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Message: [QUOTE="Sluconn Husky, post: 2266951, member: 5089"] The loss of Coates was not a positive, but missing UConn, Baylor, Maryland, and Notre Dame was. They had the easiest bracket of the #1 seeds, played Quinnipiac in the sweet 16, nearly lost to ASU, and beat a clearly mentally and physically drained Mississippi State team 42 hours after the UConn game. That might sound like being harsh to South Carolina, but all of it is true. They won, and I'd rather win than not, but that doesn't mean they didn't have a fortunate road ahead of them. The only real difference between them and UConn is ASU played like the inferior team they are the last two possessions of that game. As for 2013, UConn went through many more good teams that year than SC did this one. Sure Baylor got knocked out on the other side of the bracket but UConn was every bit as good as the Bears by the end of the tournament, if not better. [/QUOTE]