Azubuike24;1565865 wrote:South Carolina, Georgia, Auburn, etc. These schools are lucky to even get 3,000 fans at any other game yet when UK comes to town, their teams seem to play well-above their capability and their fans are bat shit crazy. Then, the next home game, the place is dead and the let down is on.
For instance, pay attention to the crowd and performance at Vandy today versus Wednesday night when they host Missouri.
The feeling is familiar. Last year, after beating Duke in Charlottesville behind 36 points from Joe Harris, Virginia dropped its next two games to Boston College (7-11 in the ACC) and Florida State (9-9 in the ACC), while Harris scored only 27 points combined.
That's life at "the top." You are everyone's target. That's what makes winning consistently, year in and year out, so impressive. As a Duke fan, when it comes to Coach K, for me, that streak of seven consecutive years ranked in the AP Top Ten (which ended last week) was just as incredible as any number of Final Fours or conference championships on his resume. To annually field a team that plays at that kind of level, despite the ever-increasing expectations that come with so much success and the almost-obsessive pursuit of other programs to bring you down, is just so hard. The same goes for Lute Olson. When I think of Olson's tenure at Arizona, I think of the 23 straight NCAA appearances.
