HawkGold
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How is that even close to anything I have said?
Also technically Xavier was the best team in their conference. I mean since they won the Big East regular season championship and all.
Truce..
How is that even close to anything I have said?
Also technically Xavier was the best team in their conference. I mean since they won the Big East regular season championship and all.
They got to play the Fighting Sister Jean's in the semis. Loyola was a nice story and they were a good team but you'd still have to say Michigan was fortunate they played them and not some top 5 seeded team.
Truce..
That's pretty frickin lucky if you ask me.
If I can not change your mind then I shall accept your truce.
There is no easy road to a national championship. I don't care if you face six consecutive double-digit seeds. Just to get to the final four you have to beat a team that has won at least three in a row in tournament conditions. To win it all you have to beat a team on a five game heater. Neither are easy tasks in tournament conditions. We saw Loyola play out of their mind for an extended stretch. Or perhaps their defensive metrics suggested they should have been seeded much higher than they were. We saw two number one seeds not make it out of the first weekend. And at least one two seed.
I used to tell my BF [a KU] fan, the 1 seed gets a gimme first round, then there are 5 tough games following, But after last year...
Yes I wonder if that trend will continue. It could be that no team is safe now. The 16 seeds seem to have been getting better over the last few years. I havent looked up the scores but I thought a 16 had a close game with a 1 the season prior as well.
There is no easy road to a national championship. I don't care if you face six consecutive double-digit seeds. Just to get to the final four you have to beat a team that has won at least three in a row in tournament conditions. To win it all you have to beat a team on a five game heater. Neither are easy tasks in tournament conditions. We saw Loyola play out of their mind for an extended stretch. Or perhaps their defensive metrics suggested they should have been seeded much higher than they were. We saw two number one seeds not make it out of the first weekend. And at least one two seed.