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Message: [QUOTE="hoophuskee, post: 3369578, member: 3535"] We can agree to disagree regarding 2003 and 2004. Sure Duke and Tennessee were "elite" teams in 2003 and 2004 but they wouldn't have been as good as ND's class from 12-13 thru 15-16 other than the 1 year Achinowa got hurt but frankly if healthy Achinowa, they were scary good too and batter than the 2. There are different ways to characterize "elite," however. You've mentioned Duke and Tennessee but UCONN outlasted them in those years thus UCONN was "elite" too which I think we agree on. - And if you want to call the other 2 "elite" - okay. But taking that a step further - IMO the 2003 and 2004 title teams - they' weren't near as elite as Stewie's teams in her soph through senior years. The prime-Stewart UCONN teams would've convincingly beaten the 2003/ 2004 teams. Thus there is a big difference between teams that we refer to as "elite." The ND teams that Stewie faced were awesome. Duke and Tennessee might've been in the top 3 back then but they weren't awesome at the level ND was during Stewie's era. So imo if we call Duke and Tennessee "elite," then we have to call those ND teams in Stewart's era as "supremely elite." [/QUOTE]