iogyhufi
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11-15-22 04:34 PM - Post#346583
In response to james
Apparently this is the first time Yale has been 4-0 since the 1949-50 season.
Thinking about recent seasons where Yale has come close:
2014-15 - Yale opened with QPac, D3 Newbury, UIC, and Southern Illinois. Yale ended the season 77 in KenPom and the best of these teams finished 177, so you'd think they'd have managed it here. But Yale dropped a howler in Hamden to open the season before winning the next five games.
2015-16 - the year Yale beat Baylor, they rattled off wins over Fairfield, Sacred Heart, and Lehigh before letting a game at KP 18 SMU slip through their fingers.
2018-19 - Yale went 2-2 against Cal, Memphis, Vermont, and Bryant. The Memphis loss (in 2OT) featured some of the worst officiating known to mankind (Yale was called for 40 fouls to Memphis' 22), and Yale was without defensive stopper Trey Phills for the Vermont game, where Vermont's star PG Stef Smith boosted the Catamounts to victory.
Obviously the first four teams Yale played didn't have a team as strong as they usually have there, but it's still a fine accomplishment.
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