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Nothing will cheapen the first ACC Title........and don't typically


even respond to this type of comment, as I am never sure how to interpret what someone is even thinking when you read this type of thing. Choke does not even come to mind when thinking about this team. Since January 26 (the Miami home loss), we have basically been playing in "play-in" types of scenarios each night we took the floor. We won 13 of our final 16 games, and that included the epic 4 wins in four days for an ACC Championship. And nothing about that title was cheap. We went through a 1,2, and 3 seed, and took out Duke and NC in back to back nights. Not only did we take out Duke in the finals, the storyline behind the Duke game was literally historic in the utmost fashion, and the viewership with that game was top shelf. So, we handled pressure, and handled it with grace and like a pedigreed program.

We played an equally talented (leaning even more talented) school in the NCAA tournament, a higher seeded team, and one of the iconic brands in college athletics. Yes, Texas is the 11th highest NCAA tourney appearing program in college basketball, with 36 appearances.....We didn't win. Losing does not equate choking. Not sure why that would be hard to discern.
Of course it would have been nice to keep on playing, and don't think anyone disputes that....Am 100% positive no one in our Athletic Department thinks anything cheapened our title. And the fact you put "cheapen" and ACC Championship in the same sentence lets me know it is not understood how hard it is to win a title. When that banner is unveiled this coming fall, it won't have first round loss listed anywhere on it.......

(In response to this post by Nelsoncohokie)

Posted: 03/25/2022 at 3:20PM



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