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No, April.

I think it very much is

Agreed.

That’s fair.

If that were the reason, wouldn’t they have been winning it/regularly going further in previous seasons over the program history? (Just kind of trying to follow the line of thinking, here)

Or a really good, 7’3” or taller big man in the middle

Stinks this season ended the way it did given the expectations, but the Elite 8 is still a hell of a ceiling to have at the year’s end. Thank you 2023-2024 Tennessee Men’s Basketball for all the memories and entertainment across the season.

It’s almost like a good player of that size can be a complete/utter game changing/breaking aspect in the game of basketball.

It seems like it wins basketball games better/easier than a lot of other schemes and styles…probably because having such can dominate both in regards of rebounds as well as dramatically improve inside the paint scoring (generally a higher percentage means of scoring than perimeter) all through 1...

Stinks this season ended the way it did given the expectations, but the Elite 8 is still a hell of a ceiling to have at the year’s end.

Well that might be the season. The Elite 8 is still a good ending to this year for this program.

They also beat top overall 1 seed UConn by almost 20 points.

Not sure that’s true in straight comparison. The only thing that make it definitely easier by comparison would be “not having to play a 1 seed before the final four.” Even if you want to play the “Duke is always overrated game”, it doest’t seem like the comparison would hold true for the...

Not sure that a team that beats the number 1 overall seed UConn by 20 points loses in a game NCAA Tournament in the NCAA Tournament by 30 points.

Maybe? But considering how the 4 seeds would have all shifted around if Tennessee were instead the 1 seed in the West to balance out teams from the same conference…you’d probably be looking at Tennessee likely playing Duke next weekend followed by Arizona/Baylor.