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ESPN - The best college teams we ever saw: '95 Huskers, Laettner's Duke
Posted on 5/4/20 at 12:14 pm
Posted on 5/4/20 at 12:14 pm
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ESPN's team of college writers and reporters has seen some things. In a world where collegiate athletics are on indefinite hiatus, denying us not only March Madness and spring football but also iconic events such as baseball's College World Series and softball's Women's College World Series, our group was enlisted to reflect on the top players, teams and performances that have marked its members' many decades of collective coverage. All college sports were on the table, but much like their MLB colleagues, our writers were bound by one rule -- they had to have seen the moments they were recounting in person.
Up first in our weeklong series -- the best, most dominant teams of their experience within the college landscape:
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Ivan Maisel: I pick the 1995 Nebraska Cornhuskers over the 2001 Miami Hurricanes and the 2004 USC Trojans because the Huskers never took a week off. They won all 12 games by at least 14 points. They won 11 of 12 games by at least 23 points. They destroyed the second-best team in the country, the Florida Gators, 62-24 in the Fiesta Bowl. Game, set, matchless.
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Chris Low: No, unfortunately I wasn't there in Philadelphia that night to see Christian Laettner's iconic shot to beat Kentucky in the NCAA tournament. But as a young reporter working in Rock Hill, South Carolina, just across the border from Charlotte, North Carolina, I got a chance to cover that 1992 Duke basketball team a few weeks earlier in the ACC tournament. Mike Krzyzewski, Grant Hill, Bobby Hurley, Laettner ... all in one building. That team became the first to repeat as NCAA national champions since those legendary John Wooden-coached UCLA teams in the 1970s. Even all these years later, just wow.
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Heather Dinich: The best team I ever saw played just months ago. Believe it. At 15-0, the 2019 national champion LSU Tigers marked their place in the sport's history as one of the best teams ever -- if not the best. After a 42-25 win against a Clemson team that had won its previous 29 games, some wondered what had happened to Clemson. The answer? Nothing. LSU, led by Heisman winner Joe Burrow and his all-star cast, was just that much better.
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This post was edited on 5/4/20 at 12:16 pm
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Posted on 5/4/20 at 12:17 pm to RLDSC FAN
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Myron Medcalf: If we're talking about championship squads, then it's definitely the 2012 Kentucky team that, because of Anthony Davis, could weather mediocre offensive nights to win as a dominant defensive team. But the 38-1 Kentucky squad is still the best team I've ever witnessed in person.
Nine players on that roster signed NBA contracts. That team started the 2014-15 season with a 32-point win over Kansas, a squad that won the Big 12 outright; topped North Carolina by 14; outscored UCLA 41-7 in the first half of an 83-44 win; and beat West Virginia by 39 points in the Sweet 16. The Wildcats fell short against a great Wisconsin team in the Final Four, but through 38 games, I've never seen a better team.
fricking Wisconsin.
Even though, I still contend the 96-97-98 Kentucky roster is the best squad I've ever seen. They were an OT away from a three peat under two different coaches.
This post was edited on 5/4/20 at 12:19 pm
Posted on 5/4/20 at 12:19 pm to BluegrassBelle
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96
Yeah, that team was special
Posted on 5/4/20 at 12:20 pm to BluegrassBelle
Myron metcalf is a retard. How he is on the air amazes me.
Posted on 5/4/20 at 12:22 pm to RLDSC FAN
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Laettner's Duke
Please. 66-67 UCLA went 30-0, won games by an average of 26 ppg and didn't have a team come closer than 15 points in the NCAA tourney.
Posted on 5/4/20 at 12:24 pm to RLDSC FAN
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I pick the 1995 Nebraska Cornhuskers over the 2001 Miami Hurricanes and the 2004 USC Trojans because the Huskers never took a week off
2008 Florida, 2011 Bama, 2018 Clemson, and 2019 LSU would all smash 2004 USC.
Posted on 5/4/20 at 12:25 pm to Choot em Tiger
Posted on 5/4/20 at 12:25 pm to RLDSC FAN
I'd probably put '89-'90 and '90-'91 UNLV up there in hoops.
They may not have had the best defense, but 1994 Penn State had a balanced machine on offense. I don't know the numbers, but I feel like 1992 Alabama doesn't get enough love on defense historically.
Washington 1991 was a really freaking good team, too.
They may not have had the best defense, but 1994 Penn State had a balanced machine on offense. I don't know the numbers, but I feel like 1992 Alabama doesn't get enough love on defense historically.
