??? Really? Did the voters not watch any of the tournament? Loyola of Chicago coach sounds like a better choice .
Bennett coach of the year..
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One game shouldn't taint a historic run in the ACC & the regular season. What Bennett did this year in the ACC was unprecedented.
Or Beilein. This has been Beilein’s best coaching season at Michigan. Took a team outside of most preseason top 25s to a 32 win season, big ten tournament title, and final 4.
When it’s the biggest choke job in NCAA tournament history it at the very least deserves some consideration. We aren’t talking about Virginia losing a March madness classic to a deep-run Cinderella team. We are talking about Virginia getting blasted by 20 points to a 16 seed.
Nothing against his run, but it did hit a wall. Better choices.
I know losing a key player shouldn't be enough to cause a #1 team to get pantsed by a #16, but I still think that Virginia loss deserves a very tiny asterick because of the Hunter injury.
I get it. And Beilein has been getting some love from some other outlets and I'd have no problem if they chose him over Bennett. But the way they ran through the ACC this was impressive. Hard to ignore. The loss to a 16 is bad. Really bad. But the regular season success coupled with the clean sweep in the ACC tournament trumps that IMO. I really like Beilein though.
COY is all about who overachieves the most.
Bennett losing in the first round to a 16-seed is considered overachieving for him.
Bennett losing in the first round to a 16-seed is considered overachieving for him.
Are you serious? I wasn't aware of that fact.
The point is that there's no way we should have been a 1-seed this year. We overachieved by a large margin. And there's literally no way we would have been a 1-seed without Hunter. It doesn't excuse the loss. The loss is an atrocity and will be forever linked to Bennett and UVA. But COY shouldn't be stripped away from Bennett because of one horrific game either.
Okay. So they were overrated. So what? That happens all the time because they won the ACC. The most over-rated conference.
Wow. Not only were they a 1 seed they were the friggin' number one 1 seed.
You can't get by the fact that his overrated team, who won the ACC regular and tourney championship, was the first 1 to lose to a 16.
Hell every ACC guy on this board was justifying Virginia being a 1 seed.
Sorry.
Bennett is a choke artist and utter joke nowadays but, this award was voted before the tournament started. With this in mind, there’s no way he wouldn’t have won it given the regular season success. Just like Dirk Nowitzki won MVP despite getting upset by 8th seeded Golden State in 2007. It’s meant for regular season.
Damn, Bennett has you boys triggered as ****. Love it.
Go ahead and love it. You coach is the first 1 seed to lose to a 16.
I would think that you are the poor sucker that is triggered as ***.
LOVE IT?
If it about overachieving I don't understand why Chris Beard didn't receive more votes. Texas Tech went from a predicted preseason finish of 7th in the Big 12 to challenging for the Big 12 regular season and a trip to the Elite 8.
Chris Beard
2016–17 Texas Tech 18–14 6–12 T–7th
2017–18 Texas Tech 27–10 11–7 T–2nd NCAA Elite Eight
He's not even a finalist for the Naismith Coach of the Year award.
The first round hadn't happened yet when they voted.
Normally, I'm the first one to pull the "coaching ability shouldn't be judged by tourney flameouts" card, but making history by getting rolled by a 16 has to subtract some points.
Guys, this is correct. The voting was done before the tournament had started. Which I'm sure is done to keep it from being a "who had the best NCAA tournament story" award.
If I were a fan of the team to lose to a 16 seed I wouldn’t be posting on any basketball message boards trying to get validation for my coach getting COY.
If I were Bennett I’d throw it in the trash along with anything else that could possible remind me of the season and game
If I were Bennett I’d throw it in the trash along with anything else that could possible remind me of the season and game
Sry If I’m biased but Tennessee went from being picked 13th in the SEC to finishing 13th in the nation
Yet we just gave it to a coach that lost to a 16 for the first time ever
Good article and quotes from Bennett
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...all-coach-of-the-year/?utm_term=.cab12e9c6fe2
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...all-coach-of-the-year/?utm_term=.cab12e9c6fe2
Namely the idiot who keeps pimping Loyola even though the ink was already dry.
What's dumb is trying to justify a OaD tourney as a measuring stick for an entire season.
Does anyone really believe
Villanova
Kansas
Michigan
and Loyola
were the four best teams in cbb this season?
The NCAA doesn't include tourney performance in determining it's "best".
LoL to the fans who do.
It's the method NCAA basketball uses to crown it's national champion and thus should carry some weight.
Well it doesn't to the NCAA voters..
That should tell you something.
The tourney carries weight, fans make sure of it.
But, in determining who's "best" only mental midgets believe that ish.
In determining who the best team is? I agree.
But when most coaches have making the final / winning a national championship / etc. in their goals, I think reaching those goals should be considered when talking about who had the best coaching season.
Eh, they let 351 teams pretend to be on the same level..
They dgaf about a true anything.
I don't disagree with that. But I also don't think a poor NCAA tournament should discredit a historic coaching season either. UVA was actually historically good and bad this year. UVA became the first team to win 17 games in the ACC and the first team to go 9-0 on the road in the ACC. UVA won the ACC by 4 full games. UVA went from unranked in the preseason to #1 in the nation. UVA won both the ACC regular season and conference tournament. But UVA also became the first 1-seed to lose to a 16-seed and by 20 points.
I would have been fine if another coach won the award and I am pretty damn certain Bennett doesn't give a shit about the award. I just think it's ridiculous to discredit him winning the award based on one game, considering he had so many other historically good accomplishments.
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