03-04-2023, 01:16 PM
IMHO, I think we are more vulnerable to a Sweet 16 upset this season that we have been in the last couple years. I can definitely see a grinding, hungry, maybe mid-major program seeing a uncertain Stanford team as a tremendous opportunity to pick up a big win and doing what UCLA did us last night.
But I can also see the team giving us a string of closer than comfortable wins en route to a third consecutive Final Four trip as well. Let's face it, if we are going to make a deep postseason run, it will be our defense that will carry us through. Our offense is not scaring anyone at this point. We'll have to prepare for closer than usual victories, potentially even in the first couple rounds and then have a lot of antacids ready starting in the second weekend.
A lot of the other potential #1 or #2 seeds that we could play in the Elite 8 could knock us out -- besides South Carolina, which is obvious and I don't think we would be matched in the same quarter of the bracket as they would -- Indiana, Maryland, UConn, LSU, Iowa and Virginia Tech, I think Indiana, UConn and Iowa would be most formidable for us to face.
But I can also see the team giving us a string of closer than comfortable wins en route to a third consecutive Final Four trip as well. Let's face it, if we are going to make a deep postseason run, it will be our defense that will carry us through. Our offense is not scaring anyone at this point. We'll have to prepare for closer than usual victories, potentially even in the first couple rounds and then have a lot of antacids ready starting in the second weekend.
A lot of the other potential #1 or #2 seeds that we could play in the Elite 8 could knock us out -- besides South Carolina, which is obvious and I don't think we would be matched in the same quarter of the bracket as they would -- Indiana, Maryland, UConn, LSU, Iowa and Virginia Tech, I think Indiana, UConn and Iowa would be most formidable for us to face.