College Basketball: UConn Defeats UNC in a Thrilling Matchup

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00:00 (upbeat music)

00:02 Unlike college football,

00:04 where you schedule a tough game and lose,

00:06 nobody gets any credit for scheduling that tough game.

00:08 They just go, "Oh, you got a loss in that."

00:09 Congratulations.

00:10 That's why we have so much animosity here

00:12 from the final four teams

00:14 that are in the college football playoff.

00:15 But not the case in college basketball.

00:17 You get graded on, yes, if you win a quad one game,

00:20 but also at the strength of your schedule.

00:22 So we're getting these top 10 environments here

00:25 with the UConn Huskies

00:26 and also the North Carolina Tar Heels.

00:28 Yesterday in the Garden, in the Jimmy V Classic,

00:30 87 to 76 final, UConn was the victors over UNC.

00:35 And most people say, "Oh, that could be devastating."

00:36 Like, no, they play 30 plus games here.

00:39 Now coming after this, seven and two North Carolina,

00:42 eight and one UConn,

00:43 and UConn already coming off a game, Davis,

00:45 where they went to Fogg and to Kansas here,

00:48 and then showed up and said, "Big deal.

00:50 We'll go in the Garden here,

00:51 take on another top team and take them down."

00:53 I love to see this competition early in the season,

00:55 getting these basketball teams ready

00:57 for conference play coming in January.

00:59 - Absolutely.

01:01 I mean, this is the benefit of basketball,

01:04 which is that you can just play more games

01:05 over a shorter period of time.

01:08 If college football, if they had,

01:10 if you could play, if it was possible

01:12 for the human body to play 25 games in a season,

01:15 you would see more of Alabama schedules Clemson

01:19 as their out of conference opponent or whatever,

01:21 or you'd see Texas playing Ohio State

01:24 as a regular season matchup.

01:26 But because it's only limited to, what,

01:28 11 regular season games for most teams,

01:30 sometimes a little bit less,

01:31 sometimes a little bit more,

01:32 college football is so bizarre in that way.

01:35 You can't lose.

01:36 And sometimes, I mean, even as Florida State's showed us,

01:38 sometimes, even if you don't lose,

01:40 it's not gonna be enough at that stage of the season.

01:45 So I think that is probably one of the big

01:47 advertising points for college basketball right now,

01:49 which is that it's December 6th right now.

01:52 I am used to, you know, the way I grew up

01:55 is like teams are not playing anything serious right now.

01:58 This is the University of Kansas

02:00 playing against Alcorn State or whatever,

02:02 but that's not the way it works anymore.

02:04 And I think this has been like, I mean,

02:06 it's pretty cynical,

02:07 but it's like a very good marketing decision

02:09 from NCAA men's basketball

02:11 to have these really important games early on.

02:14 And like, I'm not used to paying attention to,

02:18 I grew up in Kansas, so everyone cares about,

02:20 you know, the Jayhawks men's basketball program.

02:23 I'm not used to knowing a name of the player

02:25 on those teams until after Christmas, right?

02:28 I don't know the best, you know,

02:29 I don't know the point guard is,

02:31 and that's not true this year

02:32 because they've already played two,

02:34 like relatively big games in the scheme of things.

02:37 And so I mean, yeah,

02:38 and this was an awesome game last night.

02:40 Like everyone on my Twitter timeline

02:42 was talking about UConn, North Carolina.

02:44 (upbeat music)

02:47 (bells chiming)

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