After a one-and-done loss to Marquette in the Big East tournament, the Red Storm’s postseason hopes hung in the balance for more than a week.
Waiting, despite a season-defining road win over UConn, two key home wins over Creighton and Marquette, the lack of a Quad 3 or Quad 4 loss, and a NET ranking within the top 60. Was that all enough to make up for the team’s very soft non-conference schedule to clinch an invite to the Big Dance?
“It was awful,” the Big East Coach of the Year quipped during media availability on Monday, “You’re yelling at teams you don’t even coach and players you don’t even know… My son was asking me every minute, ‘are we going to get picked’?