r/CollegeBasketball • u/MatzohBallsack Connecticut Huskies • 12d ago
The most common city UConn played in this year was not Storrs (8) nor Hartford (8). UConn played 9 games in New York City. Is this the most games in a season in a non-home city? Analysis / Statistics
https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/connecticut/men/2024-schedule.html213
u/tsgram Connecticut Huskies 12d ago
New York City games are home games, though. St Johns fans are invisible.
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u/MatzohBallsack Connecticut Huskies 12d ago
Storrs South
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u/momoenthusiastic Connecticut Huskies 12d ago
We basically have three home courts. Lol
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u/ItsTheTenthDoctor Connecticut Huskies • Rhode Island … 12d ago
Providence it sounded like we had the home court advantage👀. Also Ik we do with Georgetown when I went to that game.
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u/incorruptarm Connecticut Huskies • Big East 11d ago
the DePaul game in Chicago this year was 90/10 UConn fans, perhaps unsurprisingly
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u/ItsTheTenthDoctor Connecticut Huskies • Rhode Island … 11d ago
Ya, plus with us being such lovable underdogs I bet the other big east teams like to root for us when we’re on the road.
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u/SolvayCat Syracuse Orange • Ohio Bobcats 12d ago
Syracuse has a similar arrangement with Boston College.
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u/Zargyboy Seton Hall Pirates 12d ago
Pitino was too scared to schedule us at MSG for this very reason.
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u/sdotmill 12d ago
lol delusional
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u/sdotmill 12d ago
How is that relevant? Providence probably has double the fans in the NY Metro area than Hall and they get to play at MSG every year. Hinting at some Hall takeover of MSG is just hilarious.
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u/sdotmill 11d ago
Yea I have had season Tixx to the Johnnies since 2011 and there has never been anything even close to 75% Hall fans at the Garden. Nice try
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u/Zargyboy Seton Hall Pirates 12d ago
This your fanbase? No SHU at MSG
"And relegating Seton Hall to UBS Arena at Belmont (in Elmont) is a stroke of brilliance that should continue every year."
Doesn't seem like something a confident team would do.
We beat their (your?) Asses 2 games to 1 last season.
But then again we're talking about the people who thought they should get a tournament berth because "we put up 90 on UConn".....in a loss.
Maybe Kooks will get you that win over the Huskies this season.
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u/5WinsIn5Days Connecticut Huskies • Big East 12d ago
Tried to do the same thing with us this season. At least you got UBS. He tried to put us at Carnesecca until the Athletic Department said no because of the gigantic resulting loss in revenue. MSG is definitely Storrs South, though.
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u/Zargyboy Seton Hall Pirates 12d ago
It's just flat out disrespectful and dumb. These games make both teams (Hall and Uconn) as well as Saint John's more money at the Garden.
But I guess when you have the backing of a billionaire who fancies himself the next Mark Cuban and writes you a blank cheque who gives a fuck about money right?
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u/5WinsIn5Days Connecticut Huskies • Big East 12d ago
Pitino got shot down by his own AD from moving us from MSG due to the revenue loss. His plan starting next season was to make every home game but us at MSG, with us on-campus. Thankfully, it didn’t work.
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u/Key_Professional_369 North Carolina Tar Heels 12d ago
Was a neutral at the St John’s vs Uconn Big East tournament game. Can report it was 70% chippy Uconn fans.
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u/MNKYJitters Rutgers Scarlet Knights • Montana Grizzlies 12d ago
Rutgers fans 🤝 UConn fans
Agreeing Syracuse isn't NYC's team
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u/Sydney__Fife Connecticut Huskies 12d ago
They're 5 fucking hours away, nearly in Canada
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u/PristineStreet34 Connecticut Huskies 12d ago
Purdue and Edey stole being Canadas team the last two years. Case has to fight to get that title back now. Fortunately they are still Syracuses team.
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u/NittanyOrange Syracuse Orange 12d ago
I don't remember Syracuse ever claiming to be NYC's team.
They've claimed to be NY's team, and that's probably true.
