USU in the Big Dance!
Hell has frozen over! USU did not win their conference tournament and the selection committee still picked them for the tournament! They play Thursday in San Diego, California against the University of Washington. USU was given a 12 seed and Washington has a seed of 5. This is better than last year by quite a bit. They played as a 14 seed against number 3 seed Arizona in 2005 and lost. I think they have a good chance to pull off an upset here!
This came out of nowhere. But our strength of schedule was 0.524 (Duke's was 0.6068). This was greater than Xavier and only a little behind Nevada and Gonzaga. Combine that with a 21-7 season, I guess it makes sense. There's a lot of bubble teams out there that aren't going to be happy about this, but who cares?
ReplyDeleteWashington may be ranked 17 but they lost to Standford, who lost to both UC-Irvine and UC-Davis. (They also lost twice to Wash St.) Let's show 'em our A game and let everybody else learn what the WAC found out this year...underestimating USU is often a fatal mistake.
GO AGGIES!!!
(p.s. Nevada got a 5 seed and is playing in SLC. For some reason that makes me laugh)