Bumblin' B's

Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) · March 06, 2006, 11:41:16 AM

Quote from: scotswin on March 04, 2006, 08:12:46 AM
The Maryville doubters had good reason this year. This team has been spiralling over the last month.

However, this is the 8th straight NCAA appearance by the Scots, and this win makes 8 straight years with at least one win in the tournament. I say this every year, but there cannot be many other teams who have won a tournament game every year for 8 years in a row.

I did some research. For right now it only goes back to 1998, when the tournament was reduced from 64 teams.

Maryville (TN) is now at 8 years and counting having won at least one game in the tournament.
Amherst is now at 7 and counting.

The next highest active streaks are:
Wooster-4
Lawrence, Puget Sound, and St John Fisher at 3
Calvin, Miss Coll, VA Wes, WPI, and York (PA) are all at 2

The longest consecutive streaks since 1998:

Maryville-8 (99-present)
Amherst-7 (00-present)
Catholic-5 (98-02)
Wooster-4 (03-present)
Rochester-4 (02-05)
Hampden-Sydney-4 (01-04)
Lawrence-3 (04-present)
Puget Sound-3 (04-present)
St John Fisher-3 (04-present)
Hamilton-3 (98-00)
William Paterson-3 (99-01)
John Carroll-3 (03-05)
Salem State-3 (03-05)
Randolph Macon-3 (02-04)
Williams-3 (02-04)
Franklin-3 (98-00)
Gustavus Adolphus-3 (01-03)
Lewis & Clark-3 (00-02)

njlincolnlion · March 06, 2006, 12:12:22 PM

Hoops Fan:

Thanks for your "well wishes" for Lincoln. I too hope the Lions make it Salem, and cap off this historic season with the "Ultimate Prize".

scotswin · March 06, 2006, 07:32:58 PM

Quote from: Hoops Fan on March 06, 2006, 11:41:16 AM

I did some research. For right now it only goes back to 1998, when the tournament was reduced from 64 teams.

Maryville (TN) is now at 8 years and counting having won at least one game in the tournament.
Amherst is now at 7 and counting.

The next highest active streaks are:
Wooster-4
Lawrence, Puget Sound, and St John Fisher at 3
Calvin, Miss Coll, VA Wes, WPI, and York (PA) are all at 2

The longest consecutive streaks since 1998:

Maryville-8 (99-present)
Amherst-7 (00-present)
Catholic-5 (98-02)
Wooster-4 (03-present)
Rochester-4 (02-05)
Hampden-Sydney-4 (01-04)
Lawrence-3 (04-present)
Puget Sound-3 (04-present)
St John Fisher-3 (04-present)
Hamilton-3 (98-00)
William Paterson-3 (99-01)
John Carroll-3 (03-05)
Salem State-3 (03-05)
Randolph Macon-3 (02-04)
Williams-3 (02-04)
Franklin-3 (98-00)
Gustavus Adolphus-3 (01-03)
Lewis & Clark-3 (00-02)

Thanks for the research Hoopsfan!

scottiedoug · March 06, 2006, 10:08:59 PM

HoopsFan: Scotswin beat me to it. Thanks. All we need to do now is upgrade from consistently being a pretty good program to winning more games in the tournament.

Gregory Sager · March 07, 2006, 07:53:55 AM

Quote from: smedindy on March 04, 2006, 05:18:04 PM
Well, if there ever was a team named the Stardust, then the women's team would be the Lady Stardust - and I'm assuming that they'd be all glammed out with bright orange hair and makeup everywhere.

Oh...no one gets 33 year old Bowie jokes anymore??

I'm sure that the Richmond Spiders got it.

Gregory Sager · March 07, 2006, 07:57:38 AM

Quote from: Mr. Ypsi on March 04, 2006, 09:48:48 PM
Yeah, I suppose I should have let someone else pick up the punch line. I was afraid "The Happy Hooker" might be TOO obscure by now.

Smedindy would've been the logical choice. After all, he was the one who sniggered over Westmont College calling its tourney the Tom Byron Classic. That clearly established his metier in terms of obscure references on Posting Up.

