Last year's team would have beat everyone this year by 30
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I feel like we say this every year. Last years team also had some close games with team that had no business in being in the game Texas and Old Miss took us to overtime last year.
While I agree, I believe everyone else was a year off, too. It was the overall strength of the past couple of high school classes, compared to the talent in this one. This was just a weak class, and most of the talent in the last class or two, have gone to the draft. That is why a couple of 5th year guys, at UL, look so good. We would not have been impressed if Booker or Lyles had stayed, as just sophs.
While that's true, stats like the one below tell me there is probably more validity to it this season:
While they would of had a better chance of winning the title, they wouldn't of beaten everyone by 30.
I certainly believe we win it all this year given last years team - Pretty comfortable like in 2012. To say we would win every game by 30 is a bit much when we beat 10 teams last year by 30. Probably just an intentional hyperbole.
I noticed that too. Then I started looking at the years with 6 different #1s, thinking there would be some sort of trend with relatively lower seeds winning it all but it looks like all 1 or 2 seeds won it all those years. So who knows.
They would have won the title but would have had some close games. I miss last year but I enjoyed last season from November through March.
As good as our team was last year it doesn't mean they'd automatically win the title this year. They would be the heavy favorite by far, but I can recall some heavy favorites losing in the past to lesser teams. Heck, I loved our 98' title team but they were no where near the best team in the country. That year we knocked off a Duke team many had in the final four. Also Kansas and North Carolina were loaded that year, but in typical Kansas fashion, KU was upset in the second round by Rhode Island. UNC reached the final four before being upset by Utah.
I would put money that it will be above 7, by the end of the year
Until they got to the final four/championship weekend and choked against an inferior opponent.
UNC is healthy they have won 10 straight and will be #1 next week.
As much as it pains me....they are far and away better than anyone else at least right now and UK 2015 doesnt beat them by 30.
As much as it pains me....they are far and away better than anyone else at least right now and UK 2015 doesnt beat them by 30.
It is obviously hyperbole, but you guys playing down last year's team because "they had some close calls" are either too literal or you don't understand basketball history.
Every team ever has had some close calls, even the ones that went undefeated. The truth is '15 had fewer close calls than all but maybe a dozen teams in CBB history. They had a win margin of around 22, against a perfectly respectable schedule. Do some of you understand how rare that is?
Every team ever has had some close calls, even the ones that went undefeated. The truth is '15 had fewer close calls than all but maybe a dozen teams in CBB history. They had a win margin of around 22, against a perfectly respectable schedule. Do some of you understand how rare that is?
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And this is why Im not throwing in the towel on the Catz.
duke would have had virtually no shot against uk in the title game unless they made 15+ 3s
wisconsin was the single most efficient offense in the kenpom era, and dekker's combination of size & quickness was about the single worst matchup out there in the absence of poythress. and uk still wins that game if they wave off that hayes put-back that was about a full second after the shot clock expired. and the ref was standing right there and had a much better angle than tv viewers to see the ball never got near the rim
i really thought i was done with college basketball until i saw murray in the pan am games. it's very difficult to deal with--cal building a selfless unit that was ludicrously hard to score against and on the verge of erasing that POS knight from history, and then having a chickenshit duke team that didn't guard a damned thing hoist the trophy at the end of the year
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