Other teams that can argue they lost in a close game to a team that lost to a team that's now in the elite 8 include such luminaries as UAB, St Mary's, Nebraska or Wisconsin, Kentucky and Colorado or Oakland and Florida (depending on the results tomorrow), potentially Samford

Seems like a lot to assume that if we'd had one extra bucket we also would have beaten Illinois and Iowa St. Obviously would have been nice to have the chance, but definitely not a guarantee we would have