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Top 25 men's college basketball teams of all time

nelsonmuntz said:
UConn had an offense no one had seen before, and it was unstoppable. It would break teams. The Alabama Final Four game was a perfect example of what that offense would do. Alabama played great, but they couldn’t stop UConn and took increasingly crazy shots out of desperation because UConn would score every possession.

UNLV was the better team, and I am certain Hunt and at least one other player was point shaving against Duke.
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You sure have strong feelings about who is point shaving over the years
 
Kitaman said:
John Thompson's Georgetown not having one team listed is criminal.
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Yup. The Georgetown Title team had a hell of a defense. They played some great teams as well including Hakeem, Clyde & Houston.
 
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HooperScooper said:
Do you notice how many people on here have a problem with so many of your posts? It's well deserved.
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He is doing an unfunny callback of a game thread post. Who the fudge remembers game thread posts? It is weird.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
He is doing an unfunny callback of a game thread post. Who the fudge remembers game thread posts? It is weird.
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You’ve posted in so many different threads about so many different games being questionable. It’s like your main thing along with not understanding how the metrics work.
 
People always underrated 2011. Kemba, Jeremy lamb, and Oriakhi was a pretty solid big 3. Lamb was so good down the stretch and didnt look like a freshman at all. Then Shabazz off the bench was great too.
 
posted by smitty himself. the Foundation. OK, not the greatest of all time but a great photo nevertheless

 
nelsonmuntz said:
He is doing an unfunny callback of a game thread post. Who the fudge remembers game thread posts? It is weird.
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I'm not taking a side, but I've noticed you mention point shaving or illicit gambling with games multiple times. Sorry to pile on, I don't think he's stalking you though.
 
LetsGoUC said:
People always underrated 2011. Kemba, Jeremy lamb, and Oriakhi was a pretty solid big 3. Lamb was so good down the stretch and didnt look like a freshman at all. Then Shabazz off the bench was great too.
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You have to be kidding. I loved that team, but they finished 9th in the Big East. Ninth. The postseason run was absolutely unreal, and they deserved to be national champions. But one of the best teams of all time? No.
 
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businesslawyer said:
You have to be kidding. I loved that team, but they finished 9th in the Big East. Ninth. The postseason run was absolutely unreal, and they deserved to be national champions. But one of the best teams of all time? No.
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But it sure felt like it the last 11 games of the season.
 
Now tell me who was the best player on each team. No google.
 
RuffRuff said:
It really doesn't matter how athletic UNLV was - we'd slow them down into a grind and we towered over them. A Castle today is 100x stronger than a stringy Augmon. I honestly think there is a better chance the 24 team would win 8/10. Were were their answers? A 6'6" Larry Johnson taking mid range jumpers? The only way to match teams up of these differing eras is player for player, and I just don't it.

They were flashy, they had Tark, they ran over a lousy league, they were built for their era.
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I don't care if it was the '90 or '91 UNLV squad. If you put both of those teams up against the '24 UConn Huskies each 10x, UNLV might win two games, total.
 
EnochRoot said:
I don't care if it was the '90 or '91 UNLV squad. If you put both of those teams up against the '24 UConn Huskies each 10x, UNLV might win two games, total.
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The one team from the 90s that comes up a lot is 96 UK. That was Pitinos NC team with Delk and Anderson. No traditional size but lots of 6’6” long armed types. They pressed. I honestly don’t know how we some beat that team up either as we has basically 3 big PGs.

I’ve heard the 2001 Duke team with Williams, Battier and Boozer. I don’t see that either.

The Nova teams could be interesting as they could space the floor and pull Clingan from the rim, but not sure how that holds up as they’d simply need their 5 to shoot lights out.

I have a hard time finding a team that would match up.
 
Mr. French said:
I'm not taking a side, but I've noticed you mention point shaving or illicit gambling with games multiple times. Sorry to pile on, I don't think he's stalking you though.
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You are right.

I forgot about the story a month ago where literally dozens of players were arrested for point-shaving. This has potential to be the end of sports as a major entertainment industry, so it is a big deal. The idea that these were the only athletes fixing games is ridiculous. Wasn’t an all-star reliever just busted? Now that I think about it, quite a few posters argued that they don’t think fans will care. We will find out.

