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I wonder how many articles UConn’s beat writers will write about their fair weather fan base and how that’s not how to build a winning program...?

Typical VCU team, suffocating defense and scrappy offense that lives at the free throw line.

Suffocating defense that allowed 84 points? I beg to differ.

I wanted both teams to lose.

Hurley with the Tech. lol

Tjrams91 wrote: ↑4 years ago Suffocating defense that allowed 84 points? I beg to differ.

I wanted both teams to lose.

They forced 26 turnovers to the #23 team in the country, not too shabby.

UConn roaring back.... within 3

Danny has to be happy losing to Joes in an empty home court. You wanted it, you got it. Boneyard should be lively tonight.

96-87 St. joes. Brendan Adams fouls out with 3 points. I often wonder if we dodged a bullet with him going to UConn with Hurley. His Mommy Dearest would have been a bit much.

Really solid night for the A-10.

I also thought it was a funny situation. Losing to joes in a middle of the week game with less than 50% attendance. I thought that was what he didn’t like!

Wish that was a better win for the league. The VCU win was a good one tonight.

How did Charleston get Oklahoma state on its home floor?

UConn, behind the entire game, falls to St. Joe's, 96-87 despite UConn having a 10 pt edge at the FT line and great 3 point shooting, 14-29, 48+%. What happened to Hurley's vaunted defense intensity??

A10 winning 5/6 tonight including LSU and Uconn. Solid.

We need to follow up and take down Bama on Friday!!!!

LoveThoseRams wrote: ↑4 years ago 96-87 St. joes. Brendan Adams fouls out with 3 points. I often wonder if we dodged a bullet with him going to UConn with Hurley. His Mommy Dearest would have been a bit much.

With our awesome depth at guard I would take Adams right now

wpbrown8267 wrote: ↑4 years ago

LoveThoseRams wrote: ↑4 years ago 96-87 St. joes. Brendan Adams fouls out with 3 points. I often wonder if we dodged a bullet with him going to UConn with Hurley. His Mommy Dearest would have been a bit much.

With our awesome depth at guard I would take Adams right now

always a debbie downer.

theblueram wrote: ↑4 years ago

wpbrown8267 wrote: ↑4 years ago

LoveThoseRams wrote: ↑4 years ago 96-87 St. joes. Brendan Adams fouls out with 3 points. I often wonder if we dodged a bullet with him going to UConn with Hurley. His Mommy Dearest would have been a bit much.

With our awesome depth at guard I would take Adams right now

always a debbie downer.

I’m a Debbie downer? Haha aren’t you known for complaining constantly on this board

I rarely bitch and moan on this board, I think we could use a Brendan adawa right now

wpbrown8267 wrote: ↑4 years ago

theblueram wrote: ↑4 years ago

wpbrown8267 wrote: ↑4 years ago

With our awesome depth at guard I would take Adams right now

always a debbie downer.

I’m a Debbie downer? Haha aren’t you known for complaining constantly on this board

I rarely bitch and moan on this board, I think we could use a Brendan adawa right now

Well, there is a lot to bitch and moan about. lol.

theblueram wrote: ↑4 years ago

wpbrown8267 wrote: ↑4 years ago

theblueram wrote: ↑4 years ago

always a debbie downer.

I’m a Debbie downer? Haha aren’t you known for complaining constantly on this board

I rarely bitch and moan on this board, I think we could use a Brendan adawa right now

Well, there is a lot to bitch and moan about. lol.

Like this familiar call, only from the boneyard: "Hurley needs to take some blame. So obvious now we needed a grad transfer pg who could play immediately"

They could use a new mascot, too. All I saw was the husky sitting behind the bench. Looked like a cheerleader for a funeral.

PC lays an egg 1h

Bye bye PC bye bye

ramfan85 wrote: ↑4 years ago They could use a new mascot, too. All I saw was the husky sitting behind the bench. Looked like a cheerleader for a funeral.

I was legit wondering if the guy inside the mascot fell asleep.

Nichols defeats someone named Paul Quinn 81-66 .... don’t know what to make of that. They shot about 41% from the field and about 27% from three.

Paul Quinn is a black school affiliated with the Methodist Church and is located In Dallas. School has less than 1000 students their athletics compete in the NAIA. Obviously Nicholls had difficulty in putting a schedule together otherwise they would not have played in regular season such a lower level opponent.

More important is Nicholls' next opponent which is LSU followed by their game against URI. They have played two road contest of worth - taking Illinois to OT before losing and beating Pitt.

Northwestern is just out classing providence.

Playing much smarter

PC. 13-50
NW. 18-31

FG %

That hot bed of college basketball, Storrs, CT, had a huge crowd of 4,081 tonight.

Can you imagine what this board would be like if we had a crowd like that.

eli#10 wrote: ↑4 years ago That hot bed of college basketball, Storrs, CT, had a huge crowd of 4,081 tonight.

Can you imagine what this board would be like if we had a crowd like that.

Thought Dan wanted to go big time?

Living in the shadow of Jim Calhoun and thriving off of his prior success is soooo much more ambitious than making Rhode Island the Gonzaga of the east....

Northwestern loses to Merrimack,then Northwestern upsets PC tonight.

Say it ain’t so Ed Cooley.

Wow 4 k attendance for UConn that is hard to believe

Solid night for the A10

Hard to imagine a better night than one in which the mental hospital and the Storrs Leg-humpers both lost to what their fans would describe as lower-quality opponents.

