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Sterling Gibbs visiting UConn Thursday

Postby LA_Mustang » Mon May 11, 2015 8:35 am

Gibbs averaged 16 pts per game and shot 43 % from 3s last season with Seton Hall. I certainly don't want to see him suit up with UConn.

“@JonRothstein: Seton Hall transfer Sterling Gibbs told @CBSSports he will visit UConn on Thursday. Just visited Ohio State and Pitt. Immediately eligible.”

“@jeffborzello: When Sterling Gibbs named his final six last week, Temple wasn't on the list. Sounds like they're trying to get involved though.”
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Re: Sterling Gibbs visiting UConn Thursday

Postby PonyTime » Mon May 11, 2015 1:09 pm

Shouldn't we want UCONN to get better?
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Re: Sterling Gibbs visiting UConn Thursday

Postby smitty329 » Mon May 11, 2015 1:57 pm

PonyTime wrote:Shouldn't we want UCONN to get better?


Wow. We are arrogant asking a team to get better that won the national championship a little over a year ago. I guess with a limited view, since we won the conference championship this year, there is opportunity for improvement. From a program perspective, we cannot speak.
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Re: Sterling Gibbs visiting UConn Thursday

Postby mustangxc » Mon May 11, 2015 3:12 pm

No arrogance whatsoever. I want all teams in the AAC to be the best they can be. If UCONN can load up Kentucky style all the better.
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Re: Sterling Gibbs visiting UConn Thursday

Postby 1983 Cotton Bowl » Tue May 12, 2015 9:25 am

Yeah, I don't read that as arrogance. UConn won the NC 2 years ago, but they fell way, way off last year. Definitely want to see them get back into tourney form. AAC as a whole needs to be more like 2013-2014, and less like 2014-2015, next year.
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Re: Sterling Gibbs visiting UConn Thursday

Postby LA_Mustang » Sat May 16, 2015 5:32 pm

Trouble....

@GoodmanESPN: UConn is the winner of the grad transfer sweepstakes this year (probably the last year) with addition of Sterling Gibbs and Shonn Miller.
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Re: Sterling Gibbs visiting UConn Thursday

Postby PonySnob » Sat May 16, 2015 6:15 pm

If they play like Martin and Emelogu, did, won't help them very much.
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Re: Sterling Gibbs visiting UConn Thursday

Postby mustangxc » Sat May 16, 2015 6:17 pm

At the end of the day I really don't care if we win the AAC or not. To me it is all about the NCAA tournament. Having UCONN load up gives us an opportunity at a couple more quality wins, which our conference desperately needs. Hopefully Memphis, UCONN, Cincinnati, Temple, etc. can join us i the top 25 soon. Additionally, great players want to play against the best so I see this as great news for the AAC.
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Re: Sterling Gibbs visiting UConn Thursday

Postby LA_Mustang » Sat May 16, 2015 7:58 pm

PonySnob wrote:If they play like Martin and Emelogu, did, won't help them very much.

Great point.

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Re: Sterling Gibbs visiting UConn Thursday

Postby East Coast Mustang » Sat May 16, 2015 10:37 pm

Good. I hope UConn kills it out of conference and is a ranked team all year. And I hope they're highly ranked when we beat them at Moody and up in CT this year. Not sure how anyone can see this as anything other than a positive- I want to play good teams and beat them in conference play.

UConn is going to be a handful, though- Gibbs and Shonn Miller joining Purvis, Daniel Hamilton, and Brimah along with a 5-star PG (Jalen Adams) and a top 50 PF (Steve Enoch) coming in. Bring it on!
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Re: Sterling Gibbs visiting UConn Thursday

Postby PonyTime » Wed May 20, 2015 1:23 pm

smitty329 wrote:
PonyTime wrote:Shouldn't we want UCONN to get better?


Wow. We are arrogant asking a team to get better that won the national championship a little over a year ago. I guess with a limited view, since we won the conference championship this year, there is opportunity for improvement. From a program perspective, we cannot speak.


As others have stated - I want UCONN to clean up OOC - and I want them to demolish the Longhorns along the way. The better that they are, the better for us...
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Re: Sterling Gibbs visiting UConn Thursday

Postby ponyboy » Wed May 20, 2015 1:49 pm

We should want all AAC teams to get better. Good news.
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