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Message: [QUOTE="shandeezy7, post: 3761807, member: 720"] The "hard to beat a team three times in one year" thing is basically an urban legend at this point. This article is a few years old, but it totally dispels that myth: [URL unfurl="true"]https://coachbobwalsh.com/2018/03/02/its-hard-to-beat-a-team-three-times/[/URL] [I]According to STATS LLC., there have been 981 similar matchups across Division I college basketball over the past 10 seasons. The teams entering the third game 2-0 are a combined 710-271 (.724 winning percentage) in the third meeting. So over a 10-year period in college basketball including almost 1,000 games, the team that won the first 2 games won the third meeting 72.4% of the time. So it clearly doesn’t follow that it is hard to beat a team 3 times. In fact, it’s actually kind of easy.[/I] [/QUOTE]