1). Committee members said that if we’d have beaten Minny in the BTT, we were in. Committee members. You were probably using Kenpom.
2). Not sure what you mean by light years. But CC must utterly suck to be 1-5 with light years better talent. BC was four for four at one point.
Bottom line: the kids cc has recruited would all have one less star if cc had played at northwest juco. There’s a duke bump. His first full team.... essentially sucks. Next year looks even worse. So, maybe he gets the kids he wants (which is excellent and half the battle), but maybe he’s not a great judge. And if you think he is a great judge (i.e. the recruits are “talented”), then it’s a poor omen for what he can do even with talent.
Anyway, these kids visibly mope, visibly give up, whine and get distracted. This isn’t a BC vs cc thing , or a BC, cc thing at all. This is a soft, not very talented team. And if not for last years historically weak schedule, we’d be discussing cc’s replacement right now, instead of how great he is, and other nonsensical things like- how do we keep Duke from stealing him.
This is one of the worst Indiana teams ever. They were playing subs with 15 minutes to go.
I’m not anti CC. I am saying he is a middle of the pack coach who is learning on the job (at our expense, literally and figuratively, if you donate to the school).