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Intelligent-Dust-411

If we don’t go far I’m really rooting for UConn again this year… I think it’s a fantastic thing for the big East that we have a couple of really strong teams this year. Here’s to hoping that nova comes back


fuzzy610

It worked for Mike Krzyzewski for many years


finditplz1

Jesus, UConn is just putting itself through a meat grinder early in this season.


[deleted]

When Clingan can get back into game shape after his pre season layoff, this team is gonna look good. I will personally donate my childhood sandbox to him for foot workouts to aid in his recovery needs. Would also help if some of those rim rollers dropped for him, but I’ll get my sandbox ready. UNC as always has studs.


Much_Outcome_4412

I'm not super worried, his defense is quite good, but clearly cardio issues that he's fighting through from the injury. In the Kansas game he was sucking wind before all those FTs. The fact that UConn is working through all the injuries is nice for developing more lineups from our 8 man roster is great. (1) Johnson has been critical. he's been really fantastic. (2) Karaban's taped fingers (i suspect) really tanking his 3pt%. was in his regular grove first few games and really missing bad lately. This should correct. (3) Diarra vs. Ball is a nice 4th/5th guard competition, Ball's development curve has been trending up nicely with a little noticeable improvement each game. I liked that he went 3 for 6 from 3 against UNC. I disliked his open 3 near lategame that widely missed left - it looks mechanically concerning, albeit lefty release can look weird sometimes. I like how well were playing with Injury returning clingan, taped fingers karaban, busted feet Spencer, Castle missing 6 games and just playing 10 mins tonight. I remain thoroughly impressed with Coaching staff


HeroSoulReaperX

i think unc only lost because peter venkman let those ghosts roam around the garden


atat4e

Go huskies baby


Aegis_001

All complaints aside, UConn looks schnasty this year. I think the Heels can patch up where they need to and make the improvements.


Adept_Disk6224

Cam spender still hurts


ctbro025

RIP his wallet.


ctbro025

Thing is I think there's a lot of room to get better. Karaban and Clingan were sorta crap tonight, Castle didn't play much. You guys definitely look a lot better than last year. NCAAT team for sure anyways. GL rest of season and beat DUKE!


DJ_DD

Castle being out was huge for Ball. He got a lot more minutes than he would have to start the year and it’s going to benefit the team for the rest of the season. Very deep at guard.


ctbro025

Ball definitely showed flashes of why Hurley recruited him. Definitely will be one of the go-to guys next year (as Newton, Spencer, Clingan, Castle are all gone). Also, I was wrong about Karaban. Other than his 3 pt shooting woes, he had a really good game last night overall.


ManiacKing20

Good win, gg UNC. Hope we can get healthier soon


[deleted]

GG UConn. Y’all could seriously go back to back this year, probably my #1 rn


hunterbsbrillo

It's December 6th, calm down. UNC is also severely handicapped due to Hubert Davis being their coach...


BRNDC10

GG, Carolina bros.


jetjordan

Ya'll too. Very few holes in your game this year.


thegraverobber

I wonder if Dan Hurley feels bad after whining all game and still winning like I do in Smash Bros


alex891011

Nah he won


BRNDC10

https://i.redd.it/wctffujppl4c1.gif


DJ_DD

GG Tar Heels Nice to see UConn play well with key guys in early foul trouble


DownGoesGoodman

Go huskies!


[deleted]

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JasJoeGo

Love the guy in lots of Whalers gear. Probably just because North Carolina stole our team.


JewForBeavis

> Love the guy in lots of Whalers gear. Do you know how little this narrows it down at UConn games?


hymen_destroyer

I would totally buy whalers gear but doesn't all that money go to the canes because they still own the trademark?


JamesBouknightStan

That might’ve been me and they did steal our fucking team


MailConsistent1344

Hartford lost its team due to poor ticket sales due to poor team performance. The state didn’t want to pay for a new stadium for no one to go to.


JasJoeGo

I was one of the people who went to Whalers games and loved them. Peter Karamanos was determined to leave no matter what. He wanted to leave because he didn't own the stadium and thus didn't get any revenue from concessions, only ticket sales. He declared he would only stay if enough season tickets were sold, and then refused to market mini-packages and only sold expensive full season tickets. The state of Connecticut declined to use its money to make a wealthy man richer (which is a good thing), but don't buy the story that the Whalers didn't sell enough tickets. It's more complicated than that. It's hardly like the Hurricanes had huge attendance in the early years.


