Mid Major Tourney Win Totals

[CajunNation]

We are credited with 4 total Tourney wins including the vacated ones.

Below is a list of all Mid Major schools that have more Tourney wins than us. I did not include schools in the P5 or Big East, those who were once part of a major conference or those going to a major conference. FBS schools in bold.


41 - Gonzaga
35 - Memphis
33 - UNLV
21 - San Francisco
19 - Dayton
19 - St. Joseph's
19 - Western Kentucky
18 - Wichita St.
15 - Loyola (IL)
14 - La Salle
14 - UTEP
13 - Penn
13 - Princeton
13 - VCU
12 - Tulsa
11 - Bradley
11 - UMass
11 - New Mexico St.
11 - Santa Clara
10 - Dartmouth
10 - Seattle
10 - UAB
9 - Richmond
9 - Wyoming
8 - Davidson
8 - Holy Cross
8 - Idaho State
8 - Navy
8 - New Mexico
8 - Ohio
8 - Rhode Island
7 - Charlotte
7 - Long Beach St.
7 - St. Bonaventure
6 - Canisius
6 - Drake
6 - Miami (Oh)
6 - Morehead St.
6 - Nevada
6 - Saint Louis
6 - St. Mary's
6 - San Diego St.
6 - Southern Illinois
6 - Utah State
6 - Weber St.
5 - George Mason
5 - Indiana St.
5 - Lamar
5 - Loyola Marymount
5 - Murray St.
5 - Northern Iowa
5 - Pepperdine

[Turbine]

I would have thought the Running Rebels had more from Tarkanian

[CajunNation]

I would have thought the Running Rebels had more from Tarkanian

Ooops. Missed one.

Fixed it. They have 33.

[Turbine]

Ooops. Missed one.

Fixed it. They have 33.

Whew! Thought I was living in a parallel U.

[VObserver]

You missed San Diego State as FBS

[CajunNation]

You missed San Diego State as FBS

I also missed UMASS.

I THINK that is all.

[zephyr]

Surprised at teams like Loyola, Princeton and Bradley.

[ZoomZoom]

Would be time consuming, but for example, Indiana State. 4 of their five wins came in the Bird/Magic NCAA final season.

2001 was their other win, versus Oklahoma.

Haven’t danced since 2011.

Four invites to March Madness.

Actually stopped at Indiana State and got a shirt coming back on the trip to Indianapolis in 82.

[IberiaCajun]

Lamar?!

[lcitsh]

Lamar?!

Billy Tubbs before he wound up in Oklahoma.

[ZoomZoom]

Billy Tubbs before he wound up in Oklahoma.

That’s another good example. What was the story behind the wins.

[lcitsh]

That’s another good example. What was the story behind the wins.

Here's your 5 wins:

Billy Tubbs years
Main article: Billy Tubbs
Coach Tubbs (1976–1980) was the first former player and alumnus to coach the Lamar men's basketball team. Tubbs led the Cardinals to their first NCAA Division I basketball tournament in 1979. The tenth seeded Cardinals upset the number seven seed Detroit before falling to tournament champion Michigan State in the second round. The following year, the Cardinals under Coach Tubbs, had a Cinderella story in the 1980 NCAA basketball tournament as a ten seed advancing to the Sweet 16. The Cardinals defeated number seven seed Weber State and number two seed Oregon State before falling to six seed Clemson.

Coach Tubbs left the Cardinals after the 1979–1980 season to take the head basketball coach job at Oklahoma. During Tubbs's reign at Lamar he recruited one player, Mike Olliver who would become an all-American for Lamar.[17] One of Coach Tubbs' recruits, Clarence Kea, was drafted by the NBA while Tubbs was still at Lamar. Three other Tubbs recruited players, Mike Olliver, B. B. Davis, and Alvin Brooks, were drafted the year following Tubbs' departure.[18]

The 1979 Cardinal Basketball team set records when it beat Portland State University 141–84; at the time, that game set an NCAA record for points in a single game.[19] During the game, Mike Olliver set the single game scoring record at Lamar with 50 points; that record stood until January 4, 2011.[citation needed]

Coach Tubbs' Cardinals began the 80 game seventh longest NCAA home court winning streak (discussed below) winning the first 31 games.

Statistics overview
Pat Foster years
Main article: Pat Foster
Pat Foster (1980–1986) was hired to replace Billy Tubbs. Foster came to Lamar as an assistant coach under Eddie Sutton at Arkansas. He continued Lamar's men's basketball success by leading the Cardinals to 3 Southland Conference titles and post season play each of the six years he was head coach at Lamar. Post-season included two (2) NCAA Tournament appearances advancing to the second round in both. The Cardinals also participated in the NIT four (4) times advancing to the second round once. The Cardinals won twenty (20) or more games five of Coach Foster's six seasons at Lamar. He coached one All-American, two Southland Conference Players of the Year, two Southland Conference Newcomers of the Year, seven Southland Conference First Team selections and fifteen All-Southland Conference team selections. Not including three players recruited by Billy Tubbs' staff, five of Coach Foster's recruits were drafted by the NBA. Those players were Terry Long, Lamont Robinson, Tom Sewell, Jerry Everett, and Greg Anderson."[18]

After turning down the Houston Cougars head coaching position once, Foster resigned as Lamar's head coach in April, 1986 to take the head coaching position at Houston following Guy Lewis's retirement. Pat Foster was named to the Lamar Hall of Honor in 2014 in recognition of his contributions to the program as Lamar coach and athletic director. His record at Lamar of 134 wins ranks as second in the history of the program.[21]

Coach Foster's Cardinals continued the 80 game seventh longest NCAA home court winning streak (discussed below) with 49 consecutive home court wins.