Gongaza became bad a few years after Steve Sutton came and went, two years after Mark Few left.
Same.
But then again WCC and A-10 are major conferences, not mid-majors or smalls.
Also I forgot to mention, One of duke's original assistants left for Buffalo and for like ~10-12 years of his 20 years there they had 20+ win seasons, but never got into the tournament as an at-large so ended up going to the tournament 3-4 times.