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re: Spinoff: NCAA Tournament Invites, Elite Eights, Sweet Sixteens by SEC schools
Posted on 3/10/16 at 9:23 am to SummerOfGeorge
Posted on 3/10/16 at 9:23 am to SummerOfGeorge
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Arkansas would have performed very well in the 70s and 80s and probably been the clear #2, but Kentucky would still have clearly been #1 and ate up much of the league's auto bids.
That is simply an assumption on your part. In the early 80's, Arkansas was the only team to win a conference title from 1982-1984 not named Phi Slamma Jamma.
Arkansas only appeared in the NCAA tourney 5 times prior to the expansion of the tourney. 3 of those times, Kentucky was not a part of it. Arkansas went to the Final Four in 1941 and 1945. In those two years, Kentucky was not a part of the Final Four.
There were years where Kentucky lost as many as 8 games and still won the SEC. There were years where they lost 7 games and won the league.
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Posted on 3/10/16 at 9:26 am to Hawgeye
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There were years where Kentucky lost as many as 8 games and still won the SEC. There were years where they lost 7 games and won the league.
Kentucky generally played a pretty good non-conference schedule.Indiana,North Carolina, Purdue.
I'll give you Arkanas's performance in SWC basketball from 1978 to 1991.No doubt. But its not even up for debate about Arkansas and the whole league prior to 1975.
Posted on 3/10/16 at 9:26 am to Hawgeye
You are right, I did not cross reference Arkansas' tournaments with Kentucky, so you could be right. Generally Kentucky's consistent Top 10 teams stole bids from schools like Alabama and Vanderbilt in years when we had Top 10/15 teams.
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