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Everyone bitches and moans about the BCS, but look at the GATORS. They lose both games to us, twice to USC; they were no better than 3rd in the conference, but they win it all. Go figure. It reminds me of when Purdue finished about 6th in the Big Ten, but peaked at the right time and won it all also. Congratulations to the reptiles. Don't you know the cold pizza guys are eating crow for there comments about the SEC being a bunch of pretenders.
 
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(rockytopinalabam @ Apr 4 said:
Everyone bitches and moans about the BCS, but look at the GATORS. They lose both games to us, twice to USC; they were no better than 3rd in the conference, but they win it all. Go figure. It reminds me of when Purdue finished about 6th in the Big Ten, but peaked at the right time and won it all also. Congratulations to the reptiles. Don't you know the cold pizza guys are eating crow for there comments about the SEC being a bunch of pretenders.
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It is amazing. I think that college hoops was down this year, or there were a lot of great teams, one or the other. I think that you could play that tourney 20 times and have a different final four every time.
 
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It's been a while since UF lucked into something. It was long overdue.
 
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UF will be no. 1 going into next year, 4 sophomores and 1 junior this year starting.
 
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Jay Bilas had them at 2 with UNC in the 1 spot.
 
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Those losers all picked the same top 5 in a different order. Florida, UCLA, UNC, Ohio State, and Kansas.
 
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(tidwell @ Apr 5 said:
Those losers all picked the same top 5 in a different order. Florida, UCLA, UNC, Ohio State, and Kansas.
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yes, they have great credibility, when they all had conn. winning it all.
 
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(vol_freak @ Apr 4 said:
It is amazing. I think that college hoops was down this year, or there were a lot of great teams, one or the other. I think that you could play that tourney 20 times and have a different final four every time.
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billy donnavon said as much in a post game interview....said if they started the tourney over tomorrow, you'd probably have 4 different teams in the final four. Which i think says a lot about the guy. He has no misconceptions about what they did this year, and what it took to do it (being hot at the right time in the season).

I also think it speaks to what you are getting at freak. I think it was more or less a bunch of good teams this year nationwide, there never was a clear cut no. 1 team. Duke, Uconn, Nova, Tx, Memphis were all on fairly level footing all season. No one or two teams just dominated like we've seen in years past.

Keep in mind, UF wasn't ranked at all before the season started.....

Jay bilas had a good point on the radio show in Charlotte this morning. The college game is getting younger every year. with the amount of high schoolers going pro and the amount of freshmen and sophomores leaving, it opens up each new year for some other team to come off the radar and make a run like UF did this year.....So with it being so young, it becomes harder and harder to say who's really the best team with any consistency....
 
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I'm not sure how the ESPN talking heads / salary thieves left Memphis out of their top 5 next year. They were even younger than Florida and probably more talented. New big man alongside Dorsey will make them nearly unplayable.
 
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(BigPapaVol @ Apr 5 said:
I'm not sure how the ESPN talking heads / salary thieves left Memphis out of their top 5 next year. They were even younger than Florida and probably more talented. New big man alongside Dorsey will make them nearly unplayable.
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i think they may be speculating that Cal won't be there next year...he's a hot topic in Raleigh for the NCSU job......if he's back, Memphis will be good again...no doubt.
 
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(jakez4ut @ Apr 5 said:
i think they may be speculating that Cal won't be there next year...he's a hot topic in Raleigh for the NCSU job......if he's back, Memphis will be good again...no doubt.
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Plus it's 2 days after the final game of the season. Does it really matter who they project as the top-5 right now?
 
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(govols @ Apr 5 said:
They will be good next year, but no way they will win the tourney again.
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If everyone stayed at Florida, I think they'd have to be considered one of the favorites. Not THE favorite, and by no means a shoe-in. Make them, I'd say, 4-1 to win it again. In fact, based on what we know now and all things remaning the same, I would put teams of interest at ....

Florida 4-1
UCLA 4-1
North Carolina 5-1
Tennessee 20-1
Duke 20-1
Kentucky 30-1
 
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"Plus it's 2 days after the final game of the season. Does it really matter who they project as the top-5 right now?"



nope. esp when the team that just won it wasn't ranked in last year's pre season.
 
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(BigPapaVol @ Apr 5 said:
I'm not sure how the ESPN talking heads / salary thieves left Memphis out of their top 5 next year. They were even younger than Florida and probably more talented. New big man alongside Dorsey will make them nearly unplayable.
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Memphis loses there best player and supposedly the most athletic player in Rodney Carney
 
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Anyone notice we beat the Championship team twice but couldnt even get to the Sweet Sixteen.
 
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if that's not a loaded post, i don't know what is.......lol.
 
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(BizzLlama @ Apr 5 said:
Anyone notice we beat the Championship team twice but couldnt even get to the Sweet Sixteen.
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Anyone else get the feeling you couldn't care less about UT?
 
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(BizzLlama @ Apr 5 said:
Anyone notice we beat the Championship team twice but couldnt even get to the Sweet Sixteen.
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Wow! I did NOT realize this. Your post is sooo insightful. :crazy:
 
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(BizzLlama @ Apr 5 said:
Anyone notice we beat the Championship team twice but couldnt even get to the Sweet Sixteen.
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Hofstra beat George Mason twice and wasn't even in the tournament. What's your point? South Carolina beat UF twice and got the honor of repeating their NIT title. Big Deal.
 
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