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Roscoe Smith
Position: SF
Rivals: #6 SF, #31 overall
Scout: #6 SF
ESPN: 95/100, #4 SF
Ht: 6'7
Wt: 185 lbs
School: Oak Hill Acad. (Va.)
Jeremy Lamb
Position: SG
Rivals: #17 SG, #68 overall
Scout: #13 SG
ESPN: 91/100, #43 SG
Ht: 6'4"
Wt: 170 lbs
School: Norcross (Ga.)
Michael Bradley
Position: PF/C
Rivals: NR
Scout: #15 C (4 stars)
ESPN: 85/100
Ht: 6'9"
Wt: 215 lbs
School: Tyner Acad. (Tenn.)
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TheBracketChallenge: Day 1
by Andrew Porter on Mar 17, 2010 2:09 PM EDT
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Well, one night in and the siren song of the Big East has already made most of the brackets in our NIT pool go the way of Bobby Gonzalez. We've only had seven games, but five brackets have already lost at least one final four pick, and The Columnist is down two. Specific standings are after the jump:
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TheOpenThread: UConn vs. Northeastern, NIT First Round
by Kevin Meacham on Mar 16, 2010 6:00 PM EDT
298 comments
Behind every great UConn team, there was an underachieving bunch that went to the NIT a few years earlier.
Two years before the Dream Season and the Shot, UConn won the 1988 NIT.
One year before superstar (and apparent Twitter friend of the blog) Donyell Marshall was this close to sending UConn to a layup Elite Eight game against Boston College, UConn lost to Jackson State in the NIT.
Two years before "Just when people say you can't..." made a generation of UConn fans roll their eyes and cry tears of joy at the same time, UConn was making it to the semifinals of the NIT.
Three years before UConn sent two of the top three NBA Draft picks to the league with championship rings, the Huskies were busy losing to Detroit Mercy for some reason in the NIT.
The point is, we're winning a national title in 2012. So join us on the first step to future dominance tonight in the open thread. Game's tonight at 7 p.m. on ESPN2, though you'd know that if you read the preview.
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(Other, assorted blog housekeeping notes:
1) If you haven't joined TheBracketPool, you should do so. It's a little late for the NIT version, though.
2) Be on the lookout for your day-long OpenThread Thursday and Friday. I'll be around for all 12 hours both days for running commentary. Think of it like watching all the games at the bar, only with none of that pesky human interaction.)
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DOG FIGHT: A UConn-Northeastern preview
by Kevin Meacham on Mar 16, 2010 5:19 PM EDT
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Ah, the NIT. It was the NCAA Tournament before the NCAA Tournament was cool. Back in the 1950's, the coolest things you could do were to a) ask out Nancy Johnson at the neighborhood sockhop and b) win the NIT.
Nowadays, of course, the NIT is an afterthought, and rightly so. The NCAA Tournament is the only real goal for most major-conference teams. For a team like UConn to drop so far is, frankly, a failure.
Nevertheless, this is not the end of the world. Sure, enemy fans will use this to taunt UConn fans with until we're good again. But so long as a NIT trip is a once-in-a-while thing, and UConn's program doesn't pull a Syracuse and miss out on the NCAAs twice in a row, I can deal with this. In Cal We Trust.
Thus, there are at least three reasons I can think of why UConn players and fans should give a crap. That, plus your full game preview for tonight's NIT first-round game against Northeastern, is below the jump.
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Reminder: NIT Brackets due at 7
Since we are already going to suffer the indignity of actually watching the NIT, let's at least have a little fun with it. Make sure to get your bracket filled out before UConn tips off tonight and leave it in the comments of our contest post.
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Call of Duty (NH Register UConn MBB Blog)
So many fantastic tidbits in David Borges' update from Calhoun's presser Monday prior to the Northeastern game. To name three:
--John Calipari is a slimy SOB (SHOCKER!)
--Jerome Dyson has been playing video games since the St. John's loss
--"No-Nickname" Smith getting plenty of burn. I'm kind of OK with that
So check it out. In the meantime, the post also brings us a fantastic Coach Cal quote:
"I've always tried to control the world, and I never have. But my quest will never end."
Discuss how this quote will change YOUR life in the comments.
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Let the UConn invitational begin
by Kevin Meacham on Mar 15, 2010 7:00 PM EDT
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Tonight is one of the biggest nights of the year in women's basketball: the night that 63 teams get to find out whether or not they will lose to UConn, in which round they will do so, and when Pat Summitt will get her hat and broom handed to her in an epic Geno-delivered beatdown.
