Those were the days when mostly tourney champs went dancing, very few at-large berths. 22-25 teams made the dance in '74. SCAR had consistently ranked Top 5 teams from '69-74 but up until '72 the ACC cock-blocked Carolina from the dance. In '72 we left the ACC because of it and around that time decided we were going to be a baseball and football school.

It's taking us awhile to regroup. We'll have a fine basketball program again one day.

NCAA Basketball Tourney - History of Expansion of Field

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Posted by Tennessee Jed

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Posted on 1/21/14 at 2:07 pm to scrooster

Arkansas' has a relatively inflated number, they weren't competing with UK when there was only 1 tournament berth per conference.

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Posted by Mizzou Fan in Da ATX

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Posted on 1/21/14 at 2:10 pm to scrooster

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Those were the days when mostly tourney champs went dancing, very few at-large berths. 22-25 teams made the dance in '74. SCAR had consistently ranked Top 5 teams from '69-74 but up until '72 the ACC cock-blocked Carolina from the dance. In '72 we left the ACC because of it and around that time decided we were going to be a baseball and football school.

I thought your BJ McKie (sp?) team in the 1990s was really good and always felt bad that they got upset twice in the first round and never won a game.

Well, I mean, I did feel bad, before I met you.