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Message: [QUOTE="LStudfellow, post: 3490996, member: 5436"] Sorry, but your revisionist history of what happened to the 06 team at the end does not jive with what actually happened. "Steamrolled everyone"... until about mid-February. Then no, they didn't "steamroll" anyone. From then through their last 11 games you could consider only one win as a "steamrolling" when we beat Villanova at home by 14, and even that was within 8 with 6 minutes to go. And we did not "steamroll" anyone in either tournament when it counted through 5 games against teams that were all ranked significantly lower than us. Heck, we were losing to #16 Albany well into the 2nd half... some "steamrolling" that was. Not only is that sentence in your post factually incorrect, but your other 2 statements are false as well. McNamara's late 3 to send that 2006 Big East Tournament Quarterfinal game into overtime was actually not that difficult a shot, because we did not D him up well. Unfortunately, just another example of our less-than-stellar defense we played much of that year, particularly in the last 6 weeks of the season. The BE Tournament 8th seed outplayed us for much of that game and deserved to beat us. And no, we weren't slumping... we had been trending downward for over a month by the time we lost in the Elite 8. I'll say it again - That Florida team that won the National Title that year would have kicked our asses in the Final 4. But we did not even deserve to get there, which is why we lost to George Mason in the first place. [/QUOTE]

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