S16 Who to root for (guide)

[champs99and04]

Cincy and Louisville are the two teams that have my support. I've really gained a lot of respect for Mick Cronin this season, I think Yancy Gates is a good kid who made a mistake, and it seems like they're in the Big East for the time being. Louisville because it would be hilarious to read the reaction of UK fans if Pitino ended up with two titles to Calipari's zero. I don't love Pitino, but Louisville has never been a school that's really bothered them and they've kind of got the cute "little brother" thing going in their rivalry with UK.

Really, anybody but UK or Cuse. I'm not a huge fan of UNC but it's a heck of a lot better that they win it than Duke, Kentucky, or Cuse.

 

[Dogdeacon]

[I think the more logical approach are worried about competition, is to want to keep the titles among those schools that won't benefit from them. UK, UNC, KU and Syracuse probably don't get much recruiting bounce from a title. Or Michigan State for that matter. IU, despite the great history, probably gets a decent bounce in recruiting since they've been in a down cycle for a decade. So would NC State and Marquette. For schools like Cincy or Baylor it would make a huge difference in reputation.]

Good point, illustrates exactly why I think the analysis/historical ranking of team resumes is a fiction. Not many 17yrs olds are selecting Kansas because of Phog Allen's championships. Or Dook hasn't exactly received a talent bounce from their most recent title (to be fair maybe UConn hasn't either).

BE defenders may chaffe*, but I'd still rather root against Wisconsin than anyone else left under the dislike of 48-49 rock-fight precept.

* We gotta be past this at this point. Any and every school has been up for switching conferences and we all are pretty sure UConn would jump to the new ACC if offered. However, I reserve the right for residual BCU hatred for starting the conference realignment atrocities and for doing so under the fraidy scared to compete with UConn football reasoning. Otherwise I just hate the immutable fact of conference realignment and don't blame its participants.

 

[ConnHuskBask]

Honestly, all the ancillary benefits don't mean much to me when it comes to this discussion. I just want to be able to look at this and see UConn the closest to the top as possible.


UCLA 11
Kentucky 7
Indiana 5
North Carolina 5
Duke 4
Connecticut 3
Kansas 3

Cincinnati 2
Florida 2
Louisville 2
Michigan State 2
North Carolina State 2
Oklahoma A&M 2
San Francisco 2

Same goes here for Calhoun.

Most National Championships

• 10 National Championships

John Wooden(1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975)

• 4 National Championships

Adolph Rupp(1948, 1949, 1951, 1958)
Mike Krzyzewski (1991, 1992, 2001, 2010)

• 3 National Championships

Jim Calhoun(1999, 2004, 2011)
Bob Knight (1976, 1981, 1987)