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Message: [QUOTE="ConwayGmck, post: 3796584, member: 10442"] Let's look at the past 11 seasons, with 10 NCAA Tournaments (going back to the 2010 NCAAT): USC and MSU are the only teams in the SEC to reach at least the Final Four over the past 8 years. They've done all that in just the last 5 NCAAT's to be accurate. They accumulated one title, 2 finalists, and 1 other FF appearance in that time. So 4 appearances as far as the Final Four. The AAC was just a one-team show, and that team is no longer with them. The ACC has 7 appearances going back to the 2014 NCAAT, or last 6 NCAATs - Notre Dame has 4 and 1 each for UL, Syracuse, and Maryland who then left for the B10. The B10 has one Final Four appearance from Maryland in 2015, and that's it. The B12 has 5 appearances, with Baylor having 3 of those, Texas A&M having 1 (they left for the SEC), and Oklahoma reaching the Final Four in 2010. So for quite a while, it's just been the Baylor Show. The Big East was essentially a 2-team show until those 2 teams left them, then they disappeared. Their last big noise was in the 2013 NCAAT, with CT beating UL in a cameo appearance, and ND reaching the Final Four. They have one of those 3 teams back, so they could be the next AAC? The Pac12 has the most appearances with teams that are still conference members, with 9 appearances since the 2010 NCAAT. 8 of them are Final Four appearances, with Stanford claiming 4 of those, plus Oregon, Oregon St., Washington, and California making single appearances. Stanford also has the 9th appearance, a 2010 runner-up to CT. Not too sure if Oregon St. or post-Plum Washington is expected back any time soon - am a bit more sure regarding Cali - so until then it looks like a Stanford-Oregon show for the foreseeable future. We could take it a step further, and look at Elite Eight and Sweet Sixteen appearances for the conferences. But I would hesitate in calling the SEC in decline at the moment - 5-6 years ago the perspective would have made more sense, but less now. Beginning with the 2015 NCAAT, the SEC has 4 appearances in the Final Four, the Pac12 also has 4 (they are all FF appearances, compared to one title and 2 runners-up for SEC), the AAC had 5 appearances from one single team, and the ACC has had 5 appearances, with a title, THREE runners-up, and a FF. It looks right now the ACC has been the top conference over the last 5-6 seasons, but the SEC is not far behind, and if anything their recent successes indicate a league on the rise, not in decline..... [/QUOTE]

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