Great post. I do agree. The point i was hoping to make was that if we lost that game, our regular season wasnt enough to call us the best team. In other words, the best team in the tourney has to be called the Best team of that year. Its like bar trivia where the first ten questions are worth 5 pts apiece but the final question is worth 100. Not exactly fair, but only 1 true winner.
I know your point and I know you aren’t one of those whiners. I just had to say something. It makes me nuts when they do it. I guess I wish you picked a different example. 😂
Well sure if you pick multiple teams as your favorite you can experience even more winning. I consider it a no brainer that it's been way better being a UConn fan because we win way more championships than Kansas.
But the Sox have been way more consistent than UConn, and the Yankees not nearly as consistent as Kansas. I also get nowhere near the overall joy of participation in the MLB playoffs that I get being part of the NCAA tournament.
I wish I was a fan of two great programs. I often wish I went to grad school at a great football school so that CR wouldn’t bother me so much. I’d have a team if UConn never gets the call.
I am truly lucky to be a huge college basketball fan who happened to attend those two schools. No doubt about it. My college football luck is well, a bit less.
Kansas football has been fun recently though. I actually think UConn football is fun again too. I’m just worried about the future.
KU was good when I was there (Glen Mason era), which was fun. They had the Orange bowl win some time back. Both teams pretty good right now, I’m liking that. I want to go check out the new stadium in Lawrence.
“Nobody gives much credence to the titles won before 1969.” Count me among the nobodies.
Actually, I never heard it metioned before and I was totally unfamiliar with it
Seriously, it happens all the time.
Vs and a Loss to MSU
UConn has been to 7 Final Fours. But the first one in 1999 is outside the last 25 seasons.
No they haven't.
Oops my bad. I was wrong but UConn does still have 6 of the last 25 championships - since there was no champion in 2020 or 2013.
Amazing when you look at it that of those 25 non vacated titles, 19 were won by 6 schools. (Uconn, UNC, Duke, Nova, Florida, Kansas).
The new bloods.
Flimsy list - first, misses a title with Uconn (5). Really more of a click bait type list than anything with substance as offers so little rationale. If you're going to say the team who is widely seen as the top program currently, as 8, you need to provide some color to the why. If it's league affiliation or not, state the case. Looked up Kyle Boone the other day after he was brought up in another post - guy was a health major at Oklahoma St. Not sure how he landed in this job, but his credentials are a bit amiss.
That's the reality. So many good teams have failed to pull it off. Like Houston, Gonzaga, Purdue, Alabama zero championships despite a lot of bites at the apple. Baylor finally managed one and then slipped back.
I'm fully with you on this but a narrative that has been repeated ad nauseum by many pundits (in my opinion, in part to remove credit from our accomplishments) has been on their consistent high level of achievement in conference regular season play.
I recall using the term inferiority complex and getting lambasted by some of the same members who are now complaining that this article putting us down at 8 on their list is a joke.