I don't know, man. Paschal's teams in the late 70s and early 80s were as good as any midlevel SEC team, if not better. People, especially basketball people, knew who we were. We weren't that far removed from being highly ranked in the early 70s, Andrew Toney had made Blackham rock again, and when we beat Patrick Ewing and Georgetown in the Great Alaska Shootout, it made waves.
This article has been shared here previously, but it bears repeating:
https://vault.si.com/vault/1981/12/2...-bayou-classic
Right now, we're just a Sun Belt team, a one-bid league that no one expects will make any waves. Beating Tennessee would be more of a shocker to the rest of the basketball world than it would when we beat Oklahoma back in '91.