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Originally Posted by justinhub2003
The real thing we need in the tournament is a little luck.
Xavier leads the City in Luck.
Last year Xavier was an 11 seed against a 6 seeded Maryland, yet Maryland was wildly overrated and had a kenpom ranking of 46 which is 20 spots worse than any other 6 seed. Xavier was an 11 seed and ranked 11 spots higher in KP than maryland
Then in 2015 they faced an ole miss team that they were ranked 20+ spots worse than them and they expectedly won. They then made the sweet 16 by beating...... Georgia State (#68). Luck was on their side and they got face a team who upset Baylor i think on a buzzer beater.
Then in 2012 they got lucky and was able to play... Lehigh instead of Duke.
Oh How would I love if UC would get to play 2 buy games to get into the sweet 16.
Luck is what we need
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Yes, these are the points I'm trying to make. I'm not excusing our losses as "conspiracy." But Xavier has had multiple cakewalks to the sweet 16, we end up have to play a top 5 team to get there every year it seems. Yeah we blew a couple first round games but that happens. We've had tough draws simple as that.