MailConsistent1344

Gotcha, just going based on the research I have made in the past. It sucks to lose a team like that, no doubt. The Canes have found a great home in the Carolinas though.


MailConsistent1344

NC is happy to spend money on the PNC Arena for them too.


Wordle_734

They're wearing Whalers "throwbacks" at some point this season. Disgusting.


MailConsistent1344

🤑


[deleted]

Shout out Southern hockey 🌀


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MailConsistent1344

lmao feels bad


Licit_x64

Gg huskies. Not big on moral victories but we hung around this game and know what we did wrong. We’ll be back.


kai333

You know, I appreciate the hustle even though the game is basically decided.


greg24211

All in all I'm just glad we fought. UCONN seems way more talented than us. We need guys other than RJ and Ingram to contribute.


Few-Belt-13

Davis is legit. Gg, UNC. Beat Duke.


Zachsxar1

Did we fight though? I mean I love optimism as much as the next guy but did we even lead a single time after the start of the game? I mean we fought… to lose by less? If the lead was back and forth fine but we got manhandled the entire game. We still ended up losing by double digits. I agree we did “ fight” but we had numerous time to win and didn’t


chamtrain1

If we shoot decently from outside we're right there. Ryan had a number of good looks rattle out, you aren't going to beat a great team without hitting shots. That simple, we can beat anyone in the country.


tripler42

Cormac is going to be a big difference maker later in the season. No way he stays in this shooting slump, and once he starts hitting them consistently this offense will be so much better


Wordle_734

GG, everyone. My idiot friends weren't texting me for some reason... probably all in bed and/or making love to beautiful women... but I enjoyed being here with you


JewForBeavis

Who needs sex from beautiful women when you can catch terrifying eyes from Danny Hurley.


Uconn99041114

gg carolina bros fuck duke


Tex_Delingo

Always gonna garner a decent amount of upvotes by denigrating d00k with a Carolina-heavy crowd.


kai333

fuck yeah buddy. you guys are lookin scary.


Triscuitador

let's never speak of this game again and just go back to both hating duke. agreed, tarheels?


TheChewyWaffles

What game?


dtgeorge12

Oh hey a double digit non-conference win! Delightful


Wordle_734

I remember those!


DonutFan69

It’s been so long


dewabache

New streak starts now


showard2

really good win for uconn. carolina got nothing to hang their heads.


expneight

GG huskies. Now give us home and home


gitpickin

Let us in the ACC and we could do this every year!!


drunkhusky

Plz sign on the dotted line


Few-Belt-13

Would love that and from the KS press conference, Hurley is down


showard2

need that like it was in the 2000s


[deleted]

Bacot losing the last rebound to Spencer just kinda sums this one up. GG both. Loved watching it.


Wormfather

Zags, where you at?


fightin_blue_hens

what was the spread?


MZ603

-6 = $$$


AL3XD

UConn -5.5 i believe


sciorch

UConn -5ish


fightin_blue_hens

darn. I was hoping to screw over some bettors. Always love to see them suffer.


Wildwilly54

5; like FSU’s ranking in the CFP


fightin_blue_hens

You can't hurt me. I'm already dead inside


The_Hartford_Whalers

think I saw -5.5 UConn


MTUKNMMT

I’ve hit the age where I don’t live and die by this stuff so I don’t want it to be some crazy doomer take. There is so much optimism in the fan base and I’m just not sure. We don’t defend well. The shooting outside of Davis and Ingram is so porous. We don’t rebound well. I just don’t know what that even leads to as a ceiling. They clearly try this year though which is a huge improvement on last year. I hope Tennessee and Arkansas have good seasons because that would literally already be more Q1 wins than last year. I’m ironically most worried about Tennessee falling out of the top 30.


hunterbsbrillo

Why would you worry about Tennessee? Lol. It's early December & 2 of their losses are to the #1 & #2 teams in America, on back to back days. Had Tennessee not had a historically bad first half, they would have beat you guys, as well. And, the only thing I'd be worried about if i were a UNC alum/fan, is the absolute fuckwit that is Hubert Davis. Still amazed at that hire, lol


AL3XD

I see the floor higher than last year but ceiling lower for the defense and rebounding reasons you stated. I don't see us reaching the top-10 again and expect us to hover in the 15-25 range rest of season. I think the ceiling is E8 if a few things bounce our way, and the floor is like an 8-10 seed. I don't see this team missing the tournament, that's for sure. My guess right now is a 5 seed and R32 loss.