Gregory Sager · March 07, 2006, 08:05:56 AM

Quote from: Hoops Fan on March 06, 2006, 10:02:58 AMGood luck to Lincoln. I would love to see them make it to Salem.

It's hard to root against Lincoln, unless your team is their opponent. Not only do the Lions have to live down the stigma of being a Bumblin' B, they also have had to contend with a ferociously forbidding schedule that kept them out of their own gym for over a month at one point and which forced them to play on back-to-back nights no fewer than seven times in the regular season (nine times to date). You gotta like a team that succeeds in spite of having a steeper hill to climb than others.

smedindy · March 07, 2006, 08:39:12 AM

Ypsi - I must have glossed over it. I'd never let innuendo go by!

Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) · March 07, 2006, 09:08:48 AM

Didn't Lincoln do a four games in four days, three state tour at one point?

Knightstalker · March 07, 2006, 10:03:34 AM

Quote from: Gregory Sager on March 07, 2006, 07:53:55 AM
Quote from: smedindy on March 04, 2006, 05:18:04 PM
Well, if there ever was a team named the Stardust, then the women's team would be the Lady Stardust - and I'm assuming that they'd be all glammed out with bright orange hair and makeup everywhere.

Oh...no one gets 33 year old Bowie jokes anymore??

I'm sure that the Richmond Spiders got it.

"Ziggy played guitar, jammin' good with Weird and Gilly,
The spiders from Richmond"*

Somehow the spiders from Richmond doesn't seem to have the right metric fit and flow for the song.

*lyics by David Bowie.

Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) · March 07, 2006, 12:19:04 PM

I finished compiling the teams that had won at least one game in the tournament since its inception. I did not count the regional 3rd place games, back when they had them. I left them out because, in my opinion, they don't count. It's good to make teams feel better and make it worth the trip for fans, but it's not a tournament win because you don't move on.

I can answer lots of individual questions if they are posed to me (like Wittenberg leads all schools with 18 years winning at least one game and Transylvania had the longest drought, winning games in 1976 and 1977, but then not again until this year, 2006), but I'm not going to post too much.

For now, I'll give you the teams that have the longest consecutive years winning a game streak:

Potsdam State 9 (1979-1987) Would be 12 in a row from 1978-1989 if regional 3rd place games counted
Maryville (TN) 8 (1999-current)
Amherst 7 (2000-current)
Franklin & Marshall 6 (1991-1996) 10 out of 11 years from 1986-1996
Rowan 6 (1993-1998)
Calvin 5 (1989-1993)
Catholic 5 (1998-2002)
NYU 5 (1993-1997)
Platteville 5 (1991-1995)
Williams 5 (1994-1998)

Clark would have 11 (1978-1988), if you counted regional 3rd place games

Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) · March 07, 2006, 12:21:17 PM

Also, Marietta and Suffolk both won games in the first tournament back in 1975 and have not won since. Those would be the longest active droughts.

Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) · March 07, 2006, 12:32:59 PM

Ok, one more.

First time tourney winners from this year:

Farmingdale
Lincoln
Norwich
Stout
Utica
Villa Julie

Congratulations to all.

Gregory Sager · March 08, 2006, 01:28:38 AM

Quote from: Hoops Fan on March 07, 2006, 12:19:04 PM

I finished compiling the teams that had won at least one game in the tournament since its inception. I did not count the regional 3rd place games, back when they had them. I left them out because, in my opinion, they don't count. It's good to make teams feel better and make it worth the trip for fans, but it's not a tournament win because you don't move on.

They do count, and they are tournament wins. I think that most fans dismiss them as afterthoughts, and I'm certainly not one to place an importance on them that they don't merit. But they're in the record book for a reason. The NCAA recognizes their existence, and it's thus not a matter of debate as to whether or not they count.

Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) · March 08, 2006, 09:31:33 AM

Yeah, but all of those teams lost the games that matter. I don't think I can respect those streaks if they are held up by winning a 3rd place game. I included what the streaks that would have been, so that's as close to acknowledging them as I will probably get.

Maybe I should just change the title to teams that advanced in the tournament in consecutive years. That would be more accurate.