RE: PLAY FOR CRONIN
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.
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