(2) Thursday Big East Games 1/20/22

[Omaha1]

Get UConn -5 1st half while you can.

Glad I’m not a gambler. Butler looks pretty solid today.

[stever20]

Get UConn -5 1st half while you can.

Glad I’m not a gambler. Butler looks pretty solid today.

reason why Vegas has all those nice shiny buildings.

[MUBoxer]

UConn finally pulling away so it shouldn't hurt advance metrics but man I'll take playing this version of UConn any day

[stever20]

UConn finally pulling away so it shouldn't hurt advance metrics but man I'll take playing this version of UConn any day

yeah being on the road helps as well... Do think we see PC knocked down a smidge only beating a sub 200 team by 8 points at home.

[Xudash]

Martin could have finished the evening by going over and kicking the dog.

What a second half.

[kayako]

Lukosius is a promising player for Butler. Other than that just not a lot to get excited about.

[kayako]

UConn finally pulling away so it shouldn't hurt advance metrics but man I'll take playing this version of UConn any day

yeah being on the road helps as well... Do think we see PC knocked down a smidge only beating a sub 200 team by 8 points at home.

Providence is the luckiest team in the country according to kenpom. Their metrics will be below their resume all season.

[stever20]

UConn finally pulling away so it shouldn't hurt advance metrics but man I'll take playing this version of UConn any day

yeah being on the road helps as well... Do think we see PC knocked down a smidge only beating a sub 200 team by 8 points at home.

Providence is the luckiest team in the country according to kenpom. Their metrics will be below their resume all season.

yep.

Will be interesting if those 3 games wind up getting made up. They still have both of their byes on the schedule so you figure they could incorporate those into the reschedules.

[billyjack]

It's been a weird group of games for PC.

The Friars haven't been playing from behind in their wins. The exception was at home vs St John's, us down 6 or 7 with 13 or 15 to play, then it was mostly even til maybe 8 minutes left, when we got some distance between us.

We have tended to grind out games with second half leads between like 8 to 14 points. Maybe for a minute it'll close to 6 or jump to 16.

But we haven't had games where we're in a 10-point hole and scramble late to eek out a win. I mean, these kinds of consistent wins are a different kind of lucky. The games are just these long exhausting slogs, grinding, trying to draw fouls.

- at DePaul was a blowout.
- at UConn was a 6 to 12 points lead all game.
- home Seton Hall may have been 5 to 9 mostly?
- home Georgetown today was basically 10 all game.
- home St John's we fell behind maybe 6 early 2nd, but started pulling away with around 8 mins left, up to 7 to 10.

- home Texas Tech, early deficit, led by 2 to 6 in second half.
- neutral Northwestern led by mostly 6 to 10.
- at Wisconsin led by say 6 to 12. Did you guys know that the Badgers played without Johnny Davis?

- home URI was 8 to 14 all game.
- home Vermont was 10 all game.
- home New Hampshire, tied early 2nd, then kept at 10 for last 10 minutes.

- Fairfield, Sacred Heart were 6 to 12.
- CCSU was a blowout.

Losses were disasters:
- at Marquette was 20 to 30 all game.
- neutral Virginia was 10 to 14 mostly.

Summary:
in second half action, we've been behind maybe 8 total minutes over the course of 14 games. Exception was vs St John's (and maybe a bit of Seton Hall).

[Django]

And you also dodged Creighton in Omaha with the “Covid” excuse