... is this team was insanely young and lost to an old team. So maybe you could say, "Hey, young teams don't perform as well in this NIL/extra COVID year era, because players with more age and experience have an advantage over younger more talented players!"...

... but in 2022, six of the seven rotation pieces were upperclassmen, and five of them were transfers-- including the Player of the Year-- and they *still* lost in the first round.

So it's not like one can say "oh it's how he recruits, oh it's how he constructs a roster," etc. He's done it a variety of ways, had stars of a variety of ages. The only common denominator? The coaching.