UConn 96, UC 51 - postgame

I've been doing this for a long, long time. I was there for some pretty bad teams during the Tony Yates coaching era, but needless to say I've never seen anything like this. Usually when games get out of hand like this in the first half, the superior teams loses some intensity in the second half and the final score ends up being fairly presentable. That's what happened last year vs. Ohio State. But not today. It just kept getting worse and worse so that I spent most of the second half flipping through the media guide trying to figure out how this loss stacked up historically. What Dan Hoard and I came up with is that it was the worst loss since Feb. 14, 1913 when the Bearcats fell to Denison, 78-29. It was also the worst loss in Big East Conference history.

After it was over, Mick Cronin said this will only make him more determined to get the job done at UC.

“Right now, as bad as this is,” Cronin said, “it’s step two of a four- or five-step process. You’ve got to be tough in this business. You can’t take a job that you know is going to require a ton of toughness on your part and hard work and fortitude to get the job one..you can’t waiver or you should have never taken the job in the first place.”