re: Alabama 88 @ Georgia 98 Final - ESPNews

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I have yet to see hard evidence that winning conference tournaments has any real ill impact on quality teams

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The only #1 seeds to lose their opening round game in the history of the NCAAT both won their conference tournaments (and both were double champions winning the regular season and conference tournaments).

According to Gemini, since the tourney expanded to 68 teams in 2011, 33 of 56 #1 seeds won their conference tournaments (ie. only 59%).

Your statement is somewhat biased as clearly the top 1 or 2 teams each year typically are able to run through their conference tournaments, especially in a weak conference (see Duke’s ACC win last year…the ACC was historically bad). We are not the top 2 teams in the country with a relatively easy path to win our conference tournament. So the theory of it being better to rest than playing 3 games in 3 days and follow that up with 2 games in 3 days the next weekend still holds. As I’ve said, blue blood fans have been saying this for years.

If we have a chance to win (ie FL is upset before Sunday), then I agree. But I’m more worried about Sherrell’s health trying to play as much as we’d need him to in order to win…3 days in a row.

Us playing FL on Sunday with Sherrell playing his 3rd straight game in 3 days seems like a recipe for something bad to happen.

ETA: give me a healthy and rested Sherrell ready to play 30+ minutes in the first weekend of the NCAAT instead

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Glad they dig at you. I'll post more

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They don’t dig at me man.. I’m not laughing with you, I’m laughing AT you.

You may not be the dumbest person in the world when it comes to sports.. but you need to pray that sum bitch don’t die

Probably the most disappointing thing about tonight’s loss is we are getting some of the help we needed for the 3 seed. TT lost at home to TCU, Kansas was down double digits on the road to ASU (still early), and Nebraska is a small underdog on the road to UCLA tonight.

Winning 12 SEC games in a row was too much to ask for this team though. Glad to be in a good position to get a top 4 seed again.

Not trying to argue, just a difference of opinions. Oats’ practices are generally tough and up tempo. I have seen players turn an ankle in walk throughs and even pre game warmups. These are college athletes who will in some cases soon be playing an 82 game schedule. Manage minutes but let them play and play to win.

Do gotta give UGA some credit. We got hot offensively with about 6 mins left and every time they would come down and make a tough contested 3 against pretty good defense to answer our score.

Frustrating but it is what it is