billyjack wrote:
Making a Final Four is absolutely huuuuuuge compared to making an Elite-8. It completely puts your program on another level. Like, you'll live in a different universe. Especially if you have more than one. National Championships are an even greater jump obviously.
I strongly agree. Let’s look at some relevant numbers:
National Champions, Runners-ups, and Final FoursOhio State Buckeyes men's basketball - Wikipedia
1960 • National Champions
1961 • National Championship Runner-up
1962 • National Championship Runner-up
1968 • Final Four
2007 • National Championship Runner-up
2012 • Final Four
Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball - Wikipedia
1959 • Final Four
1960 • Final Four
1961 • National Champions
1962 • National Champions
1963 • National Championship Runner-up
1992 • Final Four
Dayton Flyers men's basketball - Wikipedia
The Xavier Musketeers have not yet played in a Final Four game.
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The fundamental problem with this thread is the important issue of time-period. In Post #1 above,
bigeastbiggerstage did not specify a limited time-period for his assertion, nor was a limited time-period specified in
The Broken Anchor article to which he referred. Therefore, if a limited time-period is
not specified, the default time-period must be “
All-Time” – which
bigeastbiggerstage clearly implied in his post.
If a poster arbitrarily injects an unspecified and limited time-period into the discussion, that is “
cherry picking”.
For the sake of clarity, please allow me to make the following observations:
If the specified time-period is
“the last 20 years” the Ohio Rankings would be:
1. Ohio State
2. Xavier
3. Cincinnati
4. Dayton
If the specified time-period is
“the last 50 years” the Ohio Rankings would be:
1. Ohio State
2. Cincinnati
3. Xavier
4. Dayton
Note that
“the last 50 years” began in 1970, and that Dayton, Cincinnati and Ohio State provably had much better basketball programs than Xavier in the 1950s and 1960s.
Link. Also, the following information cannot be ignored in the discussion of the “
All-Time Best Basketball Program in Ohio”:
2019-20 Men’s Basketball Media Guide – Xavier University - November 18, 2019
Page 114: All-Time Records vs. All Opponents
Xavier vs. Ohio State • 1-3 (.250)
Xavier vs. Cincinnati • 35-51 (.407)
Xavier vs. Dayton • 76-85 (.472)
Bearing in mind
billyjack’s prudent observations above, and the relevant information I quoted from ESPN, Wikipedia, NCAA.com, and Xavier University, the “
All-Time Best Basketball Program in Ohio” rankings are clearly:
1. Ohio State
2. Cincinnati
3. Dayton
4. XavierI will be the first to acknowledge that
“the last 20 years” and
“the last 50 years” are far more relevant to the present day than the 1950s and 1960s – there is no question about that. But the
The Broken Anchor article and
bigeastbiggerstage’s Post #1 both referred to “
All-Time” Rankings, which has a very specific meaning.
If the article had specified the
“the last 20 years” or
“the last 50 years”, I would not have posted on this thread. But I consider
The Broken Anchor article to be poorly researched and poorly written, and consequently, failed to make the point that its anonymous writer intended.
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