stokesjokes wrote: ↑December 18th, 2022, 11:24 am
I think Purdue and UCONN are similar in a lot of respects, UCONN’s just a better version. They had more offensive rebounds last night than Butler had field goals. If that’s not pounding you both defensively and on the glass, I don’t know what is.
I disagree. They’re both very good. I think Purdue’s first five is better, but UCONN just keeps coming at you. You mentioned the depth. Purdue runs an inordinately high number of QH’s and sets to ISO’s, but I can completely understand why. UCONN is more uptempo on full- and half-court. And if they do run a set it’s a lot of prelim movement to create a gap and go.
Make no mistake, if the brackets came out today, depending on matchups along the way. I’d be very tempted to see both in the final four. But I think they play very differently. But they don’t play it in December. Gonzaga is better than their rank. UCLA looked nice yesterday. Kentucky has a glaring weakness teams are exploiting. Arizona looked awfully good again. I can’t figure Tennessee out yet. Houston and Alabama are ridiculously athletic.
There is as much parity this year as I can remember. One of the good byproducts of the portal, I think.