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Surprising WCC NCAA performances

Posted by NCAA Stats on 7/19/2012, 3:37 pm

NCAA Tournament

Sweet Sixteens

USF 5
Gonzaga 4
BYU 3
Pepp 2
LMU 1
SMC 1
USD 0
UP 0

Elite 8s

USF 4
BYU 3
SCU 2
LMU 1
SMC 1
GON 1
USD 0
UP 0

Final 4s

USF 3
Rest of WCC 0

NCs

USF 2

Re: Surprising WCC NCAA performances

Posted by current don on 7/19/2012, 4:57 pm, in reply to "Surprising WCC NCAA performances"

SCU does have 1 Final 4 appearance from 1952

Re: Surprising WCC NCAA performances

Posted by Lion90 on 7/19/2012, 6:33 pm, in reply to "Re: Surprising WCC NCAA performances"

Doesn't smc have two sweet 16's with meschery and samhan?

Re: Surprising WCC NCAA performances

Posted by Risaralda View on 7/20/2012, 2:49 pm, in reply to "Re: Surprising WCC NCAA performances"

The Gaels, with Tom Meschery, were in the Round of 16, in 1959. There was a stretch of 19 consecutive seasons when the representative of our conference played in the National Round of 16, the Regional Semi-Finals. USF did it on 9 occasions, Santa Clara 4, UOP 3 , and St. Mary's, Loyola and Pepperdine once each. During those seasons there were between 23 and 26 teams in the NCAA Tournament. So, only between seven and ten schools lost "play-in" games each year. Some people might want to place an asterisk next to tthe teams whose first game played in the tournment was in the National Round of 16. There were not a whole lot of teams out West, in those days. For example, Hardin-Simmons College, in Abilene, Texas, played in the West Regional a couple of times.

Re: Surprising WCC NCAA performances

Posted by Get Nashty on 7/20/2012, 6:17 pm, in reply to "Surprising WCC NCAA performances"

How can Santa Clara not have any sweet sixteens, but have two elite eights? Also, SCU has been to the final four.

Re: Surprising WCC NCAA performances

Posted by Purple Pride on 7/21/2012, 11:23 am, in reply to "Re: Surprising WCC NCAA performances"

Well, I know the tournament used to have less teams.

But, again using the oh-so-trustworthy source of Wikipedia, it looks like Santa Clara has:

1 Final Four (1952)
5 Elite Eights (1952, 1953, 1954, 1960, 1969)
7 Sweet 16s (1952, 1953, 1954, 1960, 1968, 1969, 1970)
11 Appearances (1952, 1953, 1954, 1960, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1987, 1993, 1995, 1996)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Clara_Broncos_men%27s_basketball

Re: Surprising WCC NCAA performances

Posted by Risaralda View on 7/21/2012, 1:19 pm, in reply to "Re: Surprising WCC NCAA performances"

In what is a contradiction by Wikipedia, if you plug in 1960 NCAA Basketball Tournament, they show the bracket. In the round of 16, Cal beat Santa Clara and Oregon beat Utah. Therefore the Elite Eight includes just Cal, Oregon and six other teams from the other three regionals. On the same day that Cal played Oregon in the Elite Eight, there was a consolation game between Santa Clara and Utah.

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