From another website that digs into our schedule. Shocker, it has to do with this newly magical Quad setup. And also holds Brad responsible for scheduling several teams who SEVERELY underperformed this year (Louisville, South Carolina among them).
Clemson is not a lock. Clemson is not even necessarily on the right side of the bracket! Clemson just beat the hell out of NC State again Thursday night, 80-54, and for the second time in two weeks, too — they won in Raleigh, 96-71, on Feb. 25 — and that is a good thing to have done. Clemson may yet get in. But the notion that Clemson HAS TO BE IN is silly, and a person holding that belief could be easily disabused by looking at Clemson’s team sheet. This team has played 12 games against Quadrant 1 and 2 teams; it was won seven times. It has played 20 games — 20! — against Quadrants 3 and 4, and lost four times. It scheduled so badly in the nonconference (rank: 335) that Brad Brownell almost had to have tried. There is nothing about this team that is a lock or a sure thing or anything else beyond a bubble team that beat N.C. State badly and maybe needs to beat Virginia Friday to get in.
Clemson is not a lock. Clemson is not even necessarily on the right side of the bracket! Clemson just beat the hell out of NC State again Thursday night, 80-54, and for the second time in two weeks, too — they won in Raleigh, 96-71, on Feb. 25 — and that is a good thing to have done. Clemson may yet get in. But the notion that Clemson HAS TO BE IN is silly, and a person holding that belief could be easily disabused by looking at Clemson’s team sheet. This team has played 12 games against Quadrant 1 and 2 teams; it was won seven times. It has played 20 games — 20! — against Quadrants 3 and 4, and lost four times. It scheduled so badly in the nonconference (rank: 335) that Brad Brownell almost had to have tried. There is nothing about this team that is a lock or a sure thing or anything else beyond a bubble team that beat N.C. State badly and maybe needs to beat Virginia Friday to get in.
