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Message: [QUOTE="Dugway, post: 5151756, member: 13446"] Regarding your: 1) Now that they have beat us, particularly given that they traveled clear across the country to our home, you would expect the Trojans to be more favorably placed in the bracket. However, they still have Conference play and likely to lose some. We still have Tenn and So Car both on the road. Lots of games before now and the tournament to determine seeding but this one sure would have helped! 2) Yes, big viewership and fanfare. And I could hardly stand listening to the announcers blathering! 3) Back to #2, Watkins vs Bueckers, “Hurrah for our TV ratings, blah, blah, blah” … thanks Fox, but basketball is a team game. 4) So, about those other players, and the ‘Team Game’, as it turns out the USC team was better than ours, at least last night. It was close in the end, but overall we were not the best team. And had it been our team flying in Los Angeles, I don’t know that we would have even been in the ballpark of their score. In conclusion with your conclusion, I agree, this was a showcase game and we got beat. This was one of our three hallmark games on the roster. Or at least one of the three that when the schedule came out I saw to be the most challenging and also the most eyeballs! Notre Dame on the road, So Car on the road, and USC at home. When I saw that I thought, would it ever be great to win all three of those games! Without a doubt we would be the Number 1! In the pit of my stomach, I thought we would win one of the three…. well, we are down to the Gamecocks on the road. With nothing else but Tenn and So Car to showcase between now and then, when it comes to the Bracket, we are probably looking at a #2 seed in what will likely be a tough regional. [/QUOTE]

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