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Illinois 78, Nicholls State 70 OT POSTGAME
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<blockquote data-quote="BackThatPassUp" data-source="post: 1493558" data-attributes="member: 746142"><p>If it's any consolation, Syracuse lost to a D2 team at home in an exhibition game and went on to be the overall number 1 seed in the tourney and lost in the sweet 16 to Butler.</p><p></p><p>As irritating as the game was, I think we also tend to forget that basketball is such a growing sport with respect to the number of quality players regardless of program and/or division. It's just usually that best programs have the best depth of guys with pro potential (including overseas pro potential. I)t's not like in the 90s where the difference between a top 40 team and a top 250 automatically equates to a 40 point blowout. More players are given access to higher quality training and more kids are electing to focus on 1 sport at an earlier age which yields an overall deeper talent pool of players. </p><p></p><p>In baseball, D3 teams beat D1 teams all the time because the talent gap usually isn't so outrageous from an offensive perspective. The better programs just usually have a deeper rotation of quality pitching.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BackThatPassUp, post: 1493558, member: 746142"] If it's any consolation, Syracuse lost to a D2 team at home in an exhibition game and went on to be the overall number 1 seed in the tourney and lost in the sweet 16 to Butler. As irritating as the game was, I think we also tend to forget that basketball is such a growing sport with respect to the number of quality players regardless of program and/or division. It's just usually that best programs have the best depth of guys with pro potential (including overseas pro potential. I)t's not like in the 90s where the difference between a top 40 team and a top 250 automatically equates to a 40 point blowout. More players are given access to higher quality training and more kids are electing to focus on 1 sport at an earlier age which yields an overall deeper talent pool of players. In baseball, D3 teams beat D1 teams all the time because the talent gap usually isn't so outrageous from an offensive perspective. The better programs just usually have a deeper rotation of quality pitching. [/QUOTE]
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