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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 2010289, member: 289"] The first year the NCAA tournament was seeded was 1979. A #1 seed is projected to make it to the Final Four. A #2 seed should lose in the Elite 8. #3 and #4 should fall in the Sweet 16. #5-8 would lose in the round of 32. #9-16 are supposed to lose in the Round of 64. Of course that doesn’t necessarily happen. The point is: how much have we exceeded those expectations or fallen short of them? We get one point for every round we made it to that we weren’t supposed to get to and another for each Final Four game we win. We lose a point for each round we fall short when we don’t make it to the projected round. We get nothing if we lose when we were supposed to. The tournament Had 40 teams in 1979 so there were 8 preliminary games involving teams seeded 7th-10th. In 1980-84 there were 48th teams and 32 of them had to play in the first round. They were seeded 5th or lower. 1979: We were seeded #4 so we were supposed to lose in the Sweet 16 – and we did. = [B]0[/B] [B]Points[/B] 1980: We were seeded 1st and supposed to go to the Final Four. We lost in the Sweet 16 again. = [B]-2[/B] [B]Points[/B] 1981-82: We were in the NIT. 1983: We were seeded 6th and expected to lose in the Round of 32, which we did. = [B]0 Points[/B] 1984: We were seeded 3rd and expected to lose in the Sweet 16, which we did = [B]0 Points[/B] 1985: We were seeded 7th and expected to lose in the Round of 32, which we did = [B]0 Points[/B] 1986: We were seeded 2nd and expected to lose in the Elite 8 but lost in the Round of 32: [B]-2 Points[/B] 1987: We were seeded 2nd and expected to lose in the Elite 8 but went to the National Championship Game = [B]+2 Points[/B] 1988: We were seeded 3rd and expected to lose in the Sweet 16 but lost in the Round of 32 = [B]-1 point[/B] 1989: We were seeded 2nd and expected to lose in the Elite 8 and we did = [B]0 Points[/B] 1990: We were seeded 2nd and expected to lose in the Elite 8 but lost in the Sweet 16 = [B]-1 Points[/B] 1991: We were seeded 2nd and expected to lose in the Elite 8 but lost in the Round of 64 = [B]-3 Points[/B] 1992: We were seeded 6th and expected to lose in the Round of 32, which we did = [B]0 Points[/B] 1993: We were on probation. 1994: We were seeded 4th and expected to lose in the Sweet 16, which we did = [B]0 points[/B] 1995: We were seeded 7th and expected to lose in the Round of 32, which we did = [B]0 Points[/B] 1996: We were seeded 4th and expected to lose in the Sweet 16 but went to the National Championship Game = [B]+3 points[/B] 1997: We were in the NIT 1998: We were seeded 5th and expected to lose in the Round of 32 and lost in the Sweet 16 instead = [B]+1 Point[/B] 1999: We were seeded 8th and expected to lose in the Round of 32 but lost in the Round of 64 instead = [B]-1 Point[/B] 2000: We were seeded 4th and expected to lose in the Sweet 16, which we did = [B]0 Points[/B] 2001: We were seeded 5th and expected to lose in the Rounds of 32 and did = [B]0 points[/B] 2002: We were in the NIT 2003: We were seeded 3rd and expected to lose in the Sweet 16 but won the National Championship = [B]+4 Points[/B] 2004: We were seeded 6th and expected to lose in the Round of 32 but lost in the Sweet 16 instead = [B]+1 Point[/B] 2005: We were seeded 4th and expected to lose in the Sweet 16 but lost in the Round of 64 = [B]-2 Points[/B] 2006: We were seeded 5th and expected to lose in the Round of 32 and lost in the Round of 64 instead = [B]-1 Point[/B] 2007-2008: We were in the NIT. 2009: We were seeded 3rd and expected to lose in the Sweet 16 and we did = [B]0 Points[/B] 2010: We were seeded 1st and expected to lose in the Final Four but we lost in the Sweet 16 instead = [B]-2 Points[/B] 2011: We were seeded 3rd and expected to lose in the Sweet 16 but lost in the Round of 32 instead = [B]-1 Points[/B] 2012: We were seeded 1st and expected to lose in the Final Four but lost in the Elite 8= [B]-1 Point[/B] 2013: We were seeded 4th and expected to lose in the Sweet 16 but lost in the Final Four instead = [B]+2 Points[/B] 2014: We were seeded 3rd and expected to lose in the Sweet 16 but lost in the Round of 32 instead = [B]-1 Point[/B] 2015: We were on probation. 2016: We were seeded 10th and expected to lose in the Round of 64 but lost in the Final Four instead = [B]+3 Points[/B] That’s 30 years in a seeded NCAA tournament. We’ve exactly matched expectations 11 times and thus gotten no points for those years. We’ve exceeded expectations 7 times for a total of +16 points. We’ve come up short of expectations 12 times for -18 points. That’s a net of -2 points. Overall, it’s about what you would expect, I guess. I think the achievement is being in 30 NCAA tournaments over that time and getting those seedings. A coach builds a foundation for a program. After that it's up to the players, the other team, the refs and Lady Luck. [/QUOTE]

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