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Can the real Huskies please stand up?

Posted on 22. Feb, 2010 at 8:28 am by Meerkat in Basketball, BIG 12 Basketball, BIG East Basketball, NCAA Basketball

4pm PST – West Virginia @ UCONN

After taking a horrific, most-likely-tournament-busting-ride, on the L train … the Huskies slapped the Wildcats in PA and showed some serious potential.  UCONN, with coach Calhoun back, now looks like a tournament team.  But, another loss will give the committee no choice other than to leave them on the sidelines in mid-March.  So the Huskies must run the table to punch their dance ticket.  Who are you UCONN?  Are you the erratic, turnover-prone, struggle-to-score team?  Or this new-and-improved feisty Calhoun led team that many experts expected from day 1?

The Mountaineers, on the other hand, have the luxury of improving their tourney seed by beating UCONN on the road.  A Huggins led-squad will not back down to this rejuvenated and hungry Connecticut team.  An intense game is sure to be had, no shocker there.

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6pm PST – Oklahoma @ Kansas

What was always a game to circle on the calendar, does not seem so much this season.  Oklahoma is average.  And right now, they won’t be dancing.  A win in Kansas would be a huge feather in the cap of the Sooners.  Jeff Capel better have his boys ready to play in Phog Allen Fieldhouse because the Jayhawks will be ready to throw-down and thrash the kids in crimson.  Kansas has not lost since 1/10 on the road against a scrappy Volunteers squad and are now the experts’ favorite to win it all.  Though it’s likley Okla will take the L tonight, it is important that they, at worst, have a good showing to keep their postseason hopes alive.

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