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re: Top 10 Greatest CBB Teams of All-Time
Posted on 2/19/20 at 8:31 am to Rep520
Posted on 2/19/20 at 8:31 am to Rep520
08/09 UNC was dominant. 34-4
Ed Davis and Tyler Zeller as freshmen bigs.
Senior Psycho T
Ty Lawson
Wayne Ellington
Danny Green as the 6th man
Dominated the NCAA Tourny. Closest game was 12 due solely to Blake Griffin.
Ed Davis and Tyler Zeller as freshmen bigs.
Senior Psycho T
Ty Lawson
Wayne Ellington
Danny Green as the 6th man
Dominated the NCAA Tourny. Closest game was 12 due solely to Blake Griffin.
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Posted on 2/19/20 at 8:39 am to Athos
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08/09 UNC was dominant. 34-4
Ed Davis and Tyler Zeller as freshmen bigs.
Senior Psycho T
Ty Lawson
Wayne Ellington
Danny Green as the 6th man
Dominated the NCAA Tourny. Closest game was 12 due solely to Blake Griffin.
Disappointing that Michigan State upset UConn in the Final Four that year. UConn/UNC would have been an epic title game.
Posted on 2/19/20 at 8:47 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
No way the 2006-2007 Florida team shouldn't be on that list. 5 players drafted, 3 in the top 10, with Billy Donovan coaching, that is very good squad.
Posted on 2/19/20 at 8:49 am to lionward2014
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No way the 2006-2007 Florida team shouldn't be on that list. 5 players drafted, 3 in the top 10, with Billy Donovan coaching, that is very good squad.
Great team. I would easily bump 1991 Duke, 1964 UCLA, or 1982 UNC to make room for them.
Posted on 2/19/20 at 8:49 am to Athos
UNC beat the frick out of MSU in Detroit twice that season. They were incredibly good.
Posted on 2/19/20 at 8:50 am to bgator85
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I'm going to be a bit of a homer and throw out the '07 Florida Gators. The only team to win back to back national titles with the same starting 5, think they deserve a mention.
Are you just parroting what Billy Donovan says? How often does the same starting five return from a National Championship team (shouldn't they win?)? That Florida team lost five games, including three by ten or more points. Now if we're talking top teams in the last 25 years, then yes, they deserve a mention.
I don't know if I put them above (in no particular order):
1996 Kentucky
2012 Kentucky
1991 UNLV
1999 Duke - Had this team won it, they would have been mentioned as one of the greatest.
1976 Indiana
1968 UCLA
1992 Duke
1972 UCLA
1957 North Carolina
1974 NC-State
2009 North Carolina
1973 UCLA
1984 Georgetown
Yes, they went back-to-back, but I do not factor the 06' run into this, because it was a different year. If the 2012 UK starters return, they would have run the table in 13' (basketball was AWFUL that year).
Posted on 2/19/20 at 8:50 am to lionward2014
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No way the 2006-2007 Florida team shouldn't be on that list. 5 players drafted, 3 in the top 10, with Billy Donovan coaching, that is very good squad.
As a homer that team was awesome and played on a mission.
Posted on 2/19/20 at 8:58 am to SpartyGator
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As a homer that team was awesome and played on a mission.
I loved Joakim Noah, though. They wouldn't be Top ten all-time, but I would rank them in the top three since 2000 (North Carolina 09' and Kentucky 12'). Do you think Florida wins again in 08' if all eligible players from Florida and Ohio State return (they would have lost Lee Humphrey but would have gotten Nick Calathes)? When the 07' Florida team won, they were more relieved than excited, and they later told Donovan that they were "exhausted".
Posted on 2/19/20 at 1:53 pm to Tigerfan56
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I’ll also throw 2014-2015 Kentucky into the mix. I think it’s kind of dumb we ignore teams because they didn’t win a title, especially in a sport like CBB where the tournament format lends itself to upsets and the best team doesn’t always win it all. That Kentucky team was 38-1, was obliterating everyone, and a roster full of NBA players (9 guys who spent time in the NBA). They lost in the final 4 I think? To a very good Wisconsin team, so it’s not like their 1 loss was unforgivable. I’m pretty sure Vegas was giving out almost even odds on taking the field against UK before the tourney began - which is basically unheard of and shows how good that team was.
Thats the equivalent of me throwing the 2011 LSU football team in the greatest cfb teams list. Winning that ship is the key
Posted on 2/19/20 at 2:06 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Where is that utep team that beat the fk out of Kentucky?
Posted on 2/19/20 at 2:10 pm to ecb
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Where is that utep team that beat the fk out of Kentucky?
did you see it?
thad frigging jarazz, 6 5,could not get a rebound with inside position on fts.
conley had flu.
alas.
tex western not in top 25 all time.
same as when cornbread maxwell uncc beat michigan press while some dumb Palooka center for mich dropped back.
