All Final 4 Teams from the West signaling the decline in NE?

[gsmooth]

Interesting enough. I started looking at nattys from 1980 -1999

Only three Northeast teams won National Championships in those 20 years. That's really crazy because people are so nostalgic for the past and tend to rewrite the past to a point that the youngin's like me (30 years old) would easily think the Northeast was killing the rest of the country.


1984 - Georgetown
1985 - Villanova
1999 - UConn

So... In reality - the Northeast has dominated the first 21 years of this new millennium in comparison to the twenty years prior.

Now going back to the Big East - That was one heck of drought that UConn broke in 1999. The league was really falling behind other major leagues. Thank you UCONN!!!

In fact since 1989 when Seton Hall made the FF, Syracuse was the next Old Big East team to make the FF in 1996 and then followed of course UConn in 1999. Think about that, only 2 years in the 90s did the FF have a Old Big East team.

The ACC had a FF team every year since 1988 if I recall correctly, albeit most UNC and Duke.

 

[gsmooth]

I know we are UConn and are fortunate to have our four national titles. But using national titles as the barometer of success is simply not a good measure. Metric crap tons of luck are needed to win it all. That 85 Villanova team beat Georgetown (in a huge upset). St. Johns was also in the final four that year as a 1 seed. In 1987 both Syracuse and PC were in the final four. In 88 Temple lost as a 1 seed and Nova as a 6 seed in the elite 8. Seton Hall lost in the final in 89. UConn lost as a 1 seed in the elite 8 in 90. It goes on and on. Schools in the region were relatively stronger then than they are now.

Yes national championships shouldn't be the only barometer, but one of many, albeit an important one. That UConn 1990 team was 2.6 seconds away from a FF.

 

[gsmooth]

LOLOLOLOLOLOL😅😂🤣

 

[Waquoit]

Wasn't the PAC-10 considered irrelevant for years before last week?