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[QUOTE="orange2win, post: 261831, member: 849"]
There has been lots of discussion recently about SU's performance in the NCAA tournament, so I decided to take a look at which programs have been successful in attracting McDAA players. The teams with best players usually win. The McDAA program has been around since 1977 and SU has played in 29 NCAA tournaments since then.
 
I broke the schools into four groups, which I called Elite (30 or more captures); Strong (10 to 29); Decent (1 to 9) and WEAK (zero recruits).
 
Only five schools fall into the Elite group. UNC (62), Duke (53), Kentucky (52) Kansas (32) and UCLA (30).
 
In the Strong category there were 24 schools. SU heads the list with 19, which includes two transfers (Walker & Walton).
 
In the Decent category there are 78 schools.
 
The remaining D1 schools are listed as WEAK, meaning they have never secured a single McDAA recruit ever, Fair to say, Elite and Strong college programs, which are stacked with 4 Star and higher recruits, should never lose to one of these teams in the NCAA tournament
 
This is the SU record. We have lost to Elite and Strong teams 12 times (no shame there). We have lost to decent teams 9 times, which is okay and have lost to no team once - which is super.
 
The problem with our record is that we have lost to WEAK teams on 6 occasions - over 21% of the time. These include UNC Charlotte, Western Kentucky, Penn, Navy, Vermont and Butler. Also, Richmond and Massachusetts have only ever secured 1 McDAA player and so fall at the bottom of the decent teams. This is but one measure, but the data speaks for itself. We are a great program, but underperform in the NCAA tournament.
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