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Originally Posted by SithCeNtZ
I mean we beat a fringe tournament UNC team at home by 2, Michigan State who has a laughable big 10 to play in, and Duke in their first big game ever for their best players. Not exactly amazing.
At the end of the day, this game says what we are. You can't blame this on effort or being lazy. Yes Mayo didn't play well but Hunter Griffen KJ did. We dominated the boards and points in the paint. We didn't really have foul trouble impact us, while it hurt them fairly significantly. We even got a rare second chance at a blown call at the end. And yet we lost. They just made more plays and beat us.
Can we beat anyone? Sure. But so can any NCAA tournament team. You can't judge our season on 1-2 wins and say that's who we are. We have far more of these losses than big wins. It is what it is at this point. We are a 6-10 seed and who knows what will happen in the tournament, but there isn't anything to suggest we can go on a deep run.
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Yeah, despite the atrocious offensive possessions at the end (which like you said, it's just who they are), this loss is easy to shrug off in the grand scheme of things... I fully expected it to get out of hand in the 2nd half and to their credit, they got back into it and had chances to tie it at the end.
They could be ranked in the top 10 right now and a loss like that wouldn't have raised major red flags or sounded alarms.
