I also said (on this board) the only team on the entire left side of the bracket I would pick UM to lose to was UNC, it was a terrible matchup. But that if Providence or Texas A&M could upset UNC, UM was going to the national title game. So while it's looking to be true, its the weird prediction that could never actually be proven right. It could be proven wrong by UM beating UNC, or UM losing to someone other than UNC. But it could never be right. Because, like this, it will not prove UM couldn't have beaten UNC if given the chance, and if they had lost to UNC, it could never have been proven theybwould have otherwise beaten anyone else. But that's how I felt, even without the total.bracket meltdown. Even if they had been forced to go through Xavier and Virginia or Cincinnati, I would have picked UM. But with a road of Montana-Houston-Texas A&M-FSU-Loyola, nobody here wouldn't have picked them.
I do feel bad for Purdue fans. I think they were the best Big Ten team, and with nothing to show for it. They lost the conference title to MSU because MSU had an easier schedule, they beat UM 2 of 3 times, but the one loss was the one that cost them a banner, then they were given a path that would have required beating 3-1-1/2 to get to a championship game, while UM will get there playing nothing higher than a 6. You have to be both lucky and good, and Purdue had both Matt Painter and zero luck.