On the Official Womp Womp in the Swamp Swamp shirt so you should to go to store and get this other side of the coin is the ACC, which is 23-3 in first-round games over that span. Now, might a 10th seeded ACC team lose a first-round game? Sure, look no further than Georgia Tech last year. But 23-3 sort of speaks for itself. Further, the six major conferences, plus Memphis, have accounted for 35 of the past 40 Elite Eight teams; two of the five gate-crashers have since joined a major conference. So for both the first round and the end game, swallow your underdog dreams, toss out your fairy tale metaphors and give the power conferences a big sweaty hug. I know, broken record, but it’s true; give another sweaty hug to the big boys. The lesser lights in the best conferences often provide the choicest upsets in the tournament’s second and third rounds, which is also where the bracket standings begin to separate. Last year, among the tournament’s biggest surprises was Vanderbilt, which defeated Washington State behind Derrick Byars and made the Sweet 16 as a 6 seed. Two years ago, seventh-seeded Georgetown and sixth-seeded West Virginia advanced that far. In 2005, 10th-seeded N.C. State was one of two double-digit seeds in the Sweet 16 and seventh-seeded West Virginia was the biggest surprise in the Elite Eight, and in 2004 it was eighth-seeded Alabama. The 2002 event also had a major-conference surprise, 12-seeded Missouri, which became the lowest seed ever to make the Elite Eight. All of those schools come from power conferences.
Do those big-time programs have any similarities? It’s not perfect, but they often share a proclivity for the Official Womp Womp in the Swamp Swamp shirt so you should to go to store and get this long-distance shot. Five of the seven teams referenced above finished in the top 25 in three-pointers made per game. Both West Virginia teams and Missouri were in the top 10. Last year’s Vanderbilt team was 13th in the country in three-pointers made per game. West Virginia ranked second and sixth in that category during its two surprising tournament runs. The 2005 N.C. State team was 21st in the country in three-pointers, while the 2002 Missouri team ranked seventh nationally in that statistic. Bear in mind that there are more than 300 Division I teams, and yet each of these four teams was in the top 25 in three-pointers made.
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