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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 4582927, member: 289"]
Here's the bottom line on the 9 season issue: The regular season is a truer test of a team than the NCAA tournament. it's four months rather than a couple of weeks. THIS WILL BE THE 9TH CONSECUTIVE YEAR IN WHICH WE WILL HAVE NO VOTES FOR THE TOP 25 IN THE LAST POLL BEFORE THE NCAA TOURNAMENT. That's nine straight years of mediocrity, by the standards of this program for the four decades before that. The 2016 run, featuring two big upsets with amazing comebacks and a soda can crushing at the hands to North Carolina in the Final Four got a #10 ranking in the final poll. The 2018 Sweet 16 got up 79 votes, the most of any team not in the Top 25 and the 2021 Sweet 16 got us a #25 ranking. From 2009-2014 we averaged 30 wins and 7 loses. Three teams achieved a #1 national ranking. Our final rankings were 12th, 8th, 18th, 5th, 3rd, and 17th. Our NCAA seeds were 3rd, 1st, 3rd, 1st, 4th and 3rd. Since then, it's 19-14, (the remaining games this year are unlikely to change that average) and our NCAA seeds have been 10th, 11th, 8th and 11th. Which of these is not like the other? Even 2016 is 7 years ago! How long do we wait to admit that this program is not what it used to be?
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