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Message: [QUOTE="Sphinx, post: 4939529, member: 4623"] So now the doubters can say that UConn has not only beaten no one in the post-season, but they beat no one in the regular season, either. Turns out the best of their BE opponents and the best of their non-con opponents were all Sweet-16 caliber at best. All good -- it gives motivation to a team that doesn't really need it but can't help but be lulled a bit by the endless, suffocating praise it's been receiving. So now, for the next few hours, Illinois becomes everyone's "upset of choice." The consensus view that UConn is by far the nation's best team and can only be beaten by some one-game fluke will be seriously questioned. Some may suggest, as Jay Williams came close to doing last night, that Illinois is the better team. We'll beat Illinois, no doubt, and handle Alabama/Clemson in the semis, but then it will be noted that ours was the soft side of the Final Four, and we'll enter the championship game under the seriously arched eyebrows of the doubting Davises and Goodmans and Gottliebs. All good. It makes things so much more fun So glad that UConn now has something to prove, not only for itself but for the BE. My God, can the BE even survive a UConn loss tonight? Although if UConn now goes on to the title, it will argue less for the strength of the BE than for the transcendence of UConn. Speaking for myself, I'm pleased that there is no chance of a third UConn/Creighton or fourth UConn/Marquette match-up. There are so many more interesting match-ups possible. UConn/Purdue, of course. UConn/Duke, of course. But consider UConn/NC State. If NC State reaches the final they will be riding a 10-game win streak that began with 5 wins in 5 days in their conference tournament. They will be emulating the feat of Kemba's 2011 Huskies, a feat we thought would never be duplicated. And who might be standing in their way? UConn! You can't make this up. So bring it on. It's getting interesting. [/QUOTE]

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