On May 31, 2012, at 7:18 AM, JunoGator wrote: > In the 77 seasons prior to hiring him, the Gators reached the NCAA Tournament > five times and won the SEC once. Since he arrived, they have been in the > tournament 12 years and captured the conference five times.
This is a silly factoid. The NCAA tournament did not even exist 77 years before we hired Donovan. Now, there were 56 years of NCAA pre-Donovan. Prior to 1975, only conference champions could be in the tourney. That led to some absurdities, such as the #2 team in the country (Southern Cal) missing the tourney one year as it was in the same conference as UCLA. We have had the good fortune to be in the same conference as Kentucky so, like Southern Cal, even our very good teams did not qualify until the NCAA added "at large" teams to the field. So, we really are looking at a 20 year window; not 77 years of Florida basketball. -Zeb -- GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us
