Having 10 guys good enough to play quality minutes is a huge advantage. It means when most team's starters are gassed in the final 10 minutes, our guys are still fresh. It also means if one of our guys is out with injury or illness, we are not suddenly no longer competitive as I have been told here is the case whenever TyTy and Wheeler are not on the floor together.
Okay. Hypothetically…. Auburn is playing at Rupp and has a lead. Kessler and Smith go out and can’t play anymore. What are your chances of holding the lead and winning? Honestly??? Exactly. We lost our starting backcourt. You were getting beat. Your crowd was dead, you thought you were gonna lose, you know you did, until that happened.
You throw out quad 1 wins to puff out your chest. Congrats. But if quad 1 was the most important factor in the NET rankings why are we ahead of you? Because, the quality of the opponent is taken into consideration, all quad ones are not created equal, or your team would be ranked higher than we are in the NET.
You played a decent (15-6) UConn team at a neutral site and lost. You beat a 13-9 Oklahoma team at home. You played a decent (11-5) Alabama team away and won by 4. You beat an LSU team, at home, without their full roster, that’s in free fall. And you beat UK at home, where you were losing, until we lost our entire starting backcourt.
No one else you played had a heart beat. Take your 7-1 quad one wins and stick em, until you play Duke at a Neutral, Kansas Away, Auburn away, without almost half your starters for part of the game, LSU away (that was healthy at the time), where we also lost our starting point guard during the game.
UK destroyed #8 in the Net Kansas (away), UK destroyed #13 in the Net Tennessee at home, UK lost to #10 in the Net Duke(neutral) UK lost to #7 in the Net Auburn (away), #16 in the Net (and in the top ten at the time) LSU away, and #61 in the Net Notre Dame (16-7) (who is second in the ACC and has went 10-2 since beating us) away. You should have lost to Missouri (#139 in the NET) and Georgia (#205 in the NET), then you wouldn’t be over here, you’d be trying to figure out what happened on football signing day.
Take that weak shit to the park where the squirrels might care.
Those are the facts