Letters to the Editor
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I 'd Like To Share The Optimism
About Louisville. But this Texas A&M looks pretty serious to me. They were 13-4 in conference with their 4 losses being 70-68, 77-75, 98-96, and 57-56.
I'd say any team from a major conference that can make it through their entire conference schedule, regular season and tourney, without one loss of at least 7 to 10 points is pretty damn special. All road games are tough as hell now and you just have to figure that one time you are going to be off your game and the opposing crowd is going to spur their team on to a great performance (maybe even some ref home cooking)and you are going to get a loss with some degree of seperation. You know A&M, like anyone else, had to have some poor shooting nights, or were in serious foul trouble early in the game, or just did not have their normal focus on a given night. Yet they won them or played them to the buzzer.
Anyone who has all wins and just a few extremely close losses, has to be taken very, very, seriously in my book. It means when they take the court it's a pretty good bet they will either win or be in a position to win at the end.