Let me be clear, since this take is drawing a lot of attention.
This is a horrific loss. There is no way any ISU team should ever, ever lose this game at home - period. It is arguably a fire-the-coach-on-the-tarmac type of loss. There is no defending losing this game, and I'm not attempting to.
I just don't think that, without Haliburton, it's this Virginia-UMBC magnitude of loss that I'm seeing comparisons to. I'll just leave it at that, because at this point we're just arguing over the placement of deck chairs on the Titanic anyway.
I just wanted to make clear that I'm as mortified about losing this game as anyone else.