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Message: [QUOTE="FrancoPizza, post: 2855535, member: 5195"] But that's the thing - for the longest time we were spoiled by good-but-not-great regular seasons. The complaint at one time was: why can't we ever have a great regular season wire-to-wire like those UConn and Villanova teams? And then 2009-10 and 2011-12 happened. We finally added "occasionally great" to consistently good. And then somewhere around the time Ennis stepped foot on campus the ship started to spring leaks. Not sure where I'm going with this but I'll echo the sentiment that a strong regular season is a much better indicator of the program's health purely due to a much larger sample size. The volatility of the NCAA tournament can be smoothed out over the long haul if a team is consistently good. We've had our Richmonds and Vermonts. A team like Virignia will eventually break through if they keep cranking out protected seeds. [/QUOTE]