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Message: [QUOTE="tzznandrew, post: 3881712, member: 168"] Syracuse went to the Finals in the period I mentioned. The Big East was fine. It's tournament performance wasn't great, but it was putting a decent number of teams into the tournament and performing fine enough. The year the BE did worst in terms of teams in the NCAA was 2003 when Syracuse won it. 1999-2004 had three champions from the league. The other teams joined in 2006, and from 2008-2013 we're talking about the greatest conference ever. But the period I mentioned was a very good conference. 1994: Boston College E8 1994: Syracuse S16 1994: UConn S16 1995: UConn E8 1995: Georgetown S16 1996: Syracuse Runner-up 1995: Georgetown E8 1996: UConn S16 1997: Providence E8 1998: UConn E8 1998: West Virginia S16 1998 Syracuse S16 1999: UConn, National Champion 1999: St. John's, E8 That's not a bad run for the conference. 14 teams in the second weekend. In the first two years of this there were only 10 teams. 7 out of 13 different teams making the S16, and 6 of them making the E8. Only 2 FF and 1 NC—and some flameouts to be sure—but the BE underperforming was largely myth. UConn's tournament performances were obviously the best of the bunch, but it was a good deep conference. And UConn dominated the regular season. [/QUOTE]