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Only one F4 since mid 80s is better than 6 of the 8 teams by Tex Francisco
in the proposed new conference, and Loyola and Marquette also have only been to one Final 4 in that time period. I certainly get it that there's a gap between Villanova/UConn and the rest in terms of accomplishments over the last 40 years, especially if you attribute higher value to more recent accomplishments, but I think there's also a similarly large gap between Georgetown and everyone else in this discussion. The only other team that has arguably accomplished what Georgetown has is Marquette, but their golden era (1970s) is even longer ago than Georgetown's (1980s).