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Message: [QUOTE="Husky25, post: 4574494, member: 2839"] Yes. Iona is a must-win. Hurley's UConn teams have been upset twice by double digit seeds in the 1st round. Next week would be nice, but he has got to get to Sunday at a minimum. There are no ifs, ands, or buts. All of the aforementioned coaches had capital to burn before their hiccups. Some had very significant capital: [B]Coach K: [/B]9 Final 4 appearances, 6 title games, and 3 National Championships before losing to #11 VCU. Add another National title before losing to #15 Lehigh in 2012. [B]Tony Bennett: [/B]Sweet 16 and Elite 8 [B]John Calipari[/B]: 6 Final 4s, 1 National Championship, 2015 Naismith HoF before 2019. [B]Ed Cooley: [/B]Much lower expectations. Does not belong in the discussion. He's done a nice job at Providence and has a decent reputation in the Northeast (Big East by extension), but I'm not sure who revers him nationally. Be that as it may, he won a Tournament game in his third appearance, by "upsetting" USC as a 9 seed. [B]Bill Self: [/B]Won at least one game in his first six Tournament appearances. Went to back-to-back Elite 8s with Tulsa and Illinois in 2000 and 2001, respectively. Achieved another Elite 8 with Kansas before losing to double digit seeds. Then he returned to the Elite 8 during his "must win" Tournament, followed immediately by a National Championship. He has at least one win, including a second National title, in every Tournament since then. [/QUOTE]