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Message: [QUOTE="billsin01, post: 232126, member: 837"] This one is a funny debate to me -- and believe me I agree that I'd love to have seen us have more postseason success and I know we've bowed out early a couple of times (Richmond, UVM were inexcusable and Butler was painful even if it wasn't really a "bad" loss). BUT, people refer to them as chronically under-achieving in a single-elimination 64-team (mostly) tournament as opposed to OVERACHIEVING in a 30+ game regular season. I mean, it's all in how you look at it. This team, for example, is undeniably talented and certainly has basketball skill. But the laundry list of flaws -- rebounding, half-court offense, shooting, low-post presence -- makes it all the more remarkable, IMO, that they won 32 games. It's like people choose to be shocked if we lose to KSU without Melo but don't want to give credit to this team and the coaches for winning 32 of 35. And this team is really talented. I mean, do people feel we underperformed in the tournament with the Hart-Etan teams of the late 90s and early 00s? Two really solid players and a bunch of filler? Or that we [I]should[/I] have won the title with GMac-Roberts-Watkins in the '10 -ing games' season? I think JB is sometimes his own worst enemy in that he has had consistent success year-in and year-out but hurt by some randomness in the tourneys. Like the Marquette loss last year is treated as some sort of upset when they beat us during the regular season. I mean, really? Anyway, JB is not above criticism. He can certainly be stubborn, he certainly appears to be a notch below the Coach K's of the world as a coach and the Coach Cal's of the world as recruiters. But I just tend to think the tournament has a lot of randomness every year and the point is getting there often enough to make some noise from time to time. And we certainly do that. [/QUOTE]

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