MU is now alone at number 6 for longest current streak of tourney appearances, with 8 years in a row. Look at the company we keep. Impressive.
Kansas 23 years - 1990..2012
Duke 17 years - 1996..2012
Michigan State 15 years - 1998..2012
Gonzaga 14 years - 1999..2012
Texas OUT 14 years - 1999..2012
Wisconsin 14 years - 1999..2012
Marquette 7 years - 2006..2012
Xavier OUT 7 years - 2006..2012
BYU OUT 6 years - 2007..2012
Louisville 6 years - 2007..2012
Purdue OUT 6 years - 2007..2012
Temple 5 years - 2008..2012
West Virginia OUT 5 years - 2008..2012
Florida State OUT 4 years - 2009..2012
Missouri 4 years - 2009..2012
Ohio State 4 years - 2009..2012
Temple fixed- thanks, all
Didn't Temple make it this year? #9 in the East
Quote from: LloydMooresLegs on March 17, 2013, 06:10:33 PM
MU is now alone at number 6 for longest current streak of tourney appearances, with 8 years in a row. Look at the company we keep. Impressive.
Kansas 23 years - 1990..2012
Duke 17 years - 1996..2012
Michigan State 15 years - 1998..2012
Gonzaga 14 years - 1999..2012
Texas OUT 14 years - 1999..2012
Wisconsin 14 years - 1999..2012
Marquette 7 years - 2006..2012
Xavier OUT 7 years - 2006..2012
BYU OUT 6 years - 2007..2012
Louisville 6 years - 2007..2012
Purdue OUT 6 years - 2007..2012
Temple OUT 5 years - 2008..2012
West Virginia OUT 5 years - 2008..2012
Florida State OUT 4 years - 2009..2012
Missouri 4 years - 2009..2012
Ohio State 4 years - 2009..2012
Temple is in as a 9 seed in the east
Still awesome that we're #6 on this list.
Also, Buzz is five for five at MU.
Wonder how many coaches have gone 5 for their first 5?
Quote from: LloydMooresLegs on March 17, 2013, 07:38:34 PM
Wonder how many coaches have gone 5 for their first 5?
Jamie Dixon comes to mind.
Quote from: monkeyman34 on March 17, 2013, 06:14:16 PM
Still awesome that we're #6 on this list.
And tops in the BEast.
Quote from: warriorchick on March 17, 2013, 07:48:26 PM
And tops in the BEast.
That is nice on the way out of the conference but I'd take two NITs in that time period if it came with a Final Four and Elite Eight in the other six seasons.
Gonzaga may be on that list for the next 20 years
Quote from: ChicosBailBonds on March 17, 2013, 09:08:12 PM
Gonzaga may be on that list for the next 20 years
Because they'll continue to be awesome or because of their weak conference? Both?
Quote from: ElDonBDon on March 17, 2013, 09:10:00 PM
Because they'll continue to be awesome or because of their weak conference? Both?
I would say both.
They have name recognition so they can get way better recruits then anyone else in the generally weak WCC (Excluding St. Mary's).
Therefore I don't see them not winning the conference for quite a while.
Thank you Steve Cottingham!
I think getting consecutive #3 seeds is pretty impressive as well. Especially with the changes at the top end of the roster from last year.
And since we're on the topic of streaks, let's go get our third consecutive S16.
Quote from: MDMU04 on March 17, 2013, 11:32:53 PM
I think getting consecutive #3 seeds is pretty impressive as well. Especially with the changes at the top end of the roster from last year.
And since we're on the topic of streaks, let's go get our third consecutive S16.
Doubt we'll be below a three seed next year either. We're in the middle of a great run here.
This is how programs get built.
What years did we miss?
03-04 and 04-05?
Quote from: Avenue Commons on March 18, 2013, 08:15:28 AM
What years did we miss?
03-04 and 04-05?
Yes. NIT runner up and NIT first round exit.
Quote from: Victor McCormick on March 18, 2013, 08:44:55 AM
Yes. NIT runner up and NIT first round exit.
NIT Elite 8 and NIT first round exit.
We were NIT runner up in 1995.
Quote from: The Lens on March 18, 2013, 09:00:40 AM
NIT Elite 8 and NIT first round exit.
We were NIT runner up in 1995.
Correct. Until the legendary Ace Cuspin of VA Tech nailed last second FTs, we would have been the Champs. Well, champs of the NIT, but still......
Quote from: The Lens on March 18, 2013, 09:00:40 AM
NIT Elite 8 and NIT first round exit.
We were NIT runner up in 1995.
My bad. I thought we at least made it to New York in 2004. At what point does that happen?
4 teams go to New York.
Quote from: Avenue Commons on March 18, 2013, 01:08:03 PM
Correct. Until the legendary Ace Cuspin of VA Tech nailed last second FTs, we would have been the Champs. Well, champs of the NIT, but still......
I was at a bar in Bloomington, IN while in grad school, cheering on the Warriors. They all thought I had 7 eyeballs cheering for a NIT tournament game. This was during the Bob Knight days and IU, though down, was still a yearly NCAA participant. MU always comes first with me. That game set back the game of basketball several decades. I recall we shot like 40% from the free throw line and just as bad from the field....that ultimately killed us.
I think it was Shawn Smith who hit the free throws, by the way. Faisal fouled him with under a second to play. Va. Tech beat us twice that year.
More impressive in my mind is that we were the only team after the creation of the Big East as best basketball conference ever assembled to make the tournament each year. It's remarkable how even in "down years", which easily could have been our first Big East year starting 3 freshmen, the Lazar year after losing the Amigos, and this year losing 2 NBA players, we still end up in the tournament, and do it in the best conference in the country. Certainly no mean feat.