NCAA Tournament: Conference Records

[bkochmc]

Since this seems to be a favorite topic year-in, year-out I thought I'd put together a running total of conference records. Number of teams for the conference is in parentheses. Percentage is conference winning percentage. I'll do a little more analysis for the power and mid-major conferences as time permits me.

Records through Round 3/Round of 32:

Power Conferences
ACC (4): 7-1, 88% (0 losses to lower seed) - Only power conference where all teams will have at least 1 win (Clemson won 1st round and lost in 2nd round).
Big 10 (7): 7-5, 58% (1 loss to lower seed)
Pac-10 (4): 4-3, 57% (1st round loss)
SEC (5): 4-3, 57% (1 loss to lower seed)
Big East (11): 9-9, 50% (6 losses to lower seed)
Big 12 (5): 4-4, 50% (1 loss to lower seed)

Mid-Majors and Conferences with Wins
Horizon (1): 2-0, 100%
Mountain West (3): 4-1, 80%
Colonial (3): 4-2, 67%
A-10 (3): 3-2, 60%
WCC (1): 1-1, 50%
OVC (1): 1-1, 50%
Southland (1): 1-1, 50%
Big South (1): 1-1, 50%
MAC (1): 0-1, 0%
WAC (1): 0-1, 0%
C-USA (2): 0-2, 0%

The Rest
America East (1): 0-1
A-Sun (1): 0-1
Big Sky (1): 0-1
Big West (1): 0-1
Ivy (1): 0-1
MAAC (1): 0-1
MEAC (1): 0-1
MVC (1): 0-1
NEC (1): 0-1
Patriot (1): 0-1
Southern (1): 0-1
Summit (1): 0-1
Sun Belt (1): 0-1
SWAC (1): 0-1

 

[Tlangs]

Mid Majors are looking good so far.

 

[bkochmc]

Updated. Great second day for the Big Ten by going 4-0 and have so far won all the games they should have won, at least according to the seeding committee.

 

[bkochmc]

For historical purposes, here are the records from rounds 1 and 2. I'll do the same thing for each of the next rounds. The first post will have the running total records.


Horizon (1): 1-0, 100%
WCC (1): 1-0, 100%
OVC (1): 1-0, 100%
ACC (4): 4-1, 80%
Colonial (3): 3-1, 75%
Pac-10 (4): 3-1, 75%
A-10 (3): 2-1, 67%
Big 10 (7): 5-2, 71%
Big 12 (5): 3-2, 67%
Mountain West (3): 2-1, 67%
Big East (11): 7-4, 64%
Southland (1): 1-1, 50%
Big South (1): 1-1, 50%
SEC (5): 2-3, 40%
MAC (1): 0-1, 0%
WAC (1): 0-1, 0%
America East (1): 0-1, 0%
A-Sun (1): 0-1, 0%
Big Sky (1): 0-1, 0%
Big West (1): 0-1, 0%
Ivy (1): 0-1, 0%
MAAC (1): 0-1, 0%
MEAC (1): 0-1, 0%
MVC (1): 0-1, 0%
NEC (1): 0-1, 0%
Patriot (1): 0-1, 0%
Southern (1): 0-1, 0%
Summit (1): 0-1, 0%
Sun Belt (1): 0-1, 0%
SWAC (1): 0-1, 0%
C-USA (2): 0-2, 0%

 

[bkochmc]

Round 3/Round of 32:

ACC (3): 3-0, 100%
Mountain West (2): 2-0, 100%
SEC (2): 2-0, 100%
Horizon (1): 1-0, 100%
A-10 (2): 1-1, 50%
Colonial (2): 1-1, 50%
Big Ten (5): 2-3, 40%
Big 12 (3): 1-2, 33%
Pac-10 (3): 1-2, 33%
Big East (7): 2-5, 29% (Only wins against another Big East teams)
OVC (1): 0-1, 0%
WCC (1): 0-1, 0%

 

[bkochmc]

Updated running total and Round 3/Round of 32 posts.

 

[majorpayne27]

VCU is playing great, so it's probably not fair to complain, but I wish Purdue had at least sort of showed up to play yesterday. It wasn't even competitive.

 

[jlb1705]

VCU is playing great, so it's probably not fair to complain, but I wish Purdue had at least sort of showed up to play yesterday. It wasn't even competitive.

Sure it's fair to complain. The supposed Big Ten Coach of the Year, Player of the Year, and an additional first-team selection should've been enough to get the job done on a de-facto home floor against an 11th-seeded VCU team no matter what kind of roll they're on.

There's no way to spin it - that was a flaming dogpile of a performance.

 

[MaxBuck]

What happened to all the talk of the "weak ACC" this season? The only league left with 3 teams still standing; they are not now, nor have they been all season, weak. Once again conventional wisdom proves to be stupid.

 

[SloopyHangOn]

What happened to all the talk of the "weak ACC" this season? The only league left with 3 teams still standing; they are not now, nor have they been all season, weak. Once again conventional wisdom proves to be stupid.

I think the argument would be that top to bottom the ACC has the least depth as a conference. Every conference has talent in the upper half, but I think the ACC's bottom half was unintelligibly bad this year, especially compared to conferences like the Big Ten, Big East and Big XII.

 

[BuckeyeNation27]

What happened to all the talk of the "weak ACC" this season? The only league left with 3 teams still standing; they are not now, nor have they been all season, weak. Once again conventional wisdom proves to be stupid.

maybe conference wars are stupid....

 

[BrutusBobcat]

maybe conference wars are stupid....

That part about six losses to a lower seed is pretty rough, huh?

 

[FCollinsBuckeye]

maybe conference wars are stupid....

Bull[Mark May]

 

[MaxBuck]

... I think the ACC's bottom half was unintelligibly bad this year, especially compared to conferences like the Big Ten, Big East and Big XII.

I think it was more a matter of Wake Forest being so bad they acted like a dwarf star, pulling other ACC teams down by the vast density of their suckitude.