You don’t blame trees for falling in a storm. The Huskies were so good that it was hard to overly criticize the Razorbacks for a meek showing. UConn scored the opening basket of Thursday night’s Sweet 16 matchup against Arkansas, and that was basically it. Just ask the hog carcass sitting roadside on Tropicana Avenue here in Las Vegas. The kind of ball that only the great teams deliver.
How is this the same team? Did you see the Connecticut Orchestra on Thursday night? The Huskies played the kind of basketball that even good teams strive for and dream about. “To see it right in front of my face and think, you could’ve done something about that, but you didn’t.” “Hurt more than anything,” Jackson says all this time later. The Huskies played the game without coach Dan Hurley, out with COVID-19, and Jackson said he’d take care of things. In the closing moments, he missed a key rebound, among other things, that handed Seton Hall the win. It was his own frustration reaching 212 degrees Fahrenheit. Jackson’s eruption wasn’t meant as some kind of message to his team. 1 national ranking for the first time since Kemba Walker’s freshman year. All signs pointed to an impending return to a No. How had this gone so wrong, so fast? It was only three weeks earlier that the undefeated Huskies looked unbeatable, unstoppable. He grabbed whatever he could, threw it wherever.
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