After 30 seasons, after an 0-6 record all-time against UConn, after a rough stretch of the Big Ten season where four of five losses were to teams ranked in the top 10 ... this was the right team to bust through the wall of good.
In 2014, Alabama played Blake Sims, a converted running back, at quarterback. The Crimson Tide was two seasons away from starting a seven-year run of NFL-quality quarterbacks that went from Jalen Hurts to Tua Tagovailoa to Mac Jones to Bryce Young. The Tide in 2014 had offensive stars like Amari Cooper and Derrick Henry and a top-five defense, but they had a weakness.
Football beat Alabama, and then still as an underdog beat Oregon in the national title game. Women’s basketball beat UConn, and then still as an underdog meets Virginia Tech at 9 p.m. Monday night. “We had talented enough teams to do it, but we didn’t quite have the right cohesion and chemistry at that particular point,” McGuff said. “Now I think we’re maybe not as talented as back then, but our chemistry and cohesion and our culture is in a really healthy place. So I’m hoping that can be a difference maker for us here down the stretch.”
Like the football Buckeyes in 2014 who featured game-changers on defense, and by the end of the year, a run game with Ezekiel Elliott that could steamroll teams, these basketball Buckeyes at this point in the season know exactly who they are.
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