Dave Portnoy has brutal reaction to Syracuse

Dave Portnoy has weighed in on considered one of the most talked-about moments of the women’s NCAA Tournament, delivering a usually blunt verdict on Syracuse head coach Felisha Legette-Jack’s extraordinary postgame press convention following her team’s 98-45 second-round destruction at the palms of UConn on Monday night time.

“This is an all time wild rant,” Portnoy, who had a concept of Aaron Judge after he froze up in the World Baseball Classic, posted on social media with three laughing emojis, describing Legette-Jack’s pointed assault on the NCAA choice committee for repeatedly inserting her groups in UConn’s bracket.

Legette-Jack’s opening assertion was not like virtually something heard in a university basketball postgame setting. After watching her Syracuse facet path 65-12 at halftime and in the end fall by 53 factors, the worst tournament loss in class historical past, the Orange head coach didn’t dwell on the performance itself. Instead, she skilled her sights firmly on the people who put the bracket together.

“For us to do what we’ve done, to continuously have to come to UConn, and every single school that I go to, from Buffalo to here, it’s unfair to the young people,” she said. “After being in this business for 37 years, and to have to come and be in this particular bracket every freaking year is unacceptable. It’s wrong.”

“But for us to continue to come to Connecticut year after year after year is, to me, it’s a personal attack, because I just think that we are way better than what we performed today.”

Syracuse has confronted UConn in the second round in each of Legette-Jack’s NCAA Tournament appearances with the Orange, and 5 of the program’s past seven tournament berths general, with three of those games happening on UConn’s residence court docket in Storrs.

Before arriving at Syracuse, Legette-Jack’s Buffalo team also fell to the Huskies in the second round of the 2019 tournament. The sample is troublesome to dismiss as a coincidence.

“Somebody said, is there something that they might have against me? If that’s the case, then we need to communicate about that,” Legette-Jack said. “I’ve been on those committees to see how it’s done, how you can put people on different lines.”

Legette-Jack also acknowledged what occurs to any team that walks into Storrs. “I think what you’re going to notice, that everybody that comes through Geno and UConn is going to get the wrath of what they can bring,” she said.

To her credit score, Legette-Jack closed with real class, separating her frustration with the committee from her respect for the program that has dominated the sport. “I just want to say thank you, UConn, for growing women’s basketball to newfound heights every year,” she said.

“You just make it great. And our hope is that we can grow our program so that we can be competitive enough so when they bring us back here next year, we’ll be more prepared.”