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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 1728166, member: 289"]
MIke Greenberg posted a poll on ESPN: would you rather lose like North Carolina did or lose like Oklahoma did. It's a stupid poll, as he later admitted because Oklahoma was humiliated. On the show this morning, Greenberg suggested a better comparison would be UNC's loss vs. the way Syracuse lost. He felt it would be easier for Syracuse to take- it wasn't a humiliation and it wasn't a spear in the chest, just a loss. Golick totally disagreed. The competitor in him wanted to lose, if he had to, by the closest margin.

Of course the problem with polls is that they over-simpily things: Syracuse wasn't supposed to be there so making the Final Four was a great achievement. The other three teams had all been ranked #1 at different points this year and they had all been thinking "national championship" for months.

I think that if you separate what you thought about it from how you feel about it, it becomes obvious which kind of loss you can deal with the best. Syracuse lost to Kentucky by 16 in 1975 in a game very similar to this year's game vs. UNC. They lost by 9 to a Kentucky team that had 9 future NBA players in 1996. They lost by 5 to Michigan in a disappointing performance marred by some questionable officiating three years ago. None of that compares to what happened in 1987.
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