Quote Originally Posted by BeardoMSU View Post
This. Not only that, but this year was an oddity in terms of how SEC teams were rated, as compared to the old RPI system. Davis' team was literally just like all those previous AK bubble teams, but they were overvalued with the new system; just like all the other teams were.....I mean, we were a 5 seed for God's sake...in other years, with our record and schedule, we'd have likely been an 8 or 9 seed, and would have had to fight to get that....which is definitely closer to what we deserved, considering how dysfunctional we were all season.
Amen. That we were a 5 seed was a testament to how soft a bubble the tourney had this year! We were a slightly above average basketball team that had 2 huge glaring weaknesses that were easily exploited by good basketball teams, especially on the road:
1. Turnovers - wayyyy too many, never valued the basketball
2. Terrible team defense - never learned to play team defense and when you had 2 starters who were far too often torched in man to man, you must have excellent help side D. We did not. Howland never tried a zone, and he should have, especially after losing Nick