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re: Every team's first year in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament
Posted on 3/13/24 at 11:02 pm to CarolinaGamecock99
Posted on 3/13/24 at 11:02 pm to CarolinaGamecock99
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The fact northwestern didn’t make it till 2017 is insane
Did they make the NIT pre 1970 though?
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Posted on 3/13/24 at 11:04 pm to Gen Patton
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If I'm not mistaken, didn't LSU make the Final Four with Bob Pettit their first year making the tournament?
Correct
Posted on 3/13/24 at 11:06 pm to Drewbie
quote:Yeah. Kentucky. At that time the NIT was more prestigious than the NCAAT. Check your history books.
Crow all you want. We all know who the true blue blood is now.
Posted on 3/14/24 at 8:14 am to CNB
ala 
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:rotflmao: :rotflmao:Posted on 3/14/24 at 8:49 am to CNB
Interesting. I didn't know the year UGA made the final four was also the first year they made the NCAA tournament (1983).
Posted on 3/14/24 at 9:04 am to tigerbait2010
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Honestly wild how bad the Florida gators were at sports until the 80s they certainly made up for lost time but damn
We were not good esp in football and basketball. Pretty good in baseball and the country club sports. When the SEC was formed, Florida was the least populated state in the conference. In less than 30 years Florida passed every SEC state by.
Posted on 3/14/24 at 9:14 am to Freon
quote:Bobby Cremins was mugged at half court in Raleigh -
Sucks that debatably our best basketball teams never made the tourney because the NC schools are gay cowards
Roche's ankle injury in the semis didn't help things at all in the CG - but the power brokers in GBO weren't letting Frank McGuire's Gamecocks outta Reynold Coliseum that day with the tourney trophy and NCAAT bid after USC's undefeated ACC regular season -
quote:Eddie Cameron & Chuck Erickson at the very top of a long list -
cowards
https://historicnewspapers.sc.edu/lccn/2012218660/1979-09-24/ed-1/seq-14/
This post was edited on 3/14/24 at 9:16 am
Posted on 3/14/24 at 9:30 am to UKWildcats
It's UCLA, then everyone else in regard to banners...
Posted on 3/14/24 at 9:31 am to bigDgator
Interesting. The invention of the air conditioner was a game changer for the state of Florida.
Posted on 3/14/24 at 9:39 am to PrattvilleTiger
It really was. Thank you Willis Carrier.
Posted on 3/14/24 at 9:40 am to CNB
Didn't know we went to the final 4 in our first appearance. Wild
Posted on 3/14/24 at 10:07 am to CNB
Very interesting. Love sports trivia like this.
Posted on 3/14/24 at 10:32 am to CNB
LSU made the Final Four in their first year in the Tournament.
Their regular season's 20-1 (13-0 SEC) record gave them a bye to the Sweet Sixteen, where they won two games to win the East-1 Region.
That team included college and NBA hall of famer Bob Pettit (who still attends pretty much every home game, IIRC) and future Converse president, SEC hoops announcer, and LSU AD Joe "String Music" Dean.
Cool graphic.
Their regular season's 20-1 (13-0 SEC) record gave them a bye to the Sweet Sixteen, where they won two games to win the East-1 Region.
That team included college and NBA hall of famer Bob Pettit (who still attends pretty much every home game, IIRC) and future Converse president, SEC hoops announcer, and LSU AD Joe "String Music" Dean.
Cool graphic.
Posted on 3/14/24 at 10:55 am to CNB
Here is the order for the entire conference:
1 Oklahoma 1939
2 Texas 1939
3 Arkansas 1941
4 Kentucky 1942
5 Missouri 1944
6 Texas A&M 1951
7 LSU 1953
8 Mississippi State 1963
9 Vanderbilt 1965
10 Tennessee 1967
11 South Carolina 1971
12 Alabama 1975
13 Ole Miss 1981
14 Georgia 1983
15 Auburn 1984
16 Florida 1987
Underlined teams were in the SEC at the time they made their first appearance. This means that LSU was only the second SEC team to appear in the tournament when they did so in 1953. It also shows that five of the six teams added since 1992 made the tournament before the second SEC team did so.
Except for the 80s & 90s and now, the SEC isn't a basketball conference.
GEAUX TIGERS!
1 Oklahoma 1939
2 Texas 1939
3 Arkansas 1941
4 Kentucky 1942
5 Missouri 1944
6 Texas A&M 1951
7 LSU 1953
8 Mississippi State 1963
9 Vanderbilt 1965
10 Tennessee 1967
11 South Carolina 1971
12 Alabama 1975
13 Ole Miss 1981
14 Georgia 1983
15 Auburn 1984
16 Florida 1987
Underlined teams were in the SEC at the time they made their first appearance. This means that LSU was only the second SEC team to appear in the tournament when they did so in 1953. It also shows that five of the six teams added since 1992 made the tournament before the second SEC team did so.
Except for the 80s & 90s and now, the SEC isn't a basketball conference.
GEAUX TIGERS!
Posted on 3/14/24 at 11:27 am to Thorny
Schools that didn't make it until the 80s 
Posted on 3/14/24 at 11:40 am to Thorny
State would have made it earlier if not for state politics/racism. We had won the SEC three other times before 1963 and had to sneak out of the state to play in 1963.
Posted on 3/14/24 at 11:43 am to The Sultan of Swine
1939!
Posted on 3/14/24 at 11:51 am to UKWildcats
quote:I love how much this bothers you.
Yeah. Kentucky. At that time the NIT was more prestigious than the NCAAT. Check your history books.
Posted on 3/14/24 at 12:11 pm to CNB
State had to sneak out of town in the middle of the night to play in the tournament in 1963. The racist MS Governor banned the team from playing because other teams in the tournament had black players.
Posted on 3/14/24 at 12:19 pm to Thorny
OM had to win the SEC Tournament to make it in 1981. Their first bid earned from the regular season was not until 1997. They made it a bunch of times after that
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