When I look at the really good teams in the tournament I see great guard play. Really worried about our lack of recruiting at the point guard position.
I'm so tired of this fall-back cliche ... basketball is a game of movement, positioning and, ultimately, size. It's always a cute story when that team of hard-working, hot-shooting 6'6" guys wins a couple games but they are always called "Cinderella" for a reason. You do not need 'great' guard play, you need merely
competent / don't lose it guard play that can take care of / distribute (move) the ball and be a coach on the floor in terms of positioning and spacing. It's far more important to have a strong, tough, athletic, skilled 4 or 5.
Purdue lost the 1st round because their guards got dumb again and didn't even look at their NBA center or try to exploit their size advantage.
Iowa, which does
NOT have a strong, tough, athletic, skilled 4 or 5 lost lots of games because they also did not have consistently competent guard play. They also do not have a coach that understands how to utilize any size advantage, nor incorporate some basic inside-out strategy.
Guards play further from the basket. The further from the basket you shoot the ball the higher the margin of error. It's really not that complicated.