(04-01-2014 11:51 AM)Teakwood Wrote:  I was looking through a more contemporary prism, rather than all time. If you look at the past nine seasons plus the present one (that approach takes one appearance away from X!), sweet 16s are as follows:

7 - Michigan State & North Carolina
6 - Duke, Florida, Kansas & Louisville
5 - Arizona, Kentucky, Ohio State & Wisconsin
4 - Connecticut, Memphis, Syracuse, Tennessee, UCLA, Villanova, West Virginia & Xavier
3 - Baylor, Butler, Marquette & Washington
2 - Georgetown, Gonzaga, Indiana, Michigan, NC State, Oregon, Pitt, Purdue, San Diego State, Stanford, Texas, and Wichita State.

Then there are 35 teams with one appearance (including UC).

34 teams have out-performed us in the tourney in the last decade. In my head I associate UC with those teams with 4 appearances, slightly better than those 3 and 2 appearance teams (IU's history makes them the outlier in that group). I'm hoping our tourney performance can start reflecting that.

Bearcats even with their second round losses under Huggins still had a rather impressive period from 1992 to 2002. The gutting of the program hurts when you look back a decade. In the next four to six years I am expecting at least two sweet 16's but I am more concerned with our NCAA seed. I want to make the tournament every season with high seeds because that increases your chances of advancing deep in the tournament at a geographically friendly site.