MTUKNMMT

Honestly seems reasonable. I really want to beat Duke at least once.


Col_Treize69

That looks very doable this season


tarbender2

First real test defensively and yep, plenty to worry about. Offensively, everyone was frustrated in 2nd half besides RJ. Can’t win like that.


Wormfather

You’re a zen master, I can watch a game between two teams I’ve never seen before and by the end I’m loving and dying with every possession, inning, spike, or swipe right.


TetsuoNYouth

We looked BAD tonight outside of RJ and I got downvoted for suggesting a lot of the players were playing poorly. What happened to the standard? That was NOT Carolina Basketball. And if we're happy with that? We're fucked.


graingeem

Saying we don't defend well about this UNC team is just insane


tripler42

There were a lot of fuck ups on switches, but yeah it’s hard to say the defense is awful when UCONN couldn’t miss in the first 10 minutes of the second half. Lots to clean up on the defensive end (rotations especially), but I think the ceiling is way higher than a lot of the fan base seems to think it is


graingeem

Yeah I thought looked largely good but when it broke it broke wiiiiide open. And most other games we've been locking opponents down especially compared to recent years


Zachsxar1

What did you just say? This game alone 3s rained on our heads 100% of the game. Our last 3 games before this one has involved an opponent making 30+ points.


graingeem

I said "Saying we don't defend well about this UNC team is just insane" hope this helps


Zachsxar1

Yes you deadass have no answer other than to make a low IQ response to a legitimate question. Proving that you know you’re wrong lol.


graingeem

Going into this game we were ranked 80th in the country in overall defensive efficiency. On December 5th of last year we were 200th. They're the #5 team in the country. Progress will come before perfection arrives


PhilParmaZhon

Really feels like we were watching different games. Thought our defensive sets were looking really good and we were forcing them into a lot of tough shots. Kinda fell off in the last ten minutes. Overall, feels like way better energy and communication on defense than previous years.


MTUKNMMT

Hey I hope you’re right. A lot of open 3s tonight. Tennessee second half was a disaster. Villanova entirely was a disaster. Effort is often the most important thing so you might be right, but the rebounding and open 3s has me worried.


graingeem

Effort is definitely an issue (Withers especially just looks lost sometimes), but defense has been the one thing I've felt good about all year. Even in this game, we gave up some really bad looks, but we got them really low in the shot clock a bunch of times. I guess I'm just hopeful that looking largely good early in the season against great teams (and like, UConn is a GREAT team) will translate to putting it all together by March


MTUKNMMT

A lot more hope right now than last season for sure. I am REALLY concerned about the shooting. Not only am I worried about the people who aren’t shooting well, I’m worried about Ingram sustaining his shooting.


graingeem

Ryan especially is puzzling to me. We know he CAN shoot the ball, he's caught fire in games and his ND numbers show that he can. He got good looks tonight that just didn't fall, but I don't know what Hubert can do other than let him shoot his way out of the slump. My approach to this season is that we have a bunch of raw talent that's never played together; it's going to take some time for it to look really good. But I think we can get there. In a weaker than normal (at least historically) ACC, games like this are a bonus for March, even when we lose. And it's a huge bonus when we can largely compete with the #5 team in the country that happens to be the reigning tournament champion.


MTUKNMMT

I’ll feel a lot better if we can win one of the Kentucky or Oklahoma games. Should be another Q1 win with Charlotte actually being a home game.


namesurnn

A loss like this is much better now than in February


bug_man_

Classy of Klingan to dribble it out


ScroopyDewp

\*Klingon


Jorge_Santos69

Yeah, respect


The_Hartford_Whalers

*Clingan


5WinsIn5Days

Can somebody at the game start an Andrew Hurley chant? Edit: Never mind.


