Meanwhile, all the other 1,2,3 seeds have looked really good so far with blowouts. We're the only top program who needs an excuse of "stuff happens" to validate losing games we shouldn't.
This is pretty low, but 1953 when we weren't allowed to play at all, and 1990 when we weren't allowed to be on TV were worse. Although now that I think of it, that 1990 season wasn't so bad. That was Pitinos Bombinos and we were "forced" to listen to Cawood call the games on radio.
This shows how much college sports have changed. Can you imagine the NCAA trying to pull something like this nowadays with all the money in the TV contracts.