Joey Brackets
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Pitt/UConn in Brooklyn. Winner facing Nova. I cant imagine that NOT happening. What great TV that would be.
Would give us the chance to exorcise our biggest tourney demons.
I wouldn't.
At this stage, I'm thinking along the line of winning 3/4 straight and NOT limping in. Why not, there are all winnable so let's win them and get a 6/7 seed.
Maybe Jamie could convince the team that it's actually MSG and not Barclays. That'd be an automatic trip to the Sweet 16.
Meh. Sending Nova home would be nice, but there's nothing that will ever make me feel better about that game.
Beating them while they are the #1 seed would help a lot. We would not have beaten UNC in the Final 4.
Only silver lining, a very faint one..is we would have given UNC a better game..but, they were a buzz-saw that year.
I don't know. I think Pitt could have played with anyone that year. UNC was loaded, but I wouldn't have counted out that Pitt team.
I can, because there are literally millions of possibilities other than that.
I dunno..
We got tested in the first two games to the limit.
UNC just demolished everyone that tournament as Danny Green became a star to compliment Hansborough, Ellington, and Ty Lawson.
Their closest game that tournament was 12 points.
NCAA Tournament
March 19*
2:50 p.m., CBS #2 (1-S) vs. #(16-S) Radford
First Round W 101–58 29–4
Greensboro Coliseum (20,226)
Greensboro, NC
March 21*
5:45 p.m., CBS #2 (1-S) vs. #21 (8-S) LSU
Second Round W 84–70 30–4
Greensboro Coliseum (22,479)
Greensboro, NC
March 27*
9:57 p.m., CBS #2 (1-S) vs. #10 (4-S) Gonzaga
Sweet Sixteen W 98–77 31–4
FedExForum (17,103)
Memphis, TN
March 29*
5:05 p.m., CBS #2 (1-S) vs. #7 (2-S) Oklahoma
Elite Eight W 72–60 32–4
FedExForum (17,025)
Memphis, TN
April 4*
8:47 p.m., CBS #2 (1-S) vs. #11 (3-E) Villanova
Final Four W 83–69 33–4
Ford Field (72,456)
Detroit, MI
April 6*
9:21 p.m., CBS #2 (1-S) vs. #8 (2-M) Michigan State
National Championship Game W 89–72 34–4
Ford Field (72,922)
Detroit, MI
I personally think Pitt was "tested" because they were playing tight. I think they were more worried about getting bounced early than simply playing. I don't think this would have been an issue against UNC because all the pundits would have expected them to lose, thus the team would have come out with something to prove. Now I have no data to back my opinion, it's simply how I felt and still feel to this day.
I think those games were tighter because we weren't substantially better than Xavier or clearly not better than Nova, who beat us a couple times that same season.
Maybe "played tight" against ETSU because of over-looking them, is just as likely.
I disagree, oh Big-Toothed Fish. They wouldn't have handled #45 in the post. He had a 15 & 20 game in Dec., 2007, vs. a Duke team that was similar to the typical Roy Williams teams. That Pitt team wasn't afraid of anyone...beat UCONN twice in 8 days. I think we might have beaten UNC.
