Alabama making the F4 is what wrong with the NCAAT. You play all year for the easiest path, Tennessee earns it, Bama doesn’t, then they luck out and get a terrible Grand Canyon team in R2 and an unranked Clemson team in the E8. And when they played UNC, they played one of their worst games of the year, including RJ Davis’s worst game ever. They had to play 1 ranked team to get to the Final 4.You're happy for Bama??
So you don’t think UCONN is a significantly better team than Bama?In the last 53 weeks, people in this forum cheered for a 9 seed over a 16 seed because they thought the 9 would be a better matchup for us. They didn’t stop there and have been actively cheering for Alabama to make a FF or even a national title for the last 2 days. This place is full mental in March.
Hall fouled out early again. Not sure why Brownell put him back in so soon after he picked up his 4th. The hook wouldn’t have mattered had he sat for a little while earlier and he would have still been in the game.
Potsy Webber kept bricking free throws and did not play smart defensively. He hurt his own team.
They didn’t have an answer for Sears other than Girard, and he couldn’t get open often enough to stay hot.
They went with Bama’s pace instead of their own.
Stuff like that is why Clemson caught lightning in a bottle this year, and why they whined about getting left out of the tournament last year, only to completely crap the bed at home as the top seed in the NIT against the worst team in that tournament.
That’s Clemsoning.
At least speaking for me, I’m not cheering, just coping about them having made it.
UCONN still has a 99% chance of winning; Bama probably needs 60-65% from 3 or so to win
Yeah. Several of Bama’s players hit guarded 3s too though. If Wrightsell is back, that gives them another one
Definitely agree Clemson played bad defenseI don't know, it seemed that Clemson was slow on closeouts all night. The plan against a team like Bama (same as Creighton) is to make them beat you making tough 2's, and they were getting clean looks from 3 all night long.
Then say that, don't say "happy for Alabama".
Alabama making the F4 is what wrong with the NCAAT. You play all year for the easiest path, Tennessee earns it, Bama doesn’t, then they luck out and get a terrible Grand Canyon team in R2 and an unranked Clemson team in the E8. And when they played UNC, they played one of their worst games of the year, including RJ Davis’s worst game ever. They had to play 1 ranked team to get to the Final 4.
Meanwhile, Tennessee plays the chalk the entire tournament, having to beat a matchup problem in Texas, a top 15 team in Creighton, and now one of the 2 best teams in America in Purdue. This after Tennessee proved without a doubt it was MUCH better than Bama and one of the top 5 teams in America.
Yep. Folks talk about matchups, but I'd submit that there's a heckuva lotta luck involved, too. Something UT is, more often than not, in short supply of.It's a single-elimination tournament. Literally every season you can nitpick and complain about the draw or certain teams ending up with easier paths.