Sorry for gibberish. I was using siri and talking with others. siri picked it all up. All my fault so use it and have fun in disparaging remarks.
That being said, it boils down to the number 1 team should not lose by 30. Regardless of a loss, it should recover well. In this case, that did not happen against a huge rival.
Think what you want, but thinking a team this good would be doing that is not logical. Maybe it happens very rarely because it can happen, but that is not how I have seen championship type teams do it. A while back, a seemingly average type but highly ranked team got beat by its main rival and then stomped its way to the national championship in football as a solid favorite. That is a big time recovery whether they win or not. I happen to think our bball team has what it takes to recover and hope it does, but again, it should not have a 30 point defeat from which to recover and it has not recovered well at this point.
If you want, keep on liking getting to the tournament and then booted after 2 maybe 3 games. Living as a battered vol and being satisfied with being a top 16 or maybe 8 team each year is not for me. You can't win every year, but you can win it all if you work for it and maybe more than one. It's been done, even at UT.