Lmao how many years have they missed the tournament?! Also, two years they won it, they were a bubble team. 🤣
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I know what you are saying, but you can do it the other way as well. Prior to 1999, UK had 7 titles to UConn's 0.
I know. I'm just saying it's not like UK hasn't done anything since 2000 lol.
It's kind of weird the discussion on here about blueblood not blueblood
Ask Uconn fans if they give one damn about that kind of stuff while they are enjoying all of the titles they have been winning post 2000.
Ask Uconn fans if they give one damn about that kind of stuff while they are enjoying all of the titles they have been winning post 2000.
Well when you're the number one overall who's going for a repeat, you're probably gonna get a good draw.
Just annoying hearing that crap. ''ARE THEY A NEW BLUEBLOOD''??? Just grates my eyes when I read it.
Then the question is becomes is todays college basketball landscape harder than it was before the 2000’s. I don’t know the answer to that. But still having almost 6 titles since 1999 is a great accomplishment. Kentucky has one under Cal in his 16 year coaching career at UK
No UK fan would ask "are we still a blueblood" based on a 5 year stretch when you've built the rest of the resume over a century. Bunch of clowns taking advantage of a free forum.
I get you, but we are RAPIDLY approaching territory of "has been", where we're going to laughed out of any room that we claim we're THE program. Thanks, Cal.
You are missing the definition of blueblood. A lot of people use it interchangeably these days with “elite programs” or “top 5 programs” etc. but that’s not the root definition of the word.
50 more years of sustained success and they will be considered a blueblood by everyone. But currently they’ve only been relevant for 1/4 of CBB history….that isn’t what blueblood means. The longer the history of CBB goes on, the less the 1940-1990 takes up on the overall timeline of the sport and everyone alive will remember UConn as a historically great (been great their entire lives) program. Currently anyone over 35 recalls a time UConn was a nobody
That said, they are a top 5 program and they are the best program of the modern era.
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You clearly dont understand the definition of a blueblood.
I would say modern day blue blood, but yeah, they are an elite basketball destination program.
Nobody gives a flat f8ck about who was elite when USSR was around. UL was elite then and so was Indiana.
Elite before the internet amounts to fly shit on frog's ass.
It literally doesn't do us any good.
"Don't call Uconn elite...history...they haven't been around long enough" sounds about like "don't invest in Amazon, or google, or bitcoin...they haven't been around"
Nobody gives a flat f8ck about who was elite when USSR was around. UL was elite then and so was Indiana.
Elite before the internet amounts to fly shit on frog's ass.
It literally doesn't do us any good.
"Don't call Uconn elite...history...they haven't been around long enough" sounds about like "don't invest in Amazon, or google, or bitcoin...they haven't been around"
Probably the same dork that wrote Oakland a check after they beat us. He said he doubled what he usually pays for whoever knocks us out, so I imagine the check was for $ 2.
UNC - 3 since 2000
Duke- 3 since 2000
Kansas- 2 since 2000
UCONN- 4 since 2000
Kentucky - 1 since 2000
UCONN should be considered a blue blood
Duke- 3 since 2000
Kansas- 2 since 2000
UCONN- 4 since 2000
Kentucky - 1 since 2000
UCONN should be considered a blue blood
Can you think what Hurley could have done with the UK team this year with him coaching. We just did not have the good big man that Uconn has.
Sucks for you that nobody sees it your way no matter how hard you try to belittle UK. Dan Patrick is as good as they get and he said the other day that it doesn't matter how many titles Ucon wins, nobody tunes in to watch them lose and never will wheras people literally drop everything to watch UK, hoping they'll lose.
But by all means, ware yourself out from the West end of Louisville on a Saturday night.
So it’s a requirement to be elite after the internet?! Lmfao okay.
How can you be against UConn when Duke is still alive? As long as Duke is still playing, I'm all for UConn. Hope Purdue can make it and give them a game in the title game.
I understand that but why is it that these other blue blood programs have won more than 1 title since 2000 but Kentucky hasn’t? Kentucky is obviously a blue blood no question about it..
They were a bubble team? 99 was a 1, 2004 was a 2, 2011 they were a 3, 2014 a 7 and 2023 a 4 seed.
They're the new gold standard and it's really not even close. Their avg margin of victory in the past two tourneys has been TWENTY-TWO freaking points.
I remember when we used to do that. Get Hurley to Lexington next year.
I remember when we used to do that. Get Hurley to Lexington next year.
We had a very nice path this year. We just didn't capitalize on it. Thanks Cal.😡
All we had to do was make free throws. 13/24. Makes me sick. We have lost two national championships from the foul line.
They're trying to win their sixth title in 25 years. That's damn impressive considering how freaking hard the NCAA tourney is.
Yet we still have more than all of them despite the drought. Go dig up some more dirt/rumors. See ya.
You're thinking of his brother but, yeah, I get it. I don't like them either. But would I rather them win than Duke? Absolutely. Not even close.
That makes 3 titles Cal lost do to free throws. You'd think it sink in through even THAT think of a skull by now.
Well I'm talking actual national title games.
'97 Arizona
'14 UConn
Assuming you are referring to Cal at Mempiss?
We lost those games above at the foul line... literally. Worst thing ever. We'd have 10 titles right now.
