The Owls have been seeded fourth or higher four times. In three of those years, they failed to get past the first weekend. That happened last year, when they were the second seed in the East and got eliminated by 10th-seeded Seton Hall in the second round. It was probably Chaney's most disheartening loss in almost two decades on North Broad Street. Now, it seems like familiar times.
Breaks are important.
So is tradition. Few folks think the Owls will move on to the regionals in Atlanta. But as they've demonstrated, strange stuff can certainly occur when it becomes survive or turn the uniforms in. We're a team a lot of teams don't like to play. Even in a year when the Owls had to successfully defend their Atlantic 10 Tournament title to extend their string of consecutive NCAA appearances to a dozen.