Semi-Annual Sweet 16 Impotence Thread...

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TLDR: Insult to Injury Thread. We are now tied for the 12th longest run of impotence in the power conferences.

This is among teams that have been in a basketball Power Conference for awhile. I haven't recompiled all of the data for the conference shuffling on down on the bottom tiers of the power conferences in basketball. Kind of still unclear what's what with the American/Big East split, other than the BE still being very good.

Team(last sweet 16 appearance) - This year:
Arkansas(1996) - 8-seed
Mississippi State(1996)
Georgia(1996)
Arizona St(1995)
Depaul(1987)
Oregon St(1982)
Rutgers(1979)
Virginia Tech(1967) - 9-seed
Colorado(1963)
South Florida(n/a)
Nebraska(n/a)
Northwestern(n/a) - 8-seed

 

[Hoover Dawg]

Cal went in 1993 and 1997. Jason Kidd.

 

[DawgatAuburn]

TLDR: Insult to Injury Thread. We are now tied for the 12th longest run of impotence in the power conferences.

This is among teams that have been in a basketball Power Conference for awhile. I haven't recompiled all of the data for the conference shuffling on down on the bottom tiers of the power conferences in basketball. Kind of still unclear what's what with the American/Big East split, other than the BE still being very good.

Team(last sweet 16 appearance) - This year:
Arkansas(1996) - 8-seed
Mississippi State(1996)
Georgia(1996)
Arizona St(1995)
Depaul(1987)
Oregon St(1982)
Rutgers(1979)
South Carolina(1973) - 7-seed
Virginia Tech(1967) - 9-seed
Colorado(1963)
California(1960)
South Florida(n/a)
Nebraska(n/a)
Northwestern(n/a) - 8-seed

Chris Collins, Buzz Williams and Bobby Hurley are pretty good bets to break those streaks before us.

 

[BiscuitEater]

This is among teams that have been in a basketball Power Conference for awhile. [/QUOTE]

Respectfully .. think you mistaken, when you include the SEC (not named Kentucky) 'amongst' a list of "basketball Power Conferences.' The SEC = KY BB + a couple of bracket 'fillers' dating back to '07 or so.

Florida had a nice run under Billy Donovan in '06 & '07. Earlier, the hogs under Nolan made it the championship game in both '94 & '95 and won it in '94. BUT, other than that, SEC teams (not named Ky) are a pretty much a rarity in the 'final four.'

MSU celebrates (and rightfully so) our '96 final four appearances that was ~21 years ago. OM still celebrates their lone 'sweet 16' that was like `16 years ago.