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- Wilmette, IL
is it laughable that Groce got to the NCAA 50% of the time while Drew got there 40% and that Groce was the only one to get past the second round? Heck, Drew has never won an NCAA tournament game. The only reason he got to the second round was because the committee named the first four the "first round". Drew gets a lot of weight from a schedule that has a weak Horizon since Butler left in 2012.
Come on. Billy Bean explained how the playoffs are a crap shoot, even when you're playing multi-game series like in baseball. A lose-and-go-home tournament like the NCAAs, where matchups can swing advantages wildly in different directions, is even worse. Just because a 14 beats a 3 doesn't mean the 14's coach is a "better" coach. And just because a guy goes 0-3 with 13 and 14 seeded teams doesn't mean he's lousy and will never have tournament success.
If Groce had a pedestrian regular season record, but won some tournament games, does that mean he became a better coach during those games? Or is it more likely he had good matchups, dictated by the whims of the committee? Yes, he gets credit for the wins, as he should. But surely those three wins don't tell you more about him than the 141 other games he coached at Ohio.