NCAA Men's Final Four Thread

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You can't win CBB games shooting 1-6 from 3.

Edey has 62% of his team's points. The UCONN 5's have 2 of the team's 14 off. reb. Dude did his job. UCONN was just better in every other area.
 
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Biggest point differential in tourney history
Two straight years beating everyone by 13+ in the tourney
Just demolished the next best team in the country

An all time great team. Absolutely nobody can say otherwise.
 
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BaseballJones said:
So far. Let’s see how the second half goes. Most teams that hang with UConn for a half get buried in the second. But Purdue is the best team UConn has played this year so we’ll see.
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Not sure you have been wrong about the Huskies this year.
 
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OK, that was really impressive. I don't really follow men's college basketball - how many of these UConn guys are going to be in the NBA?
 
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This will go down as one of the great teams of all-time.
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College hoops is so weird now. These guys would get smoked by teams of the past but they were so dominant against their own competition that you could make the argument that way.
 
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BaseballJones said:
Back to back
Biggest point differential in tourney history
Two straight years beating everyone by 13+ in the tourney
Just demolished the next best team in the country

An all time great team. Absolutely nobody can say otherwise.
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But, the real question is, how’s that compare to ‘98-‘99 Duke’s KenPom or whatever.
 
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College hoops is so weird now. These guys would get smoked by teams of the past but they were so dominant against their own competition that you could make the argument that way.
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I don’t know why we’d think this to be the case. This team has loads of talent, can win any conceivable style of game, has a dominant 7-footer, and huge guards that really get after it in D. What teams of the past would smoke them?
 
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BaseballJones said:
I don’t know why we’d think this to be the case. This team has loads of talent, can win any conceivable style of game, has a dominant 7-footer, and huge guards that really get after it in D. What teams of the past would smoke them?
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I think its the guys didn't go get drafted so soon thing.

but also I think some duke teams that were extremely stacked
 
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BaseballJones said:
I don’t know why we’d think this to be the case. This team has loads of talent, can win any conceivable style of game, has a dominant 7-footer, and huge guards that really get after it in D. What teams of the past would smoke them?
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And it's totally apples and cucumbers. If this was 20-30 years ago, wouldn't a lot of last year's NBA crop still be in Storrs? Wouldn't some of the era's kids stay around for 4 years and really develop?
 
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BaseballJones said:
I don’t know why we’d think this to be the case. This team has loads of talent, can win any conceivable style of game, has a dominant 7-footer, and huge guards that really get after it in D. What teams of the past would smoke them?
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Depends how far back, but ‘90 UNLV, ‘91-‘92 Duke, ‘84 Georgetown are a few.
 
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BaseballJones said:
I don’t know why we’d think this to be the case. This team has loads of talent, can win any conceivable style of game, has a dominant 7-footer, and huge guards that really get after it in D. What teams of the past would smoke them?
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There was once a time when seniors and juniors stayed in college mostly were the starters while the younger and less developed freshman and sophomore watched and learned the game. Things have changed. I think that was the point
 
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BaseballJones said:
I don’t know why we’d think this to be the case. This team has loads of talent, can win any conceivable style of game, has a dominant 7-footer, and huge guards that really get after it in D. What teams of the past would smoke them?
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Teams of the past have the benefit of knowing how good everyone turned out. Brewer/Noah/Horford is 30 years of NBA experience. That skews most of these conversations.

I also think the idea that 2 of UCONN's best players came from East Carolina and Loyola (MD) is hard for most people to reconcile.

They were the top DI offense and 4th in def eff...and Newton, their best player, averages like 14 points per game. It's an all-time team but not really star driven. We're dumb and conditioned to love stars. That (currently) works against UCONN in these type of discussions.
 
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Purdue only attempted 7 threes. Not surprising given their abilities in the paint with Edey early. But with a double digit deficit it is surprising.
 
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I understand how people can dislike Hurley or UConn in general, but these teams the last two seasons are just a joy to watch. They're smart, unselfish and they play so well together. It's been such a pleasure to watch them do their thing.
 
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Congrats to UCONN and their fans. They were the dominant team in men's college basketball for the past two seasons and they paid it off each time. Really impressive run, coaching job by Hurley and by the players keeping their eyes on the prize.
 
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I loved Jay Wright bringing up Hurley's "Get us now, because we're coming." comment two years ago after they last lost in the NCAAs. He and his team cashed that check his mouth wrote. Congrats to UConn, who were even better bearing the crown they earned last year than they were when they won it.
 
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Back at the hotel from the game. Awesome. This team is the balls. Just amazing. Outstanding perimeter D for 40 minutes. If you had told me in 1999 we’d be at 6 nattys 25 years later. I would have told you to get fucked.

Absolute domination. One player can take you on a deep tourney run but you need a team to win the whole thing. I knew Edey was going to get his and he sure did to the tune of 60 something percent of Purdue’s pt total.

In the last 25 years they’ve missed the tournament 8 times. So that’s like 6 championships in 18 tournament appearances. Not bad. No team has had more than 3 over that same time span (a couple of teams from the state of NC).

Don’t come at me with the “nOt A bLuE bLoOd” shit. If ya do, you can eat my ass. Blue bloods wanna be us. Yeah I’m amped and so proud of this team.
 
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I don’t care about the term “blue blood”. I just know that nobody has more titles in the last 25 years, and that the sheer dominance by UConn basketball - both men and women - is unparalleled.

UConn men are kind of like the Patriots in that their greatness arrived late on the NCAA basketball scene (like the Pats’ greatness came late on the NFL scene) but hoo-boy have they made up for lost time.

Before 1995:

Men: 0 final fours, 0 national titles
Women: 1 final four, 0 national titles

Since 1995:

Men: 7 final fours, 6 national titles
Women: 21 final fours, 11 national titles

Nobody else is even in the same universe as UConn. The basketball capital of the world, indeed.
 
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Since 1995:

Men: 7 final fours, 6 national titles
Women: 21 final fours, 11 national titles

Nobody else is even in the same universe as UConn. The basketball capital of the world, indeed.
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Damn. Thanks for putting that in perspective. Congrats and #Respect. Title Town, indeed.

It’s just a shame CT isn‘t part of New England. ;)
 
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Damn. Thanks for putting that in perspective. Congrats and #Respect. Title Town, indeed.

It’s just a shame CT isn‘t part of New England. ;)
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Guess the Tri-state area will just claim all these juicy titles then. :p
 
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