SF....Congrats on the Title...3rd title in 12 years...you may not be a Blue Blood but who freak'n cares. Forget being a "Blue Blood"...enjoy being Bill "Freak'n" Gates.

Oh yeah, UConn has surpassed Louisville...you got 3 titles...we got 2. nuff said.

(04-04-2011 10:43 PM)Maize Wrote:  SF....Congrats on the Title...3rd title in 12 years...you may not be a Blue Blood but who freak'n cares. Forget being a "Blue Blood"...enjoy being Bill "Freak'n" Gates.

Oh yeah, UConn has surpassed Louisville...you got 3 titles...we got 2. nuff said.

ESPN is putting us in the same list as those blue blood. You are right I could care less because denying us as one of the elite program now would be just stupid.

I am just happy we are able to carry to BE to shut down idiots like Barkley who talked out of his a** yet again.

3 Titles and 12 years you don't need any labels. The only label right now you should care about is Champions.

And UConn is Elite and the past 12 years the best program in college basketball.

(04-05-2011 07:41 AM)Maize Wrote:  3 Titles and 12 years you don't need any labels. The only label right now you should care about is Champions.

And UConn is Elite and the past 12 years the best program in college basketball.

Ding!

PS. Don't think I ever heard the term "blue-blood" in regards to college basketball till I even opened up this thread.

Congrats to Calhoun. Best coach in Big East history. With 3 national titles it's not close.

Calhoun is amazing. Three national titles puts him in extremely elite coaching company.

And to do it with just 4 final 4 appearances! 6-1 record in final 4 games is awesome.

(04-05-2011 09:09 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  Calhoun is amazing. Three national titles puts him in extremely elite coaching company.

And to do it with just 4 final 4 appearances! 6-1 record in final 4 games is awesome.

Calhoun truly deserves to be in the company he is keeping now.

Look at all the other times UCONN came close to the final 4. These were close losses to eventual champs.

1990: Duke 79, UConn 78 (OT), East final, East Rutherford, N.J. Christian Laettner took an inbound pass with 2.6 seconds left and ended UConn's Dream Season with his own buzzer-beater. UConn trailed by seven at halftime and the lead changed eight times in the second half and six times in overtime.

1995: UCLA 102, UConn 96, West final, Oakland, Calif.: Ray Allen's career-high 36 points opened a nation's eyes to his potential, but it wasn't enough for the Huskies to keep up with Tyus Edney and Co., who won the national title. UCONN played a virtual home home

1998: North Carolina 75, UConn 64, East final, Greensboro, N.C.: In what was a de-facto home game for the Tar Heels, Antwan Jamison had 20 points, and 11 rebounds and Vince Carter helped hold Richard Hamilton to 15 points on 5-for-21 shooting.

2002: Maryland 90, UConn 82, East final, Syracuse, N.Y.: Caron Butler scored 26 of his 32 points in the second half to help UConn keep pace with Juan Dixon and the eventual national champions. Butler also had seven rebounds and four assists. There were eight ties and seven lead changes in the final 12 minutes.

2006: George Mason 86, UConn 84 (OT), East final, Washington: The Huskies, a No. 1 seed with five NBA draft picks as starters, squandered an 11-point first-half lead against the Patriots, who got 20 points from 275-pound forward Jai Lewis. Denham Brown tied it with a driving layup as regulation ended, but the Huskies could not come up with another answer in overtime.

Had the ball bounced here or there, we could be talking about UCONN basketball in even better light than now.

(04-05-2011 07:41 AM)Maize Wrote:  3 Titles and 12 years you don't need any labels. The only label right now you should care about is Champions.

And UConn is Elite and the past 12 years the best program in college basketball.

Yep, no doubt about. Uconn reached the elite level last night.

(04-05-2011 03:04 PM)SF Husky Wrote:  

(04-05-2011 09:09 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  Calhoun is amazing. Three national titles puts him in extremely elite coaching company.

And to do it with just 4 final 4 appearances! 6-1 record in final 4 games is awesome.

Calhoun truly deserves to be in the company he is keeping now.

Look at all the other times UCONN came close to the final 4. These were close losses to eventual champs.

1990: Duke 79, UConn 78 (OT), East final, East Rutherford, N.J. Christian Laettner took an inbound pass with 2.6 seconds left and ended UConn's Dream Season with his own buzzer-beater. UConn trailed by seven at halftime and the lead changed eight times in the second half and six times in overtime.

Everyone remembers the Laettner buzzer-beater over Kentucky in 92, but i've always remembered this one too. This was the first really good Uconn team.

I have a feeling they would have put up a better showing in a national title game against UNLV than Duke did, LOL.

(04-05-2011 04:46 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  Everyone remembers the Laettner buzzer-beater over Kentucky in 92, but i've always remembered this one too. This was the first really good Uconn team.

I have a feeling they would have put up a better showing in a national title game against UNLV than Duke did, LOL.

That's when we started hating on Duke too. Glad we paid them back handsomely in 1999 and 2004. Duke fans are still bitter about those games to this day.