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Originally Posted by Goatnapper'96
Danny Ainge's 4 years in Provo:
77-78 No tourney invite
78-79 First round choke
79-80 First round choke
80-81 BYU's last visit beyond round 2 and won as many tourney games as they have since.
Even the great Danny Ainge was part of back to back choke 1st round losses. I think that was with a great supporting cast, by BYU standards. What do we learn from this? BYU's NCAA tourney history has sucked ass for a long time and that all is not lost for next year.
I still believe this team was better than it showed against aTm, and if/when they get that monkey off their back it could be good ride. Even Archaea might smile.....
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Just to be completely accurate, 79 and 80 were second round chokes. We got first round byes those years. In 79 we were the 5 seed and lost to the 4 seed in the second round. It was our first game, but not the same type of team we would have played in our first game under today's 65 team format. In 1980 we were the 3 seed and lost to 6 seeded Clemson who had just beaten 11 seed Utah State in the first round.