UConn Basketball: Predictions & Analysis for the Season
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00:03 >> Looking at UConn moving forward, Mark, for yourself, I would like to bet UConn again,
00:07 but I wouldn't be surprised if they lose a game or two down the stretch to sort of improve
00:11 those odds, you can jump back in.
00:13 How are you approaching UConn for the rest of the remaining parts of the season in the
00:17 Big East and also in the Big East Conference Tournament?
00:20 >> Little bit unheralded streak, or at least a dubious streak that UConn is on right now,
00:25 DRS.
00:26 They've lost four-tick, insecutive road games to ranked opponents.
00:29 So when they go have to go travel to Marquette, guess what?
00:31 Yeah, it's probably gonna be a loss.
00:33 So I agree with you that they are a team that can drop a couple more games.
00:37 For them, I don't, last night it was easy for them to throw in the towel after halftime.
00:41 If they didn't make an early run in the second half to get back in it by the 60-minute timeout
00:45 or even closer to about 14 minutes, guess what?
00:48 It wasn't worth their energy and effort to get back into that game.
00:50 I think they got within 10, I think, at one point under eight minutes.
00:53 But really, it wasn't an area that they needed to really push themselves in.
00:57 Why?
00:58 Because teams in March is all that's really gonna matter for the UConn Huskies, and they
01:02 still have the ability to do that again.
01:04 I'm not betting them again to go win the national title.
01:07 Certainly not the number that I'm looking at, but we've seen how hard it is for teams
01:12 to repeat as of late.
01:13 So it's not where I'm going with my money.
01:16 I think that UConn, in and of themselves, we've seen them be susceptible.
01:21 Remember guys, look, one of the things, I took Creighton last night in the first half,
01:25 I didn't play the full game simply because there were four instances during this win
01:29 streak where UConn trailed at half.
01:31 They trailed at half to UNC, they trailed at half to St. John's twice, they trailed
01:36 at half to Butler, and I said, "You know what?
01:38 I've seen this team come back too many times in the second half because they're capable
01:41 of doing it."
01:42 Or they only had a one-point lead and then pulled away to win by eight or 10, as you
01:46 mentioned, the kind of size of the wins that they've had during this win streak.
01:48 So this is a very good team and a very deep team, but I wouldn't invest in them to win
01:54 the national title at this point.
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