Close loss or a murder

Lose an close elite 8 or win a close elite 8 and play Gonzaga

  • Lose close elite 8 game

    Votes: 1 6.3%

  • Advance to the Final 4 and get massacred by the Zags

    Votes: 15 93.8%

  • Potato Salad with Zag cream

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    16
OregonDucks said:
The heartache and constant wondering of replaying the entire game in your head for years would be too much. Much rather realize the thing was over and simply we were over matched as opposed to losing by a buzzer beater or 1-2 pt game.
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At least you got to enjoy the game at the time.

For me in the tourney, it's more about seeding. You come in with expectations based on what seed you are.

Losing as a #1 seed in the first weekend is crushing. If you're like an 11 seed, the outcome of almost every game is house $.
 
jontaejones said:
At least you got to enjoy the game at the time.

For me in the tourney, it's more about seeding. You come in with expectations based on what seed you are.

Losing as a #1 seed in the first weekend is crushing. If you're like an 11 seed, the outcome of almost every game is house $.
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In UCLA's instance, that's complete heartache and a game that won't leave you for a long time. You really had no business being there, you were an 11 seed and a play-in game team at that. You had an amazing run and went up against the best team in the tournament in the Final Four. Once there you should have won that game. Looking back, you had the last possession of regulation, you had a chance to end it, you should have ended it, but you didn't.

Then you go into overtime and their big guy has 4 fouls, and you dont take advantage of it, you dont attack him and try to get him fouled out. Looking back after losing you wonder, what if he had fouled out in overtime? You get 3-4 minutes of game time without him in the game. Then had you reacted just slightly better after making the tying basket in OT, you could have made that Suggs shot a little more difficult, or at a little bit more of a distance and it could have been a miss.

Too many what ifs would play over and over in my mind. Now go to Houston's side of things and, well, I sleep a lot better at night being a cougar than a bruin.
 
OregonDucks said:
In UCLA's instance, that's complete heartache and a game that won't leave you for a long time. You really had no business being there, you were an 11 seed and a play-in game team at that. You had an amazing run and went up against the best team in the tournament in the Final Four. Once there you should have won that game. Looking back, you had the last possession of regulation, you had a chance to end it, you should have ended it, but you didn't.

Then you go into overtime and their big guy has 4 fouls, and you dont take advantage of it, you dont attack him and try to get him fouled out. Looking back after losing you wonder, what if he had fouled out in overtime? You get 3-4 minutes of game time without him in the game. Then had you reacted just slightly better after making the tying basket in OT, you could have made that Suggs shot a little more difficult, or at a little bit more of a distance and it could have been a miss.

Too many what ifs would play over and over in my mind. Now go to Houston's side of things and, well, I sleep a lot better at night being a cougar than a bruin.
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I think it's the opposite. If I'm a Houston fan, I might have been getting hyped all week and then within 10 minutes ... ballgame.
 
jontaejones said:
Close game without a doubt.

The worst is probably getting blown out when you were the higher seed.
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Competitors want to compete at the highest levels. You go to live with the results
 
UCLA should just feel fortunate to get into the final four. Gonzaga is the superior team.
 
wazzu31 said:
This was a question I posed with a minute. Gonzaga is going shove three bowling balls up the asses of UCLA or Michigan.
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