Team of the century so far

[ChicosBailBonds]

Thanks, Coach Crean, for your 5 wins in 8 years.    Thanks, Buzz, for your 8 wins in 5 years. 

Thanks, Coach Crean for the only Final Four in 30 years.  Thanks for hiring Buzz as well, and leaving him with awesome talent to get his second head coaching gig started off way better than the first.

[JD]

Wisconsin being rated higher than MU is NOT suspect.   No NCAA tourney appearances for MU in 99-00, 00-01, 03-04, 04-05.    Wiscy has gone every year and Bo usually wins until he faces a higher seed....    Ergo, more tourney wins for the Badgers.  

So you're basing your conclusion on the early 2000's and thats it.  Got it.   Team of the Century is what i thought this article was referring to?

Edit... i see now since the 2000's, i stand corrected.  Sorry boss

[tower912]

I'm not basing it on anything.   The author of the story is basing it on NCAA tourney win this century.   By that measure, Wisconsin is ahead 20-13.

[ChicosBailBonds]

Texas is higher than MU......I guess that means if Buzz goes to Texas he is going to a better program

[tower912]

No, it means that Barnes had a really nice run for a few years.   Now his program has fallen on hard times.   

[Silkk the Shaka]

Wisconsin 20, MU 13? Let's get 'er done!

In the Buzz era MU is up 8-6 in tourney wins, 1-0 in conference title wins, 3-2 in head to head matchups. Buzz > Bo.

[Lennys Tap]

Thanks, Coach Crean for the only Final Four in 30 years.  Thanks for hiring Buzz as well, and leaving him with awesome talent to get his second head coaching gig started off way better than the first.

I hate playing your silly "hypocrisy game", but enough already. You excuse eight years of abject failure (one win, opponent scouted by Buzz) because the tournament is a crap shoot (all luck) yet you constantly have your head up TC's backside praising him for one (by your definition) lucky year. You can't have it both ways.

[bilsu]

I would think the NCAA tournament is the ultimate unbalanced schedule. I am not going to look it up, but I guessing in the last 14 years Kansas has been a 1 seed 5 times, a 2 seed 5 times and 3 or higher 4 times. At least 10 of their 37 wins are basically give me games.

[Lennys Tap]

I would think the NCAA tournament is the ultimate unbalanced schedule. I am not going to look it up, but I guessing in the last 14 years Kansas has been a 1 seed 5 times, a 2 seed 5 times and 3 or higher 4 times. At least 10 of their 37 wins are basically give me games.

The schedule is "balanced" because everyone plays either a Thursday/Saturday or Friday/Sunday schedule and nobody plays on their home court. That said, the NCAA doesn't want a crapshoot so they seed the tournament and let the top teams play close to home against the lesser ones. Works pretty well - since 1990, 18 #1 seeds have won it all (2 #2s, 3 #3s, 1 #4) and no team seeded 5th or lower has won the title. Chalk fest, no crapshoot.

[BrewCity83]

So, in a sense, this rating system does give teams credit for regular season success, to the extent that the regular season success gives them a better seed in the NCAA tourney (and an easier path to win some games).

[Lennys Tap]

So, in a sense, this rating system does give teams credit for regular season success, to the extent that the regular season success gives them a better seed in the NCAA tourney (and an easier path to win some games).

Exactly. They take out the "crap" but to win you still have to "shoot".

[keefe]

In fact, it looks like Chicos tried to buy this one for $275, but came up short. (Check the bid history)

http://auctions.cbssports.com/auctiondisplay.cfm/auctionnbr/57833

Jamie! Get up off your wallet and bring this vintage Creanobilia home to the OC!

You're still hosting Thanksgiving dinner, right??

[Eldon]

True, but those who win the tournament are the ones who get to raise the conference champions banner

While its true tgat you can raise a banner for anything (vcu debating raising a "havoc" banner?), its nevertheless true that the Big East media guide only lists the conference tourney champs as its "previous big east champions." Thus, MU was not THE champion of the big east last year, only Louisville was.

The BE is the exception to the rule, where winning the conference tourney is much more prestigious than being the regular season champ.