If the NCAA is a complete crapshoot...

[MUSF]

...then explain this information tweeted by Jay Bilas

Nine of Sweet 16 coaches have taken teams to the Final Four: (Coach K, Williams, Pitino, Izzo, Calipari, Huggins, Ryan, Kruger, Marshall).

Among the Sweet 16 coaches, five have won National Championships (Coach K, Williams, Pitino, Izzo, Calipari). Combined, they have won ten.

The best coaches and best programs do consistently well in the tournament.  In a given year, the best team may lose but over a long enough timeline, the best will have tourney success.

[Nukem2]

It's called RECRUTING.  Survival of the "fittest".

[chapman]

Must have a lot of fiber in their diet.

It's called RECRUTING.

That anything like recruiting?

[bilsu]

Recruiting is part of it, but there is plenty of talented teams that never make it. It is more about team building and preparing a team to be a tournament team. Coaches like Izzo know how to do that.

[The Equalizer]

...then explain this information tweeted by Jay Bilas

Nine of Sweet 16 coaches have taken teams to the Final Four: (Coach K, Williams, Pitino, Izzo, Calipari, Huggins, Ryan, Kruger, Marshall).

Among the Sweet 16 coaches, five have won National Championships (Coach K, Williams, Pitino, Izzo, Calipari). Combined, they have won ten.

The best coaches and best programs do consistently well in the tournament.  In a given year, the best team may lose but over a long enough timeline, the best will have tourney success.

I believe each of those those coaches have lost to a lower seeded team--some of them multiple times.

The "crapshoot" comment is the response to those who would look at, say, Mercer beating Duke and use that as  absolute proof of some nonsense such as Coach K is a lousy coach or a worse coach relative to Lon Krueger.

Sometimes 14 seeds beat 3s, 13 seeds beat 4s, 12 seeds beat 5s, etc.