Made the tourney both years at VCU, all but his first year at LSU. Had top 15 offenses three times then reinvented his whole scheme to have a top 10 defense the next year. Has had a losing conference record once in nine seasons.
The LSU team Michigan played in the tourney was really bad defensively, yes. But they also gave a really, really good Michigan team a game.
The thing where he was like “oh my personnel is D focused? aight I’ll just make that elite instead” is pretty impressive. Also think his hit rate despite not paying top dollar is pretty solid.
Braden Huff was a kid I saw play lots of AAU basketball, Seems like most of college basketball didn’t take him that seriously outside of Gonzaga, but the kid can shoot
UConn is a great watch. They are very disciplined defensively, never running to help position prior to help being necessary the way so many teams do today. Gonzaga’s Nembhard is a tough check, but UConn was content to let him try to take his man (often Spencer), which he often did for buckets. UConn seemed fine with that, opting to allow a few easy 2’s rather than running around like crazy people and allowing open 3’s like, ahem, some teams do. Personnel matters but I love that style of defence and it makes so much sense in today’s kick-and-snipe environment.