Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site decwrl.DEC.COM Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-ilm!register From: register@ilm.DEC (Mike Register, A.I. Applications) Newsgroups: net.sport.hoops Subject: Re: ACC basketball Message-ID: <1416@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Thu, 27-Feb-86 14:36:17 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.1416 Posted: Thu Feb 27 14:36:17 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 1-Mar-86 02:39:20 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.DEC.COM Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 56 from Jeff Sauder {seismo,umcp-cs}!nbs-amrf!sauder: >First came UCLA, and then the ACC. What else was/is there? Surely you jest. However, in case you are serious let me remind you of a few facts you may have overlooked before making this statement. If memory serves me correctly, UCLA's last NCAA basketball championship was in 1975. Since then the following teams have won NCAA basketball championships: 1976 - Indiana 1977 - Marquette 1978 - Kentucky 1979 - Michigan St. 1980 - Louisville 1981 - Indiana 1982 - North Carolina 1983 - North Carolina St. 1984 - Georgetown 1985 - Villanova If we break these championships down into conferences it looks like this: BIG TEN - 3 championships since UCLA's last Big East - 2 championships since UCLA's last ACC - 2 championships since UCLA's last Metro - 1 championship since UCLA's last Southeastern - 1 championship since UCLA's last Independents - 1 championship since UCLA's last Obviously there was/is a lot more than the ACC after UCLA. This is not to say that the ACC is a weak conference (this year it is obvious that the ACC is the strongest); but it does say that the ACC is not the center of the college basketball universe. If there was a dominant conference immediately after UCLA, I would say it was the Big Ten. In fact in 1976 two Big Ten teams (Indiana and Michigan) played for the NCAA championship, a feat which was not repeated until last year when Georgetown and Villanova played for the title. From the above stats it appears that the ACC established dominance around the early 80's and the Big East was the dominant conference for the last two years (hard to say, there were a lot of upsets in all those years). My point is that there is a lot of good basketball across the country and I believe for the time being we are past the point where one team or one conference will dominate for more than a year or two. From a diehard Hoosier fan (GO BIG RED), Mike Register UUCP: ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-ilm!register ARPA: register%ilm.DEC@decwrl