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Message: [QUOTE="Gurleyman, post: 5127006, member: 175"] We kinda got punched in the mouth at Kansas last year. We hung in and had a chance, but it felt like this one where facing a higher level of athleticism caught us off guard and took us out of what we wanted to do. And we had already played Indiana and Texas. Indiana came after 3 cupcakes - perhaps Indiana was a better matchup than Memphis was, but the formula was pretty similar. Two years ago we played 5 cupcakes before Oregon and beat them pretty easily (and then Alabama and Iowa State). So the run of cupcakes building into the exempt tournament where we open with an unranked opponent and then build into bigger challenges has been the way we’ve scheduled. This Memphis team was maybe too good this year to be the intermediate step … but those things are unknown in the portal era. [/QUOTE]