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Message: [QUOTE="Gurleyman, post: 3905965, member: 175"] It was a lot worse loss than today, no doubt. I just don’t rank it highly on the ones I’ve lamented over the years. We were down our projected starting 2 and 3 to life threatening illnesses (the RA who played not being the same, and AJ was going to step into the Ben Gordon 2 guard role from day one). I was personally over that loss about 2 minutes after the game ended. Just one of those years where too many things went wrong. I remember Steve bleeping Blake, the ball getting stuck in the rim at Texas and George bleeping Mason a lot more when i think of the frustrations of that era around the first two titles. But obviously others experience may vary Iowa State was awful, but so bad that I don’t waste any time thinking about it. Same with Kansas - thought we’d give them a better fight but oh well. Michigan State doesn’t bug me too much - I just wished we stayed solid after Sticks dunk cut it to three instead of allowing a breakaway dunk with a “chicken with heads cut off“ press. We had it down to 3 with a minute left and didn’t give ourselves a chance to keep the pressure on. San Diego I chalked up to the AJ injury and knowing we wouldn’t go very far without him. Pre-1999 they all sucked and I don’t want to remember any of them ever again. [/QUOTE]