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Texas: Property of UConn Men's Basketball program
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Shortly after selection sunday announced the field of 68 (that still sounds stupid) ESPN aired a partly non-fictional account of the greatness of the original BE (well basically they gushed over the catholic membership and the G'Town-Cuse rivalry). A number of schools who still hold their hat on one remarkable recruiting class and a run during the senior season of the players from that recruiting class.
The school that carried the conference for the last two and a half decades of its existence was less than an afterthought per those who told the conference's story. Small minded pettiness and jealousy has led those fan bases to continually hope that somehow we wither and die (likely because we are no longer earning money for them). The only thing that joke of a conference has left to hold its hat on is the 1985 final four, specifically the three schools from one conference (again, the result of one remarkable recruiting class, take out Ewing, Mullin and Pickney and you have basically 1990 forward for those three powerhouses. There have been a combined two final four appearances in what has been nearly ninety years of combined basketball seasons. They can counter about how important one recruit can be, to which we can say, "Fine, take away any one player from our history. We still have two titles".
The point of this diatribe is that not only did they make the mistake of getting us angry (the dis our school received in that show played a huge rile in our current run), the Mojo Gods have now placed them in the awkward position of needing to either cheer for us to maintain their (nearly) thirty year old accomplishment or watch as another conference equals their feat.
The lesson here (which all should have learned long ago) is that you cannot ignore, defy or mock the Mojo Gods.
The school that carried the conference for the last two and a half decades of its existence was less than an afterthought per those who told the conference's story. Small minded pettiness and jealousy has led those fan bases to continually hope that somehow we wither and die (likely because we are no longer earning money for them). The only thing that joke of a conference has left to hold its hat on is the 1985 final four, specifically the three schools from one conference (again, the result of one remarkable recruiting class, take out Ewing, Mullin and Pickney and you have basically 1990 forward for those three powerhouses. There have been a combined two final four appearances in what has been nearly ninety years of combined basketball seasons. They can counter about how important one recruit can be, to which we can say, "Fine, take away any one player from our history. We still have two titles".
The point of this diatribe is that not only did they make the mistake of getting us angry (the dis our school received in that show played a huge rile in our current run), the Mojo Gods have now placed them in the awkward position of needing to either cheer for us to maintain their (nearly) thirty year old accomplishment or watch as another conference equals their feat.
The lesson here (which all should have learned long ago) is that you cannot ignore, defy or mock the Mojo Gods.
