Larry was 9-10 in 12 MAC tourneys and is 6-7 in 7 Southern Conference Tourneys (hard to believe he's been there 7 years already).   At first blush that doesn't look too bad but when you dig in a little deeper it gets ugly.   In 6 of Larry's 11 tournaments (no tourney in 1998) with Ohio he was one and done.  In 5 of those 6 he lost to a lower seed (worse seed) although 4 of those were 4-5 opening round matchups.  Prior to this season Larry had only beaten a higher seed twice and even those have caveats.  In 1999 Ohio was a 5 seed and beat Toledo who was a 2 seed but Ohio had a better conference record than Toledo.  Toledo received the higher seed because they won the West (sound familiar).  The next year Ohio again beat a 2 seed (Ball State) as a 6th seed but had the same conference record.

His record is similar in the SoCon.  He beat a 3rd seed and a 2nd seed this year in an impressive run and came very close to taking down the #1 seed.  But prior to those wins Larry had won four conference tournament games against a 10th seed, an 11th seed and two 12 seeds.  In only three of his 7 tournaments did he lose to a lower seed however. He's also shown a slight improvement on the one-and-dones with just 3 of 7 eliminations coming in the opening round.

Thanks for this OUVan! Some very interesting numbers you lay out here. Take away his lone MAC Tourney Championship at OHIO and it's even uglier.

Let's not forget that Larry won a National Championship at Wittenberg in 1977, when he had a little more hair:

exactly what I was thinking about that pic of Charlie coaching at Saginaw.....he would still be styling that Fro in down town Yellow Springs....That HS always had some characters....BTW Greg Seay rocked that 53 for Wittenberg