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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on Mar 26, 2023 20:26:41 GMT -8
The last time that the ACC Regular Season Champion won the National Championship was 2019. In the next Tournament, Oregon State won the Pac-12 and played in the Elite Eight.
The last two times that a non-Tar Heel ACC team won the National Championship, Oregon State made it to the Tournament in the year following.
So, go Miami!
In both of those years, Duke and Virginia beat a team (Wisconsin and Texas Tech) that had not played in a National Championship Game in more than 70 years. The time that a non-Tar Heel team defeated a team playing in the NCAA National Championship Game was in 1983, when NC State beat Houston, and Oregon State made the Tournament in 1984. The time before that was 1974's NC State Championship over Marquette, and Oregon State again made the Tournament in 1975.
The last three times, the Westernmost of the two teams won on the other side of the bracket. Marquette beat Kansas in 1974.
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Post by beaverstever on Mar 27, 2023 8:31:08 GMT -8
Definitely Aztecs - gotta pull for the Pac-12 team.
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Post by seastape on Mar 27, 2023 11:20:12 GMT -8
Definitely Aztecs - gotta pull for the Pac-12 team. I'm rooting for SDSU because they're a west coast team and I live within an hour's drive and consequently have friends who went there. I've also liked them since Marshall Faulk played for them. I am reaching the point where I could care less about their potential status of the Pac (XX). Three Pac 12 presidents have made it clear that they will leave if the new media rights deal is not good enough (Utah, UA, ASU). UW and uo are drooling at the thought of a big ten invite and would jump the second they receive an offer from that conference. It looks to me like allegiance to a conference is out the window which narrows the teams I root for and expands the teams I root against considerably. I'm down to rooting for OSU first, foremost and last (nothing's changed there). Then I root for, except when they play us, SDSU, Stanford, and San Jose St. The teams I root against used to be uo and the SEC. It's switched to uo, the big ten (who stole two Pac teams), usc and ucla, and big 12 teams, as that whole conference seems to be waiting like vultures to pick off leftovers from the Pac's demise. I no longer hate the SEC. At least the two teams they took are either already in their footprint (Texas) or the next state over (Oklahoma). I would root against any team that plays on Fox and ESPN, as I feel they both had a big hand in this latest round of conference re-alignment (which appears to be far from over).
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