Saturday, February 24, 2024

Doggy's Doghouse 2/25/2024




 

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GO UCONN!!!!!

The Boys and their Dogs - 
Under the UConn blanket!!

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WELCOME TO CHICAGO!!!!

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Kaitlyn Chen



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** Designates Upset

Games Saturday February 24th, 2024

No. 5 Texas 87 UCF 56
No. 16 Gonzaga 91 Pepperdine 41
No. 21 Creighton 79 Villanova 69
No. 22 West Virginia 65 No. 24 Baylor 66 **
No. 23 Oklahoma 91 Oklahoma State 56
No. 25 Princeton 65 Columbia 67 **
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Yes, Geno is at Sarah Strong's last HS game. It's hard to believe UConn isn't still a really really strong candidate for UConn. 

That's twice in a week for Geno to see her.  I'm really really liking that. 


 

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Here is the video of UConn incoming freshman 
Allie Ziebell receiving her McDonad's Jersey

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Straight from the Dog


My only wish is that Aubrey Griffin, Azzi, Jana El Alfy, and Caroline Ducharme can come back  100% next season. 

Dream for a minute that happens. Does anyone remember how good Caroline was her freshman season when healthy!? I do. Yes, I'm smiling!!

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On Monday Tennessee was one of three. 
Their fans were so excited!!


On Thursday she committed to Oregon. 
Time to talk the Tennessee fans off the ledge!
 
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By PHIL

Why UConn should be ranked higher Updated

Let’s walk through why the AP voters have some teams ahead of UConn and why they are wrong.

Indiana

When the voters made the decision, Indiana had an impressive resume.

• Only three losses, all to teams in the top 5, that’s impressive

However, once you get past looking at the most impressive quality loss list in the country outside of South Carolina, the pickings get slim.

Let’s list their wins over ranked teams:

• Princeton number 25

Hey, a win over Princeton’s not nothing, they are solid team, but a nine point win at a Thanksgiving tournament is your only win over a top 25 team. Your strength of schedule is okay (number 16) but not at UConn levels. UConn plays a tougher schedule, and has three wins over ranked teams each of which is stronger than Princeton.

That’s before discussing the 20 point loss to an Illinois team not likely to make it to the tournament. Yes yes, that loss wasn’t in the books with the AP voters voted. They got it wrong but understandably wrong and that will be fixed next week.

Update - Indiana subsequently beat Iowa in convincing fashion. The voters may use this as cover, but going 500 since the last vote isn’t what you expect from a top 15 team. The win over Iowa which came after a players only meeting was nice, but it doesn’t totally erase the 20 point loss to an unimpressive Illinois team. The case for UConn being ahead of Indiana was very solid before the Iowa game; its still convincing, but we will have to see.

LSU

The voters thought process is easy to understand. LSU is the defending national champions, and on paper seem to add a lot of firepower. They started out the season number one understandably, but laid an egg in their first game. The voters punish them each time they have another loss, but ratings tend to be sticky, so it took some time to drift down to where they belong. They are currently at number 13, and I’m not going to argue that the voters have them too high. That’s probably about right – the issue is that they place UConn below LSU, not that LSU is too high.

LSU only has four losses and UConn has five, but UConn plays a much tougher schedule. LSU strength of schedule in an absolute sense isn’t horrendous (Massey rank 36) but that’s worse than almost all ranked teams (Syracuse, Creighton and Princeton are worse – did I miss anyone)?

Moreover, each of UConn’s five losses is to a ranked team, while LSU’s loss to Auburn and Mississippi State. LSU is only played three ranked teams and lost two of them. Which means they have exactly one win over a ranked team on their resume. UConn has done far better and deserves to be higher.

Update - LSU has played two games since their last ranking and won them both. The win over Texas and was solid but they just barely be unranked Auburn by five points. They were favored to win by 15 so that’s a significant underperformance.

UCLA

This seems like an easy one for the voters. Both UCLA and UConn have five losses, UCLA plays the tougher schedule and beat UConn head-to-head. Case closed.

I get it but not surprisingly I see it differently. They head-to-head when was a Thanksgiving tournament and both teams are different now. While UConn has lost an unprecedented number of players, we seem to be a Timex, taking a licking but still ticking (who’s old enough to remember that ad?)

UCLA is very good but they lost to unranked Washington State, something UConn has not done.

How have they been doing recently? They lost to Oregon State, even when OSU lost their best player early in the game. Oregon State is in the same ballpark as Creighton, but UConn won that game by 20. I understand the voter’s decision, but I think UConn is currently playing better than UCLA.

Update -- this is now a tougher one to justify. UCLA just beat ranked Utah by 30 points. Still think UConn deserves to be ranked ahead but there is bit of bias and I won’t be surprised if UCLA actually moves up.

Colorado

Colorado wasn’t really darling of the voters climbing as high as third, but that’s back when they were 15 – 1. They now have lost five games, same as UConn. They play a very solid schedule but it’s not quite as good as UConn’s. On one metric they are the same as UConn, each of their five losses are to ranked teams same as UConn. But four of UConn’s losses are to the top half of the top 25 while four of Colorado’s losses are to the bottom half of the top 25, so still decent but not as good.

Colorado has lost the last two games, including the most recent game against Utah, the team the just got blown out by UCLA. Utah probably won’t lose their top 25 ranking but they lost some of the luster. A few weeks ago it was easy to justify placing Colorado ahead of UConn. Not today.


Milestone Watch

• Aaliyah Edwards reached 1704 career points with her 20 points in the Creighton game. She is in sole possession of 18th place. She passed Ann Strother and now needs 93 points to catch Stefanie Dolson.

• Aaliyah Edwards now has 938 rebounds with 8 against Creighton. She passed Peggy W sole possession of 10th place. She needs seven more to catch Peggy Walsh.

• Nika Mühl had 604 assists after her 7 assists in the Georgetown game. She passed Crystal Dangerfield, is in 5th place and needs 28 more to tie Renee Montgomery.

• Geno now has 1203 wins, placing him second overall, ahead of Mike Krzyzewski.

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SPIDER STATS
 
Plus one for every assist block point rebound and steal. I don’t add extra for offensive rebounds as it already seems to favor the bigs. Minus one for every missed shot (2, 3 or foul), turnover or foul committed.

UConn 80, Creighton 34.

Net positives/minutes played: Paige 27/39, Ashlynn 21/40, Aaliyah 13/27, Nika 12/39, KK 1/37, Qadence 0/4, Ice -1/13, Ines -1/1.

Paige stepped up, Ashlynn 3 solid games in a row, KK struggled past two, Ice a step backwards. 

Great crowd! Beat DePaul!

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