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1st Top 25 Poll of the New Year
Pikiell and Hobbs have Rutgers amazingly ranked in the top 25, what a rise. Gonzaga begins the year #1, Iowa starts the year in the top 5, and Kentucky is unranked, as is North Carolina, unranked. Pretty wild.
Has Calipari lost momentum? seems 10-5 years ago he had about the best talent every single year.
Duke is ranked, 9th, maybe the 1 and done formula requires some revisiting? Seems like almost every year its a veteran laden team that knocks out the best lottery Freshman talent, with 1 or 2 exceptions since the age of the 1 and done
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Re: 1st Top 25 Poll of the New Year
Kentucky is 10th and UNC is 16th.
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Re: 1st Top 25 Poll of the New Year
Not in the poll I was looking at, I'll see if I can find it. Even so, my point stands.
Do you want to go all in year after year on 1 and dones? can you build actual National Title teams well that way? Coach K won several titles 3 decades ago with veteran teams, he seemed to join the Arm race vs Calipari for 1 and dones and while each team has cranked out a ton of NBA players and lottery picks, they have less rings in the last decade+ than the veteran based teams of Jay Wright's Nova teams.
One also wonders how many years K has left, he is 73 after all and it is a draining, year long job, even if much of the heaviest lifting is done by his staff. As for Cal, he's not getting 4 or so NBA tier 1 lottery picks year after year, the way he was 10-5 years ago and the product shows. Made 4 Final 4s in a 5 years span in the first half of the last decade, zero in the back half of the decade.
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