[teejers1]

NC State won -- a #1 goes down to a #8. Hope the Stanford women take note that it can happen.

The Stanford men, of course, do not need any reminders of this.

It was UNC, making things worse.

For those of you who are too young…

https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/box...olina.html

BC

The similarity in these years was striking:  a massively underseeded UNC team.  The team that beat Stanford made it to the Final Four.  Will this one?   Very possible.  We'll see.  BTW, I was at that game in Birmingham.  The things that chapped the most:  (i) Monty playing Casey (2-12) too much over Mendez (4-4), and (ii) the refs letting UNC's stud two-way athlete, Julius Peppers, play football on the hardwood without any whistles.  There was a particularly brutal knock down/bowl over of a Stanford player, no whistle, leading to turnover favoring UNC and a bucket after that, iirc.  And that game was tighter than final score.

But real bottom line is that UNC should not have been on 8/9 line, if they had stayed healthy and played anywhere near their potential during the regular season.  As soon as the draw came out that year, the coaches knew Stanford was in for a tough R2 game.

[teejers1]

NC State won -- a #1 goes down to a #8. Hope the Stanford women take note that it can happen.

The Stanford men, of course, do not need any reminders of this.

It was UNC, making things worse.

For those of you who are too young…

https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/box...olina.html

BC

The similarity in these years was striking:  a massively underseeded UNC team.  The team that beat Stanford made it to the Final Four.  Will this one?   Very possible.  We'll see.  BTW, I was at that game in Birmingham.  The things that chapped the most:  (i) Monty playing Casey (2-12) too much over Mendez (4-4), and (ii) the refs letting UNC's stud two-way athlete, Julius Peppers, play football on the hardwood without any whistles.  There was a particularly brutal knock down/bowl over of a Stanford player, no whistle, leading to turnover favoring UNC and a bucket after that, iirc.  And that game was tighter than final score.

But real bottom line is that UNC should not have been on 8/9 line, if they had stayed healthy and played anywhere near their potential during the regular season.  As soon as the draw came out that year, the coaches knew Stanford was in for a tough R2 game.