re: Tide Hoops | 31-6 (16-2)

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UConn has looked as good as anyone in the country

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I suppose. They really haven't played anyone, but they've won every game by 20 or more points, which is impressive.

I just read their message board. They think they would win in a rematch. They are divided on whether Miller is a lottery pick.

I'm irrationally confident in this team given the way Miller looks and the way they stay consistently locked in on defense. When we finished the first half with a 5-pt lead, I had zero doubt that we'd win this game. MSU had a crazy FT advantage and they were hitting some very high difficulty shots, both of which were unsustainable with the way we play defense and live in the paint on offense.

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They really haven't played anyone, but they've won every game by 20 or more points, which is impressive.

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These are the teams I like to face. Give me them coming in with no experience of what a competitive team looks like.

Outside of some poor outside shots, Gurley stepped up and played well. Good to see.

We needed to do a little better job getting Miller the ball in a scoring position in the second half. We could have off ball screened for him but Oats doesn't use it very much. When Miller handled the ball on the perimeter, we used a ball screen but they hedged the ball screen and we didn't handle it as well as we should. If they are hedging, the screener needs to fake the screen and basket cut early. If he doesn't get the pass, he needs to off ball screen away from dribbler.

Calm down mistaken....

He's going to improve on that.

Didn't I tell you that we will not be denied?

UCONN made it to this round by beating an Oregon squad that lost to UC Irvine by 13. I don’t think we should be intimidated.

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I’d say the free throw/foul discrepancy in the first half got us a little timid around the rim. There were some other issues but that really disrupted our aggressiveness in rebounding.

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The amount of over-the-back calls we received versus the blatant shoving for position MSU was doing all game had me hot. We're probably not the rebounding team we have been, but we were getting hosed by the whistle on rebounds.

Also that blocking call late on Bediako was the worst call I've ever seen. He had his feet set for seconds waiting for the shoulder shove, which this time was combo'd with arm extension. The POS then proceeded to stomp on Bediako's ankle.

I did as well...we are to long on the defensive side.

If we would of put JQ back in early when they had that little mini run then we would of won by 15 or more.

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That BS flopping call early in the game let me know every thing I needed about those refs.

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I'd love to hear that ref justify that call. Like, even if you think he may have sold the contact there was waaaaaay too much contact there to call a dude for a fricking flop. He had a shoulder thrown into his chest.