09? had a great chance
u got a broadly accepted better way to decide the best other than teams actually playing to decide?
Yeah, and I suppose that the Patriots were better than the Giants both times too.
Half those teams? The Uconn team that won the title in 04 WRECKS any of those teams. The best team ive ever seen was the UNLV 90 team and i think Uconn gives them a run. Those are the two best teams ive ever seen.
2021 Baylor and 2018 Nova are the only two I wouldn't be 100% confident in beating. Those teams were so lethal from 3 and had zero weaknesses. The rest of the teams on there, yeah I'll take 2004 UConn over them
I would take them over the rest as well including Baylor 2021. Nova 2018, now that would go to 7 games in a best of 7 series. That Nova 2018 team was dynamite. The Florida 2007 team, the North Carolina 2009 team, and the Kentucky 2012 belong in that same top echelon /tier with Nova 2018 and UConn 2004 if we are talking teams since 2002. Going before 2002, UNLV 1990 has to be up there along with Duke 1992, Arkansas 1994, Kentucky 1996, and UConn 1999.
Well, metrics are important and better than just 100% opinion or gut fell, but I agree they are not the end all be all. I mean people need to realize there is a little subjectivity built into the metrics as well.
Nah. Every team has a weakness. UC04 beats both those teams by double digits. I think Nova`18 gives us the better game but they better be hot from 3 and not missing a thing because if they do its two going the other way because neither one of those teams is outrebounding UC04 and they will have trouble attacking the basket. Also i forgot to mention one of the greatest coaches and gameplanners in the games history will be on our sideline.
very true about Calhoun's game planning. In some ways he was ahead of his time as his really good or great UConn teams, committed to defense (the 2006 was not committed to defense), knew how to defend the 5 out and 4 out/1 in offenses (99 Gonzaga, 2004 Vanderbilt) well. UConn 2004 could also play the 4 out/1 in offense as well with OK4 in the center, Villanueva, Brown, Anderson, and Gordon, which they did at certain points in many games.
I guess Pomeroy would have to weigh in, but I'm not sure that ratings from one season are necessarily comparable to other seasons. A lot of statistical systems like Massey and Sagarin compare teams and results from their season to one another. Those rankings would be relative to the other teams that played that season, not any other season. Pomeroy's system is different, but I still think it has roots in comparisons between common results in the season.
