Doggedly searching for the crux of the biscuit.
Tobacco Road represent, baby. Have all Big Four teams ever been in the Top Ten at the same time before?
5. Wake Forest
6. North Carolina
7. Duke
9. NC State
I don't know the answer and couldn't find. But I bet its in this book: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0684846748/102-7857794-2879308?v=glance
Anyone able to find it in the library?
Posted by: Calie Voorhis at December 15, 2004 09:45 AMHard to say -- there are so many polls. Pre-season, post-season, mid-season. ESPN, SI, API, etc.
But, in terms of NCAA tournament final post-season ranking, only twice have three of those four made it to the sweet 16. (1986 and 87 it was NSCU, UNC, and Duke).
All the NCAA tourney stats you could ever want you can find here:
http://www.ncaa.org/library/records/m_final_four_records_book/2004/2004mffrecordsbook.pdf
239 pages including all the brackets back to the 1939. Woo.
But it doesn't really answer the question. Partial credit? ;)
Posted by: b. at December 16, 2004 12:17 AM