Originally posted by acc hoops:
Hope this stays the same. UNC has probably path of Murray State, Wichita State ,Kentucky and Wisconsin to win the Midwest.
Duke has Utah as a 4 seed, Gonzaga as a 2. Seed.
Can you imagine how loud UNC fans would whine about those draws?
I would LOVE that draw, but it won't happen.
And the notion of "easy path" to the title (the above draw included) is just flat out dumb to me. There is no such thing. There might be a preferable path, but never an easy one. It is just something idiotic fans say when a team they don't like wins. A team might get lucky and have an "easy draw" for the first couple rounds, but really after that it is about all. If you make it to the Final Four, no matter who you are playing, it is a team that has won four games in a row against NCAA-caliber competition. Beating them is not going to be "easy," ever. Doubly true in the championship game.
I've had this conversation with idiotic Heel fans about 2010. "Easy" in no way applies (I know it is just their pathetic way to downgrade a big Duke achievement, but I address it anyway). Beating Baylor (who beat three tournament teams to get there) in Texas. Beating a WVU team that won the Big East (when it was still at the top) and just knocked off a UK team with 5 draft picks - yeah, beating them is easy. And that Butler team - let me show you how good they were: the team that Duke beat lost a lottery pick, which was the first and only in school history, and the supporting cast around him was so good that they made it back to the championship game the next year. Duke beat the 2011 runner-up with an additional lottery pick! If you call that easy, in no uncertain terms, you are a total moron. But I digress.