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Boeheim’s record as a double digit seed. Best winning percentage of all time .
not bad for an old guy who time has passed by. As we see with Zona and UVA its not easy to win in March but Jimmy keeps doing it.Boeheim’s record as a double digit seed. Best winning percentage of all time .
Of course, four of those wins came in 2016. No reason why he can't get a few more this year.Boeheim’s record as a double digit seed. Best winning percentage of all time .
Well there is a reason why we may not, Battle, Oshae, and Howard combining for only 29. We need at least two of them to combine for 30 or more to take down Mich St imo. They def came through in the clutch though. Battle and Howard's shots in the lane taking us to 52-49, 54-49 were as clutch as you can get.Of course, four of those wins came in 2016. No reason why he can't get a few more this year.
I wish Mr. Boeheim was my boss.
This is my comfort zone. I was the middle child.
How many times have we been a double digit seed?
Boeheim’s record as a double digit seed. Best winning percentage of all time .
Only these last two appearances
That's kind of shocking. I mean, we've been to something like 40 tournaments. I can't believe these last 2 years are the only 2 years we've scraped in with a double digit seed.
Based on memory and a quick review (a horrible automatic-bid 14-loss Arkansas team in 2000, for example), I think it's been uncommon for all big-league schools to get double-digit seeds. There were a couple sprinkled in here and there, but historically for the most part a school from a good conference either got a single-digit seed or wasn't in the field at all.
Now that we've got four more spots in the field and this new play-in system, we're seeing a lot more mediocre P5 teams getting 10 and 11 seeds. And the 11s are reserved for that type of team. So that's why we're new to this. If there had been 68 teams in 1997 and 2007, we'd probably have been a 10 in those years, too.
Going back to random years (our title game years)
03: Bama 10 seed, Arizona St. 10 seed, Colorado 10 seed, Auburn 10 seed
96: BC 11 seed, Oklahoma 10 seed, Kansas St 10 seed, Texas 10 seed
87: NC State 11 seed, LSU 10 seed, Arizona 10 seed
It seems you'll find at least 2 or 3 out of the 8 seeds but you're right - definitely seeing more now.
But I think it really does speak to how solid of a program we have to have avoided being a double digit seed for so long and performing well as a double digit seed if it comes to that
Yeah, that's funny, I started to do research after I made my bold proclamation as well. Looks like 2 or 3 were standard through the late '90s - a lot of Purdues, FSUs, Miamis, Washingtons. So I'm a little off here.
Based on memory and a quick review (a horrible automatic-bid 14-loss Arkansas team in 2000, for example), I think it's been uncommon for all big-league schools to get double-digit seeds. There were a couple sprinkled in here and there, but historically for the most part a school from a good conference either got a single-digit seed or wasn't in the field at all.
Now that we've got four more spots in the field and this new play-in system, we're seeing a lot more mediocre P5 teams getting 10 and 11 seeds. And the 11s are reserved for that type of team. So that's why we're new to this. If there had been 68 teams in 1997 and 2007, we'd probably have been a 10 in those years, too.