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There is a distinction to be made on 'bad losses'
Posted on: December 6, 2019 at 08:24:08 CT
FIJItiger MU
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In 2008 we were coming off a 16-16 season and many fans still weren't sure if this 'mid-major' coach's style would work at this level. We had lost on the road to Xavier, and had our annual terrible performance in a loss in the Braggin Rights game but otherwise were 13-2 heading into conference play.
We opened up on the road to Nebraska, a vastly inferior team but whose coach Doc Sadler was essentially Mike Anderson's kryptonite with his still of play. We left the losers in a very ugly 56-51 defeat, and tons of people jumped off the bandwagon.
It was still a very good team, and it proved all those doubters wrong and didn't let a 'bad loss' define them going on to win a program record 31 games and winning the Big 12 championship and advancing to the Elite Eight.
A road loss to a conference opponent is a different kind of 'bad loss' than what we just suffered. We lost to a team at home who nobody on their entire roster would have gotten any consideration as a 3rd or 4th option to us in recruiting and who had already demonstrated numerous times in competition this year to be a historically inept team. Even with a poor start, a lack of focus, and a great performance by the opponent it should have been essentially impossible for us to not have gotten our **** together and eventually overcome them. But we couldn't, and they walked off our home court not via some fluke but by demonstrating they were the better team. It was almost without question the worst loss in our program's entire history.
We opened up on the road to Nebraska, a vastly inferior team but whose coach Doc Sadler was essentially Mike Anderson's kryptonite with his still of play. We left the losers in a very ugly 56-51 defeat, and tons of people jumped off the bandwagon.
It was still a very good team, and it proved all those doubters wrong and didn't let a 'bad loss' define them going on to win a program record 31 games and winning the Big 12 championship and advancing to the Elite Eight.
A road loss to a conference opponent is a different kind of 'bad loss' than what we just suffered. We lost to a team at home who nobody on their entire roster would have gotten any consideration as a 3rd or 4th option to us in recruiting and who had already demonstrated numerous times in competition this year to be a historically inept team. Even with a poor start, a lack of focus, and a great performance by the opponent it should have been essentially impossible for us to not have gotten our **** together and eventually overcome them. But we couldn't, and they walked off our home court not via some fluke but by demonstrating they were the better team. It was almost without question the worst loss in our program's entire history.
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There is a distinction to be made on 'bad losses' - FIJItiger MU - 12/6 08:24:08