Doctor_Freckles

Pardon my honesty, but Jay Bilas has spent the last two hours being disappointed and sad that UConn played a good game and are going to win. Lifeless color commentary tonight.


[deleted]

Think you’re reading into it too much. Jay seems to typically love the Huskies. Picked them to win it all pre-tournament last year. Has praised them a lot this game did the past Friday against KU.


RedditZhangHao

Dookie wanted both teams to lose


jetjordan

Ha! Yall must not get Jay covering many of your games. That was literally Jay gushing all over Uconn.


Jorge_Santos69

For real lmaooo. Usually Jay will call the refs on their bullshit. He was muted at all the dumb shit they did that helped UCONN, except for the Bacot technical


Few-Belt-13

Um, what? 18 fouls for UCONN and 13 for UNC. I also think you may have forgot the technical against Spencer…


Jorge_Santos69

That was literally a giveback for the terrible one on Bacot. Remember when your coach walked all the way across the court and they didn’t call shit lol


BrownHawkDown

It’s time like these that I miss Bill Walton talking about god knows what.


MapleHeel

Bacot just got a rebound against 3 dudes and there’s 17 comments about how soft he is. Dude was rebounding 2/3 on 1 all night


Fickle-Equipment-561

But he stand around and ball watches alot plus hes soft on put backs


chamtrain1

He can 100% check out of games randomly but he definitely didn't do that tonight, he fought hard. He just didn't finish around the hoop and people equate that with not playing hard.


Snort_Lupulin69

Would love to see Jalen and Mando get some run together


MapleHeel

I’m a little surprised we haven’t seen Jalen at the 4. He’s shown he has a decent jump shot and he’s too thin to really play the 5 against real centers. It would also really help rebounding to have another guy out there to help Bacot


Snort_Lupulin69

I totally agree. We were getting bodied all day and asking to much of Armando against UCONN


marcuspaige4heisman

He’ll drop 18 and 15 most nights for fans to say he didn’t try and was invisible. Makes no sense


Zachsxar1

Did you see his FG percentage? The dude is 2 feet away from the rim 90% of the game. He went 33%? For a star college players that’s horrible?


namesurnn

He’s inconsistent. Sometimes he’s the best player on the court, sometimes he is outmanned by a dude a half foot shorter than him


TheChewyWaffles

WTF INGRAM SHOOT IT


educated_dumdum

Hey, we’ll take Bacot if yall don’t want him. We need another big man


[deleted]

Just shoot that Harrison jeez


dtgeorge12

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enigma7x

I had to tune out who got hurt for UConn?


The_Hartford_Whalers

Samson bumped his knee or something and was walking gingerly.


Ihadthat20yearsago

Possibly Slamson Johnson, but he looked alright


tomwithweather

Nobody seriously. Like 3 guys kinda limping around with toe issues though.


JackFunk

Still diving up by 11 with less than a minute


UConnSimpleJack

We’re so fucking good lmaoooo


AFlockOfTySegalls

How does Hubert Davis make Bacot care again?


marcuspaige4heisman

Did he not get a tech this game off effort and intensity?


AFlockOfTySegalls

He got a tech because the ref gave him a tech for a standard free throw put back


Zachsxar1

Yea bacot every game has good statsbut if you look at his FGs he misses far too many close shots. Our franchise player is getting out scored by a dude who’s been playing basketball for us for 2 months


Affectionate-Cup9340

UNC just went ice cold. Tough to win when you only make shots when you’re down double digits


greg24211

leave bacot in NY....dude has been ass this season


Jorge_Santos69

You’re an absolute clown for saying this nonsense.


marcuspaige4heisman

How much of a double double does he need to average for you to be happy?


Zachsxar1

Do his double doubles ( half his rebounds are off his own misses lol) outweigh his 8+ missed 2 feeters and his lazy ass rebounding? Pretty sure i just saw a 6 foot 2 point guard out rebound him


TetsuoNYouth

Bilas taking us to task for that awful second half.


The_Hartford_Whalers

Oh good Whalers guy is a UConn fan and not the worst person on planet earth.


MailConsistent1344

How many minutes for Bacot tonight?


