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Message: [QUOTE="Orangutan, post: 3118504, member: 4946"] Ok, substantive response. Yes, ND returned 4 starters from last year's NC team and brought back Turner. However last year's team trailed at halftime in their last 4 tourney games. ND could just as easily have lost in the Elite 8 last year. It was something of a minor miracle ND won last year. They were not the best team in the country. Probably UConn was. But the best team doesn't always win a single-elim tournament. So in my opinion (yours seems to differ greatly), getting those players back simply made this a team that might *actually* be the best in the country. In the end, they won the ACC championship (regular season and tourney) and earned the #2 overall seed in the tournament. Then in the tournament they made the final where they lost to the #1 overall seed by 1 point. This team had enough talent that only a national championship could be considered a complete success. However, yes, I think they made an excellent title defense. [/QUOTE]