(11-04-2016 09:46 AM)Frog in the Kitchen Sink Wrote:  Surprised there are only 5 more than 6 in a row, as it seems like mostly the same teams every year. But just takes one bad year to drop off the list, I guess.

Yep...Arizona had one of 25 straight recently and Texas had one of 15-17 straight. It's hard, all it takes is one bad coach or one series of graduations/early defections. Even North Carolina has missed the Dance 3 times since 2000 and Kentucky 2 times in the last decade. That makes it all the more remarkable what Kansas has done, all those years without a dropoff or even a year as a bubble team. Duke too but they did have one slipup.

Some might say Gonzaga just beats up on a weak conference but they've only relied on the WCC auto-bid 1-3 times in those 18 years and are usually a single digit seed, so for as much as I criticize them as not being a legit top tier program, they are a legit NCAA Tournament team the overwhelming majority of the time.