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Old 03-27-2008, 08:31 PM
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National championship not our goal...

Everyone knows that winning a national championship requires three things, at least: 1. a very good team; 2. playing your best BB over a specific 2-3 week period; 3. LUCK,....and plenty of it.

Item 3 cannot be over emphasized. Rarely does the "best" team win the title.

UD's stated goal is to consistently field a team that is in a position to compete for the national championship. The wording is important. "Consistently" means not once in a lifetime;....but, something on the order of 4-5 times in a decade. The word "compete" is important. To be in a position to compete for the title the team has to be in the NCAA tournament. So, another way to interpret our goal is to say that we strive to be in the Dance on a reasonably consistent basis, again, on the order of 4-5 times a decade, about half the time.

Finally, just making the Dance doesn't put you in a position to compete for the title. But, teams that get through the first two games can claim that they are competing for the title, along with 15 others.

Thus, our goal is to become a regular in the Dance and to play our way deep into the tournament, i.e., to be among the Sweet 16.

Is that reasonable? Of course! Two teams in TK's defined peer group have accomplished it, Xavier and Villanova. Xavier is in the Sweet 16 for the second year in a row, if memory serves me; and Villanova has made the Sweet 16 three out of last four years. Neither has won the title over that period; neither has made the Final Four, again, if memory serves. But, by any reasonable measure XU and VU are highly successful programs on a consistent basis. They have earned national recognition and are positioned among the nation's elite programs. Indeed, they have achieved our goal,....with no more in the way of resources or institutional commitment.

We can do it. The nagging question that haunts me is why we are having such a struggle in view of how very hard we try.
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