Have they figured out the draw? .. I felt that was their biggest weakness during the recent tournament runs.. they could never get one when they needed it.
Tournament runs? Did I miss something? What tournament runs?
Come on Bruh... you can be a hater but at least acknowledge some pretty decent recent results..
2019 lost in 2nd round to eventual champion Maryland, after beating the previous years champion JMU in round 1 2018 Lost in Quarter finals in O.T. to tournament runner-up B.C 2017 Lost Lost in Quarter finals to tournament champs Md by 1
Not a hater at all. IMHO... A "Tournament Run" would be getting to the Final Four or maybe even the Championship game.
Stony Brook is an excellent program, certainly one of the 15 Best Programs in the country (over the past 8-9 years). That said, They have been given way too much hype. Based on all the hype... Stony Brook has actually under achieved when it matters most in the NCAA Tournament.
Some are already starting with "This could be their best team ever".... They haven't played A single game (who knows if they will?).
Here is reality:
2013: # 10 at end of regular season. # 11 in the final Poll.. : They were 16 - 2 going into the tournament. - They Lost to Maryland in the round of 16.
2014: # 20 at end of regular season. # 20 in the final Poll.. : They were 16 - 3 going into the tournament. - They Lost to Syracuse in round of 16.
2015: # 6 at end of regular season. # 11 in the final Poll.. : They were 18 - 1 going into the tournament. - They Lost to Princeton in round of 16.
2016: # 7 at end of regular season. # 8 in the final Poll.. : They were 15 - 3 going into the tournament. - They Lost to Syracuse in round of 16.
2017: # 4 at end of regular season. # 4 in the final Poll.. : They were 18 - 1 going into the tournament. - They Lost to Maryland in round of 8.
2018: # 1 at end of regular season. # 5 in the final Poll.. : They were 19 - 0 going into the tournament. - They Lost to Boston College in round of 8.
2019: # 15 at end of regular season. # 12 in the final Poll.. : They were 15 - 4 going into the tournament. - They Lost to Maryland in the round of 16.
2020: ,,,,,,,,,,,
In reality between the hype machine JS is and their weak schedule they will almost always be overrated. In season the fact that every year they beat a good team or 2 and everyone thinks they are better than they are failing to take into account some of these better teams they are playing usually have little time to devote to beating SB as they need to worry more about in conference games unlike SBU
Not sure the weak schedule point is accurate the past few years. SBU does not play a difficult conference schedule but it appears as though they do their best to play a competitive non-conference schedule (at least the past few years). 2018 they had USC, Stanford, Denver, Northwestern, Towson, Hopkins, Penn State.
2019 they had Denver, Towson, Stanford, Princeton, Florida,Hopkins, USC, Penn State, Colorado.
2920 they had Syracuse, Florida, Towson, Princeton, USC, Stanford, Colorado, Hopkins.
It is not a Northwestern, Maryland, Virginia etc... schedule but SBU looks like they are doing their best to schedule tough out of conference games.
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