... but they also beat Alabama by 15 on a neutral court, so it's not like I'm a skeptic that they could've, y'know?

St. Mary's was also the highest rated in all the analytics of all the 5 seeds-- beat San Diego State neutral and the Zags at home, probably the best pair of wins any of the 5 seeds had entering the tournament. I think they're insanely well-coached, they just have a bit of a talent deficiency probably when it comes to the tourney and facing one of the more physically imposing teams in the tourney.

I think Texas's path is super easy-- Penn State, Xavier, and Miami are all great offenses, bad defenses, and Texas seems especially built for those matchups.