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Greatest Single Season Teams Not To Win A National Championship

  • Ironman92
    UNLV 1991
  • Skyhook79
    Laley23;726177 wrote:Not really sure what that has to do with anything? lol
    Bill Waltons 73-74 team that won 2 straight Titles, 2 straight undefeated seasons and 88 straight games and then didn't win the Title in 73-74 that team was better than the 74-75 Hoosiers.
  • Ironman92
    sky is old enough to have some memory of this
  • Skyhook79
    Ironman92;726235 wrote:sky is old enough to have some memory of this

    Proud of it too.. :P :)
  • SportsAndLady
    I wish he was too old to understand how to work a computer
  • Skyhook79
    SportsAndLady;726259 wrote:I wish he was too old to understand how to work a computer


    Not gonna lie, took me a while, but it helps having College age kids.
  • Tiger2003
    This Kansas team has to be on the list.
  • SportsAndLady
    Tiger2003;726579 wrote:This Kansas team has to be on the list.

    LOL absolutely not. Wow that's dumb
  • Laley23
    Skyhook79;726198 wrote:Bill Waltons 73-74 team that won 2 straight Titles, 2 straight undefeated seasons and 88 straight games and then didn't win the Title in 73-74 that team was better than the 74-75 Hoosiers.

    Didn't that team have 4 loses?? Sorry, but that's too many to consider one of the best to not win.
  • Rebel_ I.N.S.
    1985-Georgetown
  • Writerbuckeye
    Zanzibar from the O-Zone looked back a ways at no. 1 overall seeds in the tournament and they didn't fare very well. I think the winning percentage was something like 24 percent...but I'm going off memory. What he posted is off the board now, so I can't retrieve it.
  • Laley23
    Writerbuckeye;726826 wrote:Zanzibar from the O-Zone looked back a ways at no. 1 overall seeds in the tournament and they didn't fare very well. I think the winning percentage was something like 24 percent...but I'm going off memory. What he posted is off the board now, so I can't retrieve it.

    Im pretty sure they have only been doing #1 overall seeds for a few years.
  • Tiger2003
    SportsAndLady;726682 wrote:LOL absolutely not. Wow that's dumb

    They were the best team in College Basketball with the best coach.
  • Skyhook79
    Tiger2003;728031 wrote:They were the best team in College Basketball with the best coach.


    ...who happens to be a Great Coach also. :)
  • vball10set
    Rebel_ I.N.S.;726801 wrote:1985-Georgetown

    yup
  • thavoice
    Indiana had one of their best teams ever, and they have had some good ones, in the early 90's. Black and White Graham, Chaeney, Bailey, Henderson. Great lineup but Henderson got hurt and that killed them vs Kansas and Ogretag.
  • Laley23
    thavoice;728066 wrote:Indiana had one of their best teams ever, and they have had some good ones, in the early 90's. Black and White Graham, Chaeney, Bailey, Henderson. Great lineup but Henderson got hurt and that killed them vs Kansas and Ogretag.

    Henderson and May injuries have cost IU 2 Titles!!!:D:D
  • thavoice
    Laley23;728403 wrote:Henderson and May injuries have cost IU 2 Titles!!!:D:D

    Agreed. Woulda been great to see Henderson playing an see how they did. That team was stacked. People rag on Bailey but he had a solid career at IU coming out of Bedford North Lawrence HS. He finished near top in points I believe....top 12 or 10 I think? Cheaney had as sweet a shot as anyone ever played.

    Too young to remmeber the other injury but read about it in Knights book My Story.
  • wildcats20
    2001-2002 Carolina





    :(
  • clickclickboom
    Tiger2003;728031 wrote:They were the best team in College Basketball with the best coach.

    Why would you say Kansas this year? OSU was better than them with the same record and actually the number 1 overall seed
  • elbuckeye28
    GOONx19;725977 wrote:No mention of the 2010 Kentucky Wildcats? 32-2 going into the tourney. Had Wall and Cousins drafted in the top five and Patterson, Bledsoe, and Orton drafted later in the first round. Plus two potential NBA players in Darius Miller and DeAndre Liggins. Even bottom-of-the-bench player Josh Harrellson is now a potential draft pick. Patterson was a preseason All-American, the team went undefeated at Rupp, and Wall and Cousins were both named postseason All-Americans, with Wall in the conversation with Turner for POTY. Averaged an 18 point victory for the season.

    I think they rank up there talent-wise, but the overall youth of that team is the reason they aren't higher.