Revisiting Old Threads: Best College Basketball Team of the 1980s

As you may recall, back in 2017, I made the argument that the 1981-82 North Carolina Tar Heels is the best college basketball team of the 1980s

NOW I modified this a little and picked the 1983-84 Georgetown Hoyas along with the 1982 Tar Heels in the case I make

The Case for the 1982 Tar Heels:

-32-2 overall record, 12-2 in the ACC, ACC regular season and tournament champs
-defeated Ralph Sampson's UVA team 2 of 3 times, defeated Valvano's NCAA-bound NC State team 3x, shellacked then-no. 2 ranked and eventual SEC regular season champ Kentucky 82-69, defeated quality early 80s competition in the NCAA Tournament in Alabama, Villanova, pre-Phi Slama Jama Houston, and defeated a very imposing Georgetown team in one of the greatest games of all-time
-Dean Smith HC, Bill Guthridge, Eddie Fogler, Roy Williams assistants, starting lineup of Worthy, Perkins, Jimmy Black, Matt Doherty, and a then-nationally unknown Michael Jordan (won ACC Rookie of the Year)
-bench leaves much to be desired
-didn't enjoy particularly dominant games in the NCAA Tournament and almost lost to James Madison
-Michael wasn't at his college peak, Sam was near his peak (would become 1983 and 1984 first-team All-American), only Worthy was at peak level
-outside of UVA, Wake, and NC State, 1982 ACC season wasn't the pressure cooker the conference would become in the mid-late 80s with the emergence of Duke and Georgia Tech, also Maryland had a down year. Doesn't dock anything away from UNC but putting it all in context.

The Case for the 1984 Hoyas

34-3 overall record, 14-2 in Big East (Big East regular season and tournament champs)
-Their only 3 losses were by 8 points total to NCAA-bound teams (DePaul would get a 1 seed)
-The depth is off the charts, names which don't need repeating because they threw waves and waves of great athletes at teams and were exceptionally well-coached by Thompson
-One of the all-time great defensive teams in college history
-Throttled exceptionally good competition in the NCAA Tournament, obviously their semifinals second half against Kentucky stands out but they also held the tournament's leading scorer Roosevelt Chapman of Dayton in check in the Elite 8 game
-Probably shouldn't have won the Big East tourney as Pearl Washington shredded their D throughout the game, Michael Graham didn't get thrown out for throwing a punch at a Syracuse player, and other calls Jim Boeheim openly complained about
-Nearly lost in the Tournament out of the gate to SMU
-Probably wasn't the best version of that period's Georgetown, I'd contend the 85 Georgetown team was better and more mature

The case for 1984 Georgetown is too compelling, they get the nod over 1982 North Carolina