I mean, our national title chances aren't great (this is a worse hit than it was in 2010), but our first two or three potential opponents are no better than Cincinnati and West Virginia. And we beat those teams without Fab.
(And let's be serious - Fab wasn't offering much in recent games. We lose nothing from a rebounding standpoint and not much as far as scoring goes. And Baye played well in his very brief appearance on Friday night.
This stinks, this hurts us, but it's not the end of the world. Worse teams than this nine-man group have advanced to Final Fours before.