Kansas’s Remy Martin, heart, celebrates with teammates after the Jayhawks’ win over North Carolina within the championship ultimate of the NCAA Match Closing 4, Monday, April 4, 2022, in New Orleans. Remy Martin, Related Press
Ever since BYU accepted an invite to affix the Huge 12 Convention final fall, a serious speaking level has been how robust the convention is in males’s basketball, and that time was pushed house on Monday evening.
After the nationwide championship recreation on Monday, which noticed Kansas beat North Carolina, many noticed on Twitter how nice the Huge 12 has been within the NCAA Match over the previous few years.
On the prime, Kansas’ win gave the Huge 12 its second straight nationwide championship after Baylor gained it final yr, nevertheless it doesn’t cease there.
In 2019 (the Huge Dance was canceled in 2020 within the early days of the pandemic), Texas Tech was the runner-up — falling to Virginia within the nationwide championship recreation — and in 2018, Kansas made the Closing 4, the place it fell to eventual champion Villanova within the semifinals (the Jayhawks, after all, avenged that loss on this yr’s semifinals final Saturday).
The Huge 12 prior to now 4 NCAA Match:s
— Chuck Carlton (@ChuckCarltonDMN) April 5, 2022
2018: Kansas (Closing 4)
2019: Texas Tech (NCAA runner-up)
2021: Baylor (NCAA title)
2022: Kansas (NCAA title)
Texas Tech had additionally made the Elite Eight in 2018.
Beside these precise outcomes, Kansas and Baylor had been broadly projected to be two of the 4 No. 1 seeds within the 2020 event earlier than it acquired canceled.
In all this season, six groups from the present Huge 12 made the NCAA Match (together with Texas, which shall be departing for the SEC), as did Houston, which was one of many groups to get invited to the Huge 12 final fall alongside BYU.