Best/worst case scenarios

[CA Mustang]

No. 6 SMU
Best Case: Larry Brown goes 3-for-3 lifetime in guiding college programs to the Final Four, taking the Mustangs where he previously has taken UCLA and Kansas. Length of time since his last Final Four: 27 years. Absurdly great coach does it this time with household names like Nic Moore, Markus Kennedy and Yanick Moreira. The 74-year-old Brown kicks off his personal nostalgia tour by trouncing a UCLA team that should be in the NIT, then showing whippersnapper Fred Hoiberg and Iowa State a thing or two about defense in the round of 32. Mustangs draw and dispatch a Davidson team that upset Gonzaga in the Sweet 16, and finally LB scores a big one for the Dean Smith Coaching Tree by shocking Duke in the regional final. Brown finally is beaten by his buddy Jay Wright in the Final Four, which hardly lessens the accomplishment. Best news of all: there are no NCAA investigators waiting to interview Brown in Indianapolis.

Worst Case: The last time the Mustangs beat an NCAA tournament team was Dec. 5, and that team was Wyoming. Since then the only NCAA team they've played is Cincinnati, which beat the Ponies twice. Which means even UCLA – with a victory in January over Utah and one in February over Oregon – is more tourney-tough than SMU. Moore, who was 12-for-42 from the field in the American Athletic Conference tournament, throws in a 4-for-15 clunker with five turnovers. NCAA investigators have made the short drive from Indy to Louisville and are there to interview Brown after game. He retires, but not before going 3-for-3 lifetime in guiding college programs that wind up on probation. Football death penalty nostalgia not really what SMU was hoping for when it hired Brown.
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ncaa-tourn ... 49015.html

[Mestengo]

[deleted] ouch

[ojaipony]

There's not really a worst case scenario for me. Even if we lose to UCLA (and it will hurt like hell for a while), we had a helluva year and a first round (well, second round) loss will just fuel the fire of next year's team (not enough to just GET there - deep run in the tourney is next step for this program).

Best case for me is a sweet 16 knocking off a blue blood and showing we can beat the big bad B12 (and a "reward" game in Houston for all our fans to get to).

Ok, there IS a worst case for me actually: the NCAA stuff (running off LB/MK/NM). But no worst case "on the court" stuff for me.

[Junior]

i'm with ojai. We got to the dance. That was the second step (NIT being the first). And we did as an upper seed by winning the regular season title and conf tourney title. These are pretty big steps for us to make.