Quote Originally Posted by smootness View Post
I would be shocked if Villanova is a Final 4 team. They're talented and will continue to get better, but they are pretty darn young. They've played one team with a pulse and they got blitzed from the opening tip. Sure, it was a top 10 team, but regardless, they got blown out. I'm telling you, MTSU is garbage. They beat Mars Hill (?) by 11, Lipscomb by 3, and got destroyed by Coastal Carolina.

Villanova is good, but if you're judging them on yesterday's game, then you might as well use the New Orleans game to judge us.
I don't know yet. Just saying they might be based on their recent history and without having watched entire landscape .. in fact that was 1st two games I watched this year. I never really judge firmly in Nov/Dec. The loss to OSU might've been a wakeup call but as you say they are young. However, when you recruit at their level and have their coach, youth isn't as big a factor as with other teams. They should get a lot better as season progresses. You can make the argument that we're pretty young too.

It's a long way to Feb/Mar. And I don't know anything about MTSU. I did watch both our and their game side/side on 2 monitors to get a better feel for today. We gonna have our hands full IMO. The intensity level they played with yesterday was pretty darn high for this early in the year ... also IMO.

Lots of folks on this board tend to make hasty judgments on teams early on or preseason. Seems I recall TN was a sure win for us this year.