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[QUOTE="domestu, post: 250733, member: 1089"]
I'm a big fan of Jim Boeheim but his teams have clearly underperformed in the NCAA Tournament. For your imformation, SU had teams that were ranked in the top 8 before the late 80s. The Louie and Bouie teams were ranked in the top 8 going into NCAA three times and they all suffered lopsided losses to big underdogs. SU was 26-3 and ranked 6th in the polls in 1977 when they lost to UNC Charlotte 81-59. In 1978, SU lost its opening game to Western Kentucky. The 79 team was 26-3 and ranked 8th in the polls when they lost to 9 seed Penn 84-76. Syracuse was 26-3 and the 1 seed in the East in 1980 when they lost to 5 seed Iowa 88-77.
 
Boeheim never won more than one game in the tourney before 1987 and only two of those losses came to a team with a higher seed. We had a 3 seed in 1984 when 7 seed Virginia beat the Cuse in the Meadowlands but our most crushing exit was the 2 seed 1986 team that lost by double digits in the Carrier Dome to a Navy team they had destroyed by 22 points earlier in the season.
 
I could continue through all of our NCAA performances but the point is this. Boeheim has had an incredible record at Syracuse but he has done much better during the regular season than in the NCAAs. He has won a total of eight games in the NCAA Regionals during his career and has gotten to the Elite 8 five times. Rick Pitino has made it to the Elite 8 ten times and four of those have come since 2005 at Louisville.
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