seed. Ousted by St. John's in the first round of the Big East Tournament on Tuesday in the 2pm game. Now, all they need to do is lose in the first round of the NIT. Their overall record wouldn't exactly be the same, but only because they played more games - 17-16 vs. 16-15. It's a final - St. John's 73, UConn 51. Wow. Almost. Our team imploded. UConn looks like they're in full revolt and couldn't care less. If I were Jim Calhoun, I wouldn't want to coach anymore after this mess but then again, any team (next year's for sure) would be better.
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vcjack
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Post by vcjack on Mar 9, 2010 16:28:54 GMT -5
Yeah the UConn board is even worse right now than this one was last year. Not a lot of reason for optimism going forward for them, at least most of us realized that not only was our team young last season but our coaching staff is also young and could learn from this and improved (and they did) but dinosaurs like Calhoun just can't change. A few bad decisions and UConn is headed to the Esherickian abyss
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RBHoya
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Post by RBHoya on Mar 9, 2010 16:29:16 GMT -5
LOL @ those people who were shaking in their boots about possibly having to face UConn in the first BET game. Clearly their team has a lot of talent on paper but at a certain point you are what you are, and UConn just wasn't that good this year just like we weren't that good last year. Once they blew it at USF I knew they were done for.
DFW wisely called SJU over UConn in another thread.
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Post by FrazierFanatic on Mar 9, 2010 16:44:07 GMT -5
Yeah the UConn board is even worse right now than this one was last year. Not a lot of reason for optimism going forward for them, at least most of us realized that not only was our team young last season but our coaching staff is also young and could learn from this and improved (and they did) but dinosaurs like Calhoun just can't change. A few bad decisions and UConn is headed to the Esherickian abyss Yeah if Calhoun retires and they bump Blaney up it could be a disaster. I would have to think they look elsewhere, unless Calhoun pressures them to let him name the successor.
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ceshoya
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Post by ceshoya on Mar 9, 2010 16:44:50 GMT -5
Man, I don't think I've ever seen analysts' destroy a college kid the way Gottlieb and Williams did Dyson. Pro players, sure, but never a college player. Came out and called him a quitter with no heart and a terrible leader. YIKES.
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GUJook97
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Post by GUJook97 on Mar 9, 2010 16:50:44 GMT -5
LOL @ those people who were shaking in their boots about possibly having to face UConn in the first BET game. Clearly their team has a lot of talent on paper but at a certain point you are what you are, and UConn just wasn't that good this year just like we weren't that good last year. Once they blew it at USF I knew they were done for. DFW wisely called SJU over UConn in another thread. I predicted SJU to beat UConn, but I also thought they were a tough matchup for us. And, that sounds about right given the way their year went. They beat WVU, Texas and Villanova, and then just dont even bother to show up against SJU. Like others said, an eery similarity to us last year.
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PhillyHoya
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Post by PhillyHoya on Mar 9, 2010 17:03:47 GMT -5
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sleepy
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Post by sleepy on Mar 9, 2010 17:08:25 GMT -5
LOL @ those people who were shaking in their boots about possibly having to face UConn in the first BET game. Clearly their team has a lot of talent on paper but at a certain point you are what you are, and UConn just wasn't that good this year just like we weren't that good last year. Once they blew it at USF I knew they were done for. DFW wisely called SJU over UConn in another thread. I predicted SJU to beat UConn, but I also thought they were a tough matchup for us. And, that sounds about right given the way their year went. They beat WVU, Texas and Villanova, and then just dont even bother to show up against SJU. Like others said, an eery similarity to us last year. Eh, we didn't show up against the big name teams last year either. Pittsburgh and Louisville games were disasters. Our problems last year didn't stem from lack of effort 90% of the time. This Uconn teams problems do stem from effort and their best player seemily revolting against the coach/program. And while there were rumors of internal conflicts, I don't think any of them were actually true, and if they were they certainly weren't this pronounced.
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