ISU MBB coaches in NCAA sweet 16

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Johnny Orr 14 seasons - 1 sweet 16
Tim Floyd 4 seasons - 1 sweet 16
Larry Eustachy 5 seasons - 1 elite 8
Wayne Morgan 3 seasons - 0 sweet 16
Greg McDermott 4 seasons- 0 sweet 16
Fred Hoiberg 5 seasons - 1 sweet 16
Steve Prohm 6 seasons - 1 sweet 16
TJ Otzelburger 5 seasons - 3 sweet 16

TJ is ISU’s GOAT, right?
 
Johnny Orr 14 seasons - 1 sweet 16
Tim Floyd 4 seasons - 1 sweet 16
Larry Eustachy 5 seasons - 1 elite 8
Wayne Morgan 3 seasons - 0 sweet 16
Greg McDermott 4 seasons- 0 sweet 16
Fred Hoiberg 5 seasons - 1 sweet 16
Steve Prohm 6 seasons - 1 sweet 16
TJ Otzelburger 5 seasons - 3 sweet 16

TJ is ISU’s GOAT, right?
Larry has to get a ton of credit for the back to back Big XII regular season titles.
 
same man… felt good to be back after 3 years and then didn’t go back for another 7. Just brutal times.

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Johnny Orr 14 seasons - 1 sweet 16
Tim Floyd 4 seasons - 1 sweet 16
Larry Eustachy 5 seasons - 1 elite 8
Wayne Morgan 3 seasons - 0 sweet 16
Greg McDermott 4 seasons- 0 sweet 16
Fred Hoiberg 5 seasons - 1 sweet 16
Steve Prohm 6 seasons - 1 sweet 16
TJ Otzelburger 5 seasons - 3 sweet 16

TJ is ISU’s GOAT, right?
I'm still trying to wrap my head around Steve Prohm being here 6 years.
 
I mean in all fairness we did take a decade off between the one Wayne Morgan tournament appearance and Fred.
We’ve never had really great luck in the tournament. For example the Royce White team got rewarded with an unbeatable Kentucky in the second round. The next year we got “beat” by Aaron Craft who went to the elite eight. Then the next year is the Niang foot injury where we still almost beat a super hot UCONN team that won the title at MSG.

That’s just a three year stretch too.
 
And McDermott only being here for 4. Felt like a lot longer.
Those were some long years.

Win one more game in this tourney and I'm ready to crown Otz as our clear GOAT. The 2000 and 2001 teams were special, but the latter flamed out badly, and the rest of Larry's tenure was unremarkable. Regular-season conference titles don't have the luster they used to with the huge leagues and unbalanced schedules.
 
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Johnny Orr 14 seasons - 1 sweet 16
Tim Floyd 4 seasons - 1 sweet 16
Larry Eustachy 5 seasons - 1 elite 8
Wayne Morgan 3 seasons - 0 sweet 16
Greg McDermott 4 seasons- 0 sweet 16
Fred Hoiberg 5 seasons - 1 sweet 16
Steve Prohm 6 seasons - 1 sweet 16
TJ Otzelburger 5 seasons - 3 sweet 16

TJ is ISU’s GOAT, right?

Yes. It's a no doubter.
 
Johnny Orr 14 seasons - 1 sweet 16
Tim Floyd 4 seasons - 1 sweet 16
Larry Eustachy 5 seasons - 1 elite 8
Wayne Morgan 3 seasons - 0 sweet 16
Greg McDermott 4 seasons- 0 sweet 16
Fred Hoiberg 5 seasons - 1 sweet 16
Steve Prohm 6 seasons - 1 sweet 16
TJ Otzelburger 5 seasons - 3 sweet 16

TJ is ISU’s GOAT, right?

Duh next question
 
We’ve never had really great luck in the tournament. For example the Royce White team got rewarded with an unbeatable Kentucky in the second round. The next year we got “beat” by Aaron Craft who went to the elite eight. Then the next year is the Niang foot injury where we still almost beat a super hot UCONN team that won the title at MSG.

That’s just a three year stretch too.
This is why the recipe for success - like getting to a Final Four - is generally not having one generational team but rather having many second weekend worthy teams. A single elimination tournament in a sport like basketball is too mercurial to count anything a certainty. It takes just one bad night or an opponent having a career night or a star's foot injury or foul trouble for the wrong players for it all to go up in smoke. Consistency is the key to breaking through.
 
This is why the recipe for success - like getting to a Final Four - is generally not having one generational team but rather having many second weekend worthy teams. A single elimination tournament in a sport like basketball is too mercurial to count anything a certainty. It takes just one bad night or an opponent having a career night or a star's foot injury or foul trouble for the wrong players for it all to go up in smoke. Consistency is the key to breaking through.

Agreed, sort of, in theory.

But not really. There have been countless teams that have been to far less Sweet 16s than we have over the last 15 years and have made Elite 8s. Kansas State, Illinois, Iowa or Nebraska (puke), etc.
 
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