Wagner defeated No. 18
UConn, 67-58, the first time the Huskies have ever lost a season opener at Gampel, which was completed in 1990.
( Thank you Jim Calhoun for always having teams ready to play when the bell sounded)
"We've got to get tougher, that starts with me as a coach. I take full responsibility of it. I've got to get these guys ready to play better." coach
Kevin Ollie said. "We have to do a better job of sharing the basketball. I thought the ball stuck too much. Guys were worrying about the wrong things; the wrong things are it's 'my shot.' No. You have to play defense, and get 'UConn' shots.
( Yeah it looked like way to many times guys were trying to force shots on their own, alot of me ball, not we ball)
"We've got to get tougher, that starts with me as a coach. I take full responsibility of it. I've got to get these guys ready to play better."
It was a familiar scene for UConn's big men: They got their hands on a number of rebounds, but fumbled them away. Wagner's 260-pound center, had 15 points and nine rebounds, hurting UConn . Aaman, 6-foot-8, was the Seahawks tallest player, yet they outrebounded UConn 37-to-33.
(Well then either hire a damn big man coach or stop recruiting these projects that Glen Miller or whoever is supposed to be developing them has no idea how to do it.)
"We can do all the technical stuff," Ollie said, "but we have to have the will to get the basketball and play tough."
( well coach, then stop siting on the bench like a statue letting these kids sleep walk through large portions of the game thinking that they will. You need to go watch some tape of how your mentor would have been all over their asses...or maybe its not in your personality so as a coach your just as soft as them)
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