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Dan HurleyDan Hurley

UConn's historic season hasn't been covered enough by national media

Our season hasn't been covered in, in my mind and the, you know, national media enough, you know, this is a team that's done historic stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So yeah. I mean, if we were at Duke or Kentucky or Kansas, they would lead SportsCenter with it and it would be the biggest story in sports.

While UConn was highly ranked all year, Hurley's point about media focus on teams like Duke is a common sentiment in New England.

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Big CatBig Cat

DJ Burns is the man and NC State is America's team for beating Duke

DJ Burns is the fucking man. Yes. I love him. Thank everyone in America should thank DJ Burns for beating Duke. Oh. For just being awesome.

NC State did beat Duke to reach the Final Four and became a viral sensation during the 2024 tournament.
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The only way to defend DJ Burns is to pull the chair out from under him

The, if you're not a giant, the only way that you can defend him is something that Duke tried to do one time tonight that never went back to it. Where you just back away from him. As he's putting that, he pull the chair, you pull the chair out and then he gets outta control. That's the only way that you can stop him because you can't push back against him.

Subjective tactical opinion, though DJ Burns' low center of gravity and footwork did make him notoriously difficult to guard without 'pulling the chair'.
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Big CatBig Cat

Zach Edey is legitimately good at basketball despite his game being unenjoyable to watch

Purdue fans should just be like, that's okay because we win. You know what I mean? Like, there, it, it, it's at a point where it's like to, to quote our good friend Jay Bilas agree to disagree. Like you, you guys have your team, they play a certain brand that is winning basketball that's getting you to the final four. Most of America doesn't enjoy this experience.

Edey won back-to-back Naismith Player of the Year awards, proving his quality, while the 'watchability' is a matter of fan opinion.

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Dan HurleyDan Hurley

Houston is a team of wolves led by a wolf

Houston is just a bunch of wolves, man led by a wolf... the way they get after it, you, you can't prepare for it. It's like a pass rush that just the quarterback is gonna be rattled and it kills, it kills your transition offensive game because it's hard for you to even run on them because getting a defensive rebound feels like survival.

Subjective evaluation of team culture by a peer coach.
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The Big East representative recusal rule in the tournament committee room is a disadvantage

In that room, there's, you know, with all those committee members, when the, when the representative from your league, when they're talking about teams in your league, that person's not allowed to stay in the room. Yeah. So I guess what you gotta learn the, we have gotta learn the arc of is like, I guess of how to destroy these other conferences when you are in the room.

The recusal policy for committee members whose schools or conferences are being discussed is a real NCAA protocol.
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UConn 'bleeds blue' and is creating its own category beyond traditional Blue Bloods

His thing is like, no, forget the blue blood. You know, we're a program that bleeds blue. Max the bleed blue. So like we're gonna create our own because we've got the five national championships and NBA players for days in the last 20 years. Most of anyone... We don't even wanna be a blue blood. We're our own kind of deal.

UConn went on to win the 2024 championship as well, cementing their status as the dominant program of the 21st century.