Vollifer1949
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There's another team in orange that plays a similar style, unfortunately. And you're absolutely correct, that style seems to work pretty well over the course of a long season but does leave you susceptible to laying huge eggs from time to time, which isn't good in a single-elimination tournament.In football, it never surprises me with the ACC. This year in basketball, I have to agree. Very underwhelming and overrated. Virginia and their defensive style just doesn't work well in the tournament for whatever reason. Leads to them getting upset a lot.
This is probably too harsh of a statement, because all the coaches/admin figures who were there are now gone, but they kind of deserve it.It's kind of a curiosity to me just how amazingly terrible Louisville is now. Amazing level of bad.
“Kind of”?This is probably too harsh of a statement, because all the coaches/admin figures who were there are now gone, but they kind of deserve it.
They were a scummy, out of control program for a long time, then the Chris Mack hire didn't work, and they've basically pressed the reset button. All while Pitino resurfaces at Iona and puts them in the tournament every year.
In football, it never surprises me with the ACC. This year in basketball, I have to agree. Very underwhelming and overrated. Virginia and their defensive style just doesn't work well in the tournament for whatever reason. Leads to them getting upset a lot.
And the first round exit before the NC was as a #1 seed wasn't it?There's another team in orange that plays a similar style, unfortunately. And you're absolutely correct, that style seems to work pretty well over the course of a long season but does leave you susceptible to laying huge eggs from time to time, which isn't good in a single-elimination tournament.
Interesting note about UVA/Tony Bennett. The last NCAAT game they won was the national title game in 2019, and outside of the national title run they made that year they haven't advanced in the tournament at all since 2017.
They've gone first round exit, national title, no tournament (Covid), first round exit, missed tournament, first round exit. Pretty amazing.
The highest seed the ACC had or has is a 4. Only 5 teams made the tournament. I’m not sure anyone thought the league was very good this year. The league wasn’t good last year and had 2 FF teams and 3 elite 8 teams . We’ll see how it shakes out.