Post by dylanrocks on Apr 8, 2006 10:41:39 GMT -6
That's right, if you go by NCAA tournament performance over the past four seasons.
Here by overwhelming popular demand (OK, one very good friend requested the data) are the victories in the Big Dance by conference the past four seasons against teams seeded sixth or higher (roughly, the top 25):
They are revised and updated though Florida's national championship victory over California-Los Angeles. A very good friend of mine that works with numbers suggested this as a way of measuring a team's true performance, untainted by anything other than the biases native to a seeding system:
1, Big East: 16 (24 teams)
2, ACC: 10 (19 teams)
2, Big 12: 10 (20 teams)
2, SEC: 10 (23 teams)
5, Big Ten: 7 (19 teams)
5, C-USA: 7 (16 teams; all but one of the wins by former members)
7, Pac 10: 6 (15 teams)
8, Horizon: 5 (5 teams)
9, Atlantic 10: 3 (10 teams)
9, Colonial: 3 (5 teams)
9, WAC: 3 (7 teams)
9, Missouri Valley: 3 (11 teams)
13, West Coast: 1 (6 teams)
13, Big Sky: 1 (4 teams)
13, Big West: 1 (5 teams)
13, Mountain West: 1 win (10 teams)
13, Patriot: 1 (4 teams)
13, Metro Atlantic: 1 (4 teams)
13, Southland: 1 (4 teams)
13, Mid-American: 1 (4 teams)
13, America East: 1 (4 teams)
Obviously, these include only the leagues (21 of 31) that have posted at least one victory against a No. 1-6 seed over the last four seasons.
Here are a few quick observations:
1, The Pac 10 had just two such wins until California-Los Angeles registered three "top 25" victories during its run to the national title game -- vs. No. 3 Gonzaga, No. 1 Memphis and No. 4 LSU -- and Washington downed No. 4 Illinois this season in a subregional final.
2, For all the regional press it receives, the MAC has failed to get more than one team into the tournament each of the last four years, and notched its only win when Central Michigan knocked off No. 6 Creighton in a first-round game in 2003.
3, Proportionately, the Mountain West Conference has performed the worst and the Horizon League the best over the last four years.
4, Remember, these are only victories achieved against teams seeded Nos. 1-6, so we are aware that, for instance, Gonzaga has won five tournament games over the last four seasons. All but one, this season's victory over No. 6 Indiana, came against a team ranked eighth or lower.
Here by overwhelming popular demand (OK, one very good friend requested the data) are the victories in the Big Dance by conference the past four seasons against teams seeded sixth or higher (roughly, the top 25):
They are revised and updated though Florida's national championship victory over California-Los Angeles. A very good friend of mine that works with numbers suggested this as a way of measuring a team's true performance, untainted by anything other than the biases native to a seeding system:
1, Big East: 16 (24 teams)
2, ACC: 10 (19 teams)
2, Big 12: 10 (20 teams)
2, SEC: 10 (23 teams)
5, Big Ten: 7 (19 teams)
5, C-USA: 7 (16 teams; all but one of the wins by former members)
7, Pac 10: 6 (15 teams)
8, Horizon: 5 (5 teams)
9, Atlantic 10: 3 (10 teams)
9, Colonial: 3 (5 teams)
9, WAC: 3 (7 teams)
9, Missouri Valley: 3 (11 teams)
13, West Coast: 1 (6 teams)
13, Big Sky: 1 (4 teams)
13, Big West: 1 (5 teams)
13, Mountain West: 1 win (10 teams)
13, Patriot: 1 (4 teams)
13, Metro Atlantic: 1 (4 teams)
13, Southland: 1 (4 teams)
13, Mid-American: 1 (4 teams)
13, America East: 1 (4 teams)
Obviously, these include only the leagues (21 of 31) that have posted at least one victory against a No. 1-6 seed over the last four seasons.
Here are a few quick observations:
1, The Pac 10 had just two such wins until California-Los Angeles registered three "top 25" victories during its run to the national title game -- vs. No. 3 Gonzaga, No. 1 Memphis and No. 4 LSU -- and Washington downed No. 4 Illinois this season in a subregional final.
2, For all the regional press it receives, the MAC has failed to get more than one team into the tournament each of the last four years, and notched its only win when Central Michigan knocked off No. 6 Creighton in a first-round game in 2003.
3, Proportionately, the Mountain West Conference has performed the worst and the Horizon League the best over the last four years.
4, Remember, these are only victories achieved against teams seeded Nos. 1-6, so we are aware that, for instance, Gonzaga has won five tournament games over the last four seasons. All but one, this season's victory over No. 6 Indiana, came against a team ranked eighth or lower.