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Message: [QUOTE="Rocktheworld, post: 2589224, member: 5037"] Oh so we are going to discount a third of that period that included 3 final fours and 2 NCs because it doesn't fit the narrative. Oh, so you’re telling me kids in New England are better students overall. What a shock! And even greater so that they boosted UConn’s academic profile while kids in Alabama failed to elevate their state school. I was in the Engineering school and knew many other STEM kids i.e. the people who have boosted UConn's student profile. None of us came to UConn because of sports. None of them were in the student section when Hash put that triple double up on Providence. I was an outlier. UConn's desirability to the quality kids of New England was at best trivially increased by sports success. The consolidation of intellect explains UConn's rise more than what JC did on the court. Anything else you think correlates with having begun around 20-25 years ago? Maybe that little thing called UConn 2000? How did Rutgers become a decent school while in the same Big East conference and being at the bottom of said conference? I'm from New Jersey; enlighten me as to why I chose UConn over RU. [/QUOTE]