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Message: [QUOTE="freescooter, post: 3864400, member: 1023"] I think you are badly underestimating just how difficult it is to win it all. You need 3 things. 1. Talent 2. You need to play well all the time. In the 1-done format an off day, a key injury, can mean the end of the line. 2006 UConn is exhibit A. Talent out the ears. Didn’t click one day and it was a disaster. 3. Coaching. There is a reason why so few coaches have multiple titles. But there are also some excellent coaches who never quite get over the hump. Which brings us to #4 4. You need to have some luck or at least get some breaks or the right karma or whatever you want to call it. Donyell Marshall was one of the best free throw shooter in the country. He missed and UConn lost. On the other hand Brimah a 50% free throw shooter makes his in 2014 and it’s off to the races. Or the 1998 team gets UNC in what is basically a home game for them. Fast forward and 2014 gets Iowa State and Michigan State in what is essentially home games for us. Sometimes it is somebody else screws up and your path opens or closes. 1995 UConn had a terrific team. I thought they had only 1 team that scared me. UCLA and they were losing in the sweet 16. Then Edny goes coast to coast to score the winner at the buzzer. We have to play them in the Elite 8 and lose. Luck, karma whatever you want to call it teams seldom win without it. [/QUOTE]