Can you name the mid-major teams that have made the deepest NCAA tournament runs each year since 1985? by texasterrapin

Can you name the mid-major teams that have made the deepest NCAA tournament runs each year since 1985?

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Mid-major schools are defined by their conference during the year of their run, which may differ from their current conference. Some years have multiple possibilties, each listed separately.
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Year (Mid-Major Conference)	School	Lost to
1985 (Metro)		Villanova - Final 4
1986 (Metro)		No one - Won Title
1987 (Big West)		Indiana - Final 4
1988 (Atlantic 10)		Duke - Elite 8
1989 (Big West)		Seton Hall - Elite 8
1990 (Big West)		No one - Won Title
1991 (Big West)		Duke - Final 4
1992 (Great Midwest)		Michigan - Final 4
1993 (Atlantic 10)		Michigan - Elite 8
1993 (Great Midwest)		North Carolina - Elite 8
1994 (Great Midwest)		Duke - Sweet 16
1994 (Metro)		Arizona - Sweet 16
1994 (Missouri Valley)		Arkansas - Sweet 16
1995 (Atlantic 10)		Oklahoma State - Elite 8
1996 (Atlantic 10)		Kentucky - Final 4
1997 (Conference USA)		North Carolina - Elite 8
1997 (WAC)		Kentucky - Elite 8
1998 (WAC)		Kentucky - Title Game
1999 (Atlantic 10)		Duke - Elite 8

Year (Mid-Major Conference)	School	Lost to
1999 (West Coast)		Connecticut - Elite 8
2000 (WAC)		North Carolina - Elite 8
2001 (Atlantic 10)		Michigan State - Elite 8
2002 (MAC)		Indiana - Elite 8
2003 (Conference USA)		Kansas - Final 4
2004 (Atlantic 10)		Oklahoma State - Elite 8
2004 (Atlantic 10)		Duke - Elite 8
2005 (Conference USA)		Illinois - Final 4
2006 (Colonial)		Florida - Final 4
2007 (Conference USA)		Ohio State - Elite 8
2008 (Conference USA)		Kansas - Title Game
2009 (Atlantic 10)		Pittsburgh - Sweet 16
2009 (Conference USA)		Missouri - Sweet 16
2009 (West Coast)		North Carolina - Sweet 16
2010 (Horizon)		Duke - Title Game
2011 (Horizon)		Connecticut - Title Game
2012 (Atlantic 10)		Baylor - Sweet 16
2012 (MAC)		North Carolina - Sweet 16

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Deepest Mid-Major NCAA Tournament Runs Quiz

by texasterrapin

Created Apr 4, 2011 in Sports
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	Woobycakes:	Apr 5th, 2011 at 06:35 GMT	6 points
	^^^ If you look at the quiz, it is the mid-major that made the DEEPEST run, and as Butler beat VCU they are the correct answer

	TLHKnight:	Apr 5th, 2011 at 14:03 GMT	1 point
	Tulsa was in the WAC in 2000. They didn't join CUSA until the 2005 season.

	NinedenLtD:	Apr 5th, 2011 at 16:05 GMT	7 points
	Memphis, Louisville, Cincinnati, Marquette, and UNLV under Tarkanian are NOT mid-majors. You can't backwards project the BCS (which also happens to be a football-only entity) onto tournaments before its creation. The schools I named only recruited top-flight players, had big name coaches, routinely made deep tournament runs, and spent as much on basketball as any other school. Even now, Memphis spends more on basketball operations than more than half of the teams in the "BCS" conferences. How is that "mid-major"? These are all MAJOR programs. They go to Final Fours and win championships.

	kvizzle321:	Apr 5th, 2011 at 16:39 GMT	0 points
	Conference USA Mid Major?!?!?! Atlantic 10 ??? Come on....

	moviegoer74:	Apr 5th, 2011 at 16:45 GMT	2 points
	I agree with NinedinLtD for the most part. Memphis, Lousiville, Cincinnati and Marquette are all traditional basketball power schools, regardless of what conference they were in. I would add Temple to that list as well. UNLV seems a little different to me (as do Utah and UMass). For all three of those schools, they had an extended run under one particular coach during which time they were every bit the equal of the Kentuckys and UCLAs of the world. They all made final 4s (and btw, why do you call it the semifinals here? Call it the Final 4 like the rest of the world) they were all routinely ranked among the Top 5 in the polls. But the moment Tark left UNLV they became a distinctly second-tier program. Ditto for Utah when Majerus left and UMass when Calipari left. (Actually, UMass became a 3rd-tier program). We need some other term for those schools. They're not perennial teams like Memphis, but they're also quite a bit different from George Mason and the like.

	TLHKnight:	Apr 5th, 2011 at 18:25 GMT	3 points
	Don't make such a big deal out of the mid-major label. It's clear what he's asking for, even if we want to have a semantics debate about mid-major and the effect of the BCS, whether conferences/teams then were the same as now, etc. Nevertheless, it's a good quiz idea and if anything, it shows the dastardly creep of the BCS into a non-football sport.

	mininimi:	Apr 6th, 2011 at 01:36 GMT	-1 points
	didnt houston have a lot of deep runs?

	NinedenLtD:	Apr 6th, 2011 at 15:25 GMT	0 points
	Houston (Phi Slama Jama) had deep runs before 1985. Also, no team with Clyde Drexler and Hakeem Olajuwon is a "mid-major." (If you extend this quiz to 1983, can you imagine saying Houston is a "mid-major" and NC State as a "major"??? smh). The fact is though, TLHKnight, that it IS a good idea for a quiz. So make it the right way. Limit to real mid-majors, not MAJOR teams. It is an insult to the major teams and an insult to the real mid-majors for not giving them credit.

	cmugrad:	Apr 30th, 2011 at 22:01 GMT	1 point
	Loyola Marymount should be on here. They made it to the Elite 8 in 1990.