jfish26 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 8:47 am
twocoach wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 7:05 pm
Sparko wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 6:43 pm
Gonzaga in a crap league is able to pretty much play for post-season. Not a bad strategy looking at the phalanx of tough games in the Big 12 this year. Have to be really deep to escape alive. This team was buried alive.
The Big 12 wasn't as good as it has been this year. This year, KU didn't have a single time where they played back to back games against ranked Big 12 teams in conference play. 2020 was the only other season since 2013 where that happened.
KU just didn't have enough good shooters, or for that matter, enough good players this year to overcome the McCullar injury.
I feel like a very big part of the Big 12’s reputation as the best league in the country assumes that Kansas is 1- or 2-seed quality.
And that is usually a safe assumption.
Usually.
The "average seed per tourney team" is interesting to me. This year was pretty solid with Houston, ISU, Baylor and Kansas all getting Top 4 seeds. Adding in a 1 and a 6 new this year in Houston and BYU dropped our average from what it would have been without them. Next year, we'll drop Texas' 7 seed and add Arizona's 2 seed and Colorado's 10 seed.
Number of ncaa tourney teams/avg. seed:
2024: 8 teams, avg. seed: 4.75
2023: 7 teams, avg. seed: 4.2957
2022: 6 teams, avg. seed: 5.1667
2021: 7 teams, avg. seed: 4.00
2019: 6 teams, avg. seed: 5.8333
2018: 7 teams, avg. seed: 6.2857
2017: 6 teams, avg. seed: 5.6667
2016: 7 teams, avg. seed: 4.1429