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College Basketball: UConn Defeats UNC in a Thrilling Matchup
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12/6/2023
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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
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02:47
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