(12-29-2012 11:19 AM)rosewater Wrote:  

(12-29-2012 10:59 AM)CincyBro Wrote:  

(12-29-2012 01:00 AM)Melky Cabrera Wrote:  

(12-26-2012 11:30 PM)bearcatlawjd Wrote:  

(12-26-2012 10:48 PM)Melky Cabrera Wrote:  Yeah, I stretched the 25 years a little for Nova and Georgetown because the original post I was reacting to said "25 years or so." So, since 1984 (29 years):

Cincinnati ---- 16 tournaments, 4 Sweet 16's, 3 Elite 8's, 1 FF, 0 NC
Villanova ----- 17 tournaments, 5 Sweet 16's, 3 Elite 8's, 2 FF, 1 NC
Georgetown -- 20 tournaments, 9 Sweet 16's, 6 Elite 8's, 3 FF, 1 NC
Georgia Tech - 15 tournaments, 6 Sweet 16's, 3 Elite 8's, 2 FF, 0 NC

Where does Cincinnati have the edge over any of the 3 teams you're complaining about?

Let me throw out someone who didn't make my list:

Temple ------- 22 tournaments, 5 Sweet 16's, 5 Elite 8's, 0 FF, 0 NC

I had a very tough time leaving Temple off the list. Except for their 1 Final four, where does Cincinnati have any advantage over Temple? If you want to talk about body of work, Temple had 22 seasons in 29 years that were good enough to get them into the tournament and were ranked #1 for a good part of the year in at least one of those seasons. I'd say that's a pretty good body of work.

29 years is different from 25. If you start at the 1990's Cincinnati belongs in the top 25 easy. What schools had more conference championship than Cincinnati during that period. Cincinnati during its Great Midwest and C-USA days competed with Marquette, Memphis, Louisville (C-USA only), and out classed them all from 1992-2002. Check out the number of top 25 and 15 finishes for Cincinnati during that period too.

I would have put Temple on the list too because I value consistency.

I picked up on your sugestion and I looked back, starting in the 1990's and I agree that in that time frame Cincinnati belongs in the top 25. Here's my top 30 for 1990-2012:

1. Kentucky
2. North Carolina
3. Duke
4. UConn
5. Kansas
6. Michigan State
7. Florida
8. UCLA
9. Arizona
10. Arkansas
11. Syracuse
12. Louisville
13. Ohio State
14. Maryland
15. UNLV
16. Texas
17. Indiana
18. Oklahoma State
19. Memphis
20. Michigan
21. Wisconsin
22. Cincinnati
23. Butler
24. Georgia Tech
25. Oklahoma
26. Temple
27. Utah
28. Georgetown
29. West Virginia
30. Illinois

Your getting close Melky, nice to see someone take other opinions without getting all offensive, nice work.What about the Zags?

Why is Oklahoma State so high

Here is OK State's resume for the 23 years in question:

15 tournaments, 6 Sweet 16's, 3 Elite 8's, 2 Final Fours