..group either."

I think it really would've come down to how healthy could we have been in the tourney. We sort of flopped in the WCC tourney game vs SMC but if you remember we were really beat up. AB was nursing a wrist injury on his shooting hand, Harding was slowed by the bad knee, Baxter was trying to play his way back into shape, Lee was sick and Nixon was out. Really that left us with a healthy Haws, Childs, Toolson and Seljaas.

It was our worst game of the year (didn't help that it was also TJ's worst game of the year) but really an anomaly. We were looking at nearly a 2 week break before the NCAA tournament so lots of time for dinged up guys to get healthy. Getting our role players back would've made a huge difference. Go back and look at our early season results in games vs SDSU, Houston, UCLA, VT, Utah St...even vs Kansas (despite not having Childs we trailed by 2 at half). We were tough to defend even for teams with elite talent and we played really good team defense.

If we were able to get healthy in that break before the NCAA tourney I think, depending on where we get bracketed, we surprise some teams and at least get to the Sweet 16.