4 crowns of UCONN = 8 crowns in many cases

[chapwilvaug72]

the history of natl champs before the '60's-'70's is very very weak compared to the modern era of which UCONN is the superstar/ky, in, nc, ks titles in the era 40's-50's are jokes/ they only played three or four games to become pseudo champs against a watered down field where the NIT was the chosen promiseland by many leading teams/ all of the ucla titles are very tainted except the '95 one / those JOKeSTERS

 

[MidTown Husky]

Comes out FIRING here on this beautiful Palm Sunday

 

[chapwilvaug72]

let us not forget the pretend hoopsters all in a glow by their crowns bestowed by Helms Athletic Foundation & their panel of elitist "experts." / famous pretenders like syr of 1918 (16-1), syr of 1926 (19-1), pitt of 1928 (21-0), pitt of 1930 (23-2), yale of 1901 (10-4), yale of 1903 (15-1)

does anyone remember during the UCONN title march of 2011; the current yale coach was on tv doing commentary & he said repeatedly he hoped UCONN would be knocked out of the tourney?

 

[Brochacho]

Title run numbers for UConn and the 6 blue bloods.

UConn: 24-0, 4 NC, 6.0 average
Kentucky: 37-0, 8 NC, 4.625 average
North Carolina: 28-0, 5 NC, 5.6 average
Kansas: 16-0, 3 NC, 5.3 average
Duke: 24-0, 4 NC, 6.0 average
Indiana: 23-0, 5 NC, 4.6 average
UCLA: 46-0, 11 NC, 4.18 average

No surprise to see that the schools having the most trouble maintaining relevancy today, UCLA and Indiana, had the easiest paths to their titles.

 

[tzznandrew]

I think, sure, we can discount things before 1950 pretty outright. We can also say that titles in the early 1950s were less meaningful than in the 1960s. But even those 1950s titles were getting harder...the point shaving scandal was the early death knell of the NIT.

Look, let's just keep winning, and not really worry about what another's tradition. If it were that easy to win in the 1940s and 1950s--and hell, Stanford, Oregon, and Wisconsin won titles--we should have. At least made a Final Four given that we had 13 league titles in the 1940s and 1950s.

Let's give them credit for winning when they did, while also recognizing that it doesn't really mean jack squat to fans or recruits nowadays. The NCAA didn't start in 1985...so they get some credit. But things that happened a decades before recruits were born aren't going to play much of a role going forward.