re: E8: Purdue 72 Tenn 66 Final

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NC State is not a fluke. And those teams hate each other - should be a great game

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I think they've been fortunate with their matchups. They haven't played a single team above 150th in possession/game metric. I look at them and see one of those teams that doesn't want to go up and down because they're good but not great at guard and their bigs probably would run into a fitness issue.

With that said, Duke is another team that doesn't really naturally push pace and I don't think it would be in their best interest to do it either. So I think NCST has a great shot of making the Final Four. Houston was not a high tempo team but they - like UCONN - have the versatility to play multiple styles. Fortunately for NCST, Snead got injured and they drew Duke instead.