I don't get UCONN other than they have just beat mediocre teams the last two years.
Who can you compare them to historically?
Great coaches like K, Knight, Smith, Pitino and Williams all won championships with loaded rosters.
This years nor last years UCONN team was loaded by any means.
Florida's back to back champions had three guys that all played 10-15 years in the NBA.
Guess this is just the new reality in CBB.
THIS UCONN team is mega talented, if you do not see that, you are not watching. They have 4 / 5 guys who will get drafted. Below are the players who have been projected by different draft experts.
Castle - 6th, 7th, 10th, 14th. He is a lotto pick
Clingan - 3rd, 7th, 10th, 11th. Another lotto pick by several projections/
Karaban - 37th, 40th, 41st, 44th - Solidly in the second round if he stays in.
Spencer - 44th , 54th. SR, so he will not be back next year.
Newton - 42nd, 48th. SR. he will also not be back.
2 lotto picks - Castle and Clingan
Late 1st, early 2nd in Karaban (injuries have slide him down some recently, still 1st round talent)
2 SR players who are solidly in the 2nd round, which neither will be back because of graduation.
That is 5 players, 2 sure fire early 1st rounders, 1 maybe late 1st, early second at worst, and 2 middle 2nd round players. That is NOT the definition of mediocre. That is a super talented veteran team with a stud freshman in Castle to go with them. You do not win a championship, then dominate the tournament the second year and odds on heavy favorite to repeat by being mediocre. LOL, what a silly statement. I have only seen ONE person say UCONN is mediocre. Congrats ?