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Message: [QUOTE="Husky25, post: 3223960, member: 2839"] Duke was a great team. Not the greatest of all time and probably not the greatest to ever not win the Tournament, but they are in the conversation. They were overrated in that the two best teams in the country all season long met in the championship game and anyone who took Duke as a 9.5 point favorite didn't factor in the circumstances or experience. BTW, 10/22 = 45.45%. Hamilton, a jump shooter, shot 44.3% for the season. El-Amin was precisely on his season average (4.8FGs/11.7FGA per game). Neither championship game performance was outside anyone's margin for error. Moore's offensive performance on the other hand, was. He shot 42% during the season, averaging less than 5 FGA/G. Also UConn's FT shooting was comparatively atrocious. They shoot 73% for the year and in the mid 50s in the NC. Moore's defense was at its typical stellar level, as was the combined defense of the front court (stellar, if not typical). UConn held Brand to only 8 shots, and Freeman and Voskuhl had 5 blocks between them. Oh, and before anyone mentions that 74 points doe not necessarily reflect great defense, Duke averaged 92 points that year. UConn was right on their average. [/QUOTE]