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Message: [QUOTE="DogMania, post: 4817760, member: 21"] The two programs couldn't be any more different. Coach K and his predecessor IMO did less with more, while JC and his predecessors have done more with less. Dook gets infinity more top ranked recruiting classes than UConn but has often been bounced earlier than their seeding dictates, not to mention losing 6 out of their 11 appearances in the championship game. Considering how many Burger-AAs and other highly ranked recruits they've landed, you'd expect more tournament success than they've achieved. I'm pretty confident if JC had landed just a handful more highly ranked recruits, how many additional NCs he would have netted during his time here. Also take into account how many of those highly ranked Dook recruits either didn't improve much, some transferring to other programs, and many not getting a sniff in the NBA, compared to the improvement we've seen with both a handful of highly ranked recruits and many unheralded ones that no one imagined making it to the NBA, but did. I've always wanted to see if someone could apply some quantitative analysis, taking into account the rankings of the players for each year and calculated against how far they advanced in the NCAA tournament. I'm pretty confident that the results would favor UConn over Dook, and likely over any program since 1999. UConn is a unique highly successful program with very little comparison to Dook or any of the other blue blood programs (UNC, UK, KU, Zona, etc.) that consistently pull in highly ranked recruiting classes just about every year but unable to cut down the nets. [/QUOTE]

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