Are we done?

From the Very Strange Statistics department, otherwise known as the Way Too Much Free Time On My Hands department:

Having made the NCAA's this year, Cornell is now the only team in history to make the tournament at least three times in a decade for five consecutive decades, with NCAA trips in:

1967, 1968, 1969
1970, 1972, 1973
1980, 1981, 1986
1991, 1996, 1997
2002, 2003, 2005

BC and BU have also made at least three NCAA trips in a decade five times, but neither of them has done it five decades in a row. (BC -- 50's, 60's, 80's, 90's, and 00's; BU -- 50's, 60's, 70's, 90's, and 00's)

The, uh, downside of this, as you can see, is that in the last four decades, the Big Red made *exactly* three trips, and we just finished our third trip for the 00's. Certainly the coaches and players are capable of making sure history doesn't repeat itself... let's just say I hope I'm not in hiding in four or five years for bringing this up.

Given that up until '81 those were four team tournaments, I think it's a tribute to Ned (and his recruiting contacts) we went as frequently as we did. Now that we're dealing with 16 team tournaments, I think the probability we'll continue to go will be higher.

It does mean maintaining a competitive program, but this year clearly showed that a third place ECAC team that plays a competitive out of conference schedule, and even loses a few games they should have won, can make the tournament as an at-large, when such a thing would have been unthinkable in the 70's (unless of course, that team had "Boston" in their name).

[Q]fenwick Wrote:
Having made the NCAA's this year, Cornell is now the only team in history to make the tournament at least three times in a decade for five consecutive decades, with NCAA trips in:

1967, 1968, 1969
1970, 1972, 1973
1980, 1981, 1986
1991, 1996, 1997
2002, 2003, 2005
[/q]
Also the only team to win at least two ECAC championships in every decade (defining "decade" as 0-9, not 1-0).

[Q]fenwick Wrote:
1967, 1968, 1969
1970, 1972, 1973
1980, 1981, 1986
1991, 1996, 1997
2002, 2003, 2005[/q]

Let's be forward-looking and aim for a new goal.

Cornell has made 5 trips in 10 seasons.

If they go next year, that will be 6/11, which isn't close to the record of 6/7.

However, the record for 7 is 7/14. Therefore, if Cornell can make 2 trips in the next 3 seasons, they set the team record for most "closely spaced" 7 trips.

[Q]Trotsky Wrote:

fenwick Wrote:
1967, 1968, 1969
1970, 1972, 1973
1980, 1981, 1986
1991, 1996, 1997
2002, 2003, 2005[/Q]
Let's be forward-looking and aim for a new goal.

Cornell has made 5 trips in 10 seasons.

If they go next year, that will be 6/11, which isn't close to the record of 6/7.

However, the record for 7 is 7/14. Therefore, if Cornell can make 2 trips in the next 3 seasons, they set the team record for most "closely spaced" 7 trips.[/q]

Hasn't MIchigan made something like 11 straight? Or did I misread something somewhere...