Worst Loss in the Tournament

[Henry Sugar]

As a matter of perspective, I'm wondering how people feel about the respective losses.

<edited to add Stanford and Long Beach State>

[rocky_warrior]

Don't really know how to answer this.  The worst loss I've seen in the tourney so far was Stanford.   

Our performance wasn't great, though the final score wasn't that bad.  Of the three you list, our loss was the worse loss to me - but I think that's because I care much more about Marquette than the casual fan.

I expected IL and WI to lay turds sooner than later, so those aren't so surprising 

[NYWarrior]

Stanford and Wisconsin.  I would normally not say Bucky, but when 7 of the 8 top 2 seeds advance it probably looks worse than really it is.

[coach85]

The worst performance was LB State giving up well over 100 points to the very orange Bruce Pearl and TN.

[SoCalwarrior]

The worst performance was LB State giving up well over 100 points to the very orange Bruce Pearl and TN.

I'd be more dissappointed with Tenn giving up 86 points to LB State.  My vote for worst loss goes to a Wisconsin team that was number one in the country just a couple of weeks ago.

[Coobeys Oil Depot]

I chose Wisconsin for pretty simple reasons. This is a team that not only was ranked #1 at one point in the season but they were included in the "top 8" pod of teams that everyone felt were just a bit above anyone else in this Tournament.

They went out and had two games dictated to them by a 15 seed and a 7 seed. Add to it they were virtually in a home setting having played in Chicago and their performance was very, very disappointing.

[Thomas' Danish Delight]

Second to our loss, I'd have to agree with Coobeys.  Wisconsin was a 2 seed and almost lost to a 15 seed.  We had been playing like crap minus the Gameday win over Pitt.  When we were having trouble with St Johns, I had a feeling we wouldn't do too well

[maxpower773]

I think it has to be Wisconsin. From the begining of the year they were suppose to go far this season, some of their fans even mentioned the final four was a possibility. They were also a 2 seed playing in Chicago with 2 very good seniors. The loss of Butch hurt but he hadn't shown consistently that he could perform at a high level all year. Our loss was bad but it was to a tough MSU team without our best player. If we could have made a few of those layups and zero footers we could have been close or even had the chance to win that game. Stanford didn't deserve to be in the tournament so their loss came as no surprise to me. And Illinois....well thats what Illinois does, they struggle to score and close out games. It was another horrible game by a team that shouldn't have been in. I really didn't see the LB State game, but they did also score 86, which against other teams would have been fine.

[Mayor McCheese]

I chose Illinois's lost, could you imagine this board if TC and Marquette did that, that was just brutal how they lost