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Our consecutive final four record is still intact [merged]

Yeah, I'm not a fan of this type of thinking.

This is like the folks on VolNation who one minute were all nervous about bid-stealers in the mid-majors and the next are happy that their NCAA tournament streak is still alive due to cancellation. A minority of folks there correctly said the streak is meaningless if that's the level they've fallen to.

The streak has lost its meaning if we are finding this to be the silver lining of the cancellation, so unconfident were we in our prospects this year.
 
On the bright side, Plebe and I have a year to argue about "mythical" national championships and astericked (is that a word) streaks. Of course, that's also the dark side.

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It would have been difficult making it to the Final Four. We would most likely have had to beat Baylor and Oregon. Yes, we improved greatly since those games. Still no easy task to beat them.
 
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If we don’t make the FF next year, we’ll never know if our streak might have reached 13. No lock the team wouldn’t have made it this year. Time to watch reruns of Stewie’s senior year.
 
Best thing I am going to rewatch all our National Championship Final Fours...except Maya’s Stanford one that game is unwatchable...
 
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Seen today on the bottom crawl on ESPNU: “NCAA considered a 16 team tournament. Committee had mixed interest on idea of amended event.”
 
I feel bad for Oregon. I know people were high on SC and that's justifiable but at least they won before. This was such a great opportunity for Oregon and I was pulling for them. I don't think Sabrina would have let them lose. The pundits are saying they will be back with the great recruiting class but that no guarantee. There have been other great classes that didn't go all the way. Sabrina is a generational player for them and those don't come along all the time (Obviously).
 
ConnecticutBB said:
It also keep ND streak going...I so wanted to watch the selection show and see that ND was not included.
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So ND officially is not in the "not invited in the NCAA Tournament list" ....
 
chrissaran said:
It would have been difficult making it to the Final Four. We would most likely have had to beat Baylor and Oregon. Yes, we improved greatly since those games. Still no easy task to beat them.
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We would have had to beat the 1 seed in whatever region we were assigned to, to advance to the final four. That would be a tall order no matter who we played. If our shots were falling like they were the last 3 games, and we played defense as we did the last 3 games, I like our chances against anyone. Our problem in all three losses was poor shooting and excessive turnovers. In the last 3 games, UConn averaged 48.5 fg%, and 9.3 tpg.
 
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Blueballer said:
I feel bad for Oregon. I know people were high on SC and that's justifiable but at least they won before. This was such a great opportunity for Oregon and I was pulling for them. I don't think Sabrina would have let them lose. The pundits are saying they will be back with the great recruiting class but that no guarantee. There have been other great classes that didn't go all the way. Sabrina is a generational player for them and those don't come along all the time (Obviously).
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Agreed. This year was Oregon’s best chance to win, and will be for some time. I realize they have a highly rated class coming in, but it’s going to take them a year or two to evolve to the level of being as serious a contender for the national championship as this team was. They lose USC transfer Minyon Moore and starters Ionescu, Hebard, and Sabally. I don't care how talented the freshmen he has coming in, they are nor going to replace the production of these 4 their first year. They've got a lot of adjustments to make, and a lot of freshmen mistakes to make as well.

As long as Oregon head coach Kelly Graves continues to coach, I doubt he will ever have another consummate player the likes of Ionescu. It would have been a very interesting final four this year.
 
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DefenseBB said:
I am with @triaddukefan 100%, nothing and I mean NOTHING is good about the NCAA tournament being cancelled. Understandable yes, good, NO.... :( :oops:
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I’d say it’s good if it results in fewer people getting sick and fewer dying. Of course we’ll never be able to measure that, but I trust that the cancellations were the right thing to do.
 
Bigboote said:
Heck, one company claimed to have a vaccine a month ago. Their goal was to have it to market in December. AFAIK, there hasn’t been a peep from them since. So I take any of these projections with a grain of salt.

Developing a vaccine is one thing, but you need to verify that it’s safe and effective, too, which takes months. Then you begin large-scale manufacturing, which can be reasonably quick or take months itself depending on what sort of vaccine works.
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I think that was Theranos! ;)
 
This sucks for a lot of reasons.. but a potential great sendoff for Ty and Kiki to bookend their careers with titles and a great launching pad for SC's freshman class. A huge missed opportunity for Oregon to win its first title. A last effort for Lauren Cox to end her career with a huge win instead of a loss.

