“You can learn from a lot of other people, but you'd damn sure better learn from our own mistakes, and that's what we've done,” coach Matt Painter said. After Fairleigh Dickinson, he thought: “We won the Big Ten by three games, we were the No. 1 seed.
Everyone should play and do that. So it's probably not a good coach quality. It's good to have because it eats at me when guys don't play. I'm eaten up when they don't play. Their feelings may not match mine, but I do. I believed in our staff and thought we could improve, but I didn't think we were doing anything wrong.”
How can anyone defend Edey and his teammates without being paraded to the free throw line by Purdue? Ask Tennessee. The Vols' two games against the Boilermakers this season were four and six points.
Alabama leads the country in scoring at 90.6 points per game and has scored 109 and 89 twice in the tournament. Villanova in 2018 and North Carolina in 2005 are the only scoring champions to win the national title, but Alabama didn't let that stop them.
Clemson lost the West regional title game despite shooting 55.6 percent with two turnovers in the second half. Because the Tide shot 69 percent and 66.7 percent three-pointers. The other night, Duke beat Houston 54-51. Alabama defeated Clemson 54-50 in the second half.
Mark Sears, who holds a 45-year school record with 25 games of 20 or more and an average of 24 points in the tournament, is often cited. His MAC career began at Ohio. If not him, someone else. Grant Nelson scored 14 points in three NCAA tournament games.
Three weeks ago, Wolfpack were 17-14. They had lost seven of nine games. In the Final Four, they can become the national champions with the most losses ever by defeating two more favorites.
When you're winning games like we are, you expect to win, and I think our guys do. It's lovely to watch, said coach Kevin Keatts. Down the stretch, our defense has been great. Great experience. This is a miracle run, but we're not surprised. We don't enter this event to merely be there. We came to win the regional and did. Moving on to the next stage.
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