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That UNLV team was special and probably would have beaten us but just getting to the FF was a dream come true for us long time fans losing it to a great team I could have lived with .
10-1 in FF is an incredible achievement as is 5-0 in finals
If we get there enough we will eventually lose but I’ll trade a loss for number 6
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Funny thing about the 90 UNLV team, when I was doing the metrics for the seed math thread, the UNLV team has the easiest path ever and faced the worst top 4 teams of anyone. Their fourth best victory was over an 11 seed. While they rolled pretty much everyone else, they had a two point victory over the 12 seed (Ball State) in the third round.
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The other side of the coin in that argument is that the 1 loss is because we only got to 6 final fours, meaning there were lots of other tournaments in which the season ended with a loss BEFORE the final four.
Duke also has 5 national championships AND they have 12 losses in final fours. BUT that’s because they got to 17 final fours. So, which would you prefer - that your 5-time national championship program got to 17 final fours or to 6?
Adolph Rupp took Kentucky to 5 NCAA championship games and won 4 of them. In addition, he took them to 2 NIT championship games back when that was just as good a tournament and won one of those as well. That’s a pretty impressive record.
Bob Knight is probably the most similar to Calhoun. He only got Indiana to 5 final fours, but he won the national championship in 3 of them.
Similarly Roy Williams took North Carolina to 5 final fours and won 3 of them.
San Francisco is another program with a similar record. They won 3 national championships in the post-war era and only lost once in a final four.
The most frustrating program to follow in the past 25 years if you don’t like getting teased has to be Michigan State. To Izzy’s credit he has gotten them to 8 final fours, which is more than anyone else in that span, BUT they have won the championship only once.
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Yeah, the knock on Smith for a long time was that he couldn’t win “the big one”. He was like Tom Izzo in that respect. UNC fans got teased a lot but were too often left falling short.
Just for the record, Smith got UNC to 11 final fours.
Isn't Smith the first coach at uNC to win a championship during the Afro Studies program fraud era?
If we get to 17 we will be 32-1
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No, neither of Smith’s national championship teams were during that era, which reportedly began with the 1993-94 academic year. Rashad McCants from the 2005 championship team, coached by Roy Williams, was tied to that scandal.
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The key to UConn success that year was our ability to pressure the ball .
We simply did not have a very imposing inside game. In retrospect what JC could come up with would have been interesting
Georgetown had a front line with two NBA superstars and we beat them 2/3 . So you never know until you play the game .
We probably matched up with them a little better than Duke did that year . Hurley ( Bobby) as a freshman was a better offensive guard than defender at that stage.