This may be ringing hollow, but by us beating both, by how much may decide their rank!
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.6 blocks a game, not block rate, but I was also mistaken on Blk% and didn't realize it was team stat agnostic (so not like ast %). Oops
Vaaks’s turnover rate was only 14.3%, so I don’t think your reasoning is accurate.
Wagler was 12.5% which is elite for a primary handler. But Vaaks wasn’t that much worse.
Bad turnover rate is Kasparas, 25.4%.
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Haven’t had a chance to watch that show yet… but I love Larry and the show looks great.
The thing about the 2025 team is we were actually good at taking care of the ball OUTSIDE OF Kasparas:
Which is why our overall turnover rate wasn’t as bad as some previous seasons.
No problem! Sometimes you gotta take a win here and there.
Coaching, that is it. Hurley is ten times the coach.
Vaaks and Keaton are both good.
KJ's rate was a catastrophe. I don't think that's a reasonable benchmark for discussing any of our future guards.
Feel like he will bring a Trent Frazier type energy on defense and is crazy athletic. He will get a ton of playing time because his ability to defend and make winning plays.
People are way too focused on who is going to play point or what qualifies as a PG now haha People stuck in the early 2000's.
He was so poor not exactly from a performance standpoint, but in terms of the VOLITILITY in his game. I hope our lead guard is never like that again.
This. He was completely ignorant for that exercise.
FO68 just trot out some of the most incompetent people for their shows.
We shall see - the voodoo dolls in Storrs make them practically immune to losing games out of the Big Least. Last year, despite being down Reed and Mullins early season in stretches, they still figured out how to win most of those games and almost pulled off beating Arizona with no Mullins or Reed. They got the sauce. So even though Duke has the roster, they don't have the coach (or sauce).
Duke had a better record, was ranked higher, seeded higher and also had to play a stretch late in the season without multiple rotation players. And it required bone headed play of the century plus a low percentage deep 3 for UConn to beat them in 100% lockbox fashion.
The “sauce” is a made up thing that doesn’t exist.
There is no parallel universe where playing Duke was preferable.
Duke was the #1 overall seed. They beat Michigan head to head.
In almost every measurable category, Duke was a better team than UCONN.
In almost every measurable category, Duke was a better team than UCONN.
Honestly, I'd be thrilled if we went 2-1 in the Duke, UCONN, Michigan trio. I guess, I'd prioritize Michigan because conference play. But with Boynton, I think I'd value the MSU win more.
Between Tech, UCONN, UNC, and Duke the over/under is 2.5 i think.
Between Tech, UCONN, UNC, and Duke the over/under is 2.5 i think.
I don't understand why people have such weird opinions about which team they'd rather play.
if you go back to the VCU-North Carolina conversation, tens of posts were wishing to face UNC, despite VCU clearly being the worse team.
Duke's KPom rating was above 40 at one point. UConn was barely squeezing by bottom feeders in the Big East and got hammered by St John's.
In no universe, was UConn a better team than Duke.
I keep thinking he reminds me of Luther Head.
Other than their head to head......
Not sure what the record is exactly, but UConn has some ungodly record out of conference the last 4 years, including 18-2 in the NCAA tournament. Their preseason OOC slate is ridiculously good too. I'm sure Duke will be favored in that matchup. I thought I heard Hurley say it was something like 56-4 over the last 4 years, including the tourney. I remember them losing to Kansas a Phog a couple years ago with no Castle, then the AZ loss last year with no Reed or Mullins.
I haven't been paying attention to UNC though. I had no idea they were that low on Torvik. Yeesh
and in the unmeasurable category of post season coaching, UConn was better.
I see both sides.
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