Everybody had a shot at the title, but most of us felt really good that the champion was coming from one of those programs. I know as a SC fan it sucks because this team had the look and feel of a champion and was set up so well to make noise in the tournament. I could taste that second championship. Plus the opportunity to see our squad up against Oregon, win or lose, would've been phenomenal.

I hate this and I'm so disheartened.
 
SCGamecock said:
This sucks for a lot of reasons.. but a potential great sendoff for Ty and Kiki to bookend their careers with titles and a great launching pad for SC's freshman class. A huge missed opportunity for Oregon to win its first title. A last effort for Lauren Cox to end her career with a huge win instead of a loss.

Everybody had a shot at the title, but most of us felt really good that the champion was coming from one of those programs. I know as a SC fan it sucks because this team had the look and feel of a champion and was set up so well to make noise in the tournament. I could taste that second championship. Plus the opportunity to see our squad up against Oregon, win or lose, would've been phenomenal.

I hate this and I'm so disheartened.
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I'm still in a state of shock. I woke up this morning and was hoping it was all a bad dream. Turns out it wasn't. This is going to take time to come to terms with.

I said it a couple days ago, but this whole thing is just one big bummer sandwich. For the teams with title aspirations :(, for the teams on the bubble, and for every team in between. For teams like Arizona and Northwestern, last year's WNIT finalists, who this year were having milestone seasons and were preparing to host the first two rounds. For a team like IUPUI, who were about to play in the NCAA tournament for the first time :(

We all spent five months building and building and looking forward to a tournament that disappeared in an instant. Like investments in a stock market crash, gone just like that.

 
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Plebe said:
I'm still in a state of shock. I woke up this morning and was hoping it was all a bad dream. Turns out it wasn't. This is going to take time to come to terms with.

I said it a couple days ago, but this whole thing is just one big bummer sandwich. For the teams with title aspirations :(, for the teams on the bubble, and for every team in between. For teams like Arizona and Northwestern, last year's WNIT finalists, who this year were having milestone seasons and were preparing to host the first two rounds. For a team like IUPUI, who were about to play in the NCAA tournament for the first time :(

We all spent five months building and building and looking forward to a tournament that disappeared in an instant. Like investments in a stock market crash, gone in an instant.

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I couldn't have said it better.
 
Notre Dames consecutive tournaments, Tennessees consecutive tournament streak which was all of them, Uconns streak of 30 wins in a season and the Huskies 12 consecutive FF appearances all ended in the same season, 2020!!!
 
VA Huskie said:
I’d say it’s good if it results in fewer people getting sick and fewer dying. Of course we’ll never be able to measure that, but I trust that the cancellations were the right thing to do.
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Good point. This **better** be saving some lives -- and, while I'll defer to the experts on such questions, every indication is that it will.

The data from the 1918 flu epidemic are, from what I've read, pretty convincing in terms of the cost of not canceling large gatherings.

qz.com

This chart of the 1918 Spanish flu shows why social distancing works

In 1918, the city of Philadelphia threw a parade that killed thousands of people. Ignoring warnings of influenza among soldiers preparing for World War I, the march to support the war effort drew 200,000 people who crammed together to watch the procession. Three days later, every bed in...
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cbraarj said:
Notre Dames consecutive tournaments, Tennessees consecutive tournament streak which was all of them, Uconns streak of 30 wins in a season and the Huskies 12 consecutive FF appearances all ended in the same season, 2020!!!
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None of them ended because there was no Tournament.
So next year when UConn starts the tournament they will still have made it to 12 consecutive and 2021 will potentially be their 13th consecutive FF.
 
Centerstream said:
None of them ended because there was no Tournament.
So next year when UConn starts the tournament they will still have made it to 12 consecutive and 2021 will potentially be their 13th consecutive FF.
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Sorry they played the season. It will always have an asterisk and nobody will ever get that many again.
 
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