A_Campbell

U Find Your Life When U Give It Away | Throw Kindness Around Like Confetti 🎉 | Hope Dealer | Christ Follower ✝️ | Former Worry Addict | ❤️ UConn 🏀 |Purposeful

[A_Campbell @hedgedhusky]

@Michael_Cohen13 @UConn6thBorough @UConnMBB @UConnHuskies @dhurley15 @CoachTomMoore @silas_demaryjr @FOXSports @CBBonFOX @UConn Great piece thank you for an interesting read - insights and beyond the stuff us diehards already know!

[Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner]

"Until death, all defeat is psychological." - Marcus Aurelius

Refuse everything that would lead most people to give up.

Refuse it.
Rise from the dead 1000 times.
Commit to never stay down & never give up.
Everything you want is on the other side of struggle.

[A_Campbell @hedgedhusky]

@Jmullins2424 First team All-American season incoming feels like back in the day when Rip & Ray came back for their junior seasons!!! Next in line of a Great legacy of Wings!!!

[A_Campbell @hedgedhusky]

@JamarVip We love JStew! Always a Husky, our fan base will be pulling like crazy for him!

[A_Campbell @hedgedhusky]

@JamarVip Good way to put it. Love that expression and that fits it to a T!

[A_Campbell @hedgedhusky]

Like the tax on leadership aspect. Never heard it that way.

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

The best thing you'll listen to today is Utah Jazz Head Coach Will Hardy talking about the tax of being a leader:

🏋 Leadership is not a position you hold—it’s a responsibility you carry. The weight isn’t in the title, it’s in the people who trust you with their time, energy, and belief.

📊 Before metrics, before outcomes, before strategy—there are humans. Leadership is a human-to-human commitment to see, serve, and develop the people in front of you.

✊ There is a tax on leadership. And it's paid in consistency, in hard conversations, in choosing standards over comfort. You don’t get to clock out from being the example!

The cost is of being the head coach is real... but so is the impact on every life you’re responsible for. 🌱⏩🌳

[Zach The UConn Fan @UConn_BleedBlue]

WHEN AN OFFICIAL IS TOP 10 TRENDING YOU KNOW THERE’S A FUCKING PROBLEM

[A_Campbell @hedgedhusky]

NCAA Finals’ Most Outstanding Player. Hardly a surprise James Breeding UConn hater did like 15 of our games somehow. Congrats NCAA & to Breeding. Michigan’s awesome didn’t need the fix. @BIGEASTMBB @MarchMadnessMBB

[A_Campbell @hedgedhusky]

Breeding won’t let it happen. Congrats to him, his team is gonna win. He should be M.O.P. Think this could have been an epic final. But basically every important player on UConn in foul trouble early. Rigging ✅ accomplished. Michigan didn’t need it they are awesome. We were robbed of a great game tho.

[A_Campbell @hedgedhusky]

This is an absolute travesty by the refs. One sided, biased. Every important UConn player in foul trouble. Kings-Lakers early 2000s special! Michigan doesn’t foul apparently. Announcers even saying it’s bad & they rarely do that. Michigan is loaded just let the teams play!!

[Neill Ostrout @NeillOstrout]

James Breeding for Final Four MOP.

[Ben @BenJ6257]

Easily my favorite thing these last few years is the prominent alums showing up to the final four for these UConn teams. In a time where Kentucky alums are rooting for Arkansas, guys who played for Calhoun and Ollie are front row for UConn, living and dying with every play

[A_Campbell @hedgedhusky]

It’s easy for so many coaches to just go buy a roster of mercenaries every year, it’s quite different to build a group of college kids who would run through a wall for the coach and each other, year after year.

[Hoop Herald @TheHoopHerald]

Dan Hurley’s players all think he is crazy but they would all run through a wall for him

Great players want to be held accountable and held to a standard

Hurley always pushes his players to their potential and that’s what good coaches do

[Brad Stulberg @BStulberg]

You’re never out until you’re out.

Play the game in front of you. Not the game you wanted to happen. Not the game that just happened. Not the game you hoped would happen. But the game that is happening.

It's a remarkable lesson for basketball, for all of sport, and really, for all of life.

In the Elite 8 of the NCAA tournament, the UConn Huskies came out flat against the No. 1 seed Duke.

The Huskies trailed by 15 at halftime.

No. 1 seeds were 134-0 all time in the NCAA tournament when leading by 15 or more points at halftime.

That’s across the entire NCAA tournament history. Every round. Every year.

UConn had every reason to give up. But they simply refused. Most people check out when the odds turn against them. But UConn never stopped playing to win.

Their big man Tarris Reed Jr. put the Huskies on his back. He played incredibly on both sides of the ball.

The Huskies cut the lead to 13. Then to 11. Then to 7. Then to 5. And then, in the final seconds of the game, they cut the lead to two.

Duke inbounded the ball, UConn pressured and forced a turnover. With less than a second on the clock, Braylon Mullins—who had shot 0 for 4 from three—put up a deep 3 from the logo, and nailed it.

UConn 73. Duke 72.

134-1.

After the game, UConn coach Dan Hurley said this about Mullins:

"The courage. You have a young man, he's a rare human being. The toughness about him, to take the shot, on a tough shooting night, but he was due."

It was an off night. And yet with everything on the line you have no choice but to pull the trigger. Shooters shoot. That's confidence in the process.

March Madness is an ultimate test of emotional regulation. Over 3 weeks and 6 games, nothing ever goes to plan.

You prepare. You practice. You visualize. Then stuff happens.

The difference between those who collapse and those who rise? How they respond, especially when things don’t go their way.

What's true in basketball is true in life.

It's easy when everything is going your way. But things will go wrong. You'll fall behind. The score won't look good. Most people check out when the odds turn against them.

UConn never stopped playing their hardest.

Not when they were down 19. Not when they were 1 for 11 from three. Not when history said it was over.

It’s called having a next play mentality:

You can't control what already happened. You can't control the score. You can only control the next play.

One stop. One bucket. One possession at a time.

That's how you erase a historical deficit against the No. 1 team in the country. It's how you work through the biggest challenges in life too.

Excellence does not mean control. It does not mean perfection. It means refusing to quit on yourself when the situation looks hopeless. It means trusting your preparation even when nothing is falling.

It means playing the game in front of you. Not the game you wanted. Not the game you hoped for. The game that is happening.

Stay in the arena. Play the next play.

[A_Campbell @hedgedhusky]

@UConnMBB Tom Brady winning 🧬. Thank you for the ride of a lifetime as a fan, Alex

[A_Campbell @hedgedhusky]

Hang it in the Louvre!

[Sports Illustrated @SInow]

This shot belongs in a museum 👏

[A_Campbell @hedgedhusky]

Knew there was something special about this group in the fall when God blessed us with 2 days with them this past fall! Go Huskies!

[A_Campbell @hedgedhusky]

@chaney_laros @bryandeno This.

[A_Campbell @hedgedhusky]

@DaveBorges James “ instant UConn penalty before under 12 timeout” Breeding will handle it. Don’t u know he thinks we all come out to these games to watch him ref.

[A_Campbell @hedgedhusky]

@UConnBBaller15 @t_fitts52 @UConn6thBorough @BIGEASTMBB this league is a joke and I used to love it. Breeding gonna send the league’s premier program home!

[A_Campbell @hedgedhusky]

@DaveBorges @4TheCycle1 Bet the house on mich state. No one hates UConn more than Breeding. Tarris immediate two fouls