Washington 1991 was a really freaking good team, too.
This post was edited on 5/4/20 at 12:50 pm
Posted on 5/4/20 at 12:32 pm to RLDSC FAN
I don't believe any of the teams I mentioned would have single Digit wins over 4-7 Stanford and 6-6 UCLA but we will never know.
Posted on 5/4/20 at 12:40 pm to Choot em Tiger
Well, UF 08 actually lost. And maybe you should go look at Clemsons schedule and let me know if you see any close calls there.
Posted on 5/4/20 at 12:49 pm to Choot em Tiger
Wow.....
Posted on 5/4/20 at 1:02 pm to Choot em Tiger
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I don't believe any of the teams I mentioned would have single Digit wins over 4-7 Stanford and 6-6 UCLA but we will never know.
If you post the closest games in the resume any of the teams you mentioned, things look a little different.
08 UF and 11 Bama had a loss. 18 Clemson has a single digit win vs Syracuse. 19 LSU has a single digit win vs 8-5 Texas.
Posted on 5/4/20 at 1:04 pm to RLDSC FAN
'95 Nebraska not stopping '19 LSU's offense, although the same likely holds true for their offense. O/U would be 130+
Posted on 5/4/20 at 3:15 pm to Rep520
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08 UF and 11 Bama had a loss. 18 Clemson has a single digit win vs Syracuse. 19 LSU has a single digit win vs 8-5 Texas.
UF lost to a team that was decent and won the cotton bowl, and Bama lost to #2 and later beat them. Doesnt change the fact that USC barely beat a shitty arse stanford team and beat 3 teams with a pulse the entire year.
Posted on 5/4/20 at 3:17 pm to Choot em Tiger
So what are you trying to say here)??????
Posted on 5/4/20 at 3:33 pm to Choot em Tiger
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UF lost to a team that was decent and won the cotton bowl, and Bama lost to #2 and later beat them. Doesnt change the fact that USC barely beat a shitty arse stanford team and beat 3 teams with a pulse the entire year.
It's odd to me you're arguing one loss teams over an undefeated team.
Especially an undefeated team that won the NCG by a historic margin vs an Oklahoma team getting serious GOAT talk. It's not like SC was like 02 OSU and just scraped by into a natty.
The demolition of that OU team, when that OU team was supposed to be an all timer; it's the most impressive NC win ever. That's why I think you're cherry picking what you want to see with SC.
Posted on 5/4/20 at 3:42 pm to Rep520
Read it wrong
This post was edited on 5/4/20 at 3:45 pm
Posted on 5/4/20 at 4:05 pm to Choot em Tiger
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2008 Florida, 2011 Bama, 2018 Clemson, and 2019 LSU would all smash 2004 USC
Dude that's beyond retarded. 2008 Florida couldn't even beat Ole Miss.
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the 2004 USC team, led by quarterback Matt Leinart and tailback Reggie Bush, goes down as the best team I ever witnessed with my own eyes. The Trojans were No. 1 from wire to wire and won their second straight national championship with a 55-19 rout of Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl. Leinart won the Heisman Trophy, the Walter Camp Award and the Manning Award, and Bush won the Heisman the next year (but later gave it back). The Trojans won their 13 games by an average margin of 38-13.
The best team I ever saw was 1990 UNLV. Sure they lost one or two games but it felt like you were watching Pros vs. amateurs out there...and then they smashed Duke in the National Title game.
Posted on 5/4/20 at 4:18 pm to RLDSC FAN
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Heather Dinich: The best team I ever saw played just months ago. Believe it. At 15-0, the 2019 national champion LSU Tigers marked their place in the sport's history as one of the best teams ever -- if not the best. After a 42-25 win against a Clemson team that had won its previous 29 games, some wondered what had happened to Clemson. The answer? Nothing. LSU, led by Heisman winner Joe Burrow and his all-star cast, was just that much better.
Posted on 5/4/20 at 5:04 pm to Rep520
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It's odd to me you're arguing one loss teams over an undefeated team.
that's not the odd part, the odd part is arguing that because they didn't beat a certain team by a wide enough margin that disqualifies them. Literally everyone except 1995 Nebraska had a close game or 2.
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vs an Oklahoma team getting serious GOAT talk.
you are confusing years. it was 2003 Oklahoma that was getting premature GOAT talk because they were annihilating people. They added AD but lost some guys on defense so it wasn't the same team
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