In the new rankings which come out every Monday,UCONN dropped out of the top 25 in the AP poll and fell to #21 in the USA/Coaches poll. This week the Huskies take on ST. John's on Wednesday at the civic center and #1 ranked Texas on Saturday at Gampel Pavillion. Wednesday evenings game starts at 7:00 PM and will be televised on SNY; Saturdays game will be aired nationally on CBS at 4:00 PM.
Speaking of CBS don't you think they can do better for their National telecasts than the announcing duo of Verne Lundquist and Clark Kellogg. Lundquist, who has been a fine play by play guy his whole career sounds like he should think about hanging up his mike; He sounded tired and although he still made some insightful comments he did not have the energy to disagree with Kellogg's inane and uninformed comments. Kellogg reminds me of to of my least favorite sports play by play guys of all time; Joe Garagiola and Tim McCarver. Like the duo of former St. Louis Cardinal Catchers, Kellogg focuses endlessly on one point and beats it to death. I do not like the extraneous chatter and the plethora of minute, incorrect and repetitively stated points. A good example is when, with about one minute to go and UCONN down by five, Walker dribbled at the top of the key for about 10 seconds.Lundquist emphatically and correctly said "he's using too much time". When he then got fouled Kellogg said "maybe not"; the fact that he got fouled had nothing to do with the fact that he used up 12 precious and unnecessary seconds on the clock.
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Depressing news on the drop, but unfortunatley it is deserved. If not for the J-E-T-S it would've been a tough weekend, as Mike said.
I still think/hope there is more to this team than they have shown of late, but it is gut check time.
agree- If they do not make some adjustments in the half-court offense I don't see things improving.Calhoun teams never lack for effort. I think they need to get the ball inside more to the much improved Gavin Edwards. He is scoring around 12ppg all on offensive rebounds and fast breaks. He is a good finisher inside and also knows when to kick out which would get better shots for the Huskies periimeter shooters. He needs to learn to move without the ball and position himself for passes down deep.
Steve
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