Butler’s Back-to-Back Championship Appearances a 7,500-to-1 Longshot
Last week, we established that Virginia Commonwealth had only about 1-in-820 odds of winning five consecutive games and reaching the Final Four. Although V.C.U.’s run ended with a loss to Butler in Houston on Saturday, the feat ranks right among anything else accomplished over the course of a single N.C.A.A. tournament; it was about as unlikely as Villanova winning the national title, as a No. 8 seed, in 1985.
But what about over the course of two tournaments? What are the odds that Butler would have reached the championship game two years in a row?
