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<blockquote data-quote="Calvin" data-source="post: 1243879" data-attributes="member: 4069"><p>End of the world? That seems a bit dramatic.</p><p></p><p>We should have more than a dozen games against tournament teams on our schedule because the BIG is deep, if not top heavy. If we win 1 in 3 of those games, we still might get to the dance. However, many of those teams are projected to be well ahead of us and are more likely to be in the loss column. So when you have one against a similar opponent that gives you a decent opportunity to win, you could argue those are pretty important. That's my view, personally, that we'll get maybe 14 of these games, with about half a dozen of them as serious underdogs. West Virginia will be a load, so that's one I'm not terribly optimistic about. The other 2 in that span are, again based on the logic I just put forth, very important games. If the goal is to squeak into the dance, maybe those losses aren't the ones that tank us, but if we don't have a sense of urgency now, I'm not going to assume we make it up later. </p><p></p><p>YMMV</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Calvin, post: 1243879, member: 4069"] End of the world? That seems a bit dramatic. We should have more than a dozen games against tournament teams on our schedule because the BIG is deep, if not top heavy. If we win 1 in 3 of those games, we still might get to the dance. However, many of those teams are projected to be well ahead of us and are more likely to be in the loss column. So when you have one against a similar opponent that gives you a decent opportunity to win, you could argue those are pretty important. That's my view, personally, that we'll get maybe 14 of these games, with about half a dozen of them as serious underdogs. West Virginia will be a load, so that's one I'm not terribly optimistic about. The other 2 in that span are, again based on the logic I just put forth, very important games. If the goal is to squeak into the dance, maybe those losses aren't the ones that tank us, but if we don't have a sense of urgency now, I'm not going to assume we make it up later. YMMV [/QUOTE]
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