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How did Jim Calhoun turn UCONN ....
Posted on 4/5/24 at 2:08 pm
Posted on 4/5/24 at 2:08 pm
into a National power in Mens BB?
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Posted on 4/5/24 at 2:09 pm to Guzzlingil
He won. A lot.
Posted on 4/5/24 at 2:10 pm to Guzzlingil
He was a great coach and players in the northeast are really good at basketball.
Posted on 4/5/24 at 2:12 pm to VABuckeye
don't underestimate the role ESPN had in cultivating the success of the men's and women's UConn hoops teams
they put them on tv and Calhoun was paying players for sure
they put them on tv and Calhoun was paying players for sure
Posted on 4/5/24 at 2:14 pm to VABuckeye
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He was a great coach and players in the northeast are really good at basketball.
And he was in the Big East when it was arguably THE power conference
Posted on 4/5/24 at 2:15 pm to nicholastiger
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Calhoun was paying players for sure
It's college basketball. Makes college football look like church league. That's always been part of the deal.
Posted on 4/5/24 at 2:16 pm to nicholastiger
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don't underestimate the role ESPN had in cultivating the success of the men's and women's UConn hoops teams
The whole Big East was TV not just UCONN. In women's nobody was on TV until the Final 4.
Posted on 4/5/24 at 2:17 pm to VABuckeye
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He was a great coach and players in the northeast are really good at basketball.
It really is as simple as this. UConn was a little bit of an odd fit in the Big East, and without that it probably doesn’t happen. But they hired and retained a legendary coaching talent and are in a recruiting hotbed
Posted on 4/5/24 at 2:24 pm to Guzzlingil
Laptop gate and money on recruiting trail
Posted on 4/5/24 at 2:45 pm to Guzzlingil
i f you can keep talent from NY/nj area in your roster, while adding from other local states, you can win
a lot of talent in bball in ny and nj
It's like Illinois, they had some of best talent in chitown and Peoria, and should of been much better in bball, and had at least 1 or 2 titles.
a lot of talent in bball in ny and nj
It's like Illinois, they had some of best talent in chitown and Peoria, and should of been much better in bball, and had at least 1 or 2 titles.
Posted on 4/5/24 at 3:15 pm to SeeeeK
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i f you can keep talent from NY/nj area in your roster, while adding from other local states, you can win
a lot of talent in bball in ny and nj
UCONN didn't build it with NYC guys. You gotta go all the way to the 2000s to Ben Gordon and Charlie Villanueva and later Kemba and Drummond for when they finally had some NYC stars. By then the NYC Big East schools had fallen way off.
Posted on 4/5/24 at 3:42 pm to Guzzlingil
Uconn has also been an extremely lucky team. Their 5 titles have come as 4, 7, 3, 2, and 1 seeds. Of their 6 Final Four appearances, they won the title in 5 of them and are 5-0 in national title games, and 10-1 combined in semifinal and final games. Those are all pretty extreme statistical anomalies to have that kind of record in 50/50 odds type games.
Ohio State has been to 11 final fours but no one would ever mention them in the same sentence as Uconn because they only won a single title back in the 60s.
Ohio State has been to 11 final fours but no one would ever mention them in the same sentence as Uconn because they only won a single title back in the 60s.
Posted on 4/5/24 at 3:54 pm to Guzzlingil
I remember them beating Clemson in the tournament one year with a length-of-court pass and shoot with one second on the clock. That was a year or two before Laettner’s famous shot. Seemed to ignite that program under Calhoun.
Posted on 4/5/24 at 4:00 pm to Guzzlingil
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into a National power in Mens BB?
Big East exposure helped a ton, as did his ability to find under-the-radar recruits and develop them into damn good players. He’s also one of the 10 greatest coaches in the history of the sport, so that helps.
Posted on 4/5/24 at 4:03 pm to DrrTiger
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I remember them beating Clemson in the tournament one year with a length-of-court pass and shoot with one second on the clock.
That was a sweet 16 game and Tate George is the player who hit the buzzer beater. Funny thing is that in the elite 8, Laettner hit a shot at the buzzer to beat UCONN and send Duke to the final four.
Posted on 4/5/24 at 4:05 pm to Guzzlingil
He gave the players mercedes benz and cash
Posted on 4/5/24 at 4:31 pm to boston vol
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Funny thing is that in the elite 8, Laettner hit a shot at the buzzer to beat UCONN and send Duke to the final four.
That’s right, I remember that one as well. Duke lost in that Final Four and I think the next year was when UNLV destroyed them in the title game. Coach K was starting to develop the “can’t win the big one” reputation.
Posted on 4/5/24 at 4:56 pm to MillerLiteTime
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Ohio State has been to 11 final fours but no one would ever mention them in the same sentence as Uconn because they only won a single title back in the 60s.
Winning is celebrated more than going far then losing. The majority of those Final 4s being before color TV, or TV at all, doesn't help either.
Posted on 4/5/24 at 5:19 pm to MillerLiteTime
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Uconn has also been an extremely lucky team.
I’d say that like the SEC in football they also played in an extremely difficult conference. Steel sharpens steel.
Posted on 4/5/24 at 5:24 pm to Guzzlingil
Jim Calhoun was an excellent coach and then UConn joined the Big East. At the time, the best basketball conference in the nation.
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