With three No. 1 seeds. "I assume it's a discrete possibility," Louisville prompt Rick Pitino said after pulling off the strange matched stroke of luck by friendly the event title to go along with the regular-season crown. "If it happens, it'll be well-deserved." Pittsburgh and Louisville out of the Big East appear to be accepted locks for No. 1 seeds.
North Carolina will favoured get one out of the ACC. Then the terminating No. 1 spore will meet go to either UConn, Memphis or Duke — and the Blue Devils will be under thoughtfulness if they bag the ACC competition on Sunday afternoon. UConn's continue is strong.
The Huskies were 27-4 and had a 15-3 talk mark. Two of the losses came to Pittsburgh, one came at deeply to Georgetown and the unchangeable setback was in the Big East quarterfinals against Syracuse. UConn has eight wins this occasion against the pre-eminent 45 teams in the RPI. Memphis has two.
"I ruminate UConn is still the best set in the Big East," Syracuse minor picket Paul Harris said. "But Louisville is still a very well-thought-of team. They be worthy of a No. 1 seed.
" Louisville's Jerry Smith echoed the sentiment. "They obviously be entitled to one," Smith said of the Huskies. Memphis, for example UConn, also abandoned to Georgetown — and suffered setbacks to Xavier and Syracuse. John Calipari's yoke has just two carry on victories — against Gonzaga and Tennessee.
Sure, it's been awhile since the Tigers cursed — but it's extraordinarily difficile to assess where they're at while they're playing in the one-bid Conference USA. Duke has six wins against the RPI's Top 45, but the Blue Devils have dropped six games — two to North Carolina, asset Wake Forest, Clemson, Michigan and Boston College. Louisville wasn't even considered a Top 25 body on New Year's Eve and now they can come to a valid situation they're the best rig in the fatherland heading into the Big Dance. "I warmth the fait accompli that we did it in the toughest year in the experience of the Big East," Pitino said.
A twosome months ago, there was justifiable cause for concern. The Cardinals had unchaste three games — none of them factual "road" contests — to a triptych of what were perceived to be good teams. Western Kentucky and Minnesota on pale courts — and then UNLV at Freedom Hall. "We were information how to put on with each other," Louisville freshman big gazabo Samardo Samuels said.
"Coach P (Pitino) kept revealing us we had to re-evaluate ourselves." "But that detriment to Minnesota was tough," Samuels added. ''I had never heard of any of those guys. When we lost, things were bad." It all started to shift on Jan. 4 when the Kentucky Wildcats came to Freedom Hall.
It took a last-second rifleman from Edgar Sosa to hang onto the victory. That began a chain of nine consecutive wins — which included internal victories against Pittsburgh and West Virginia and route wins over Villanova and Syracuse. However, even after attractive the regular-season crown, there were mountain of skeptics. There were chief coaches in the federation who questioned their ally outline and not having to appear before the two elite teams — Pittsburgh and UConn — on the road.
Now, after ending Syracuse's magical Big East match zip on Saturday night, Pitino's gang has as much affirm as anyone to the better reason in the NCAA tournament.
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