This post was edited on 2/19/20 at 2:15 pm
Posted on 2/19/20 at 2:19 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Seems right
Posted on 2/19/20 at 4:38 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
UF repeating in modern basketball is one of the best feats in a long time. How they do not get ranked higher on all time list is baffling to me. I mean we had three top ten picks as well...not like talent wasn't there.
Posted on 2/19/20 at 4:50 pm to Gatorbait2008
It still shocks me to this day that none of the mid to late 90’s UNC teams didn’t win it all.
They were loaded. Stackhouse, Wallace, Jamison and Vince Carter. Unreal.
They were loaded. Stackhouse, Wallace, Jamison and Vince Carter. Unreal.
Posted on 2/19/20 at 6:04 pm to LlyodChristmas
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Thats the equivalent of me throwing the 2011 LSU football team in the greatest cfb teams list. Winning that ship is the key
I don’t think these are comparable scenarios at all. It’s much harder for an upset to occur in football and there are less games. A historic team with a very difficult schedule plays maybe 2-3 teams capable of beating them. A historic basketball team playing a tough schedule, including the tournament, could play 10 teams capable of beating them. A loss in basketball is far more forgivable than in football when talking about the best teams.
There is a reason NBA plays 7 games series, one basketball game allows too much variability and the best team can get beat in any given game. March Madness lends itself to that and as such, one loss at the wrong time and you can’t be a champion. So that loss should disqualify the UK team from any argument as to what team accomplished the most. But if the argument is what team is “best”, that UK squad would be favored over almost all of the other teams mentioned ITT
Posted on 2/19/20 at 6:55 pm to Athos
kansas '08 so underrated. best kenpom national champ (only goes back to '02). 5 draft picks.
the only reason '09 unc even exists as a dominant team is because '08 kansas beat the shite out of them in'08 and went pro.
the only reason '09 unc even exists as a dominant team is because '08 kansas beat the shite out of them in'08 and went pro.
Posted on 2/19/20 at 7:32 pm to rockchlkjayhku11
82-83 Phi Slamma Jamma was incredibly talented. Maybe the best team ever to not win a NC
Posted on 2/19/20 at 7:37 pm to rockchlkjayhku11
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kansas '08 so underrated.
Won on a prayer though no?
Posted on 2/19/20 at 8:43 pm to AlbertMeansWell
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late 90’s UNC teams didn’t win it all.
They were loaded. Stackhouse, Wallace, Jamison and Vince Carter. Unreal.
wallace was injured in one season. they still made final 4.
unc barely got by my murray guys in round one. some dutch 7 footer subbed in for wallace. dutch was a career .60 ft shooter. made 9 out of 10 with the game on the line.
This post was edited on 2/19/20 at 8:46 pm
Posted on 2/20/20 at 12:36 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Best team I ever saw was UNLV.
1995 Kentucky would probably be 2nd that I saw.
Historically never saw 1967 UCLA but you can't beat them, they had Kareem who lost 4 games in 8 years of High School and College.
UCLA never fricking lost.
Kareem was so good, the Freshman team which he was on because he wasn't allowed to play Varsity back then beat the UCLA defending National Champs in a full-game real life scrimmage.
1967 UCLA lost 1 game to #2 Houston in the Astrodome by 2 points when Kareem had a scratched cornea and was blind in one eye.
In the NCAA tournament, they faced Houston again in the Final Four beating them by 40 points with a healthy Kareem.
That's how fricking loaded UCLA was from 1964-1975.
And then you had Bill Walton lead UCLA to an 88-game win streak and 3 Consecutive National Championships.
There might be teams with more future NBA stars...but nothing as dominate.
UNLV was as close to getting to UCLA's dominance in my lifetime - for at least two years, thought they could go undefeated two years in a row - and then they folded once that core group left. They weren't a program, just a star group of recruits.
1995 Kentucky would probably be 2nd that I saw.
Historically never saw 1967 UCLA but you can't beat them, they had Kareem who lost 4 games in 8 years of High School and College.
UCLA never fricking lost.
Kareem was so good, the Freshman team which he was on because he wasn't allowed to play Varsity back then beat the UCLA defending National Champs in a full-game real life scrimmage.
1967 UCLA lost 1 game to #2 Houston in the Astrodome by 2 points when Kareem had a scratched cornea and was blind in one eye.
In the NCAA tournament, they faced Houston again in the Final Four beating them by 40 points with a healthy Kareem.
That's how fricking loaded UCLA was from 1964-1975.
And then you had Bill Walton lead UCLA to an 88-game win streak and 3 Consecutive National Championships.
There might be teams with more future NBA stars...but nothing as dominate.
UNLV was as close to getting to UCLA's dominance in my lifetime - for at least two years, thought they could go undefeated two years in a row - and then they folded once that core group left. They weren't a program, just a star group of recruits.
This post was edited on 2/20/20 at 12:42 am
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