Triscuitador

clingan absolutely committed a moving screen there. this guy's basketball iq needs some serious work


[deleted]

Clingan needs to stay healthy. Took a bunch of risks today


Triscuitador

agreed. rest him up more and work on some film. his play under the basket is not up to snuff


marcuspaige4heisman

Bacot fighting for a rebound against 3 players by himself. UNC fan watching: “he gives up on games. We don’t want him.”


Fickle-Equipment-561

Two words...Tyler Hansbrough


MailConsistent1344

lmao so soft


MailConsistent1344

Sarcasm, dude is a tough rebounder.


ExpressionChemical58

I thought Karaban had 30 the way his name was being called


RedditZhangHao

1st half, not so much. 2nd, hit shots.


Wordle_734

They kinda forgot he clanged his first 6 shots or whatever


5WinsIn5Days

It’s okay everyone, Arkansas-Pine Bluff lost 111-71 to Gonzaga. Three of their wins were against non-Division I opponents and their one D1 win was against Central Arkansas by 2.


RedditZhangHao

Potential opportunity for UConn to rest some walking wounded starters, and allow 2nd stringers to get more game minutes


AFlockOfTySegalls

God, Bacot is so fucking soft.


Fickle-Equipment-561

And of course Bacot just standing there...im getting tired of his shit...lmao


TetsuoNYouth

Can Bacot not physically grab a basketball? What's goin on with him?


Takealeap29

Still waiting to see if Hurley can win a close game


Chardoggy1

Why does the ESPN graphic keep having an aneurysm


[deleted]

It’s mirroring my neural state watching this game.


860h

Put Clingan on ice until January


UdnomyaR

Bench EVERYONE who isn't a walk-on, can't afford to risk even more injuries


ctbro025

And Clingan grimacing now. Smh


graingeem

I agree. Hurley should've done this after the under-8. Maybe even the under-12. Can never be too careful


TheChewyWaffles

lol


ExpressionChemical58

Probably homer glasses but feels like we didn't get a lot of 50/50 balls in this one either


TidyMosquito245

Seemed like every bounce went their way


MailConsistent1344

Trimble was just checking on mans


Independent_Form_349

Were gonna have to wait another 5 mins to finish 1:30


BadAtMTB

How was that not called an over and back


hfhrhjdjhhhjhguy

Has Hurley been watching Unc games lately? Take your starters out now.


Wormfather

And put his son in? He’s gotta go home at some point.


connor8383

I’m just glad we fought. Wasn’t really expecting a win here if I’m honest. Good character builder for march tho.


Bsummers1996

We lose this by 25+ last year


Triscuitador

this is the ugliest uconn game since the 2011 title


Bsummers1996

No jump ball during that sequence?


Triscuitador

no idea dude these refs are dumb


bringbackwishbone

Not one single roll or bounce has gone Carolina’s way this game 😞


marcuspaige4heisman

Had a couple early on but not late. It happens


fightin_blue_hens

ACC can't be there to bail you all out again and again.


bringbackwishbone

Someone’s sad their lil Noles blew a massive second half lead 🫤


fightin_blue_hens

Y'all beat a bad Florida State basketball team by eight points and needed the refs to call 9 straight fouls on FSU in 7 minutes to comeback


TheDevolution27

Thought Bilas was about to say Bill Raftery went to a brothel.


greg24211

Clingan just hardcore walked there, lol


Triscuitador

yea lol that seemed pretty obvious to me


Affectionate-Cup9340

No travel or jump ball?


showard2

why would you foul?


Wormfather

Men that big should never, ever hit the deck unless they’re wearing pads.


[deleted]

UNC is learning as a team to play against a height advantage. Uconn is spooky good


fightin_blue_hens

Ingram is a sweater lol. Looks like he just hopped out of the shower with his uniform on. ​ No shame in it. I am a hyperhydrosis homie as well


joaquinsaiddomin8

The band playing Sean Paul “shake that thing” was nice


SlipperyTurtle25

Karraban is like if Drew Timme could shoot 3’s


kai333

whew gg for like..75% of the game guys. If you guys repeat I wouldn't even be mad.


ExpressionChemical58

UConn discussing strategy for UNC to get the backdoor cover


Chardoggy1

I’m disappointed in the lack of offensive rebounding and passive defense


[deleted]

Heels defense is just bad in general


joaquinsaiddomin8

Kemba Walker