It does make Anderson Hunt being photographed with a major sports gambler in 1991 seem quaint by comparison.

Regardless of all that, @Inyatkin is stalking me.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
Texas Western was historic, but not one of the best teams of all time.

8 loss Michigan is ridiculous.

2004 UConn was a great team. Most of those losses happened with Okafor out or at 50%.

1991 UNLV was the best team I have ever seen. I will go to my grave thinking that game vs. Duke was fixed.

07 Florida is top 25, not top 10.
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I agree with UNLV
 
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Took a closer look at that UNLV run - nothing close to 2024 UConn. They were far from dominant in the tourney before they ran into Duke, beat a couple of BE .500 teams by single digits.

They beat the number two team in the country that year (Arkansas) 112-105. Otherwise, beat up on a bad conference. Really think that team was more sizzle over substance. Very good, don't get me wrong. 2024 UConn team ran through the tournament, inclusive of the 2nd best and dominant team in the title game.
nelsonmuntz said:
UConn had an offense no one had seen before, and it was unstoppable. It would break teams. The Alabama Final Four game was a perfect example of what that offense would do. Alabama played great, but they couldn’t stop UConn and took increasingly crazy shots out of desperation because UConn would score every possession.

UNLV was the better team, and I am certain Hunt and at least one other player was point shaving against Duke.
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RuffRuff said:
Took a closer look at that UNLV run - nothing close to 2024 UConn. They were far from dominant in the tourney before they ran into Duke, beat a couple of BE .500 teams by single digits.

They beat the number two team in the country that year (Arkansas) 112-105. Otherwise, beat up on a bad conference. Really think that team was more sizzle over substance. Very good, don't get me wrong. 2024 UConn team ran through the tournament, inclusive of the 2nd best and dominant team in the title game.
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They beat Georgetown by 8 in a tournament game that wasn't that close. Georgetown had two future HoFers on the roster. Every other tournament game was decided by 10+ points. They played 5 ranked teams in the regular season, and won 4 of those games by 10+ points.

UConn 2024 is one of the best teams of all time. It doesn't make UNLV 1991 worse.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
They beat Georgetown by 8 in a tournament game that wasn't that close. Georgetown had two future HoFers on the roster. Every other tournament game was decided by 10+ points. They played 5 ranked teams in the regular season, and won 4 of those games by 10+ points.

UConn 2024 is one of the best teams of all time. It doesn't make UNLV 1991 worse.
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They beat an unranked 19-13 Georgetown team by 8 points!

Dude, just give up.
 
UK 95-96 versus the UNLV 90-91 team would be fantastic. So much athletic talent and also high level basketball.

One thing that gets forgotten is that UK 95-96 team beat a championship level UMass team in the national semi, which really was the championship game. Umass had beat UK early that season, both teams were #1 and #2 all season long. Only other loss that season for UK was to Miss State, which also made that final four with Syracuse.
 
rrskyjf said:
UK 95-96 versus the UNLV 90-91 team would be fantastic. So much athletic talent and also high level basketball.

One thing that gets forgotten is that UK 95-96 team beat a championship level UMass team in the national semi, which really was the championship game. Umass had beat UK early that season, both teams were #1 and #2 all season long. Only other loss that season for UK was to Miss State, which also made that final four with Syracuse.
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Camby will always be the one who got away, if UConn had him they would've probably had 2 national championships before '99.
 
superjohn said:
'24 would swallow them up. Our guards would simply be too big for their guards and their attack of the rim would be slowed down by Clingan.

UNLV's schedule was easy and they didn't get the job done when it mattered.
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Don’t they have to first go thru an immovable object called Castle, then good luck near the rim!
 
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HooperScooper said:
How did that Georgetown team lose 13 games with 2 future Hall of Famers? Did they have a lot of injuries?
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I know I am risking enraging this Board, and you, by saying this, but the Big East has been a pretty good basketball conference for a long time. That could be the reason for some of those losses by Georgetown.

Anyway, this particular debate is some believe that an 8 point win over a team with two of the 20 best centers in basketball history and a Hall of Fame coach is a bad win. I disagree.
 
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