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[QUOTE="Eric15, post: 3204400, member: 676"]
It's very easy to see by simply looking at our success the following year. Everybody (including myself, the entire board, poll voters, etc.) thought that we were suddenly a strong program following the 2016 tourney run. We were preseason #15 in 2016-17, and ended up stinking and not making the tourney. Pretty similar situation after the 2018 season in that everybody put too much stock into the Sweet 16 run, following year we start out Top 15, and we end up out of the Top 25 very quickly and never return.

Compare that with a program like Virginia. They lost to UMBC in 2018 as a 1 seed, and boom the following year they're a 1 seed again and win a title.

Bottom line in college basketball: tourney results are what you celebrate and hang banners for, but regular season results over the course of 4+ months are who you really are. I wish we actually hung banners in the Dome for regular season Big East titles -- the 2010 and 2012 teams deserve team.
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