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Message: [QUOTE="billsin01, post: 1702155, member: 837"] Good post. I'm not quite sure if it was a response to my post or to DG but I agree with the points on the whole. A couple points I'd disagree with: -- Wiscy had a much better resume given they finished stronger (11-3 in their last 14), played stronger against top 50 competition (yes 6 wins is great but 11 losses is a ton) and their only losses up until the bad Nebraska loss were MSU and Purdue -- two easy tourney teams. They also won at Iowa and UMD in that stretch. -- There's a bottom line in my opinion -- if you lose 13 regular season/conf. tournament games, people are going to poke a bunch of holes in your resume. It's fine to say SU deserved inclusion in the tournament but to think people aren't going to question it is ridiculous. We can come up with a ton of arguments here, but this team takes care of business vs. St. John's and holds off Clemson, this whole thing is moot. I wouldn't argue any of the above teams over syracuse, merely that Syracuse leaves itself open to criticism by losing a TON of basketball games. -- My only point on MTSU is that I think that is a massive, almost unthinkable upset in the sense that MSU rarely loses in March period. They were hot coming in, a two-seed and simply don't lose games like that this time of year. Then this team with no tourney history to speak of puts up 90 on them and beats them as a 15-seed? That is enormous. So for them to expend that kind of physical and emotional energy to me it's tough to come back a day later and dial it up quite the same way. I'm not trying to take anything away from the Cuse. I'm really not. I'm just saying that it certainly was not a bad sequence of events in terms of our hopes of reaching the second weekend. [/QUOTE]

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