The Auburn win is looking REALLY good now

[navery12]

Tied with #24 Alabama with 1 minute left on ESPN

 

[Conquistador]

Karl Ravech (or whatever his name is) just said Auburn beat UConn in double OT. Typical ESPN!

 

[Psolo12]

Auburn is about to be ranked #1 with their only loss being to us. I love it.

 

[wheelerdog]

I mean, seriously, unless someone gets hurt, we're making the tournament. How pessimistic would you have to be to believe otherwise?

 

[AntG168]

We have the best out of conference win in the BE. We have a couple of other good wins. VCU, Marquette, St. Bonnies(still a decent win). With multiple opportunities for more. We also have ZERO bad losses. We are in no danger of missing the tournament at this moment. We’re a high 7 seed. With a very high chance to mover up into that 3-5 range if healthy

 

[CardiacAndre7]

We have the best out of conference win in the BE. We have a couple of other good wins. VCU, Marquette, St. Bonnies(still a decent win). With multiple opportunities for more. We also have ZERO bad losses. We are in no danger of missing the tournament at this moment. We’re a high 7 seed. With a very high chance to mover up into that 3-5 range if healthy

Need to start winning close games

 

[auror]

How did we win that game?

We shot 15/26 from 3 and Jabari Smith didn't level up until halfway through the game.

 

[superjohn]

We shot 15/26 from 3 and Jabari Smith didn't level up until halfway through the game.

We spotted them an 11 point lead after the first 10 minutes of the game coming off our terrible cupcake schedule and then dominated them for the next 20 minutes going up by 14...they then started pressing us and the wheels came off at the end before we pulled out the win. That 20 minutes of basketball is still by far the best we've played all season and I'm still wondering what happened to that team.

Really hope we can discover it again because it was fun to watch.

 

[Dutch Boyd]

We spotted them an 11 point lead after the first 10 minutes of the game coming off our terrible cupcake schedule and then dominated them for the next 20 minutes going up by 14...they then started pressing us and the wheels came off at the end before we pulled out the win. That 20 minutes of basketball is still by far the best we've played all season and I'm still wondering what happened to that team.

Really hope we can discover it again because it was fun to watch.

They played just as good on Saturday, but lost. The Hall game was certainly fun to watch.

 

[JustbrewitMan]

Uconn played great and dominated most of that game after a rough start. They should've won easily but had a total collapse at the end of regulation like we've seen so many times.

Or, an epic comeback by the best team in the nation.

 

[JustbrewitMan]

I mean, seriously, unless someone gets hurt, we're making the tournament. How pessimistic would you have to be to believe otherwise?

Boneyard Pessimistic!

 

[BGesus4]

We shot 15/26 from 3 and Jabari Smith didn't level up until halfway through the game.

And Sanogo made Kessler look like a high school jv player

 

[shizzle787]

If we finish 7th place in the Big East with an Auburn win on the resume that and a dime will get us............................nothing.

Well maybe an NIT bid.


before you scoff at 7th let me just remind you that would actually be a step up from the current 8th place position we are in.(How's that for a sobering thought) , and we have 8 games left against the top 4 Including 2 against Nova and 2 against Xavier. Before one says "they dont scare me" keep in mind that we just lost to the 5th best team in conference and also Providence at home.

7th this year probably means 9-11 in conference play. That would be 18 wins (assuming no bad losses to come). We are in as long as we win the first round game and get to 19 wins.

 

[Chin Diesel]

After reading the Seton Hall loss thread and how we moved up, I was expecting more on this thread to wish we had lost to Auburn.

If we had lost, Auburn would be our best loss of the season.

No other team on UConn's schedule gives the Huskies a better opponent to lose to than Auburn. Wasted opportunity for a quality loss.

 

[gtcam]

The Auburn win looks good for conversation purposes but means nothing if UConn doesn't win games
If a 16 win team happens to upset a top ranked team, it doesn't mean crap come March
I hope UConn doesn't find itself in that position

 

[CL82]

I mean, seriously, unless someone gets hurt, we're making the tournament. How pessimistic would you have to be to believe otherwise?

 

[Jaydumo20]

We’re a good basketball team

Do you think we'd beat them today?

 

[gsmooth]

The Auburn win looks good for conversation purposes but means nothing if UConn doesn't win games
If a 16 win team happens to upset a top ranked team, it doesn't mean crap come March
I hope UConn doesn't find itself in that position

That's my take, too. The Auburn is looking better and better, but damn, UConn shouldn't be resting on that. UConn needs to start closing out games better and winning themselves.

 

[HeGotGame]

The Auburn win looks good for conversation purposes but means nothing if UConn doesn't win games
If a 16 win team happens to upset a top ranked team, it doesn't mean crap come March
I hope UConn doesn't find itself in that position

You really are a joy

 

[HeGotGame]

College basketball rankings: Auburn leaps Baylor in Top 25 And 1 after Bears suffer first loss of the season

The Tigers improved their winning streak to 12 games on Tuesday night with a win over rival Alabama

www.cbssports.com

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AUBURN

Jabari Smith finished with 25 points and seven rebounds in Tuesday's 81-77 win at Alabama. The Tigers' next game is Saturday at Ole Miss.

 

[HeGotGame]

That's my take, too. The Auburn is looking better and better, but damn, UConn shouldn't be resting on that. UConn needs to start closing out games better and winning themselves.

They are 10-4 with 0 bad losses. No one is banking on the Auburn win, UConn will make the tournament easily on their own merit.

 

[Big East Fa]

Also Providence's wins over Wisconsin & Texas Tech are also looking good for them & the Big East.

 

[Hungryhusky99]

Also Providence's wins over Wisconsin & Texas Tech are also looking good for them & the Big East.

Wisconsin without Davis isn't very impressive to me, but Tech is a nice one

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Do you think we'd beat them today?

Before or after playing the St John's game?

 

[SubbaBub]

We won 1 tough game. Yeah, some of the other wins are pretty good but ifnwe get swept by Nova and X, we are 10-8 with not bad losses. Not a place I'd like to be. Lose tonight or gasp, PC again and suddenly the season gets real short.

Which was the entire point of this thread. Stop looking at game we could have won or even games we have one and start beating other elite teams in the BE. And by elite I'm not even talking about protected NCAA 1 or 2 seeds. The BE champ is likely a 3 and everyone else will be 5-9.or lower.

This still isnt the old Big East, Nova excepted, it still the former C7 also rans benefiting from the lack of national level in-confernce competition. We need to dominate more than we have.

Hurley will earn his money by papering over the obvious flaws we have. Getting late baskets is at the top of the list.