all team sports informationAll team sports information want's to know who will be an underdog in this weekend’s quartet of men’s college basketball finalists no matter the No. 1 seed each carries into the championship round of the season. Every squad can’t be a favorite.
It is nitpicking to find faults with four teams with an average record, when rounding out the numbers, of 36-2. But when four top seeds get to the Final Four for the first time ever, all team sports information is trying to find reasons why one team may not win it than why one will prevail.
All team sports information reports that one or more of the coaches who lead these nearly perfect teams - North Carolina, UCLA, Kansas and Memphis are looking for ways to motivate them. Memphis coach John Calipari even admitted as much Friday afternoon when he took his turn before the media on the podium in the bowels of the Alamodome.
So his Tigers record is 37-1, most analysts picked us to lose, said Calipari.
“I’ve always said that [being picked to lose] can be an inspiration…I’m not in there saying, ‘They don’t want us; we’re going to show them.’ I don’t do that.”
All team sports information found this quote: “Now, the other programs are more highly thought of than Memphis, and they should be.”
The coach with the team that has the best record in the country doesn’t want his players to be thought of as anything more than the underdog.