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[QUOTE="Hoov50, post: 200148, member: 1056"]
I agree with your assessment. Here is the list and my thoughts (for what they are worth):
2011- Marquette (even though they were a lower seed, I didn't like the possible matchup when the bracket was released)
2010- Butler (with Onuaku wouldn't have thought twice, but with him out they scared me from the moment I saw the bracket)
2009- Oklahoma (very good team, thought we would have to play very well to win)
2006- Texas A&M (thought we would win but losing to a B12 team isn't a What loss)
2005- Vermont (big time What loss!)
2004- Alabama (thought we should win the game beforehand)
2001- Kansas (wasn't surprised)
2000- Michigan St. (only What part was that we were up by 15 and didn't score the rest of the game!)
1999- Oklahoma St. (8/9 game was a toss up)
 
You don't always get the best teams advancing in a tournament format. That is the one advantage the BCS format has over tournament formats. In the BCS you are guaranteed to get two of the best teams in the championship game. You may have years were another team or two could say they are "as good" as the two teams, but the two playing are top teams.
 
In NCAA Basketball in most years you are getting the teams that have the most favorable matchups in the tournament and/or are hot at the right time. Without looking back I would say in the last 10 years one of the "best" teams has only won 5 of those years and on top of that I would bet that in those 5 years they weren't playing another of the "best" teams in the championship game.
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