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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 2536791, member: 289"]
I hear that all the time and hate to hear it each time.

The regular season is three months of pleasure or frustration and a clearly better test of a team. The tournament is three weeks of euphoria if you make  good run but, as the results show, the best team doesn't always win. To dismiss the first and care only about the second dramatically reduces the pleasure you can get out of being a college basketball fan. If the regular season is meaningless, why even pay attention to it? if you aren't a basketball fan, it's all meaningless. You get to decide for yourself what has meaning in sports. Why limit your options?

Syracuse has one of the best records in basketball history but we've made the final four only 6 times. But the rest  of the season weren't failures. The 99 point a game Dave Bing team, the Louie and Bouie show, the great teams we had tin the 1986-91 era, the 2000 team that started 19-0, the 2010 and 2012 teams and the 2014 team that started 25-0 all gave 'Cuse fans a lot of pleasure and great memories. They don't deserve to be dismissed as "meaningless'. All the teams I've rooted four in the 50+ years I've followed this team had their accomplishments and provided plenty of excitement to get us through the Syracuse winters. They all deserve our respect.

I agree that Virginia will always remember this season for this game, just as we remember the 1991 Big East champs for the Richmond game.  But what those teams did accomplish was real and that should be remembered, as well.
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