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If you're around. ESPN said that this is the first time Tubby Smith has been 8-0. Is this true?
Some may need to wait for confirmation from Tubby's biographer to find out what is, what was, et ceteraFrom what I understand, this is true as per gophersports report on Gophers and Tubby.
Some may need to wait for confirmation from Tubby's biographer to find out what is, what was, et cetera
If you're around. ESPN said that this is the first time Tubby Smith has been 8-0. Is this true?
He is one of only 12 coaches to FINISH 6-0 though.
You lost me here. Assuming we're only talking college coaches, every coach who won the NCAA tournament since it went to 64 teams have finished 6-0. Similarly for the NIT tournament winners, except you had to have won the game prior to getting in to the NIT tourney. And I don't remember how many games were played in the old CCIT tourney, but the same theory holds. Then there were the days before the 64 team tourney, when you'd have to win some number of regular season/conf tourney games plus the NCAA tourney to end 6-0. And then in the old days of very few teams making the tourney, you could be in a minor conference and have no chance to be invited, and simply win your last 6 games. YOur claiming that that entire group is 12 people?
Yesterday is History, Tomorrow is a Mystery, Today is a Gift, hence it is called the Present.
You lost me here. Assuming we're only talking college coaches, every coach who won the NCAA tournament since it went to 64 teams have finished 6-0. Similarly for the NIT tournament winners, except you had to have won the game prior to getting in to the NIT tourney. And I don't remember how many games were played in the old CCIT tourney, but the same theory holds. Then there were the days before the 64 team tourney, when you'd have to win some number of regular season/conf tourney games plus the NCAA tourney to end 6-0. And then in the old days of very few teams making the tourney, you could be in a minor conference and have no chance to be invited, and simply win your last 6 games. YOur claiming that that entire group is 12 people?
You can't have won the game prior to the NIT, and then go on to the NIT, because winning the game beforehand would imply that you have won your conference tournament. The only exception to this is (I believe) if you are in the Ivy League.
That's true today, but for the greater part of basketball history, lots of conferences didn't have tournaments, or tournament winners didn't get auto invites. You don't have to go very far back--CLem Haskins--to find a time when the big ten didn't have a tourney--and I thinkCLem might have fnished 6-0 one of those years (ignoring whether the NCAA subsequently wiped out the record.)