skyscraper wrote:Please defend the USC game last March and the January slate this season before the injuries.
We lost to 4 teams all season - including three unranked teams. The NCAA matched us up in the first round with one of the 4 teams that had beaten us - a 25-9 USC team. Over half of USC's losses included highly ranked teams - #4, #5, #6, #14, #21.
I believe that USC had a better team than we did last year. They were tested in their conference schedule, they actually benefited from playing in the play-in game.
We were matched up with a better team - get over it.
USC, with 9 losses already, is currently projected as in the tournament this year. We have twice as many top 50 RPI wins as USC - but the committee will still take USC over SMU as they know that they are a better team (even with the head to head win by SMU).
BTW - - If the team hits their free throws - the two Bahamas games could have ended with wins. I think Shake was the one at the line in both games missing front end of 1-1s in crunch time. Jank obviously did not coach Shake enough on hitting free throws.