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Umami Zen said:
Agree with many of your points.. Additionally.. When the Tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985..Making winning the Trophy much more difficult.. The argument about UConn's legacy/status since that point in time really breaks down quickly when compared to the "blue bloods" over that same period of time.Even though we had to wait a few years for our first championship trophy.
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Yes. And there’s 2 ways of looking at that. Sure, it takes more wins to get to the top in an expanded tournament, but it’s easier to make the tournament to begin with. You can’t win the tournament if you don’t get into it, so in that sense the pre-expansion tournament was harder to win.

Let’s face it, the modern expanded tournament was not created to provide a better test of who is the true champion. It’s a money grab. More teams = more games = more interest = more viewers = more money.

The expanded tournament is the result of the resentment by schools from power conferences toward lower tier conferences gaining access to the tournament with inferior teams. The NCAA tournament was originally created to be a tournament of (conference) champions. Then they allowed independent teams to get in via at-large bids because they realized that sometimes the best team in the country was an independent. Then they allowed limited expansion because sometimes the best team in the country was eliminated in a conference tournament. That was all in the interests of getting a “true” champion at the end of the process. By that time the tournament had become so popular that it was really lucrative. And then expansion was all about the money.
 
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temery said:
One Final Four in ten years. Got past the first round once in ten years. Zero conference champions, zero conference tournament champs in ten years.

Nope.
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It was much much easier way back with fewer teams and less parity. We are new Blue Blood for sure with one more win :)
 
bendm said:
ok last one. i included every school that has won a chip since '75. chips count for 60%, final 4s 30%, and sweet 16s 10%:

1) UNC- 10.2
2) Duke- 10
3) UK- 8.2
4) KU- 7.2
5) Lville- 6.3
6) UConn- 5.9
6) UCLA- 5.9
8) MSU- 5.8
9) Indiana- 5
10) Nova- 4.6
11) Cuse- 4.5
12) Florida- 3.8
12) Michigan- 3.8
14) Zona- 3.7
15) Arkansas- 3.1
16) Gtown- 2.9
17) UNLV- 2.8
18) UVA- 2.5
19) Marquette- 2
20) NC St- 1.6
21) Baylor- 1.4

*if UConn wins it all they jump Lville into 5th place.
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5th on this list is reasonable
 
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Need another one and the detractors can go to h$ll…come to think about…
 
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The whole AAC/Big East conference shift then Ollie disaster were the only reason for the lull this century. We're still a Blue Blood on any measure since 1990.
 
Last night Nantz mentioned that he said that there were no blue bloods in the final 4. Then he said maybe he was wrong and that UConn might be “the blue blood” was cool to hear.
 
I could give two $h!ts about what others think about our blood.. It's their blood that will be spilled in the arena, not ours.
 
Uconn history warrants the term Blue Blood including making the tourney the last 2 years. This year is icing on the cake. They had several appearances prior to 99 albeit not to this level.
 
I can only imagine what they would be saying about Coach K if it was his team playing at this high level.
 
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bendm said:
ok last one. i included every school that has won a chip since '75. chips count for 60%, final 4s 30%, and sweet 16s 10%:

1) UNC- 10.2
2) Duke- 10
3) UK- 8.2
4) KU- 7.2
5) Lville- 6.3
6) UConn- 5.9
6) UCLA- 5.9
8) MSU- 5.8
9) Indiana- 5
10) Nova- 4.6
11) Cuse- 4.5
12) Florida- 3.8
12) Michigan- 3.8
14) Zona- 3.7
15) Arkansas- 3.1
16) Gtown- 2.9
17) UNLV- 2.8
18) UVA- 2.5
19) Marquette- 2
20) NC St- 1.6
21) Baylor- 1.4

*if UConn wins it all they jump Lville into 5th place.
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why 1975?
does this include Louisville in 2013, which was vacated?
chips should be worth more than 60%.
 
temery said:
One Final Four in ten years. Got past the first round once in ten years. Zero conference champions, zero conference tournament champs in ten years.

Nope.
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My turn to say Go Away. And much more warranted.
 
At the 22:00 mark, Coach K calls UConn a blue blood and says Coach Calhoun is the greatest program builder ever. Also says he is very close with the entire Hurley family.

 
Stinger92860 said:
why 1975?
does this include Louisville in 2013, which was vacated?
chips should be worth more than 60%.
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Read Nelson’s explanation a few pages back for why 1975. And of course a UConn fan would say that about chips but final fours and sweet 16s are a mark of consistent quality.

I think chips should be worth twice as much as final fours which should be twice as much as sweet 16s so 57% 28.5% and 14.25%
 
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Huskyforlife said:
The 5th title makes it undeniable. Anyone saying otherwise would only be a hater.
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We are already alone with UCLA, UNC, UK, and KU as far as teams to get to a final four with three different coaches, if you start counting at 1975 when the tournament got more fair by expanding to 32 and accepted more than one team per conference

If we win, it’s only us and UK as far as titles with three different coaches
 
WeAreUCONN said:
At the 22:00 mark, Coach K calls UConn a blue blood and says Coach Calhoun is the greatest program builder ever. Also says he is very close with the entire Hurley family.

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Lol, not surprising.

Coach Krapukeski does not and never has cared about anything in this world except himself. Since he no longer coaches there, he does not give a flying fůϛʞ about Duke.

He is happy to jump on the UConn bandwagon now because we are riding high and he looks good by association. Everybody loves the Hurleys, so of course he has a great relationship with them.

If Syracuse had somehow been blazed by gamma rays and ended up in the FF this year, then we would be hearing how he and Boeheim are best friends.
 
Dan Hurley has given credit to a long list of coaching mentors who helped him get where he is. His father and brother of course, JC, Geno, even Jay Wright and George Blaney.

Let me know when he mentions Coach Krapukeski.
 
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