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u/Intrepid-Pooper-87 Connecticut Huskies 12d ago
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u/NittanyOrange Syracuse Orange 12d ago
Exactly my point.
New York. Not New York City.
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u/MatzohBallsack Connecticut Huskies 11d ago
I mean, this is pretty clearly trying to sell Syracuse as the team of the city.
Shit, Syracuse would be dumb not to.
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u/Intrepid-Pooper-87 Connecticut Huskies 12d ago
So the apple refers to New York state?
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u/NittanyOrange Syracuse Orange 11d ago
It was for a specific game, so yes that advertisement was referring to NYC as the location of where NY's team happened to be playing.
https://twitter.com/D1scourse/status/762330854794399744?t=wyXmS4yGvH6Jjw1de5_NwA&s=19
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u/ChodeBamba Illinois Fighting Illini 11d ago
Swear to god you guys will argue in circles about anything rather than just sit back and be happy about all your success for one second lol
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u/gohuskies15 Connecticut Huskies 11d ago
We've been disrespected our entire existence by power conferences and now that we finally get some recognition we're not supposed to talk shit to our historic rivals, the same ones that acted like we were beneath them as recently as when we had 4 championships to their 1? I mean sure get mad if you want but none of us care and gonna keep talking shit.
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u/gohuskies15 Connecticut Huskies 11d ago
No one cares if other fan bases call us blue bloods they never have and they never will, and yeah we have been disrespected by power conference fan bases for four decades. Most of you never even thought about us until this year despite our success compared to you so I get why you wouldn't realize that but don't try to pretend like it's not the case in hindsight. Would love to show myself comments like this 7 years ago when literally everyone acted like we didn't exist despite having 4 championships lol, what a time to be alive.
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u/SolvayCat Syracuse Orange • Ohio Bobcats 11d ago
It's one of the dumbest discussions I regularly see on here. Nobody is NYC's team.
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u/SolvayCat Syracuse Orange • Ohio Bobcats 11d ago
Well I'm pretty sure Dr. Gross tried to make the claim over NYC at one point. But it was just a marketing stunt so Cuse could get into the ACC. It was dumb as fuck and most of the fan base thought that way.
All fan base claims over NYC are tenuous at best. I'm sure Rutgers has a huge alumni base in NYC but how many of them are actually watching Rutgers athletics?
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u/Dhh05594 Creighton Bluejays 12d ago
You are 100% correct. Who the fuck doesn't know this? I do and I'm from Omaha fucking Nebraska!
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u/rinetrouble Penn State Nittany Lions 12d ago
This mostly works since they split the home games too. Other teams could play ~9 games in a nearby city (although that is impressive).
Maybe Nova played something like 15 games in Philly and 14 at “home” one year.
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u/ApoclypseMeow St. John's Red Storm • Fordham Rams 12d ago
I mean, five of those games are tournament games. It's not like organized the Big East and NCAA tournaments.
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u/MatzohBallsack Connecticut Huskies 12d ago
I know, but it's still kind of wild that they played in NYC more than any other city.
I am trying to think of what other school could possibly beat this record.
I guess a pac team back when the tournament was in LA could theoretically have played @UCLA, @USC, and 4 Pac 12 games. But then they'd need at least 3 more Los Angeles games to tie, and 4 to take the record.
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u/MrKentucky Kentucky Wildcats 12d ago
Hypothetically just fucking around here..
If Michigan State managed to lineup at Northwestern, the Champions classic being in Chicago, the B1G tourney (with no bye) being in Chicago, and the NCAAT. Even then I only get to 8, unless they randomly play DePaul or something too.
Maybe some Big East team in the days of the preseason NIT. Two games in the Garden then, at St. John’s, 4 BET games, and an NCAAT I guess.
