I agree. Tenn was given a gift with their 2 seed. ASU - no idea how they won so many games, but a bunch of slow players is just what the Dr. ordered for Tenn. Anyway on USF...
One of the announcers (Rebecca I think?) said that it can be disastrous for a team who only relies on 1 player if that player struggles. Clearly that was USF's problem in the 1st half. Not at all in the 2nd half. I'd like to see how Fernandez coaches next year without a star. I hope he plays more team ball. USF's play book is an alarming amount of the "Courtney Williams" show.
For teams that have unbalanced talent, it ultimately becomes focused on whoever the star is. And Jose has always had some good ones, I can't remember the name of the one that Cappie had a couple of epic battles against back in the day.
You can still play "team ball" of course, but it isn't reflected in across the board balanced scoring. Sometimes the team ball is focused on setting up the star! It is still team ball.
As to ASU, they are almost always a good defensive team, holding the other team below their average; at times historically I think they have been challenged to score enough to win, something that has troubled Rutgers as well over the years. I would have liked to have seen that game, but I only saw bits, I made a mistake and recorded the standard definition version of the game.
By the way - I'll just say it here - kudos to ESPN for making every game available in its entirety for free to subscribers of DirecTV. Truly enjoyed watching the games I wanted to, not what they chose to show on "whip-around".