Maybe replace Hurley this month!
Maybe UConn should never have gone back to the so called Big East
"Thank you for your loyalty to Connecticut basketball."
Directional school beats us.
Even if one accepts "new" as a direction, there's something a little 'off' here.
That kid was unreal…he started out 0-6. Wow.
His 'slow' start was actually trolling more masterful than the many attempts on display in this thread. Like a pool hustler.
Allen's post-game interview definitely had some Scotty P in it.
I'm seeking suggestions for a 5th player to join Teddy Allen, Noah Horchler, Adam Kunkel, and Simas Lukosious on my Greater Hartford Pro-am team, and feeling the loss of Philip Seymour Hoffman.
"Let it rain..."
I have no comment on the game, but I am disappointed at the number of times I read that Allen scored "almost" or "nearly" half of NMSU's points.
"Almost" and "nearly" are technically true, in that only 2 points fewer would be "exactly" half, but practically nobody thinks of it that way, myself included. "More than half" would be no more difficult to write, fully accurate, and a whole lot clearer, so I agree with your point.
FINAL THOUGHTS (for now):
As with last year, the roster looked like one that could win games in upwards of a dozen different ways, so each losing game had several 'if only' scenarios. That brings to mind the Auburn game when I txted my sister, "It feels like either team could win or lose by 20, or it could be a close game up until the end."
This was always going to be a major growth year for our Head Coach, with DH bumping up against his own growing edges, and always having another hurdle in every dimension of his job. Once again, the team fell short, and it looked & feels bad.
Due to COVID and moving to the Big East, I shifted my pre-season expectations to align more with a "complete rebuild" Year 3 than Year 4, so I had more room throughout the season to absorb the things that made me scream at the TV. Still, I thought that Sweet 16 wasn't unreasonable, better was imaginable, and performing to Seeding was not too much to ask for.
The loss of Hawkins shaved off some of the error-margin/headroom to earn a 4 seed, and it's telling that we entered the Tourney as the top 5-seed, with Arkansas the lowest 4-seed.
Even with the raw numbers on NMSU's 3-point & FT shooting, there were seemingly multiple paths to a victory yesterday. I didn't want the season to end with an 'embarrassing' loss, and there are certainly a number of ways to regard yesterday's outcome as exactly that.
I really would have liked seeing this team put it together. In terms of the program's arc, next year I will be wanting more: BET bye, NCAA bid, (both with favorable seeding), and winning the first weekend's 4-team tournament. And yet, I do not know if the hurdle of a less veteran team will be too much. We shall see...
PS - There are those on this forum, through other social media, and within money-driven interests who will take pleasure and seek to profit from yesterday's outcome. It's the product of our having become relevant enough again to have detractors & instigators. They are mostly jerks.
