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I feel that Final Four point to be disingenuous by GriffinGold16
Saying "her top 9 include 75% of final four participants in the last eight years" is basically meaningless. UConn, Notre Dame, and Stanford account for 53% of them already. How many final fours have UCLA and ASU been to since 2012? None.
Using success in the tournament is fine, but the state of the league recently is such that there's a few elite teams and then a drop-off. It's called March Madness for a reason - with the exception of those elite teams, it just takes one bad game or an exceptional one for a better team to be upset by a worse team. (Heck, even Baylor and Notre Dame have fallen to worse teams in the mid-decade.) Sure, B1G teams haven't fared well in the past few seasons, but that's just one piece of the puzzle.