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Message: [QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 2673261, member: 488"] Agreed on 2012 Kentucky. Great team without question, but never really tested because of the fact that the two other great teams that year - Syracuse and UNC - both endured crippling injuries (R.I.P. Fab). I think 2004 UConn handles them easily, but then again it isn't a totally fair comparison because I think post-09 the best teams haven't been on the same level. You went through a phase there with '04 UConn, '05 UNC, '06/'07 Florida, '08 Kansas and '09 UNC where the top teams were just filthy. 2010 Duke was the first underwhelming champ of the new era, 2011 UConn obviously wasn't exactly dominant either, and then I think 2012 Kentucky looked really good by comparison. But I'm hard pressed right now to say there are any title winners post-'09 better than this Nova team. Sometimes I forget how top-heavy 2015 was. There were just a handful of behemoth teams that you don't even think about anymore. People remember Duke, Kentucky, and Wisconsin, but even beyond that you had some freight trains. Arizona went 31-3 with a starting five of T.J. McConnell, Stanley Johnson, Rondae Hollis-Jefferson, Brandon Ashley, and Kaleb Tarczewski and got a two seed. Villanova was 32-2 heading into selection sunday and somehow finished 9th in the AP poll. Gonzaga ended up 35-3 even after the loss to Duke (maybe the most complete Gonzaga team ever with Sabonis, Wiltjer, Karnowski, Pangos, etc.). Virginia rolled to a 28-1 start but could never put things back together after losing Justin Anderson (that's the forgotten Virginia team that probably haunts UVa fans the most). The most fun, unforgettable team in the country was probably Notre Dame, though. They were stupid loaded - Jerian Grant, Demetrius Jackson, Pat Connaughton, Steve Vasturia, Zach Auguste, and Bonzie Colson among others - and beat Duke two out of three en route to the ACC tournament title before losing a game to an undefeated Kentucky that they should have won. [/QUOTE]

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