UConn is a machine. Up 35-14 with time still to go in the first half. No one is stopping them.
Did you watch Baylor opening game? They came in pretty hot. 2 teams looked awful against one common opponentā¦. But no credit to that opponent?
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I like making bold predictionsā¦ UConn does not repeat.
Repeating is so hard in this sportā¦ Best team rarely wins the national title
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Okay, now the announcers in the UConn game are pointing out the blemish on the ACC is Virginia in the play in game. Fact. But any opportunity; it is getting very old.
Guess we have to live with it for our atrocious play. Hope we donāt have to go through this next year too.
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I am not trying to be bold. Itās just true. I hate UConn.
Out of curiosity, who beats them?
Who beats them?
Itās 40-18 at the half.
Ok but theyāre also playing a severely outmatched opponentā¦ just looking at matchups:
Terrence Shannon is playing the best basketball in the country right now, personal opinions of him aside.
ISU (I donāt believe in them) but they did just manhandle Houston.
Final 4 any handful of teams are worthy opponents: UNC, Arizona, Houston, Purdue.
Long ways to go yet.
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BTW, there are 2 Big 12 teams remaining. How many bids did they get? Something like 9?
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Agreed.
I think if SDSU wins out they can give them a tough game. Ledee will be the best player on the floor.
ISU and Illinois certainly can.
Northwestern beat Purdue twice and have one of the best guards in the country; this is a good team they are dismantlingā¦
Your points are reasonable, except the first. But UConn repeats. Book it!
UConn beat SDSU easily in the Title game last year. I am an SDSU alum (undergraduate) so I love themā¦but there is absolutely no way Ledee is the best player on the court against UConn.
I am very skeptical about Illinois considering Northwestern is a similar team from the same conference.
Ioway State, maybe, if they can score.
I just donāt see it, but I guess weāll find out soon enough.
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But Bā¦ hasnāt your thing for the last 96 hours been teams that scoreā¦ you knowā¦ 18 in a half should be ridiculed for being just as bad as UVA? But now theyāre a good team?
I see them as more like Pitt. Extremely mercurial when theyāre hitting 3ās they can hang with anyone but when they arenāt it can get ugly quick.
All that to say I donāt necessarily disagree with your general angst of perception. It is extremely annoying.
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Actually, I havenāt been saying teams that have a score similar to ours should be lumped in with usā¦I have made it clear the difference is that it was systemic with us.
Northwestern just scored 18 points because UConn is a juggernaut, and they ran into it.
I hope I am wrong because I despise UConn, but I just donāt see anyone beating them.
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Even if they were without Clingan, I have no idea how we apparently held our own with UConn in a preseason scrimmage.
I know a lot happens over the course of the season but they would beat us by 40 if we played today.
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Maybe the Hoos used all their shot making magic durinfthe scrimmage?
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It really is wild to go back and look at the first couple box scores of the season as compared to where we finishedā¦ we really may have actually used it all up.
I really have never seen anything like it. It was like Wisconsin rattled us so bad that anytime we faced adversity all year we just couldnāt recover.
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Actually I forgot that Desmond Roberts hadnāt been redshirted yet. Thatās probably why.
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Youāre not wrong. Everything peaked with the Syracuse game. And then the offense packed it in for the rest of the yr.
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