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Message: [QUOTE="billsin01, post: 1718696, member: 837"] Good post. I'm not sure I can quite write the URI or Richmond losses off -- not that I'm suggesting you're doing that. I mean, Richmond had a good program but lost to Duke by 45 the year before beating a loaded Cuse team. So maybe it's not quite as bad a loss but it's still a pretty major upset. URI just pisses me off b/c I can still see tommy penders racing around the court celebrating, which is annoying. I agree on 06, just didn't want to disingenuously disregard it as technically an upset. But no should have been surprised by that loss. That team was cooked after an incredible BET run (which I was at and am grateful to have witnessed). Anyway, I just think as a general rule, JB's 'poor tourney record' certainly has been helped by these last two final fours but I'm not sure it was quite as bad as it was made out to be from the 80s through the mid-90s and into the early 2000s. [/QUOTE]