(11-30-2022 03:47 PM)Sicembear11 Wrote:  

(11-30-2022 09:36 AM)templefootballfan Wrote:  what did covid have to do with Baylor NC

Some people want to chalk up the fact that covid restrictions were in place during the 2021 tournament that it became a "Mickey Mouse" Tournament of sorts. Certainly, Covid restrictions resulted in teams missing out a number of games during the season. Baylor included.

This might have some merit if it actually impacted the players on the court during the tournament, but only one team missed the tourney or had players sit because of covid during the tourney. That team was VCU and they played on the other side of the bracket, giving Oregon an automatic advancement from the first round. That Oregon team then immediately lost in the second.

Then they try and tie into Baylor having bad games two years later with an almost entirely different roster as evidence that the team from 2021 was somehow bad.

Somehow that all translates to, "Baylor won a fluke tourney, they should get an asterisk, etc." Anyone that has knowledge of college basketball knows how good that Baylor team was and how competitive that tournament was. There was some instant classics in every part of the bracket. I think it really just comes down to people not liking Baylor for other reasons or not liking Scott Drew. But, love it or hate it, he has a ring.

Stay bitter haters. That banner will hang even more nicely in the new arena.

He's also ignoring the fact that Baylor was 2nd in the country behind Kansas in 2020 when the tournament got cancelled. Their title isn't a mickey mouse title or anything close. That was a great team that brought back a lot of pieces.