In the comments section, you'll see my stream-of-consciousness, mostly-off-the-top-of-my-head quickie live analysis of the bracket. Here's the important information, for the purposes of this blog:
- UConn was seeded No. 1 in the Dayton region, and named the No. 1 overall seed (duh)
- Their first-round pod will take place in Norfolk, Va. First-round games (UConn vs. #16 seed Southern and #8 Temple vs. #9 James Madison) will take place Sunday afternoon.
- UConn-Southern will kick things off at 12:15, with Temple-James Madison to follow 30 minutes after
- The second-round game will take place Tuesday night, either at 7 or 9
- The regionals will take place in Dayton, Ohio the following Sunday (March 28) and Tuesday (March 30)
- The Final Four will be in San Antonio the following Sunday (April 4) and Tuesday (April 6)
- UConn's likely opponent in the Final Four would be archrival Tennessee, the top seed in the Memphis region. They could also play Duke, West Virginia or Baylor
- The top seeds on the other side of the bracket were Stanford (probably the biggest, possibly the only threat to UConn) and Nebraska
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TheBracketChallenge: Something to distract us from the pain
by Andrew Porter on Mar 15, 2010 5:13 PM EDT
25 comments
Welcome to TheUConnBlog's first annual NCAA Tournament Bracket Challenge and (hopefully) last annual NIT Challenge.
As far as the NCAA pool goes, we're using standard operating procedure. The challenge is hosted over at Yahoo, and you can find it here. Our name is TheUConnBlog and the password is "calbertus." Also, despite UConn's dismal failure, we'll be hosting OpenThreads for the NCAA's, so feel free to stop by and chime in.
Now, on to the real matter at hand, the National Invitational Tournament. Wooo. Near as I can tell, no website runs an interactive bracket challenge, nor even makes an interactive bracket available, so we're going to have to do this old-school. You can post your picks in the comments (just go through the games in order, or post a screenshot of a bracket) and I'll keep track by hand and provide regular updates. If you need it, the bracket is here. All brackets for the NIT contest are due by 7 est. Tuesday. Finally, I'm never sure how to score one of these things, I figure for points we can either go 1-2-3-4-5 or 1-2-4-8-16. Vote in the comments and I'll go with whatever is most popular.
Despite our corporate sellout, we're still broke, so there are no elaborate prizes for winners, but I'll see if we can throw something together (guest post, signed copy of Hoop Tales, something along those lines).
Goodluck to all.
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Did you say you were hungry for MORE UConn men's basketball this year?
by Kevin Meacham on Mar 14, 2010 9:44 PM EDT
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I thought you might have.
We (mostly) took the last five days off after UConn's embarrassing blowout loss to St. John's in the Big East tournament. It was a spiritual journey in which we looked deep within ourselves. At the end of any existential journey into one's mind, you realize that, when you consider everything that exists, you have no choice but to conclude that it's all meaningless.
That's just about the best segue I could come up with to announce this:
UConn will host Northeastern in the first round of the NIT Tuesday at 7 p.m. (ESPN2). Get your brackets in now.
More, including the school's official release, after the jump.
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Big East Conference Standings
(updated 3.16.2010 at 11:42 PM EDT)
| Conf | Overall | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| W | L | W | L | |
Syracuse Orange
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15 | 3 | 28 | 4 |
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West Virginia Mountaineers
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13 | 5 | 27 | 6 |
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Villanova Wildcats
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13 | 5 | 24 | 7 |
| Pittsburgh Panthers | 13 | 5 | 24 | 8 |
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Marquette Golden Eagles
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11 | 7 | 22 | 11 |
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Louisville Cardinals
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11 | 7 | 20 | 12 |
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Georgetown Hoyas
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10 | 8 | 23 | 10 |
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Notre Dame Fighting Irish
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10 | 8 | 23 | 11 |
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South Florida Bulls
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9 | 9 | 20 | 13 |
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Seton Hall Pirates
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9 | 9 | 19 | 12 |
| Cincinnati Bearcats | 7 | 11 | 18 | 15 |
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Connecticut Huskies
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7 | 11 | 18 | 15 |
| St. John's Red Storm | 6 | 12 | 17 | 15 |
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Rutgers Scarlet Knights
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5 | 13 | 15 | 17 |
| Providence Friars | 4 | 14 | 12 | 19 |
| DePaul Blue Demons | 1 | 17 | 8 | 23 |
Huskies Basketball Schedule
Last 5 Games
| Northeastern | Tue 03/16 | W 59 - 57 |
| St. John's | Tue 03/09 | L 51 - 73 |
| St. John's | Tue 03/09 | L 51 - 73 |
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South Florida
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Sat 03/06 | L 68 - 75 |
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Notre Dame
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Wed 03/03 | L 50 - 58 |
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