NCAA Tournament

[ME80]

Originally Posted by Grgbartell@yahoo.com

X has had yet another magical run. With 3 elite 8 appearances and a bunch of sweet 16 appearances since 2004, they have become a tremendous basketball program nationally. And the winning keeps enabling them to get more highly rated recruits than UC. Having enjoyed the glory years under Huggins, I'm envious. I like Mick as a coach but am not as high on him as a recruiter. UC continues to be a top 40 team every year, but you cannot advance unless you are getting a sufficient number of very good recruits. If you look at next year's roster, you have Clark and Washington as seniors. There is no one on the roster as of right now who is a "big" who has any offensive game remotely close to those two. They better at least get to the sweet 16 next year.

I am very curious as to the tone of this forum if UC had lost 6 of the last 7 games in the regular season, lost in the conference tournament but then get hot in the big dance.

I hang around enough X fans to know that they were bitching like crazy. I heard people questioning Coach Mack, and many of them believed that the team was overrated from the beginning.

[Patrick Bateman]

Originally Posted by Bearcat513

The resume for a team and their RPI means literally nothing after Selection Sunday.

It was a joke, LOL

Just like other ridiculous statements on this board like

-UC should root for OSU FB to win a natty for UCFB recruiting
-UC should root for X to win BE tourney, like the committee ever would say, "Well we have the bearcats as a 7 seed but they beat X who won their tourney, lets make UC a 4 seed."

[justinhub2003]

Originally Posted by Grgbartell@yahoo.com

X has had yet another magical run. With 3 elite 8 appearances and a bunch of sweet 16 appearances since 2004, they have become a tremendous basketball program nationally. And the winning keeps enabling them to get more highly rated recruits than UC. Having enjoyed the glory years under Huggins, I'm envious. I like Mick as a coach but am not as high on him as a recruiter. UC continues to be a top 40 team every year, but you cannot advance unless you are getting a sufficient number of very good recruits. If you look at next year's roster, you have Clark and Washington as seniors. There is no one on the roster as of right now who is a "big" who has any offensive game remotely close to those two. They better at least get to the sweet 16 next year.

Even then though, as I posted before, the glory years under huggins were his early years. Cronin has just as many sweet 16's as huggins did his last 9 years.

[GarradJ21]

Originally Posted by ME80

I am very curious as to the tone of this forum if UC had lost 6 of the last 7 games in the regular season, lost in the conference tournament but then get hot in the big dance.

I hang around enough X fans to know that they were bitching like crazy. I heard people questioning Coach Mack, and many of them believed that the team was overrated from the beginning.

Haha I know its unreal how a few wins in the tournament overlooks the whole season. I personally am more proud of our season than theirs unless they win the national championship. What's the big deal that they will come in 8th place in the tournament yet had so many losses throughout the year?

[NKY Bearcat]

Originally Posted by GarradJ21

Haha I know its unreal how a few wins in the tournament overlooks the whole season. I personally am more proud of our season than theirs unless they win the national championship. What's the big deal that they will come in 8th place in the tournament yet had so many losses throughout the year?

If they make the Final 4 it would be impressive, and I am sure X fans would look back at this season as the greatest in school history.

[juckerrules]

Originally Posted by ME80

I am very curious as to the tone of this forum if UC had lost 6 of the last 7 games in the regular season, lost in the conference tournament but then get hot in the big dance.

I hang around enough X fans to know that they were bitching like crazy. I heard people questioning Coach Mack, and many of them believed that the team was overrated from the beginning.

I would trade places with them in a NY minute.

[cincyguy13]

Originally Posted by GarradJ21

Haha I know its unreal how a few wins in the tournament overlooks the whole season. I personally am more proud of our season than theirs unless they win the national championship. What's the big deal that they will come in 8th place in the tournament yet had so many losses throughout the year?

People will argue what ever side their team sits. If we made an elite 8 we would love it. No matter what the regular season was like

[cincyguy13]

Originally Posted by juckerrules

I would trade places with them in a NY minute.

I'd Prob would too. We had a good season and I enjoyed it but we didn't win the regular season, conference tourney, or make the sweet 16. those are facts

[Alum2013]

Too bad Lonzo Ball didn't go 1-6 from three for us.

[UClaw89]

Kentucky is making the plays we wished UC could make against UCLA. A pretty massive difference between UC and Kentucky in terms of talent. Meanwhile UCLA handled us pretty easily in the second half. Makes me wonder how far we really are from being a top 10 team and if that is even realistic in the foreseeable future.