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Message: [QUOTE="TinyManInside, post: 4205787, member: 1251"] Bottom line is that if he posted a 59% win percentage from day one as a coach, there is no way he would have made it to year 46. The people who contend that regular season winning percentage doesn't matter because of the F4 and two Sw16s in that stretch also never acknowledge the total nothing-burger NCAA tourney failure of the other 5 years. Kudos to JB for having that tourney success given the bubble status of each of those years; it is literally unprecedented in the history of the tourney and a true testament to his ability as a HOF coach. That said, the last time I ran the numbers (I think 3 years ago), 52% of all Final Four teams since 1985 were either 1 or 2 seeds so there is a direct statistical correlation between being a dominant regular season team and turning it into post-season success. [/QUOTE]