SU ncaa tournament average performance over different buckets of years

[Millhouse]

How to explain this...

I counted up NCAA tournament wins by year and added 1 for simply making the tournament. I start back to 1980

So if you make it and lose the round of 64, you get 1. (first round exit is better than NIT) win it all, you get 7.

Then I average that score over 2 years, 3 years... up to 10 years.

(so obviously the earliest 10 year average starting in 1980 would be ending in 1989... 1980-1989)

Number of Years Max Seasons
2 5.00 2004
3 4.00 1989
4 3.75 1990
5 3.40 1990 2013
6 3.17 1989 1990 2014
7 3.14 1990
8 3.00 1990
9 2.78 1991 1992 2004
10 2.90 1996


sorry about formatting.

Point is that even with this early exit this year, we can say it's tied for the best 6 year stretch of avg tournament success we've had (2008/09 through 2013/14)

 

[rrlbees]

When you make a post, or more, every day slicing and dicing some stat......you just might be a nerd. [using my best Jeff Foxworthy voice]

 

[Forza Azzurri]

How to explain this...

I counted up NCAA tournament wins by year and added 1 for simply making the tournament. I start back to 1980

So if you make it and lose the round of 64, you get 1. (first round exit is better than NIT) win it all, you get 7.

Then I average that score over 2 years, 3 years... up to 10 years.

(so obviously the earliest 10 year average starting in 1980 would be ending in 1989... 1980-1989)

Number of Years Max Seasons
2 5.00 2004
3 4.00 1989
4 3.75 1990
5 3.40 1990 2013
6 3.17 1989 1990 2014
7 3.14 1990
8 3.00 1990
9 2.78 1991 1992 2004
10 2.90 1996


sorry about formatting.

Point is that even with this early exit this year, we can say it's tied for the best 6 year stretch of avg tournament success we've had (2008/09 through 2013/14)

You are correct. Only thing missing over the last 6 years is the ultimate prize.

That is why I am perfectly happy with the program. Other than 2003, I've never had it so good.

I wonder if many of the posters on the board who are currently less-than-satisfied, to put it politely, are younger and, therefore, were not around for the multiple disappointingly early eliminations as a high seed of the 1980-1991 period...

Can you imagine if this board existed in 1991 after enduring the disappointments of Richmond, Minnesota, Rhode Island, Navy, Virginia & Iowa and two NITs over an 11 year span with no championships?

I picture posters' faces melting like in the Ark of the Covenant scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark...