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And, OK, since I'm the OP, I'll re-design the title by saying, oh, since Alfraud came to town.
How's that?
Alford didn't sink iowa basketball; Lickliter buried it.
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And, OK, since I'm the OP, I'll re-design the title by saying, oh, since Alfraud came to town.
How's that?
Not quite correct. Counting this year as a sweet 16, since 1999 UW has had 3 final fours, 1 elite 8 and 5 sweet 16s. No other team in the country has gone to 5 of the last 6 sweet 16s. But of course there's a lot of fluky luck in there.....
Alford didn't sink iowa basketball; Lickliter buried it.
My point to my orig post simply is Wisky plays a tougher, more-winning brand of BB than Iowa.
And you can go back 5, 10, 15 years and it holds true.
This latest Iowa team lacked an on-court leader, played soft and with four seniors, mysteriously disappeared in many games, unable to finish.
And as mysteriously, and again with a senior-laden team, they got worse as the year went on. No gelling. No cohesiveness. No group think.
Wisky certainly doesn't have those issues. And IMO, it's no fluke.
They may win ugly. They may win 'luckily.'
But man, they win. More than Iowa. Year after year.
New coach? No problem. New fresh line up? No problem. Playing a higher seed? No problem.
The hotter the spotlight, the better Wisky does. The hotter the spotlight, the quicker Iowa melts.
If there's a B1G Iowa BB doppelganger, it's Wisconsin. They simply do it better than us. And have for quite sometime.
Hats off to Wisky as it keeps playing, apparently oblivious to its status and stature....simply excelling in the moment. There's no reason Iowa can't be there too.
Alford didn't sink iowa basketball; Lickliter buried it.
But simply look at the overall body of work for the past....5, 10, 15 years.
Man, Wisconsin is lucking out again!
Leading a #6 seed in an elite-8-invite game at halftime.
Madison must be 1/2 Irish or something.