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Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 3225156, member: 833"] I agree on Duke's short bench, but I think the team speed was decisive. Duke was probably a slightly more talented team overall, but UConn was so much faster that it was just a bad matchup for Duke. I am going to stop short of proclaiming 1984 Georgetown or the early 80's Houston teams as head and shoulders better than the 1999 teams. A big difference was obviously that if Hakeem played in the late 90's, Houston would have been lucky to get 2 years out of him, although he only stayed 3 seasons at Houston. I am reluctant to lean too heavily on NBA careers as indicators of how good they were in college. Karl Malone, John Stockton and Scottie Pippin were nobodies before they got to the NBA. You can't retroactively make them great college players because they had great pro careers. [/QUOTE]