MEMORIES OF LAST SEASON

#51
#51


I completely agree with those of you posting and putting this game in perspective, versus those pushing the panic button. The regular season is 28-30 games long, depending on early season tournaments. To expect any team, no matter how good, to be up for and perform at a peak level in all of those contests is ridiculous.

I've said it once, I've said it a million times. This is the beauty of college basketball: There is a tournament at the end to crown a national champion. You can lose 2, 3 or 4 in the regular season that you shouldn't and still win it all. This loss means nothing to your team. It will not affect your seeding and no one votes on who gets into the Sweet Sixteen or better. In short, this loss meant nothing to your objective success this year.

What it can do is serve as a key memory at the right moment. Pearl, as great a motivator as he is, can now point to this game when you are up by 10 with five minutes to go in Round Two against some MVC team, and remind your guys that now is not the time to back off. I absolutley see no sign of the Apocalypse here for your team. This is not the beginning of the end, it does not portend finger-pointing and disaster.

You boys have overachieved all year long. I say you cut 'em some slack.

 
#52
#52
Anyone who wonders why I'm so skeptical about UT's tournament prospects, take a look at the UCONN-Villanova game. Does anyone think we could remotely match up with either of these teams?
 
#53
#53
I don't think we'd match up very well with either, but we likely wouldn't play either until at least 2 rounds in.
 
#54
#54
(hvwarrior58 @ Feb 26 said:
I don't think we'd match up very well with either, but we likely wouldn't play either until at least 2 rounds in.
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True. I'll put a finer point on it. Georgetown will probably be seeded in the range that would make a 2nd round matchup with UT a possibility. Would anyone on the board want to wager me straight up on the winner of that matchup?
 
#55
#55
Georgetown is inconsistent and is in a rough stretch right now. I don't know that we would fair too well against them, but thats the great thing, there are 4 quarters to the bracket and it isn't guaranteed we'd be in their bracket.
 
#56
#56
(hvwarrior58 @ Feb 26 said:
Georgetown is inconsistent and is in a rough stretch right now. I don't know that we would fair too well against them, but thats the great thing, there are 4 quarters to the bracket and it isn't guaranteed we'd be in their bracket.
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I just simply think that, barring a really fortuitous draw, UT will have huge problems surviving the first weekend.
 
#57
#57
Thats the great thing about the Big Dance. We don't know what we will see. We may play on a new level, we may play horribly. I think that if we reach the 2nd round, we should be extremely pleased.
 
#58
#58
(hvwarrior58 @ Feb 26 said:
Thats the great thing about the Big Dance. We don't know what we will see. We may play on a new level, we may play horribly. I think that if we reach the 2nd round, we should be extremely pleased.
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I think simply having made the tournament is an outstanding achievement.
 
#59
#59
That is true, but, at this point, many think it would be a disappointment to go one and done. I'm thrilled we are in, I just want one win now.
 
#60
#60
(hvwarrior58 @ Feb 26 said:
That is true, but, at this point, many think it would be a disappointment to go one and done. I'm thrilled we are in, I just want one win now.
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Depends on how the rest of the season plays out. If UT plays well from here in and gets a 2 or 3 seed, I would be surprised if we played a 14 or 15 seed that we had matchup problems against. We would probably play someone comparable to Murray State, a team we could lose to but should beat. However, if we slip to a 4 or 5, we'll draw trouble.
 
#61
#61
That is true. It is extremely important for us to win the last two regular season games and at least 1 game in the SEC Tourney. These are 2 of the big 4 rival games, one of which will be our senior night game. We have a good chance to play Arky or Bama in our first game of the SEC Tourney so we could have revenge on our minds and we have a good chance at playing LSU in the championship if we made it that far. I think if we win our last 2 and go at least 1-1 in the SEC tourney, we get a 3 seed. That'd give us a 23-6 record. We would also most likely still have a top 5 RPI. We would be anywhere from the #3 2 seed to the #1 4 seed.
 
#62
#62
as much as i would like to see this team with a 2 seed in the tourney i think a 4 in a region with one of those bracket buster 12s could become a strong possibility. best case scenario: opening weekend we thrash a 13 and then play a good 12, sounds better than thrashing a 15 and getting a good 7 doesnt it?
 
#64
#64
i suppose, but a 13 followed by a 12 SHOULD be a walk. key word is should. and i think with a walk through opening weekend we have a chance at the elite eight
 
#65
#65
IDK, every year, at least 1 or 2 13 moves on the the 2nd round, and, if we were to slide by the 13 and got one of the bracketbusters(say one of the teams from the MVC), we'd be taking on a tough task considering many think at least 1 or 2 of the bracketbusters will make it to the Sweet 16.
 
#66
#66
(hatvol96 @ Feb 26 said:
Depends on how the rest of the season plays out. If UT plays well from here in and gets a 2 or 3 seed, I would be surprised if we played a 14 or 15 seed that we had matchup problems against. We would probably play someone comparable to Murray State, a team we could lose to but should beat. However, if we slip to a 4 or 5, we'll draw trouble.
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Welcome to the fate of the Gators for the last several years. Get that middle-type draw and lose to a team that could beat you, but shouldn't, but freakin does anyway.

Glad to share the pain, or at least that worry, with someone else.

 
#67
#67
(emainvol @ Feb 26 said:
i suppose, but a 13 followed by a 12 SHOULD be a walk. key word is should. and i think with a walk through opening weekend we have a chance at the elite eight
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If the 12 is good enough to beat a 5, why would you think they would be easy for us? Ask Alabama and BC how easy a 12 UWM was last year.
 
#68
#68
Almost any team can beat any other team. The thing is, look how ready Pearl had his team for the tourney last year. I'm go out on a limb and say that he will have this team ready as well.
 
#69
#69
If the 12 is good enough to beat a 5, why would you think they would be easy for us? Ask Alabama and BC how easy a 12 UWM was last year.
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they can generally win that first game but most of them sink fast in the second, a few teams like UWM do come to play in the second round too, but by and large they are whipped from the opening round
 
#71
#71
i think that would take us losing 3 straight here, i don't want to say it won't happen, but it's not bloody likely
 
#72
#72
(emainvol @ Feb 26 said:
they can generally win that first game but most of them sink fast in the second, a few teams like UWM do come to play in the second round too, but by and large they are whipped from the opening round
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If you look at recent history, the 12s have a pretty good record for advancing at least 1 to the round of 16.
 
#73
#73
13s and 12s do quite well through the first 2 rounds. I know thats what it'd take and that isn't too much of a stretch, especially if we are really as tired as some think.
 
#74
#74
I can't believe you guys are giving Rheaber such a hard time. The last 8 minutes of that game did cost us an SEC championship. It was a game we should have won at home and as Dane Bradshaw said, we were unable to match their intensity down the stretch.

Besides the Buzz Peters..... ( I can't type it all) comment. I don't think anything he siad was wrong. :dunno:
 
#75
#75
I didn't start giving him a hard time until he started talking about us getting a #1 seed.
 
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