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(03-21-2018 11:23 AM)bearcatmark Wrote:  This is only Villanova's second sweet 16 in the last decade. Until this year they'd made the same amount of sweet 16s as UC in the last 10 seasons. The difference is Villanova has been a legitimate final four and championship contender even in those years they bounced early and one of those years they took full advantage and won the entire thing. Crazy stuff happens. Several of those Nova teams bounced in the second round were top 5-10 teams... Put yourself in position to make a run and you'll eventually break through.

The other thing is Jay Wright has enough collateral to offset a couple early exits. Someone mentioned earlier how UNC got bounced early this year. Well they just one a title and were in the title the year before. They also have a top 5 recruiting class coming in. Roy W has collateral.

I agree that one year shouldn't be everything, but trends over 5-10 years. Since 1996, we have received 7 top 4 protected seeds, and not once in those years ha e we advanced out of the 1st weekend? 6nof those were eith Huggins, but Mick has implemented on alot ot similar coaching philosophies as Huggs. That's 0-7, and not a good trend. The only 2 seasons we made it to the sweet 16, were the result of a broken bracket in 2001, and poor shooting, overrated FSUnin 2012. There has to be more to this than simply bad luck.