Reply to thread

Message: [QUOTE="DonaldDraper, post: 2109262, member: 1022"] They've been to 11ish Final Fours since the field expanded to 64. That is crazy. I don't care whether they got gifted a home court, or were overseeded. That is a crazy high number and it is very tough to win 4 straight games against this type of competition and get to the FF. They have also been a 1 seed about 13 times, which makes this writer's "upset" category pretty much the only way you can lose. Not super common that a 1 seed even gets to play a 2 seed in the elite 8 game. Duke winning a championship isn't the worst thing in the world for UCONN. It holds our relative prestige against the rest of CBB and doesn't hurt our recruiting. Duke is going to have their pick of recruits whether they win or not. When a team like Villanova or Louisville wins, it puts them on the radar of recruits we may want to go after and increases that program's prestige. [/QUOTE]