And the BIG is undefeated. Don't ever recall seeing that since the field went to 64/68. 8-0 I think. Pretty impressive for the conference. Hope a bunch can continue their march the next couple days
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So the first round is complete
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To some extent impressive, but all 8 teams were favored to win so really just none of the 8 got tripped up. The test is the next round.
In general, I don’t think a single-elimination tournament tells us all that much about leagues, so many things can go right or wrong and so much is about the matchups and who gets hot or runs cold.
Well the B1G hasn’t won a Natty in a quarter of a century and neither conference has won a Natty in over a decade. Conferences have been the King of good not great.
If each expands enough, they are bound to win one eventually.
Yes, money invested in the programs makes a difference. Since the turn of the Century, the ACC and Big East have dominated. They have 16 of the 24 Natty’s. Of course, Duke, UConn, Villanova and NC have lead the charge and there isn’t a B1G program that comes close to them over this time period.
We have a major switch of power going on right before our eyes. The SEC was mainly just Kentucky and Florida and once in awhile Tennesee for years. The big was MSU and once in awhile Purdue, Illinois or Indiana. Now the rest of the conference has upped their game due to the investment of resources. It’s likely BOTH conferences get a Natty soon and the National power switches to the Big 2 conferences just like in football. There are rumblings of talks to merge the ACC and Big East after the next TV deal expires to make a super conference for basketball. Those calls will grow louder as the power shifts to the Big 2.
I believe the Big 12 has made some waves during that period as well with 3 wins as well as SEC with 3. But as much as BIG is maligned, they have been in the Championship game 1/3 of the games (8/24) during that period. Conspicuously absent of the major conferences during the period was the PAC with only two appearances in Championship game
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