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You had 2014 but that season doesn't bother me . For that team to make the finals was maybe the best non title winning experince of my 40 years of being a UK fan. Now 2015 is the one for sure. If we go undefeated and win the title we are considered the best team of the last 40 years probably. 97 would be second. Just don't care much about something that happened when my parents were 15 years old ( 66 ect)
Have to disagree, Nazr missed all his free throws, had he made just ONE, we win. But, he redeemed himself the next year helping us win.My favorite year of change is not listed (Kentucky vs. Georgetown), however, with what is given I would take 1997. That was a Championship we gave away because we would not play our best player (Anderson). That was not just bad shooting or bad referring. We just gave it away.
We beat Duke in the Final Four, in 1966, they were lilly-white (as were many teams in 1966). Had Duke beaten us and then lost to Texas Western, does anyone honestly think that Duke would be the bad guys we've become to be by the media and Hollywood? Not a chance IMO.I like all of these answers, but I would pick '66 because of the racist label UK has unfairly been stuck with because of that game.
'75 - Send Cheatin' Wooden out a loser. Plus, it would be 9 vs 10 instead of 8 vs 11 'ships.
We beat Duke in the Final Four, in 1966, they were lilly-white (as were many teams in 1966). Had Duke beaten us and then lost to Texas Western, does anyone honestly think that Duke would be the bad guys we've become to be by the media and Hollywood? Not a chance IMO.
The question was if you could change just one outcome, not two.None of it exists in a vacuum, obviously. I'm not sure 98 wins it all if 97 does. I'm not sure the guys (and/or Cal) come back in 15 if 14 finishes the job.
I think 75 is the obvious answer from a historical perspective. It's the most value per change.
I agree. I know it wasn’t one of the options in the OP, but it would be my choice hands down and I go back to the early 70’s with UK basketball.I was going to say 2015! Cause of the historical aspect and what it might have done for recruiting!
Me too 1978 was my first year I can remember being interested I was 8I agree. I know it wasn’t one of the options in the OP, but it would be my choice hands down and I go back to the early 70’s with UK basketball.
Very close call between '66 and '70. Throw in '92 and '15. Time does tend to heal old wounds, so 2015 is probably my final answer. Very hurtful loss still to this very day...we should have been 40-0 champions and ordained the greatest team in the history of college basketball.of 66 75 97 or 14
Im going 66. Feel like Rupp deserves 1 more
'75 - Send Cheatin' Wooden out a loser. Plus, it would be 9 vs 10 instead of 8 vs 11 'ships.
I think Pitino leaves anyway. He was wanting to move to another challenge, which he failed at.Pitino stays if they win. Goes down in history as the greatest coach of all time.
The question was if you could change just one outcome, not two.
I agree with you for the reasons you give, however the greatest heartbreak for me was the 1966 team was the best "small team" I watched and they were the walking wounded in that title game.75, because it kills two birds with one stone. Takes a title away from UCLA in addition to giving another to UK.
Right . . it's called a musing. And you are changing more than one outcome: you are musing twice. And what makes no sense whatsoever is that while musing a 97 win might change the future 1 year later, you seem highly confident that a 75 win could not possibly change the future 3 years later.I'm not changing two outcomes, I'm saying that changing one outcome means it's unlikely that what we know historically turns out the exact same way.
If 2011 cuts down the nets, maybe Jones/Lamb go pro and the AD team falls short, for example.
I'm using that reasoning as more support for choosing 75. If anything, it makes another title in that era more likely, whereas the alternative choices all have potentially negative ramifications for other title winners.
If you're saying that the hypothetical means all these games exist in a vacuum and nothing else would change for our or any other program, I'm still taking '75 because it sends Wooden out a loser and closes the all time titles gap.
14 no questionof 66 75 97 or 14
Im going 66. Feel like Rupp deserves 1 more
Why not '15of 66 75 97 or 14
Im going 66. Feel like Rupp deserves 1 more