Taking the Purple to the Dance
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It's a pretty tough feat to have make the NCAAs and lose 20 games (unless they win the NC) in the same season...
Even more impressive (for real) is that in the Patriot, there is no neutral site. Had to win 4 straight road games to do it. WIth a team 10-19 coming into the tournament.
I LOVE Coach Carmody and what he represents. (I am thrilled that Coach Chris Collins is now our coach). But, how very Bill Carmody: Literally the 4th sentence he uttered after an unbelievable run to the NCAA Tournament, he utters "Well, expectations are going to be higher next year, so I am scared."
Until last week (which is to say, during the regular season), they were 0-9 on the road in conference.
That's amazing. To lose at every team in the conference on the road during the season ... then beat 4 of them, including the 2 best, on the road in do-or-die games. That's just unfathomable.
That's why KenPom had them 2000 to 1 in the PATRIOT tournament.
Lol exactly what is upsetting to you? All the crazy stats people are listing in this thread....it's pretty remarkable...
It's also a tough feat to NOT make the NCAAs for 77 straight years.
They'll almost certainly be in one of the First Four games against another 16-seed so they'll have a good chance to win a tournament game.
But then they'll get obliterated by a 1.
Congrats to Coach Carmody. I'm happy for him but Lehigh played an absolutely terrible first half and didn't seem to have anyone who could make a 3-pointer against the 1-3-1 and/or 2-3 zone (four different players missed possible game-tying threes at the end and none of the shots came close!). Good strategy to collapse in on their center Tim Kempton and make the other four guys try to beat you.
Lost by 33 at Kansas earlier this year. So they'll lose big, but at least they will be familiar with the level of opposition.