keep Uconn away from us

[KWilt43atbuzz]

Id love to play them in the Dance (preferably for the title) just to exact a smidge of revenge.

 

[cal=8]

Come on.. We're Kentucky..

 

[kyjeff1]

Come on.. We're Kentucky..

How did that work out for us in 2011 and 2014?

 

[Icecoldbrewdoggy]

How did that work out for us in 2011 and 2014?

It's just bizarre that this awful thread still has legs. SMH.

 

[st-louie-blue]

Want no part of them

You mean the UConn ladies' team against the lady Cats?

 

[kyjeff1]

It's just bizarre that this awful thread still has legs. SMH.

I know right.

 

[KentuckyWildcat4Life]

OP you deserved it

 

[cal=8]

How did that work out for us in 2011 and 2014?

We lost.. That was then.. We don't back down to anyone.. We're Kentucky.. If we get beat we shake it off and move on.. We've taken a few A#$ wippins but we've handed out a lot more..

 

[CloverforkCat]

UConn scares me regardless of what each team has. UK would've blasted them in 2012 but they got thumped by Iowa State in the first round.

UK is 1-4 all time vs Uconn, 3 of those losses in NCAA tourney play. OP has a reason for concern, but chances of facing them in the tourney is unlikely.

 

[ulismyman]

Has nothing to do with payback...they are just a team i dont want to see in tourney

 

[kyjeff1]

We lost.. That was then.. We don't back down to anyone.. We're Kentucky.. If we get beat we shake it off and move on.. We've taken a few A#$ wippins but we've handed out a lot more..

We shake it off huh? You apparently haven't seen this board after a loss.

 

[musrat59]

In the NCAA Tournament, we pretty well beat ourselves by our inability to hit free throws against UConn.

 

[AnarchoNeoLuddite]

Where you at Bueller? Xavier still got your panties in a wad?

 

[ulismyman]

They get to lose a game dorkus...this isn't last year when a team can run the table...Xavier still plenty good

 

[Buck Creek Cat]

You look at it your way, I look at it a different way. Seems to me that there is a very logical explanation for why a team has another team's number. There is a common denominator. I believe Jim Calhoun's system, which Kevin Ollie still runs, is something John Calipari struggles with. I also think Cal's teams struggle with teams that are proficient at 1-3-1 defense.
But nevertheless, UConn is very good this year and I view them as a team that would give UK fits and I would rather not give them the satisfaction of beating us again. I would rather face them with next years squad or last years team. It's just my opinion.

I may be in the minority here, and I understand that we didn't help ourselves with missed free throws and low shooting percentage, but in my opinion UCONN got every break in the books in UK's losses in 2011 and 2014. Heck, one of their guards in the 2011 game flopped out of bounds under the basket and drew a foul on Liggins. Replay showed Liggins wasn't within a foot of him. He put on a Hollywood act and the ref bit on it. Actually, instead of a foul on Liggins the UCONN guard should have been assessed a technical. And Poythress got mugged on a rebound in the 2014 game toward the end of the closely contested game and the refs called a foul on him instead of the UCONN player that leveled him.
It just seemed to me that the refs leaned toward UCONN in both those games.

 

[AnarchoNeoLuddite]

Loosing a game fine...getting your ass handed to you, no bueno.

 

[ulismyman]

Losing