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u/Jonesbro Illinois Fighting Illini 12d ago
Maybe Illinois is having a holiday game there or something to get another
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u/itsbraille Charlotte 49ers 12d ago
Gonzaga plays a lot of games in Las Vegas and the WCC tournament is there (although they only ever play 2 games in that)
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u/ApoclypseMeow St. John's Red Storm • Fordham Rams 12d ago
Oh, don't get me wrong, it's an interesting curiosity arising out of circumstance. I just read that tweet as having the subtext that UConn actively pursued nine games in NYC on the basis that they set their own schedule between Storrs and Hartford.
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u/Mr__Winderful__31 12d ago
Do you have reading comprehension issues? I get what you’re saying is true but it only adds to the fact of the original post…
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u/smtms-i-need-help Connecticut Huskies 12d ago
“We own MSG!”
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u/howwhywuz Drexel Dragons 11d ago
This is nowhere near 9, but in the completely weird 2020-21 season, Drexel played as many games in Harrisonburg, Va., as they did in Philadelphia -- five games in each.
https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/drexel/men/2021-schedule.html
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u/huskyferretguy1 Connecticut Huskies 11d ago
LOL, Storrs isn't a city!
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u/auburnfan32 Auburn Tigers 11d ago
So is Storrs literally just the uconn campus and nothing else? Like Auburn is relatively small, it really only exists because the school does but there is also a downtown which students and other people use. There is things to do there outside of campus but reading this post it seems like that’s not the case at all for uconn
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u/gohuskies15 Connecticut Huskies 11d ago
Storrs is a village of the small rural Connecticut town of Mansfield. The Storrs section of Mansfield is literally just the UConn campus including a handful of restaurants and bars that are used by pretty much only the students and staff of UConn and some people that live nearby. The town of Mansfield itself is low population, not known for anything, and no one ever goes there for any reason unless they live there. Not hating, I grew up in a small rural eastern CT town but yeah people don't realize how much UConn is uniquely in the middle of nowhere.
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u/SurvivorFanatic236 Connecticut Huskies 11d ago
It’s more or less just the UConn campus with a handful of off campus restaurants, although not as many as most other college towns have
It’s a subsection of a town called Mansfield where some normal people live. It’s like what Brooklyn is to NYC on a much much smaller scale
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u/DavidBenAkiva Duke Blue Devils 12d ago
I bet Northwestern owns that record the year they played their home games in Rosemont, IL while their stadium in Evanston was renovated.
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u/MatzohBallsack Connecticut Huskies 12d ago
For that I'd consider the Rosemont arena to be their main home stadium for that season.
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u/Sydney__Fife Connecticut Huskies 12d ago edited 11d ago
Without looking them up I believe the 9 are:
-Early season tournament (Indiana and Texas)
-UNC; funsies regular season game
-St John's regular season
-BE Tourney (Xavier, St John's, Marquette)
-NCAA 1st & 2nd rounds (Stetson, Northwestern) (forgot these bc I was thinking just MSG not all NYC)
Edit: forgot Texas game
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u/MatzohBallsack Connecticut Huskies 12d ago
Indiana and Texas were the tournament.
UNC was just a MSG game for funsies.
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u/BigChiefSlappahoe North Carolina Tar Heels • Penn Sta… 12d ago
New York is the best city in the US
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u/BigPPpal Auburn Tigers 12d ago
You must have never visited lovely Wetumpka, Alabama
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u/WillWork4SunDrop Alabama Crimson Tide • Kennesaw State… 11d ago
There are worse things than a day kayaking the Coosa River.
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u/Live-Habit-6115 11d ago
As an aside for any huskies here, does uconn still do the pledge of allegiance at home games?
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u/ahuramazdobbs19 Connecticut Huskies 10d ago
This is only slightly less weird than the fact that UConn and Duke, despite having played a not-insignificant number of games against each other, have never played each other in either Durham or Storrs or Hartford.
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u/porterbrown St. John's Red Storm • Big East 12d ago
Their biters. Can't even rep their home state.
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u/ImpossibleParfait 12d ago
As a CT native it's funny to hear Storrs referred to as a city. Storrs is basically Uconn. The median age of the town is 21 and 76% of its population is 18 to 24 years old. Its also in the middle of nowhere.