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[QUOTE="Kolumbo, post: 3909667, member: 4613"]
I disagree with the Gonzaga comparison.  UConn was a great program in a great conference.  The conference took a big hit but UConn ideally shouldn't have missed a beat.  The women's program didn't flinch but of course that is an entirely different situation.  In hindsight, [B][I]remainin[/I][/B][I][B]g[/B][/I] in our conference of 30 plus years, which really was the only option at the time, was a hit not many programs in our situation could have survived.  Getting [B][I]back[/I][/B] to the dance was certainly a success.  A stepping stone.  Credit Hurley.  Credit the return to the Big East.  But for this [B][I]program[/I][/B], success is measure by banners.

Now Rutgers, you can call this season a huge success even though it didn't make the sweet 16.
“I thought we played our hearts out. This team made history,” Rutgers coach Steve Pikiell said after the heartbreaking Midwest Region second-round game. “They got through a two-year journey, COVID, never missing a day, never having a pause, all the obstacles they had to fight through. [B][I]They now become the standard for what we want to be at Rutgers.”[/I][/B]
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