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Message: [QUOTE="auror, post: 3223582, member: 1329"] I've come to agree with [USER=1522]@superjohn[/USER] over the last few years that we won because Ricky Moore was phenomenal and shut down their primary guard creation. Langdon had a good game, but the rest of their guards were pretty bad in that game. Overall, our '99 team is tied for the best defensive team of the last 24 years. We had an awesome team. That doesn't mean our team was as good as '99 Duke's. There's a difference between having a favorable matchup or winning one game and a 12 adjEM differential. Vegas wasn't wrong with making '99 UConn 9.5+ point underdogs depending on where you got the action. We just won the game. And that is one of the things that makes sports amazing. I don't have to conclude that UConn was the better team to celebrate that win for the last 20 years. 2 different things can be true at the same time: we won that game because we were the better team that night and '99 Duke was a ridiculously incredible team all season that is likely the best team of the the last 24 years. If their adjEM was 35 or 36, it would be fair to conclude otherwise, but 43 adjEM is insane and pretty much unassailable. [/QUOTE]