The perception is that somehow they're paper tigers, and they aren't. Everybody needs to hope the higher seeds hold on and win their tournaments. If Gonzaga had gotten beat the other night, that would have taken up one of the other spots.
I thought it was a good day, but we had hoped for a better day.
I thought it was a good day, but we'd hoped for a better day. From my vantage point, I think the story wasn't that we got squeezed out by the real high profile teams, but the questions revolve around teams that look like us.
I think we're excited we finally got an at-large team in. But it's been bittersweet because we thought we had a third team that looked very much like, if not better, than some of the teams that got in.
