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Message: [QUOTE="CL82, post: 4263915, member: 44"] Yup, and we are fifth in all time wins and have been pretty good for a long time. The difference is, arguably, one more Natty, yet Duke is often included with the blue bloods in Connecticut is not. The distinction seems fairly arbitrary. Since”Blue blood“ was a term that was already in play as basketball “old money“ before Duke won its first national championship, then they definitionally are not one. Now, if we want to re-define “blue blood“ to be the currently top five strongest programs, that’s fine we can do that, but then you leave out UCLA. Or I guess you could define it as any group of schools with at least three national championships, but all those are different things. The randomness of how the term is used is vaguely annoying to me. [/QUOTE]