wasnt talking about you but Jesus Christ who fucking cares if we deserve it or notAs one I believe you are referring to, what did all your concern “about this stuff” get you except potentially a little bit of egg on your face for celebrating after all your predictions of a sure thing bid after finishing 5th in the BE and beating SHU get you? Crying in your beer because the absolute beauty of sports, the complete and utter absolute unpredictability of sports, might have come up and bit you in the a$$? The only thing that EVER mattered was continuing to win the whole damn tournament and if not pray things broke right leading to what the committee does tomorrow.
That’s why coming out and playing EVERY possession on both ends of the court like your season was on the line against UConn was not an option but an absolute MUST, because it was, and SJU didn’t do that. No, they certainly didn’t roll over but they didn’t play with the absolute desperate commitment and all out hustle that the situation demanded. So people here reveled in the 5 point loss while other teams went out and played with that commitment and WON their games against the “better” teams. So now SJU and fans can sweat tomorrow out and some of you can crank up your, “oh we‘re better than X“ posts or lament how the basketball gods hate SJU, or how the tournament needs to be expanded, if SJU is not selected.
For the record, not having been “concerned about this stuff”, I still think the late surge and the Pitino factor will get SJU in, but we shall see. But if it doesn’t happen, SJU coaches and players have no one to blame but themselves, they were the ones who lost too many very winnable games.
I’m a fan and I wanted us in
This sucks