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Message: [QUOTE="HooperScooper, post: 2525879, member: 10"] True. But I'd say UConn's success was built with these guys and a lot of recruits in the 25-75 range. UConn teams typically had at least 7-8 players ranked in the top 75 or so of their classes. It would take a lot of time I don't feel like spending to go through every recruiting class (I'm sure someone has already done that) but guys like Chris Smith, Travis Knight, Scott Burrell, Ray Allen, Kevin Ollie, Kevin Freeman, Rashad Anderson, Denham Brown, Ben Gordon, Josh Boone, Ricky Moore, A.J. Price, Jeff Adrien, Jerome Dyson, Stanley Robinson, etc. fit that profile. In fact if you went back to the Dream Season all the way through to 2014 and listed the top 6 or 7 players on each team I'd bet almost all of them were top 75 (or so) recruits. As we've discussed before the recruiting rankings aren't the be all end all but typically they are pretty good at predicting talent. And you need talent to win. [/QUOTE]