I'm definitely going to have to say this loss was harder to handle mainly because it was the tournament, but both games we should have won I think, and we didn't. Thoughts?
I think Georgetown was harder to take b/c it seemed like the basketball Gods just didn't want us to win that one. Today, we played hard and played well. We could have done things a little differently down the stretch, but McNeil was the hot hand and he took the shots. No problem there. At the end of te day, the guy made a tough shot and you have to hand it to them.
Not even close. Georgetown is just better than us. I can handle that one. I wouldn't say Stanford is better necessarily, they just imposed their will better than we did. I think we lost this game in teh first few minutes of teh second half when I blieve Stanford simply out toughed us. Had played better during that stretch, its a different game, nad perhaps not a very close one. We had so many opportunities to make a shot, get a stop, etc. that we didn't. Literally one play away. This one stings.
The Stanford game is DEFINITELY harder to handle. I know the Georgetown game would have been great and all, but really, it didn't help/hurt us. This one hurts so much because we were just a tiny bit away from being in the Sweet Sixteen. This one hurts not only for us and the team, but especially the seniors. They had to see their career end in the tournament, in overtime, BY 1 POINT! What a way to go down especially when we were so close to the Sweet Sixteen! This one is going to take a LONG time to get over...it was SUCH a heartbreaker! :'(
No contest. This one hurt more. The season is over.
The Stanford game is definitely a tougher loss because it ends your season. The NCAA tournament has more at stake than a regular season game. I would also say that the Georgetown game was a tough loss as well because the crowd at the game was one of the best I have ever been a part of. It is hard to look upon the past but if we would have beaten Georgetown we may have gotten a better seed in the NCAA tournament but then our seed in the Big East Tournament also would have been different. The Georgetown game was only game though and you can't say a regular season game is a tougher loss than the postseason game that ends your season. We played our best against Stanford and was one basket away from advancing to the Sweet Sixteen.
The Gtown loss hurt, but this is way more difficult to cope with. We really had that game won so many times, but we failed to convert. Man, it's hard. I hate this. SO dam close to the Sweet 16. We are a Sweet 16 caliber team too.
Miami of Ohio in defending the national championship where the ref took Jay Whitehead out of the game in the 1st half. This one hurts almost 30 years later.
We weren't supposed to win this game and we were severely overmatched down low. The boys laid it totally on the line tonight and came away one soft bounce short. Bitter lessons to learn, but young guys like Lazar, Cubes, et al now see what it takes to bring it at the end of the season.
Cubillan hasn't "brought it" in months.
No contest. There was a practice March 2 to get ready for FGCU. There will be no practice tomorrow.
Stanford.
This is SERIOUSLY being debated? Easily the most brutal loss I can remember, our season is over, and we had the game won 3-4 times--just one more stop, shot, or FTs, and we win.
Not even in the same galaxy as the Gtown, Jerry F***ing Smith, or Reece Gaines games.
Stanford was harder ONLY because it was in the tourney.
But he difference is, Stanford deserved to win that game every bit as much as we did. They played with heart and emotion (as much as i hate Robin's "emotion", the man hustles). They played without their coach, and it wasnt a bad call a two...or three..that decided it.
If the GU game was in the tourney, and it played out like it did, it would have been BY FAR the harder loss.
We totally outplayed GU, and some questionable calls decided the outcome.
Stanford was a worthy winner, and though i feel like we had many chances to put it away, it's not like stanford didn't deserve to win.
But since its tourney time, this ones a lot harder.
Georgetown, because we would not have been playing Stanford in the second round if we won that game. On the other hand if the refs make the right call and disallowed UCLA's basket that was shot from behind the back board Stanford is probalby a two seed and we do not play them either. It was just fate that we ended up in this game.