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Message: [QUOTE="LStudfellow, post: 3488299, member: 5436"] I would throw in the '98 and '02 teams into that mix as well... For example, what if the '98 team did not have to play a powerhouse UNC team IN NORTH CAROLINA? And that '02 team with Caron leading the way... we pushed the eventual champ Maryland right to the end in that Elite 8 game. Excellent idea [USER=34]@Chin Diesel[/USER]... definitely a fun debate to have with so much time on our hands. :cool: Personally, I have always thought that Dream Season team outplayed their individual talent more than any other team we have ever had, until the 2014 team did during their tournament run. That 10 to 11 weeks from mid-January 1990 through the gut-wrenching loss to Duke in the Meadowlands will always be the most fun I have ever had as a sports fan... and I was lucky enough as a senior at the time to be there as a fan, as an announcer for WHUS (on some of the games) or just being in Connecticut to live it all as it unfolded. I still get chills every time I watch the beginning sequence against mighty Georgetown at the Hartford Civic Center on that snowy Saturday night in late January when we all first started to really believe that team was special. And before anyone chimes in with the Syracuse game from 5 days earlier (I was at that game also), remember that we had beaten Syracuse in each of the previous 2 years, and it always seemed like you could beat Syracuse because Boeheim was not a great in-game coach, even when he had the far superior talent on his side. Georgetown, on the other hand - beating them and the mighty John Thompson at the time was the ultimate mountain to climb. We had only beaten them once in the last 16 games coming into that game... and they were always more menacing because they played much more in-your-face hardcore man-to-man Defense (Hoya Paranoia) than Syracuse ever did with their more passive 2-3 zone. I have never been in a place so loud, so exuberant as it was when Georgetown called that timeout at the 5 minute mark when they had not scored yet. I remember John Tuite and I looking at each other in sheer amazement at the cacophony of sound emanating from the crowd around us. It was awesome! I am truly thankful to [USER=208]@tcf15[/USER] every time I go to his treasure trove of compiled videos... Thank you [USER=208]@tcf15[/USER]! ... These types of threads also serve as a great reminder of how lucky we have been as UConn Husky fans, particularly during our golden age when Jim Calhoun, the Michelangelo of all of college basketball, was the man at the helm. [/QUOTE]

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