UCONN Part II

[Queens_NYC]

Sunday, February 24th, 2019
2:00 PM
XL Center
ESPN

UConn (13-13, 4-9 AAC, NET 96) has lost 6 of their past 9 games, including 4 in a row, since we barely escaped from them in overtime at Fifth Third in mid-January.

Star point guard Jalen Adams went out in the opening minutes with a sprained knee against Temple several weeks ago and will be out on Sunday. Alterique Gilbert returned to action Thursday night @SMU after missing 5 games, but could only muster 6 points in 23 minutes off the bench.

Earlier this season UConn beat SMU and Wichita St at home by greater margins than we did (beat SMU by 12 and WSU by 20).

The key players to stop tomorrow will be Christian Vital (has scored in double digits in all but 3 games this season) and Tyler Polley (averaging 16 ppg over past 3 games on 11/20 shooting from 3).

We are currently on a 6-game winning streak against UConn and have won 8 of the last 9 match-ups.

 

[Queens_NYC]

-5.5

 

[kskenyon4]

Huge game to stay in the Conference Champ race as well as be the game that would confirm us as an official "lock" for the tourney.

Cincy 66
Uconn 60

 

[ervins84]

I hate these kinds of games. Expect them to take care of business even though the spot scares me.

 

[Jon Rycek]

Holy **** SMU getting blown out

 

[cincrulz11]

how long before hurley has us rolling our eyes at him?

 

[cincycpaw]

Holy **** SMU getting blown out

Taco with 23pts and 20 rebounds

 

[Queens_NYC]

Interested to see what our center position looks like for the rest of the half with Brooks on the bench with 2 fouls. I'm not too confident in our chances with Nsoseme seeing extended minutes.

 

[TheLivingLegend]

This is a must win game....

 

[david aka the TYZ]

Amazing the difference in officiating from one game to the next

We better shoot 30 free throws judging by the fouls they've called on us early

 

[Alum2013]

Wtf is this stupid coach cam.

 

[Alum2013]

These refs though

 

[Queens_NYC]

And we have a Diarra sighting.

 

[skyblade]

Nsoseme with 2 now too. Diarra is going to get a lot of minutes.

 

[TheLivingLegend]

Fouls. Fouls. Fouls. Fouls.

 

[TheLivingLegend]

Logan with some good minutes imo.

 

[skyblade]

Logan with some good minutes imo.

Yeah, Logan has played very well so far.

 

[Alum2013]

And we have a Diarra sighting.

Starting to wonder why he hasn't been getting more minutes.

 

[Queens_NYC]

We haven't had a starter score since the 18:00 mark. 15 straight bench points. We have to be approaching some type of record for that.

 

[TheLivingLegend]

Some really really bad turnovers in this one. really bad.