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[QUOTE="bballnut90, post: 5216010, member: 2117"]
I think Texas is fine--these conference tournaments are brutal and not typically the best representation of how a team plays.  For Texas this was their 3rd game in 3 days, with less than 18 hours of turnaround time between beating a top ten LSU team and facing South Carolina on the road.  I do think Texas was due for a loss considering they've had a fair number of squeakers in their 15 game win streak:
-4 point win vs. Tennessee
-3 point win vs. Ole Miss
-4 point win vs. South Carolina
-7 point win vs. LSU
-4 point win vs. Mississippi State
-7 point win vs. Ole Miss
-7 point win vs. LSU

Sometimes getting your butt kicked takes the pressure off and helps you regroup going into the NCAA tournament.  I think losing in the conference tournament definitely helped both LSU in 2023 and South Carolina in 2022 regroup before they went on to win the championship.

Notre Dame I also think will right the ship and be okay, but losing 3 of their last 5 is a bad trajectory entering the tournament.  If they can find their rhythm again, a matchup of South Carolina/Notre Dame could be an absolute bloodbath of an Elite 8 matchup.
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