Team of the decade
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true, looks like the voters figured that out, the other 3 in the FF are:
To me Duke should be in the Final 4 with Kentucky, MSU and UConn.
Kentucky and Duke should be the finals. UConn's last 4 years have been kind of weak
Kentucky and Duke should be the finals. UConn's last 4 years have been kind of weak
Since this poll is about this decade not a part of it, Uconn, Duke and Nova are the only schools who have won it twice, so what you wrote above about Kansas also applies to Purdue and Mich St. who haven't won in 10 years. So I'd have to go with those 3...Duke like Uconn has only been to 2 FF's but won them both.. Kentucky's been beat twice by Uconn in the FF and only won once so I'd say Uconn trumps them. But UK should probably be in there too with 4 FF's ( only 1 win) ...but none in the later part (since 2015)
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Kemba had the best season any UConn player ever had in 2010-11, and I don't think anyone else is even close. I would still say that even if you took away the postseason. I can remember the Maui Classic games against Wichita State and in the finals against Kentucky, and those were really the early season signs of what would happen with the team later on.
There was something magical about that season from the beginning to the end. UConn won a bunch of tough games, also lost a few tough ones too, but very few teams figured out how to bottle up Kemba. Against Wichita State the last 8 or so minutes UConn was giving to Kemba, every trip, he was getting fouled and killing it on the line. That team also had serious interior defenders in Oriakhi and Okwandu, and to some extent Roscoe Smith who was a terror on the boards. The team actually should have won more games than it did in the regular season, but the Big East that year was brutally tough, and the competition hardened the team.
Does anyone remember this?
There was something magical about that season from the beginning to the end. UConn won a bunch of tough games, also lost a few tough ones too, but very few teams figured out how to bottle up Kemba. Against Wichita State the last 8 or so minutes UConn was giving to Kemba, every trip, he was getting fouled and killing it on the line. That team also had serious interior defenders in Oriakhi and Okwandu, and to some extent Roscoe Smith who was a terror on the boards. The team actually should have won more games than it did in the regular season, but the Big East that year was brutally tough, and the competition hardened the team.
Does anyone remember this?
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