Hopefully they lose 2 more to Duke before Selection Sunday, causing Wheat to push the pie bet with Jason. It could happen.
The Cheats have been scoring a lot of points in recent games for a few weeks now. The focus next time needs to be on defense, rebounding, and getting stops.
It's tough because they have lots of players who can shoot and put up lots of points - Cam Johnson has been a problem, Kenny Williams has been much improved, Maye, and Berry obviously. Stopping those 4, getting back very quickly on D, and finishing the possession with a defensive rebound is necessary to beat the cheats. As has been stated many times - it's the opposite from last year when they couldn't shoot but were monsters inside (Meeks, Hicks, Bradley, and even Jackson were good around the rim).
Can't wait to take them down in Cameron, hopefully by a lot.
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Unc is improving. Esp on o. As said, Berry is a great PG. shoots threes, passes. Drives. Just killed Louisville. Maye does Matt harping work. And that kills me because he made up for a good bit of what they lost up,front. He gets a ton of put backs. Seems to know where to be. Always around the rim tipping ball. The X factors have become Cam Johnson who was hurt at start of year ... Good three shooter and now Williams. Now they have four threats when they started w two (Berry and Maye). Louisville and others have had no answer to stop unc recently. You can still score on UNC but their o is getting v good ! And I hate that , let's beat em. I really don't want a team of Luke Maye and Cam Johnson etc going farther than ours ...
Sorry bad link. Basically his tourney simulations project UNC as a 1.9 seed. Same as Duke. Projects Virginia as 50% odds of making the Final 4, 23% champs. Duke about 31% FF and 9% title. UNC 16.4% FF odds, 2.7% title. FWIW.
Michigan State will be tough. Cincy a nice change of pace. 'Nova would make them a mini-dynasty. Could someone pull a UConn 2014 surprise?
Not sure what to say about the Cheats recent run. Quite a few people on this forum wrote them off when they lost three straight, but then that shouldn't have surprised me as people have been writing them off these past few years.
Despite the fun fodder Ol' Roy provides us with on a yearly basis the man can obviously coach and his kids buy into whatever it is he's selling. If anyone doubts that experience counts, then you just having been watching the Cheats over the past few years. Their team is top heavy again this year and as I stated earlier this season they just needed that third scorer to solidify their team and both Williams and Johnson seem to be that guy, which is even worse. Their ability to spread you out has made Pinson an even bigger weapon as he is quite adept at taking his man off the dribble. That feeds into their pack rebounding mentality as there's plenty of room for the smaller players to find openings to the basket for boards.
Considering who they've beaten during their recent run I'd be very skeptical of stating, "There's plenty of basketball left" and, "They're projected to lose X amount more." Barring a major injury, this team is a very dangerous, experienced team that is FF capable.