Iona faced a 8, 5 and 11 seed in their conference tourny, no one remotely good as the other teams they struggled against lost early. They got blown out the gym to QU and Siena in January, barley beat Fairfield twice, lost to Rider, lost to New Mexico and lost to a very very bad SMU team that is 10-22 this season.
During their 14 game win streak I hear people mention they beat Mt. St Mary's 3 times, Manhattan twice, Marist twice, Rider, Canisius, Siena QU, St Peters, Niagra, and Fairfield once. Yes its their conference but its a bad conference.
Even with Pitino they will lose by 15 and be happy.