Semi-OT: Duke gets its own 28-3

borisman said:

STAT OF THE DAY
134-1

The record of NCAA Tournament No. 1 seeds with a 15-point lead at halftime.
It was134-0 until Duke collapsed against UConn on Sunday.​

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203Pat said:

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What was that? I can't say I've ever seen that

Do not leave Braylon Mullins open behind the arc. Period.

Boogs said:

What was that? I can't say I've ever seen that

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I legitimately thought it was AI when it was first doing the rounds on Twitter Sunday night. Apparently the ref went to tell Hurley something and they both leaned in because it was loud. The ref confirmed it was nothing and didn't even see the hoopla about it.

203Pat said:

I legitimately thought it was AI when it was first doing the rounds on Twitter Sunday night. Apparently the ref went to tell Hurley something and they both leaned in because it was loud. The ref confirmed it was nothing and didn't even see the hoopla about it.

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Lol. Yeah, it was strange

Boogs said:

Do not leave Braylon Mullins open behind the arc. Period.

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Well, you can 7 times, but certainly not the 8th time.

I'm a UConn alumni who was there for the first men's championship....against Duke Gampel going nuts... good times. Hope they can do it again.

**** Duke for all time.

BennyBledsoe said:

I'm a UConn alumni who was there for the first men's championship....against Duke Gampel going nuts... good times. Hope they can do it again.

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I'm a UConn alum from the times before there was a Gampel Pavilion.

UConn vs UVM or Maine in the Field House is how we rolled!

Chuck Aleksinas was our Great White Hope.

Actually back in my day Men's Soccer was the National Championship caliber team.

We'd go to the games and have kegs of beer on the hill looking down at the field.

Also midnight dorm league ice hockey, also with kegs.

Different times, when the drinking age was 18 and DWI was more or less ignored.

Pape said:

The Electric Blue girls all say hi

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These days I bet they're busy trying to raise bail money for their bosses, or at least know when visiting hours are...

TommyD4207 said:

Feels good to be a legitimate UConn fan this morning.

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I'm a legitimate UConn fan, their EECS program rocks!

The end of the game was the best thing that has happened to me in 2026 and I don't even like UConn.

neuronet said:

Crappy coaching. Players should have been prepared for the moment. They just needed to hold onto the ball.

Nowhere near as major as what Atlanta did. Not every blown lead is a 28-3 moment.

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There's enough similarities to not just dismiss it, though.

Southern team builds up a big lead against a Northern team, everyone thinks it's all over, and it really almost is, but, nope.

If anything UConn-Duke is a much bigger rivalry than is NE-ATL so there's that to add to the scenario too.

Yet of course NE had to play at near perfection for the 4th quarter and OT while ATL had to keep coming up short play after play, and it was the Super Bowl not the round of 8, so I see your point, but still, there are similarities.

TommyD4207 said:

Well, you can 7 times, but certainly not the 8th time.

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Mullins has a great release. Very smooth. Great range. Even that long buzzer beater looked effortless.

Bill Lee said:

I'm a legitimate UConn fan, their EECS program rocks!

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UConn was my youngest's 2nd choice. Part of me wishes she went.

RobertWeathers said:

UConn was my youngest's 2nd choice. Part of me wishes she went.

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UConn has strong links to the area's tech firms. A lot of it is military stuff. It's not what I chose to do with my career, but the choices were different in my day. These days, one thing defense workers can say is they won't send your job off-shore. I'm also told the work is very bureaucratic but quite often a 9 to 5 existence so maybe can make a good work/life balance easier to achieve for some. Some of my classmates have stayed happily at the same firm for 30+ years now for such reasons.

The only thing that is more than a little depressing is just how fast UConn's tuition & housing costs went up.

Duke is easy to hate as their fans are obnoxious as all get out. I enjoyed Sunday almost as much as when #15 Lehigh beat them in the NCAAs.
Loved Hurley's mother's reaction, mouthing " holy f'n sh*T"

BennyBledsoe said:

The only thing that is more than a little depressing is just how fast UConn's tuition & housing costs went up.

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Two of my cousins work in higher education. There became a kind of arms race that developed among the universities over the last few decades. They all convinced themselves that once one university went upscale they had to go upscale to stay in the game. Why sell a Toyota if you can change the trimmings a bit and sell it as a Lexus? This is why you see new dorms that have private rooms, campuses that have a lot more leisure facilities for students, and even basic things like better landscaping.

I know we don't need another "back in my day" story, but back in my day you showed up to a shared dorm room with a bed, a desk and a chair. The men's showers had no curtains so you showered standing next to another naked dude. The "student union" was a sterile and boring place to hang out. Despite the basic nature of the facilities, there were very few quiet places to study. The main feature of the campus was dirt paths, everywhere. It was awful in the spring mud season. The student newspaper used to riff on what a low-budget place it was. Math/Science Building had buckets in the basement to catch the leaks from the roof four stories up. Field House was about it for exercise facilities. Off campus was Ted's and Husky's and nothing else. And on and on and on.

I went back a few years ago and was pretty startled by the changes. Pretty much all of the above was fixed. Pavement in places where there used to be mud. Nice outdoor landscaping with floral arrangements. Roadways near the co-op replaced by walking paths. Parking lots replaced by multi-story parking garages. Many more entertainment and exercise options. As mentioned, Gampel Pavilion is now a thing. Didn't get to see a dorm room but presume they made those better. Did see my own dorm for 2 years, Wright, got knocked down and replaced by a university cafeteria. What was South Campus in my day was knocked down and replaced by bigger/better dorms.

But the bottom line is the bottom line, and in inflation-adjusted dollars UConn now costs 4 times what it cost me, and of course the stupid way the student loan program was run means that it is no longer around so financing is outrageous. Given that my family could not afford a Toyota, I can't see how I would be able to afford a Lexus-style UConn education today. It's absurd to think that students and their families are expected to come up with $120k or so just for one kid to get a four-year degree. Even worse if you finance it. Probably doubles the overall cost, depending on how you structure the loans. Yet the oligarchs can swing it, so it's all cool.

Boogs said:

Mullins has a great release. Very smooth. Great range. Even that long buzzer beater looked effortless.

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All true, which is why they recruited him, but he's been objectively pretty bad for them shooting-wise in the tournament, and a liability on the defensive end as well.

He'll get a lot better, I'm sure, and that shot should help his confidence quite a bit for the next two games.