I enjoyed the PC loss as well Red.
10 point favorites and they lost to Northwestern who got beat by 1st year D1 Merrimack.
Pipkins was coming home to Chicago for this game but was a bad 3-15 shooting
Night with many shots clanging off the front of the rim
Young and Reeves both started and went scoreless with 15 minutes of play. Cooley benched Reeves 2nd half because his defense was so bad

Gannt, the freshman big looked good and should have played more. Duke played well also. White good off the bench

Cooley went to the full court press too late, should have pressed sooner to wake his guys up.

Northwestern 1-3-1 zone hurt the Fryuzzz offense.

eli#10 wrote: ↑4 years ago That hot bed of college basketball, Storrs, CT, had a huge crowd of 4,081 tonight.

Can you imagine what this board would be like if we had a crowd like that.

People talk about attendance, or lack thereof, a lot, but I think we too often glorify some of our A10 opponents like people should be lining up to watch St. Joseph's. The reality is if we played Villanova, Georgetown, St. Johns, annually we'd see a lot of full houses. St. Joseph's just doesn't excite anyone.

I also think Hurley is getting a little bit of a pass with his "lack of talent" or "not his players". The reality is St. Joseph's roster has no where near the talent of UConn and Hurley recruited the vast majority of that roster...they just picked UConn over URI.

I have no doubt Hurley will turn it around, but stop pretending Christian Vital, Alterique GIlbert, etc. shouldn't blow the doors of St. Joes.

Poor PC .. bahahhahaha

2 of the last 3 times DH has played St Joe’s he’s been on the wrong end of a boat racing to epic proportions. Senior Night and last night. He must hate that flapping Hawk!

Think about it though. If Indiana, or Kentucky were having a coaching change, do you think they would EVER have less then 8K in their arenas?

Northwestern 1-3-1 zone hurt the Fryuzzz offense.
kind of like what Marylands did to us. Although it was nice to see PC go down
against a second tier Big ten school.

.......hhhhuuummm...are U Mass and Joe’s gonna be better than previously thought?

The VCU win over LSU was big on many levels. VCU, even with two wins in week 1, had just fallen out of the top 25. LSU was ranked #23. The coach of the tigers is none other than Will Wade whose very short stint at VCU left its fans with a bad taste. The H&H series only came about because VCU has had a clause in the contracts of its head coaches that they have to consent to a series if they leave. That is why Oklahoma, Texas, and now LSU have played at VCU.

VCU fans were very revved up for this game and made a big deal of Wade's legal issues with the NCAA in Baton Rouge. The crowd really trolled him with numerous signs. The funniest bit was the group sitting at court side wearing sunglasses and matching jackets with FBI caps.

https://www.barstoolsports.com/barstool ... DJK2XhlPDY

Also funny was the inference by VCU fans that Will Wade only became a cheater after he left Richmond

bigappleram wrote: ↑4 years ago Also funny was the inference by VCU fans that Will Wade only became a cheater after he left Richmond

.......yes, but back then Wade was their cheater......

Only Thursday night game in the A-10:

Vanderbilt at Richmond, 7 PM. On ESPN+.

There are no games involving URI OOC opponents.

LoveThoseRams wrote: ↑4 years ago 96-87 St. joes. Brendan Adams fouls out with 3 points. I often wonder if we dodged a bullet with him going to UConn with Hurley. His Mommy Dearest would have been a bit much.

Ryan Daly has 30 points, 8 rebounds and (6-12) on 3Ps. Daly was (0-11) on 3Ps in the first 2 games
Daly sat out last season after transferring from U of Delaware having played 2 years there. Daly is scored and rebounded well so far.

I’ll just hijack this games of interest for a minute:

Friday is a busy mid afternoon file URI

URI WBB plays at North Dakota at 12 noon. Video available

#23 Ranked, 1-Seed and A10 League Champion URI Men’s Soccer vs #5-Seed Fordham in NYC 1pm. Video available. Semi Finals of A10 Tournament

So take a Friday half day off!!!

section(105) wrote: ↑4 years ago .......hhhhuuummm...are U Mass and Joe’s gonna be better than previously thought?

Maybe Joes. Their best players last night were all new - two transfers and a freshman, and as someone pointed out elsewhere in this thread, they’re playing an unorthodox style. So maybe their new guys will make them better than we expected, or maybe by the time we get to the league part of the schedule teams will have figured them out.

UMass I’m pretty sure is terrible. They’ve played pretty lousy teams so far but if they’re going to play a bad schedule at least they are winning which is good for the league. That roster is bad. Tre Mitchell is going to be a legit guy but not sure I see many other A10 players there right now.

Section104 wrote: ↑4 years ago

eli#10 wrote: ↑4 years ago That hot bed of college basketball, Storrs, CT, had a huge crowd of 4,081 tonight.

Can you imagine what this board would be like if we had a crowd like that.

People talk about attendance, or lack thereof, a lot, but I think we too often glorify some of our A10 opponents like people should be lining up to watch St. Joseph's. The reality is if we played Villanova, Georgetown, St. Johns, annually we'd see a lot of full houses. St. Joseph's just doesn't excite anyone.

I also think Hurley is getting a little bit of a pass with his "lack of talent" or "not his players". The reality is St. Joseph's roster has no where near the talent of UConn and Hurley recruited the vast majority of that roster...they just picked UConn over URI.

I have no doubt Hurley will turn it around, but stop pretending Christian Vital, Alterique GIlbert, etc. shouldn't blow the doors of St. Joes.

But this is the Big East being the future now for UCONN. You would expect more
Only 5,204 at Northwestern for the PC game. Lot of excitement for the Gavitt Games Big 10 - Big East matchups

Richmond up by 2 on Vandy with 10 minutes left.

Who do you like in overtime?

Florida escapes at home against Towson. They were favored by 15.

Haha Richmond guy bricked a dunk (?) at the buzzer to win it for Richmond. Going to 2OT. That guy is going to be sick if they lose this game.