If Cal was even halfway competent in in game coaching he could have 5 titles here, seriously. He should have 3 without dispute.
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Two Big East teams, UConn and Villanova, will have won 5 combined titles since Cal came here.
If we're not the gold standard, maybe we can become known as the Gilded Age standard.
At least three.
We had more talent than the teams we lost to in 2010, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, and 2023.
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Their Men’s bball promptly took their women’s bball’s place now that Auriemma seems to be out of gas.
I edited my post before seeing your latest and I said 3 at least without dispute.
Sure, but still not sure how that proves the point of there not really being parity right now. There will have been eight or nine unique winners in the last ten. Recent title game participants of Baylor, Gonzaga, Wisconsin, Texas Tech, Virginia, and Michigan. Non-blue bloods are doing better than ever before. 16 seeds are winning, 15 seeds winning is a regular occurrence. Final Fours used to be almost exclusively top 4 seeds. Now we're regularly getting 6-11 seeds making it.
If you really can't see the parity I don't know what to tell you.
They aren't one. They're 100% a power conference in basketball. In football it's the P5, in basketball it's the P6.
I think that's fair.
I just don't like when the parity excuse is used to deflect for Calipari (not saying you're doing that, but others certainly do).
The fact is that Calipari has had more talented teams than every coach he's lost to in the tournament, with the exception being perhaps UConn in 2011 (even that's a push), and perhaps Indiana (2016; although also close in talent).
There are no truck stops in the conference of champions.
I'm honestly worried about what Bill is going to do when he realizes UCLA is now in a truck stop conference.
Right. Big East and the P5 football conferences make up the basketball Power Conferences. (With realignment, we might be losing 1 or 2 of those P5 conferences in football.)
Welcome to “Fly-Over Country” lol
UK under Cal is like the silver that turns your finger green after a while. Looks great at first but than you realize it's all fluff and no substance.
U conn has players that are just good. It's not any certain plays. They take their guy off the dribble and score. Kickout to shooters who make shots
They have a nicely assembled roster that is a combo of some returnees who have improved significantly. Some transfers from Virginia Tech, East Carolina and San Diego. Then a couple of good freshmen like Clingan and Karaban-(Top 50 players both), Sanogo is kind of the Emeka Okafor of this team, a lower rated big man with potential who became a stud player. They have multi dimensional players who can shoot and handle the ball. They have stud bigs, they have depth, they’ve got all the bases covered.
Sucks for FAU the way they lost, that’s tough.
Uconn is about to win all 6 games n this tourney by double digits.
They have against the top team in the country, and 4 other games aswell. They are really good
