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Message: [QUOTE="LStudfellow, post: 5006989, member: 5436"] Good point. Thank you for the correction on Tristen, since Adama did win MOP for the 2023 Final 4. That having been said... just because of that egregious error (and that is a bad one that I should never be making, I admit) saying I am "completely misinterpreting what the chart is saying" is also incorrect. My point, quite clearly, is the following: any chart that would put any other school over ours for Transfers Outpeforming Expectations (now I am using the words from the chart verbatim) is clearly nonsensical, even if only the first year is taken into consideration. Because once again, only if you give equal weight to all games during a regular season and the post season does any other school come in #1 other than UConn. It is not like Newton, Alleyne, Diarra or Calcaterra were in anyone's Top 20 of transfers before 2022-2023, or Cam Spencer in anyone's Top 50 last year. In fact, Newton was the only one in the Top 50 in 247 Sports' transfer class of 2022 (He was #43), and only he and Hassan Diarra were ranked in the Top 92 (as far as their database goes for 2022). For the 247 Sports' transfer class of 2023, Cam Spencer ranked at #114. Now, go back and look at how Arizona has had guys they got from the transfer portal ranked above ours every one of the 5 years. And yet our transfers helped us win 2 National Titles (even if you just count first years) and 2 first round defeats while theirs got them to two Sweet 16's and 1 first round defeat. In fact, did any of the transfers in all of men's college basketball outperform Tristen in 2022-2023 or Cam Spencer in 2023-2024? Arguably, no. Certainly they were in Top 5 or 10. Who over-performed in their first year more than our guys have? I say none, and it is not even close. Sorry, but only a very flawed (and incorrect) program could spit out Arizona, even with 1st years counting only, as having had their transfers outperform ours. No. Just, no. And although you are correct that Tristen did not win the Final 4 MOP in 2023, he did go for 19 points and 10 rebounds in the National Championship game... meanwhile, Arizona's guys had long since spit the bit and were sitting at home watching ours win it all. I rest my case. [/QUOTE]

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