Best recruiting classes of the decade

• SportsAndLady

  

  Rank these 12 teams based on which class you would want the most...not most talented, not most successful..simply, the class you would most want.
  
  '06 UNC
  Wayne Ellington
  Ty Law
  Brendan Wright
  Deon Thompson
  Will Graves
  Alex Stepheson
  
  '06 Texas
  Kevin Durant
  Damien James
  Dexter Pittman
  DJ Augustin
  Matt Hill
  Justin Mason
  Harrison Smith
  
  '02 Illinois
  Dee Brown
  Deron Williams
  James Augustine
  Aaron Spears
  
  '09 Kentucky
  John Wall
  Eric Bledsoe
  Daniel Orton
  Demarcus Cousins
  John Hood
  Darnell Dodson
  
  '05 Kansas
  Mario Chalmers
  Julian Wright
  Brandon Rush
  Micah Downs
  CJ Henry
  
  '02 UNC
  Ray Felton
  Rashad McCants
  Sean May
  David Noel
  Damion Grant
  Byron Sanders
  
  '02 Syracuse
  Carmelo Anthony
  Gerry McNamara
  Matt Gorman
  
  '05 Memphis
  Antonio Anderson
  Chris Douglass Roberts
  Robert Dozier
  Kareem Cooper
  Ricky Sanchez
  Shawne Williams
  
  '06 Ohio State
  Greg Oden
  Mike Conley
  Daequan Cook
  Othello Hunter
  David Lighty
  
  '04 Florida
  Al Horford
  Corey Brewer
  Taurean Green
  Cornelius Ingram
  Joakim Noah
  
  '05 UCLA
  Alfred Aboya
  Darren Collison
  Luke Richard mbah a moute
  Michael Rolle
  Ryan Wright
  
  '02 Duke
  JJ Redick
  Sheldon Williams
  Shavlick Randolph
  Sean Dockery
  Lee Melchionni
  
  I might have missed a few, if I did let me know..I just put these together real quick.
  
  Anyone have UCONN's best recruiting class from 2000 or 2001? I looked at Rivals to get these, and they don't have 2000 and 2001..I'm sure UCONN's class from one of those years would be on my list, I just cant find it.
  
  Here's how I'd rank them:
  
  1) '04 Florida
  2) '06 Ohio State
  3) '06 UNC
  4) '05 Kansas
  5) '02 UNC
  6) '06 Texas
  7) '02 Syracuse
  8) '02 Duke
  9) '09 Kentucky
  10) '05 UCLA
  
  just missed: '02 Illinois, '05 Memphis
• Mulva

  

  1. '06 UNC
  2. '06 OSU
  3. '04 Florida
  4. '05 Kansas
  5. '06 Texas, but I expect this years Kentucky class to overtake that before it's all said and done.
• Azubuike24

  

  It's tough to include the 2009 UK class with classes from 2006 and before. You can't really fairly judge them until you are a few years removed. If we are going on pure talent, I think this UK class will rank up at the very, very top.
  
  John Wall will likely be a #1 overall pick. Daniel Orton, DeMarcus Cousins and Eric Bledsoe will likely be 1st round picks. It's possible Cousins and Orton are both lottery picks at some point.
  
  If this is the criteria, based on TALENT, then the only classes I'd take over them is the 2004 Florida, 2006 Ohio State and 2006 North Carolina.
• ZeroCool

  based on potential or based upon what they actually did?
• hoops23

  

  02' UNC is #1 in my books.. That class was special and brought UNC basketball back.
  
  That '06 OSU class is sick too, though.
  
  It's really tough to rank these...
• sleeper

  

  06 Texas has the best player of all these, so I'll go with that as #1.
• SportsAndLady

  

  ZeroCool wrote: based on potential or based upon what they actually did?

  It's in the first line of my post.
• ZeroCool

  06 texas hands down then.
• HiddenGems

  06 OSU.
  
  They could have done magical things I think had they stayed. Since their only year was a Natl Championship game appearance, I'll go with them.
• wes_mantooth

  

  04 Florida is the best for what they accomplished, but that 06 OSU team was stacked.
• sportswizuhrd

  UConn Class of 01
  Ben Gordon
  Emeka Okafor
  Mike Hayes
  Chad Wise
  
  Class of 02
  Rashad Anderson
  Hilton Armstrong
  Denham Brown
  Marcus White
  
  Class of 04
  Rudy Gay
  AJ Price
  Antonio Kellog
  
  Class of 07
  Hasheem Thabeet
  Stanley Robinson
  Jerome Dyson
  Gavin Edwards
  Ben Eaves
  Curtis Kelly
  Doug Wiggins
  Jonathon Mandelove
• SportsAndLady

  

  ^^Thanks.
  
  I'd put the '01 class at #7 on my list...and drop 7-10 down one.