Most overachieving team in school history?

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Dallasbowlin

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What year would it be? Just thought with all of the negativity lately, this would be a good conversation, that hopefully doesn't end in another bicker fest.
 
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The last Sweet 16 team. Unranked pre season. Finished one bad call away from going to the Elite Eight which we have only done once.
 
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Pearl's first team. Took the same team basically (minus Brandon Crump too) that Peterson couldn't even make a winning team and had them win the East and get a #2 seed. Last UT team to win at Rupp as well.
 
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k-town_king said:
The last Sweet 16 team. Unranked pre season. Finished one bad call away from going to the Elite Eight which we have only done once.
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Are you talking about the team with 3 NBA players that barely squeaked their way into the tourney with a play in game?

They overachieved?
 
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Pearl's first team is easily the most overachieving team in recent memory. Lost the leading scorer (Scooter McFadgon) and best big man (Brandon Crump) from the year before, and won the SEC East and secured a #2 seed in the NCAA Tournament.
 
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jcv0010 said:
Are you talking about the team with 3 NBA players that barely squeaked their way into the tourney with a play in game?

They overachieved?
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So you count players as NBA players before they develop into those type of players? McRae wasn't NBA ready and played over seas for a year. J Rich wasn't an NBA player yet. Stokes was a second round pick who has spent more time in the D league than anywhere else.

The fact is they were not ranked pre season. There were plenty of teams with more talent. We outperformed expectations and had the second highest tourney finish ever.
 
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k-town_king said:
So you count players as NBA players before they develop into those type of players? McRae wasn't NBA ready and played over seas for a year. J Rich wasn't an NBA player yet. Stokes was a second round pick who has spent more time in the D league than anywhere else.

The fact is they were not ranked pre season. There were plenty of teams with more talent. We outperformed expectations and had the second highest tourney finish ever.
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That team was predicted to go to the sweet 16 at the beginning of the season by almost everyone on here. They underachieved all season and played unmotivated until the NCAA tournament. They did overachieve. They were really talented.
 
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Don DeVoe's 1981-82 squad that tied for the league title was a pretty over-achieving bunch. Other than Dale Ellis and Michael Brooks, that collection of upstarts had no business coming close to the league title that season.
 
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Stoked said:
That team was predicted to go to the sweet 16 at the beginning of the season by almost everyone on here. They underachieved all season and played unmotivated until the NCAA tournament. They did overachieve. They were really talented.
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That is the dumbest reason people give. Some fans overestimated the team on a team site. No objective person picked them as a Sweet 16 team. They were not ranked. No poll had them ranked. No expert picked them as a Sweet 16 team pre season. Those were the actual expectations. Only a few posters that wanted to set a way higher standard than the real expectations to have something to complain about predicted the Sweet 16. We were coming off a NIT year and we still didn't know about Maymon's health. They exceeded expectations by a lot.
 
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k-town_king said:
That is the dumbest reason people give. Some fans overestimated the team on a team site. No objective person picked them as a Sweet 16 team. They were not ranked. No poll had them ranked. No expert picked them as a Sweet 16 team pre season. Those were the actual expectations. Only a few posters that wanted to set a way higher standard than the real expectations to have something to complain about predicted the Sweet 16. We were coming off a NIT year and we still didn't know about Maymon's health. They exceeded expectations by a lot.
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Tougher breed
 
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k-town_king said:
That is the dumbest reason people give. Some fans overestimated the team on a team site. No objective person picked them as a Sweet 16 team. They were not ranked. No poll had them ranked. No expert picked them as a Sweet 16 team pre season. Those were the actual expectations. Only a few posters that wanted to set a way higher standard than the real expectations to have something to complain about predicted the Sweet 16. We were coming off a NIT year and we still didn't know about Maymon's health. They exceeded expectations by a lot.
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The reason most "experts" didn't pick us could be because of your boy. Just sayin
 
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k-town_king said:
So you count players as NBA players before they develop into those type of players? McRae wasn't NBA ready and played over seas for a year. J Rich wasn't an NBA player yet. Stokes was a second round pick who has spent more time in the D league than anywhere else.

The fact is they were not ranked pre season. There were plenty of teams with more talent. We outperformed expectations and had the second highest tourney finish ever.
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Mcrae and Stokes were both drafted and that season is when Rich blossomed.
 
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Lefteye said:
The reason most "experts" didn't pick us could be because of your boy. Just sayin
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They picked us there because multiple teams had more NBA talent, we had a new pg, and Maymon was a question mark.

No matter why, we were unranked and exceeded pre season expectations by far.
 
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k-town_king said:
That is the dumbest reason people give. Some fans overestimated the team on a team site. No objective person picked them as a Sweet 16 team. They were not ranked. No poll had them ranked. No expert picked them as a Sweet 16 team pre season. Those were the actual expectations. Only a few posters that wanted to set a way higher standard than the real expectations to have something to complain about predicted the Sweet 16. We were coming off a NIT year and we still didn't know about Maymon's health. They exceeded expectations by a lot.
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An updated look at the Top 25 for 2013-14 season - NCAA men's college basketball

ESPN had them as a preseason top-25 team. While that isn't necessarily billing them as a Sweet 16 team, it certainly suggests that they had the type of talent to compete for a spot there. So, to say they "exceeded expectations by a lot" is gross hyperbole when you consider they barely made the field of 68 to begin with.

The truth lies somewhere between your opinion and the opinion of those who claimed they should have made it that far. That team, in the end, neither greatly overachieved or underachieved.
 
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cncchris33 said:
An updated look at the Top 25 for 2013-14 season - NCAA men's college basketball

ESPN had them as a preseason top-25 team. While that isn't necessarily billing them as a Sweet 16 team, it certainly suggests that they had the type of talent to compete for a spot there. So, to say they "exceeded expectations by a lot" is gross hyperbole when you consider they barely made the field of 68 to begin with.

The truth lies somewhere between your opinion and the opinion of those who claimed they should have made it that far. That team, in the end, neither greatly overachieved or underachieved.
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Good catch. All the other polls and the official polls had us as a top 27-40 team. Definitely not a Sweet 16 prediction. Pearl was the one who had preseason top 10 teams that didn't even make the Sweet 16.
 
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cncchris33 said:
An updated look at the Top 25 for 2013-14 season - NCAA men's college basketball

ESPN had them as a preseason top-25 team. While that isn't necessarily billing them as a Sweet 16 team, it certainly suggests that they had the type of talent to compete for a spot there. So, to say they "exceeded expectations by a lot" is gross hyperbole when you consider they barely made the field of 68 to begin with.

The truth lies somewhere between your opinion and the opinion of those who claimed they should have made it that far. That team, in the end, neither greatly overachieved or underachieved.
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esarmstrong said:
Jerry Green's last team would have to be near the top of the list of underachieving teams.
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k-town_king said:
The last Sweet 16 team. Unranked pre season. Finished one bad call away from going to the Elite Eight which we have only done once.
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Couldn't argue with any of these. I would have to pick the 13-14 season or the last team of Jerry Green's.
 
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Don DeVoe's first team in 1978-1979. Took the previous year's 11-16 team, pretty much benched Johnny Darden and then went on to finish second in the SEC regular season by winning last 6 games, win the reincarnation of the SEC tourney, win an NCAAT game for the first time for Tennessee, and the biggest overachievement of all - beat Kentucky three times in one season.
 
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