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Message: [QUOTE="DogMania, post: 4890349, member: 21"] How is that not considered a road win over a ranked (11th at the time) team? Granted Seattle is over a 4 hour drive from Spokane, while 44 hours fromStorrs to Seattle. Good grief! As flawed as it is, that is a crazy stat but who gives a flying fart when we bring home the hardware when it counts the most. When it comes to UConn hoops, there are many out there that respect the h*ll out of us, there are some that root against us due to our success, and there's the few vocal haters out there especially those who are members of the ACC (probably add SEC...those UK hayseeds), those who kiss the ass of those in the ACC and those yahoos at ESPN and other national networks that disrespect us and the Big Esst. No matter how many NC banners we put up in our two hoops' venues, there will always be haters, while other blue chip programs that load up year after year with Burger AAs that lose early to lower seeds in the tournament will get their assess kissed without anyone calling them out for doing less with more. Extra Credit for some BY Brainiac: I've made this point many times, that if someone would come up with some sort of calculation that takes into account the combined recruiting rankings of a program's players per the success they've had in the NCAA tournament, UConn would stand alone at the top of that list while programs like Duke, Kentucky, North Carolina and Kansas would likely show poorly in that type of algorithm. There must be some Brainiac on this site that could put something together. Total up the combined player (recruiting) rankings of these programs for a given time span (or do it by season) the divide (or some sort of calculation) that by how deep they went into the tournament, and maybe weighting reaching the F4 and championship game and winning it all higher due to the elite status of those achievements. And for good measure calculate in a boost (such as +3 for a 4 seed beating a 1) when beating higher seeds and a reduction for losing to a lower seed (such as -3 for a 1 loosing to a 4). Hum...magbe dividing the success factors by the total combined player rankings makes more sense. I'd love to see someone tackle that challenge, and I have little doubt that if you go back to 1999 or maybe even as far back as 1990 (that would be a lot of stat gathering) UConn would score pretty high, while those other programs low due to the sheer numbers of Burger AAs and highly ranked recruits they land just about every sesson. [/QUOTE]

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