Dallasbowlin
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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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jerry Green's last team would have to be near the top of the list of underachieving teams.
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.