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Message: [QUOTE="DoctahLexus, post: 3022820, member: 6798"] Fun fact: If you go by losses over the past THREE years, we have less losses than every big 10, ACC, and Ivy team except Duke, Penn St, MD, and Yale. I only go by losses because it is hard to control for the varying amount of easy games on each teams schedule. I admit our spot would probably drop if looking at win percentage instead of number of losses, but as I said I don't think that is entirely fair since we play on average a couple less throwaway games a season than most, and our strength of schedule is consistently one of the best in the nation. If you go back five years instead of three I am pretty sure only Duke and MD are ahead of us in terms of record. Actually we have less losses than Duke, but I digress. Playing the record game is not a good enough reason to say SU is not a top team because our regular season performances have actually been pretty impressive, putting us solidly in the 5-8 range of teams nationally each year. Some solid evidence of that is that we had a very solid home game streak in the playoffs post 2012 that just ended this year, with a record that I think would have gotten us a home game in years past, but it was a very tight year with some unfortunate tournament upsets that did not go our way. This includes a number 1 overall seed in 2015 and number 2 overall in 2017. I think arguments that we have fallen below standards we should expect as fans should begin and end with our post season performances, which truly show a trend of us never being able to break out of the 5-8 range of teams and enter the 1-4 tier. We produce a team year in and year out that looks poised to be at least a potential contender for the final four. That is actually quite impressive and uncommon for teams this decade. But we get to the tournament and consistently underachieve. People bring up the a Pasqualoni era of football when talking about the team but I think our current predicament is a lot closer to Tony Bennet's UVA basketball team, BEFORE their team this year of course. We are similar right down to us getting a high end seed without a big name recruit. Here's to hoping that we break out of our tourney slump in a similar fashion. (EDIT:Actually Shay also has a better winning percentage than us over five years as well as three. The guy has been putting together solid seasons for a while now!) [/QUOTE]

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