I'm trying to make myself completely bonkers so I started looking at some stats comparing Self's NCAA tournament success(?) with that of his predecessor. There's no other reason than that I'm totally bored.
In Roy's time here, we lost to an 7 seed once, an 8 seed once and a 9 seed once. We lost to a #1 seed 5 times, a 2 seed once, a 3 seed once and a 4 seed three times.
We went to the Final Four twice, to the Championship game twice. We bowed out in the Elite Eight once, the Sweet Sixteen four times. We stumbled in the second round twice and never once lost an opening game.
So far, in the BS era (no pun intended), we have lost to a 14 seed once, a 13 seed once, an 11 seed once, a 10 seed once, and a 9 seed once. We have lost to a 4 seed once, a 3 seed once, a 2 seed twice and a 1 seed one time.
We've gone to the Final Four twice, to the Championship game twice. We've bowed out in the Elite Eight three times, and the Sweet Sixteen twice. We've stumbled in the second round twice and fallen flat on our faces twice in the opening game.
And - oh yeah, we have that National Championship.
I'm not implying anything, I just think it's strange that we've lost to so many lower seeded teams in the past 11 years.
