"I thought last night when we won that game against [Texas] and I have several reasons why.
We have five Quad 1 wins. All five of our Quad 1 wins against a top 30 in the NET. We have six wins against the top 40 in the NET.
The opponents that we played against in the non-conference and conference combined have the 9th best defense in the country, and the 35th best offense in the country. So, we didn't play a powderpuff schedule.
We have the number one stretch of schedule of all the bubble teams right now. We have the number one strength of schedule of all of them.
We're 1-0 against the SEC, and that was a true road game at LSU. We're 2-0 against the Big East, and we played Providence on a neutral court. With Bryce Hopkins, their best team, and beat them. We've played six power conference teams in the non-conference, and an American team. So, we didn't duck anybody.
We won seven overtime games, and for some reason, that's being held against us in the NET with the metrics. Because I was told a long time ago, just win the game. Because we didn't win by 30 or 40 against "Quad 4" teams, that's being held against us in the numbers and what the NET shows.
What's not taken into account is that we were missing two guys who could've started for us. And we were trying to figure out who we were trying to figure out who we were in November when those things happened.
Only three of our losses are to non-NCAA Tournament teams. We have nine wins in the number-one league in the country. I said all along, nine wins in this league should get you in. And so last night, when we won, I felt really good about that.
Obviously, I'm not the one making the decision. But we have the most Quad 1 wins and the best Quad 1 winning percentage of any bubble team, except for Texas A&M. And they have four Quad 4 losses.
So, we have no Quad 4 losses, we have one Quad 3 loss and that was to Miami. And when we played Miami, on a neutral site, they were ranked 15th in the country. They weren't the team that Miami is now.
And when we played USC on a neutral site, they were also top 20 in the country. We played the USC team that just beat Arizona the other day. That's the USC team that we played, not the one that had injury problems and lost a bunch of games during the year.
So, when I look at it and I see our body of work - I think about our Quad 1 wins. We have elite Quad 1 wins, three teams were ranked in the top 10 of the country when we beat them. We beat Kansas at full strength. We beat them with Kevin McCullar and Hunter Dickinson. We beat Baylor, and we beat Iowa State. We have elite Quad 1 wins. We have no bad losses.
I felt last night, when we won that game, that gave us our ninth Big 12 win, that we were in the Tournament."
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