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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 302393, member: 40"]
You and me both. Not that we would definitely have won the championship that year--I'm of the opinion that the NCAA tournament is all about matchups and that you also need a little bit of luck in at least one of the games--but there is no doubt in my mind that we get by Butler with a healthy AO, and Butler went on to the championship game, where they lost to a Duke team that was also beatable. So the opportunity was there for the taking, and we had a team that year that was up to the challenge before AO went down.
 
Having a team that can truly contend doesn't happen often, so to have that derail a season where we lost only three games in the regular season [two to Louisville], and had perfect chemistry on both offense and defense really stings even after a couple of years. Having Fab derail this past year's team stings for exactly that same reason.  I hope that we don't look back on this years from now and lament that we didn't win that second championship in '10 or '12 because the stars never align again for us.
 
Dammit...
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