I hate UNC but Iāll feel a lot better about our chances if they beat Pitt. A Pitt/NC State final would steal a bid and honestly I donāt feel great about our game tomorrow. NC State has the look of a team that gets some magic for a few days and wins the tournament kind of like VT or Georgetown or Oregon St from the last few years.
4 games in 4 days is really hard, they will fight (maybe literally) but we will make them work hard and i expect to see them show some wear tomorrow. Not sure what DJ will have in the tank and he is a key piece.
As a middle aged guy, playing 4 games in 4 days sounds exhausting. Iād be curious what the former players say about it. Are well-conditioned 20 year olds (and Rohde) worn down or are they able to handle it without too much trouble?
Since we went to the five-day format, NC.State is the first team to play the first four days. So itās pretty unprecedented. But one of the years UConn won a natty, they won five games in five days at the Big East tourney then rolled through the NCAAT to win 11 straight. Think that was Kembaās team.
I think that was a factor late in our game when BC couldnt hit from the perimeter. You gotta have your legs on those outside shots. NCS has a deeper bench than BC but will still be hard inngame 4. I believe they are the first playin team to make the quarter finals since the ACCT expended to 14 teams
You make a good point. Iām just wondering how much of that is because the play in teams are typically significantly worse than the top 4 seeds vs fatigue from playing more games.
We have done what needed to be done. Itās not a soft bubble, but I think we did enough to pass those teams (some definitely). Should have jumped Nova and Seton Hall. No reason to have middling teams who didnāt win their first round game. And on my soapbox, please no more than five MWC teams! They had a nice year but no.
All that said, I figure we could still be on the way to Dayton next week (speaking of Daytonā¦ how did they stay ranked with all their losses?).
Posted multiple times about this, and SVP exhibited it last night, we are about to get absolutely shredded by ESPN/media as a bad team that should not make it. Weāll see if the committee can withstand it, but it will be incredibly loud if we lose today
Maybe, but A) I assume the cmte is smarter than that b) theyād get shredded if they leave out a 23 win, 3rd place team in the ACC with no bad losses (per metrics)
We are in no matter the outcome tonight short of multiple (3ish) bid stealers from conf tourneys
