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Originally Posted by lawrenceRaider
THis championship just feels so much better than 2008. Don't get me wrong, '08 was fantastic. However, I expected to win that year.
This year things seemed to be falling wrong all year, but Bill got the team together and guys got healthy at just the right time and it all came together. I had zero expectations beyond winning a couple games in the tourney.
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Different, absolutely, but I’m not sure I can go with better. 2008 washed away a metric ****ton if bad mementoes. ****ing Steph Curry, the goddamned Handsjob ball washing and the refs that tried to charge UNC back in it. The UCLA crap the year before. ****ing Jarret Jack and Georgia Tech, Bucknell, Holy Cross and Bradley. Arizona, Syracuse, every shred of Roy leaving. All of it was like a river of shit being washed away. Not unlike the playoff run that culminated with the Super Bowl. The first one was big.
This one was a pleasant surprise, but I’m guessing it is how other schools feel when they win it. There were no stakes. No prospect of disappointment. It makes it easier to take in the unbridled joy as a fan, but it is different than getting one you’re supposed to win after 20 years of should have won.
Plus 08 was some of the best basketball I’d seen played. 2022 got hot and it was a hell of a lot of fun but 08 has a special place in my heart.