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Message: [QUOTE="YKCornelius, post: 5284764, member: 9864"] Well, if you are going to use previous year's results as the metric, then it simple stands to reason that UConn did indeed "win the portal"in 2024 since they won the NC in 25. Stated differently, what UConn got out of the portal took them farther than any other team. If you are simply trying to assess progress from one year to the next, and then make a leap of logic to conclude it is due to their portal activity - which is what you are implying by putting UConn at #10 - then it makes no sense to place USC in front of TCU. TCU's progress between years was far greater to the same outcome (Elite Eight). Plus, from one season to the next, TCU added almost 35 points per game from the portal, USC added 24. Regarding USC's "still made it to the Elite Eight" caveat, let's take a look at that a little closer: (1) they were on their way to a blowout against #9 seed, leading 13-2 when JuJu went down. It didn't take much to close out that second round game [I]at home [/I]as evidenced by the Trojan bench almost scoring as much (32 points) as the Bulldog starters; (2) In the SS, they narrowly defeated the #5 seed by just 6 points in a game where the two portal transfers (Iriafen and Von Oelhoffen) scored a [I]combined 9 points on 4-19 shooting[/I]. Then, to underscore their ineffectiveness in the SS wasn't a fluke, in the EE the two portal transfers scored just 20 points on a combined 6-23 shooting. TCU's portal transfers, by comparison, scored 30 points in the SS and 29 points in the EE. The masses would tell you that the cherries you are picking aren't ripe yet. [/QUOTE]

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