[quote name='Bunghole' date='29 March 2010 - 02:29 PM' timestamp='1269887389' post='873757']
On the scoreboard, yes, WVU beat UK, and they were coached by Bob Huggins.
My point, which is valid, is that UK beat themselves by the worst shooting effort by an Elite Eight team I have ever witnessed, and it actually had very little to do with Huggins, the defense, whatever.
UK had open looks along the perimeter all day...they just wouldn't fall. Same goes for the charity stripe.
I'm not bitter about it. Its just exactly how I see it. There's always next year. And unlike Bob or WVU, UK has actually won it all in recent memory.
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They clearly shot poorly - but that doesn't mean they were a superior team which gave the game away. Their inexperience is just as important a defining characteristic of the team as their talent, which is why it is foolish to call their performance in that game an abberation. It is merely typical of an inexperienced team running into the first opponent capable of biting back, and is the reason I picked them to lose.