Excellent points

I was just noting the math to get to 16.

Diggers best team beat Austin Peay and Fly Williams to advance.

From Carr to Tripucka it was an excellent run outside of Diggers first season.

The next 10 years was meh, despite some nice talent. Still think about what could have been with Petrovic.

The 90's was really awful and it would have been even worse if not for Monty or Pat.

The Brey era has had at most 8 quality teams in 20 years and a lot of meh and in terms of players he recruited very little success at the next level.

It just seems some teams ranked lower have accomplished more in their history, especially when you factor the last 40 years!

Btw that NIT team went on a helluva run and beat some great teams. I know the NIT team was a bigger deal back then, but you have to wonder how deflating it was for top 15 teams to not be playing for the NC.

UCLA had incredible teams and talent during their golden era, but they also avoided a lot of great teams in those small field NCAAT's. I still recall Arizona's lone NC they beat 3 number one seeds.
Brey otoh has only beaten a better seed once in a 4/5 game.