Geez. And people wonder why some ND fans are wary.

by Greg, seemingly ranch, Monday, March 07, 2011, 13:14 (5531 days ago) @ Jay
edited by Greg, Monday, March 07, 2011, 13:21

It's the run of miss, miss, miss, lose the 6/11 game, win but get blown out in round 2, miss, lose the 6/11 game.

Expectations were pretty reasonable after the Sweet 16 run -- always make the tournament, regularly make the second round, make the Sweet 16 as often as not, and everything else is gravy. Had Brey met those, I'm sure that many fans would have ratcheted up the expectations but at the time nobody was saying "we're going to be champs in 2 years." It was just nice to be a top-20 team that we thought would regularly perform like one. Then we missed 3 and lost the 6/11 game. The 20-point loss barely registered as a shock, because it almost seemed expected. And then missed again. And then last year.

So why are people placing so much of their expectations for this year on the NCAAs? Because, as you can see, we've been down the road of "nice regular season run/NCAA debacle" 3 out of the last 7 years. And those were the good years during that span.