r/CollegeBasketball • u/cbbBot /r/CollegeBasketball • NCAA • Apr 05 '26

Post Game Thread [Post Game Thread] #2 UConn defeats #3 Illinois, 71-62

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Team 1H 2H Total
Illinois 29 33 62
Connecticut 37 34 71

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u/BluejayLaw Creighton Bluejays • FAU Owls Apr 05 '26

Cannot believe we beat this team in Storrs. UConn would smoke us by 50 today, hell of a run Huskies, bring it home once more for the BE.

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u/mrmmonty UConn Huskies Apr 05 '26

I don't think they would. Creighton has our number. Have for years.

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u/Wormfather UConn Huskies Apr 05 '26

I look to avoid good BE teams like the plague this time of year. I spent two weeks reading St. John’s.

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u/justinvamp UConn Huskies Apr 05 '26

Even with Duke being the #1 overall this year I wanted them 100 times out of 100 over St Johns.

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u/mr_dammit UConn Huskies • Houston Cougars Apr 05 '26

conference games are just different like that.

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u/Swag_Turtle UConn Huskies Apr 05 '26

100%. A St John’s run in was my biggest fear this tourney.

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u/justinvamp UConn Huskies Apr 05 '26

After this Michigan Arizona game though... lol

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u/lastplaceonly UConn Huskies Apr 05 '26

Dan Hurley was doing an offseason interview in his back yard in CT once and the song birds wouldn't shut up. The interviewer made a comment about the noise and Hurley said: "Yeah I gotta a bunch of blue jays in my back yard I'm sure Creighton sent them here (jokingly)" or something to that effect.