Great points. As I have said earlier, I think many UAT fans are bandwagon basketball fans and literally have only been watching the past 3-4 years. I have actually found in general many SEC fans equate basketball and football success as the same, when in reality, they’re completely different in terms of success. Too many variables come into play when it comes to basketball. The best examples are ironically Auburn and UAT’s run to the final 4, moreso UAT. Auburn was struggling at the end of the year until they won their last 4 SEC games I believe and then won the SEC tournament. Got hot at the right time. I remember where I was thinking Auburn might miss the tournament altogether. Then UAT this year had lost 4 of their last 6 games, all by double digits, lost in their first game in SEC tournament but then got the most favorable matchups in the NCAA tournament and made it to the final four.
My point is that that is basketball in a nutshell. You can have a mediocre regular season but then get hot for 4-5 games and be in the final 4 and then you call it a successful season. Then you can be ranked in the top 15 the whole year, win your conference tournament and lose the first round and people will say it was a bad year. That’s not how basketball success works. Auburn didn’t do well in the postseason, but doesn’t mean their season was bad. And vice versa, just because you made the final four doesn’t mean you had a great season, like UAT. They still had double digit losses and got blown out in most of their losses. That’s why when I read these posts about trying to compare Auburn and UAT basketball, I have to just laugh at the ignorance of what basketball success really is.