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they made the best out of the three times they were a double digit seed..
What's especially crazy is I'm pretty sure all those wins are recent. I think 8 of the 9 wins are in the last 5 years. Actually, might all 9 wins in the last 5 years with the two losses being in the FF and SS. They had to win a play in one of those runs.
It’s the upside of having an identity and building a team around that .
I am thinking the Houston/Syracuse winner makes it to the final 4. I wouldn't want to bet against Loyola but I think they are much easier potential opponent in the Elite 8 than in other brackets.
FSU has a tough road to get to the FF but it is certainly doable.
I actually think that region is wide open but, if pressed, I'd pick Syracuse because of their zone D which is foreign to players on most all opponents so difficult to prepare for... If the Illini were still around, I'd say otherwise. Think they'll eventually lose to Baylor in the FF.
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This. It's exactly what I've thought each of their recent runs as a 10/11 seed.
The Boeheim 2-3 zone baby! Huggy knows how to coach against it but his players had never seen it before--and it showed.
That zone often gets a subpar Cuse team a couple of NCAA wins just due to the unfamiliarity of it to every team in the field that doesn't play Cuse during the regular season. And then of course to have a guy or two who's on a hot shooting streak....
Was not impressed at all with Houston. It's a shame they won--it took an epic meltdown choke job by Buttgers in the last 2 minutes for that to happen.
Yeah it's one thing to know how to coach against the zone, it's another to effectively simulate against a top version of it in practice.
I think this is an overlooked key to Syracuse's surprising tourney runs ... sure the zone is tough to handle when you haven't seen much of it all year (and most likely have never faced a team that plays 2-3 that is as long as Syracuse is), but I bet Boeheim this time of year has his kids in the gym just doing shooting drills all day. You probably don't need to practice anything else by this point, if you don't know how to run your offensive sets or your defense by now then forget it.
It’s a key to any team’s deep tourney runs. UCLA another good example. A couple of guys get hot on a team at the right time and that team can do some damage. Your best shooters start missing their open shots and you’re going hone. Hot shooting is a hard thing to maintain over the course of the postseason. Buddy B goes cold in any game and Cuse goes home. The same can be said for many of these teams.
Coaches looks really smart when their team makes shots
Until they don’t - then they were too tight
It’s always a retrospective analysis
Alabama is playing loose now
Were tight against Iona
Florida state was tight in the first half . Loose in the second
Dixon was the 2-3 savant.....Syracuse's Kryptonite. Lot's of motion...flash a guy to the elbow for a jumper or if the defenders collapsed an open pass to the baseline cutter....text book.
It used to make Cuse fans so mad.....
Most teams just pass around the perimeter trying to find something...or turn the ball over on the dribble drive.
It used to make Cuse fans so mad.....
Most teams just pass around the perimeter trying to find something...or turn the ball over on the dribble drive.
Nas did a real nice job against their zone. We had excellent ball movement against them, especially our interior guys.
Everyone needs to stop this nonsense about the ACC looking so bad. There is only one conference that has more sweet 16 teams and it is the Pac 12. The ACC has not been great, but the almighty Big 10 has been much worse than the ACC with only one sweet 16 and many more highly seeded teams.
Dixon always had a designated zone buster that could operate from the circle and shoot if open or pass to a cutter coming off a screen. Lots of high-low post game and baseline back screens as well.
I despise that whiny stork and the Cuse and all the Newhouse grads who serve as their orange faux news PR machine. But give Boeheim his due. When you look at the historical records of coaches in this tournament, Boeheim has few peers. His teams are one of the better bets to reach the Sweet 16 every time. The Orange are prepared come March. Look at some of the other active "name" coaches. They can't hold a candle to Boeheim's record.
WVU was very good at getting the ball to the right spot, but the guy who got it could not make the right play. He either missed the shot from there, or tried to drive to the basket and turned it over, or forced a pass inside. Maybe Huggins just had the wrong guy trying to make that play.
Houston and Rutgers looked like NIT teams. Pitt has roughly the amount of talent those teams did but they have elite coaches.
Other than Oregon State dropping a game to Portland way back at the start of the season, Houston has to have one of the most baffling losses of the teams left in the tourney in that they somehow dropped a game to East Carolina. It wasn't really close either. That was ECU's only win in their last 11 games.
Off topic, but when Joe Dooley is wearing his mask, he could pass for Jamie Dixon.
Agree. Three years ago Houston had Michigan dead, only needing to hit 2 free throws. They missed, and Michigan hit a 40 foot miracle and ended up playing Nova for the championship. Sometimes you get lucky. Houston's star was banged up, and they stole a game. They're a legit threat to be playing Gonzaga on a Monday night in April, and I'd love to see a non P6 final for a change.
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