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Message: [QUOTE="YKCornelius, post: 5303143, member: 9864"] DefenseBB, as much as I love your analysis on assessing the possibility of UConn averaging 90 ppg, I am unclear on your analysis on "offense not defense wins championships". Hence, I am reluctant to agree with your conclusion. First and foremost how are you defining "Top 15 in offense" - total points? points per game? shooting efficiency? points per possession? some combination of the these? Likewise, how is "Top 15 in Defense" being defined - fewest points per game? opponents shooting efficiency? opponents points per possession? some combination of these? Finally, your contention that "[B]having a top 15 offense guarantees you success"[/B] is absurd. Success at what? Winning a title? Certainly not as per your stats - those remaining 67 teams of the 91 FF participants who were "Top 15 Offenses" didn't win the NC that year. Perhaps you meant guaranteed success at reaching the Final Four? Also absolutely not as per your stats - of the 375 teams that were Top 15 Offenses during your 26 year span, only 91 made it to the Final Four. The other 284 didn't. Heck, I would be willing to bet that [B]in any given year [/B]that the entire Top 15 in offense[B] didn't even make it past the Sweet Sixteen. [/B]Some might have lost to other Top 15 Offenses, but I believe others lost to non-Top 15 offenses. Shouldn't take too long for me to verify, but I would need to know how you are defining a "Top 15 Offense" first. [/QUOTE]