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Bad non conference losses by NCAA tournament teams last year

LVH

LVH

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Here is why you shouldn't overreact to one bad loss in non conference play. One questionable non conference loss does not mean your NCAA hopes are over, that you are destined to finish in the bottom of the league, that the season is lost.

Virginia Tech - 8 seed, Lost to Saint Louis who finished the year 17-16 and 9-9 in the A10

Alabama - 9 seed, Lost to UCF who finished 19-13 and 9-9 in the AAC

Florida - 6 seed, lost to Loyola Chicago at home before people knew they were good. I don't think Lipscomb this year is as good as Loyola was last year but Lipscomb is definitely an under the radar team right now.

St. Bonaventure - Made NCAA tourney as an at-large 11 seed despite home loss to Niagara.

Arkansas - Lost by 26 at Houston yet still made tourney as a 7 seed.

Purdue - Lost to Western Kentucky, still made tourney as a 2 seed.

Seton Hall - 8 seed. Lost to a Rutgers team that went 3-15 in the Big 10

NC State - 9 seed, Lost to Northern Iowa who went 16-16 and UNC Greensboro(who last year I think was comparable to Lipscomb).

Clemson - Lost to 17-16 Temple, yet still made tourney as 5 seed and made Sweet 16.

Auburn - Also lost to Temple, made tourney as 4 seed.

TCU - Lost to 12-20 Vanderbilt, still made tourney as 6 seed

Missouri - 8 seed, lost to 14-18 Illinois

Houston - Lost to Drexel who finished 13-20, still got 6 seed.

Providence - Lost to 13-20 UMass, 10 seed.

North Carolina - Lost at home to Wofford that finished 4th in the Southern Conference. 2 seed.

Kansas State - Lost to Tulsa, got in as 9 seed, made Elite 8

Arizona - Lost to SMU who went 17-16, got 4 seed.

Miami FL - Got 6 seed despite losing to New Mexico State by 9 on a neutral floor.

Loyola Chicago - Made Final Four despite 34 point losses to Boise State and 17 points to Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Nevada - At large 7 seed despite loss to San Francisco(9-9 in West Coast Conference)
 
Eight

Eight

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the team will have enough chances to prove their merit over the rest of the season.

the concern is whether the team does what needs to be done in improving in their areas that have been weak points through the first 4 games while developing an identity
 
Bizarro Frog

Bizarro Frog

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Lipscomb swept TCU & SMU. Not a bad road trip for them. Great thing about College Hoops is you can lose and still have a shot.

Go Frogs!!!
 
BleedNPurple

BleedNPurple

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Teachable moment for Jamie- he sounded level headed last night after the game. Still have a lot of work to do - this team is young. That Lipscomb team is a Senior team. Agree - will be an acceptable loss but we need to get back on a roll. Don’t know who this team thought they were playing last night after blowing up Fresno but there are no gimmes or games off!
 
Froggy Style

Froggy Style

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This wasn't a bad loss...Lipscomb pretty good. Unfortunately, we've got several more coming from unexpected places. People underestimate how clutch KW and Vlad were. Vlad was kept us from having long stretches without scoring.
 
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MTfrog5

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Froggy Style said:
This wasn't a bad loss...Lipscomb pretty good. Unfortunately, we've got several more coming from unexpected places. People underestimate how clutch KW and Vlad were. Vlad was kept us from having long stretches without scoring.
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KW would have shut Matthews down if he was still here. This would have been a really good win come March just like a lot of those early games last year did. I’m not worried as we will have plenty of opportunities, but we have to beat SMU. They lost again and will end up being a bad loss if we lose that one
 

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