BFieldHusky wrote:It's been a strange season for UConn. You are what your record says you are, and they are 10-9, and 1-5 in the American. Not good.
But they have lost 6 games by 6 points or less. Xavier, Indiana, Witchia State, @Villanova, @Houston, and at home to Tulsa today. If they win even 3 of those games, they are 13-6, and probably 3-3 in the conference.
This team is still aways a way from rounding into a solid program, but their record is somewhat misleading.
adoraz wrote:Without reading any posts here, I'll just say that UConn is much better than their record. They've simply been unlucky this year with a ton of close losses. Next year they'll probably be a projected bubble team. That's more important given that next year they could start bringing in credits, better TV ratings, improved attendance, and all the other benefits UConn will bring. Even this year's team would have helped with padding the records of a bunch of Big East teams while still having a good OOC NET.
As I've said before, even a mediocre UConn is still more valuable to the Big East than anyone else in the AAC. They won't be down for long and have a bright future.
Finally, I think for all of our sakes it'll be better for UConn to return to being a top team after their return to the Big East. Can't have them too cocky coming in . This year we have a little bit of a "AAC vs Big East" thing going on (which the Big East obviously won), but going forward the comparisons will be less and less significant the same way few AAC/Big East fans care about Syracuse, Pitt, BC, Rutgers, Louisville, Miami, WVU, and the rest of the teams that left. Rather, it'll be more about our fan bases living with each other and being happy about the state of our conference.
SamElliott wrote:adoraz wrote:Without reading any posts here, I'll just say that UConn is much better than their record. They've simply been unlucky this year with a ton of close losses. Next year they'll probably be a projected bubble team. That's more important given that next year they could start bringing in credits, better TV ratings, improved attendance, and all the other benefits UConn will bring. Even this year's team would have helped with padding the records of a bunch of Big East teams while still having a good OOC NET.
As I've said before, even a mediocre UConn is still more valuable to the Big East than anyone else in the AAC. They won't be down for long and have a bright future.
Finally, I think for all of our sakes it'll be better for UConn to return to being a top team after their return to the Big East. Can't have them too cocky coming in . This year we have a little bit of a "AAC vs Big East" thing going on (which the Big East obviously won), but going forward the comparisons will be less and less significant the same way few AAC/Big East fans care about Syracuse, Pitt, BC, Rutgers, Louisville, Miami, WVU, and the rest of the teams that left. Rather, it'll be more about our fan bases living with each other and being happy about the state of our conference.
butlerguy03 wrote:As a Butler fan, I hope that DePaul and UConn can lift the women's game up. Right now the best players in Indiana go to IU, Purdue, or Notre Dame. It's time for Butler to become the 4th major team in women's basketball like it did in men's. It won't be fun to watch BU get hammered by 100 the first few years though.
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