—I haven’t seen anyone excuse Underwood for yesterday’s performance.
—Wisconsin is an historically old college basketball team. That was a huge benefit early this season with the reduced prep time due to Covid protocols. But they ended up being relatively worse than last season despite returning everyone because a bunch of other teams that weren’t ancient improved throughout the season.
—Transitive results (especially across many months) is iffy evidence at best. ‘Member how many Illini fans were convinced without a doubt that Illinois was better than UNC because UNC lost to Santa Clara in late 2004?