Dream Big! Elite 8 here we come. Bracket wide open for us

[brewcity77]

In the NFL, a team that has won the first two games against and opponent who also plays them in the playoffs wins 71% of the time.  In college basketball, it would not surprise me to see similar type of numbers.

I read on another board yesterday that the figure in college basketball is 86%. I'm not afraid of NSU.

[GGGG]

Did you see what Evans did from the first game to the second game? It was nearly perfect. He's a good coach and I'd imagine with his team playing their best ball of the season (assuming the win over Florida) the match-up would be that much more difficult.

All he did was play a zone and Buzz admitted that he never prepared for a zone and hadn't practiced zone offense all year.  If they do the same thing, we would rip it up like we have pretty much every other zone that we have seen since then.  I'm fairly certain that it wouldn't be a blow out like the first meeting, but it wouldn't be as close as the second one.

[Hoopaloop]

Did you see what Evans did from the first game to the second game? It was nearly perfect. He's a good coach and I'd imagine with his team playing their best ball of the season (assuming the win over Florida) the match-up would be that much more difficult.

We constantly talk about how splitting with the mirrors in conference is a good thing because expecting to beat a team twice seems foolhardy. Why wouldn't that be the case for three times, especially when it comes at the most pressure packed time of the season?

Several differences.  In conference play one of those games is in a hostile environment.  This would be a neutral site game in Phoenix against Norfolk State, not at Syracuse or at Louisville or at Georgetown.

Secondly, in that second game I saw Marquette up 14 points with just over 11 minutes to go and we went to sleep.  It doesn't matter as NSU is on the way out after a terrible showing against Florida today.