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Message: [QUOTE="diggerfoot, post: 3140243, member: 1673"] Well, OK, I was going to stay out of this, but since you're doubling down. Last year ND won a championship with 6'4" Shepherd and 6'2" Westbeld and no bench. The year before SC actually played better once Coates went down, effectively leaving Wilson as the only big by how you seem to be considering bigs. The year before there was 6'4" Stewart and 6'2" Tuck and an underused and undersized bench. The Charles/Moore championships featured 6'4" Charles and 6'0" Moore at the 4/5. Their back-ups were a 6'2" McLaren and another 6'0" Gardler. This is noteworthy because Irwin is at least as good as Gardler, and taller, but Auriemma has changed his substitution policy lately, to the tune of 12 straight Final Fours. 2002 we know had no one over 6'2" in the starting line-up. 2000 had 6'5" Schumacher and our 6'2" phenoms. Some of these had 7-8 player rotations, ND had a 6 player rotation at best and no one over 6'0" saw appreciable minutes in the Stewart/Tuck year. So there you have it, and with absolutely no "spin." [/QUOTE]