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2690617, He was anointed because of one tourney run and his name.
Posted by Frank Longo, Thu Mar-14-19 05:12 PM
Let's be honest. He won the Atlantic 10 ONCE. Routinely the eighth best conference, and he won it once in six years. His best year in KenPom, he ranked 39th. After his Elite Eight run-- which *was* impressive, make no mistake!-- he won one tourney game in the next three years, including losing the last two years consecutive first round games as the higher seed in a 7/10 match.

If he wasn't Sean Miller's brother, the buzz wouldn't have been that crazy.

Meanwhile, Holtmann took a sub-.500 Butler team and made them into the 6th seed the very next season. Got to a 4 seed by his third year. Won at least one NCAA Tournament game *every year* at Butler. Didn't win the Big East-- cuz it's Villanova-- but came in second twice in his three seasons.

Holtmann always had the more obvious resume than Archie. It's why I thought OSU fans should've been relieved when they got Holtmann in the first place.