NCAA Tournament thread

Has there been a title team that didn’t have a single player play in the NBA?
 
152219 said:
Ultimately to win a title you have to have NBA players on your roster, even for the small schools that make runs (Butler, Davidson, etc). The only OU team that was the best team in the nation was the ‘88 team which had 3 NBA players on the roster.

OU’s best teams are going to be those in which a NBA player or two gets to be upperclassmen. The same for a large number of programs.
Click to expand...

2002 OU didn't have NBA players. I know they lost, but it wasn't a talent issue. We hammered Maryland that year, and beat KU in KC.

I get it that we have to have talent. I don't disagree. But I stick by my point that we'll have the most talented team. We just need to have the best team. That starts with having a system that we recruit to, playing hard/intense basketball, and not going through these mammoth rebuilds. We can win A LOT of games, and I'd argue a championship, having very good college players that aren't necessarily NBA guys.
 
Go FSU.

Leonard Hamilton doesn’t even look that old. He was the OSU coach when I was in college and I am 50.
 
WTSooner said:
2002 OU didn't have NBA players. I know they lost, but it wasn't a talent issue. We hammered Maryland that year, and beat KU in KC.

I get it that we have to have talent. I don't disagree. But I stick by my point that we'll have the most talented team. We just need to have the best team. That starts with having a system that we recruit to, playing hard/intense basketball, and not going through these mammoth rebuilds. We can win A LOT of games, and I'd argue a championship, having very good college players that aren't necessarily NBA guys.
Click to expand...

That 2002 team wasn’t the best in the land. Maryland was. And in a best of they lose to Duke and KU as well. The 2015 Sooner team hammered the champs earlier in the year as well.

I asked it earlier, has there been a team to win the title that didn’t have a single NBA player? I cannot think of one.
 
WTSooner said:
2002 OU didn't have NBA players. I know they lost, but it wasn't a talent issue. We hammered Maryland that year, and beat KU in KC.

I get it that we have to have talent. I don't disagree. But I stick by my point that we'll have the most talented team. We just need to have the best team. That starts with having a system that we recruit to, playing hard/intense basketball, and not going through these mammoth rebuilds. We can win A LOT of games, and I'd argue a championship, having very good college players that aren't necessarily NBA guys.
Click to expand...

One more thing, someone else brought this up recently which I have never seen on this board, that you laughed at, which is White’s injury in Atlanta. The person who posted about the injury must know the same person I do who is in the know with OU hoops as he used the same terminology I was told when the injury happened (I knew about the injury almost right after it happened because this person was at the practice), which was that Sampson was showing off for the national media by hosting a tough practice which unfortunately resulted in White getting hurt while the other three teams in Atlanta had walk throughs/shoot arounds. I was told that Sampson wanted to show off how tough his practices were and his team was.
 
152219 said:
One more thing, someone else brought this up recently which I have never seen on this board, that you laughed at, which is White’s injury in Atlanta. The person who posted about the injury must know the same person I do who is in the know with OU hoops as he used the same terminology I was told when the injury happened (I knew about the injury almost right after it happened because this person was at the practice), which was that Sampson was showing off for the national media by hosting a tough practice which unfortunately resulted in White getting hurt while the other three teams in Atlanta had walk throughs/shoot arounds. I was told that Sampson wanted to show off how tough his practices were and his team was.
Click to expand...

Give me a break. I have zero doubt that OU held a tough practice, that is what made that team successful. He may have wanted the media to see that, but that doesn't mean he had the team doing anything they wouldn't have otherwise have been doing. Your comment about Kelvin "costing us a NC" is something an OSU fan would say.

Which begs the question, how can you say on one foot Kelvin cost us a NC, then turn around and argue with me tonight that OU wasn't the best team in the Tourney that year? How can you reconcile those two statements?
 
DenverSooner said:
What a region. But for a last second 3 by Michigan and you would have 3 upsets.
Click to expand...

South region even crazier though. First time no 1-4 seed advanced to the Sweet 16 round in a region. It's been a crazy tournament.
 
WTSooner said:
Give me a break. I have zero doubt that OU held a tough practice, that is what made that team successful. He may have wanted the media to see that, but that doesn't mean he had the team doing anything they wouldn't have otherwise have been doing. Your comment about Kelvin "costing us a NC" is something an OSU fan would say.

Which begs the question, how can you say on one foot Kelvin cost us a NC, then turn around and argue with me tonight that OU wasn't the best team in the Tourney that year? How can you reconcile those two statements?
Click to expand...

I didn’t say that Kelvin cost OU the title that was the other poster. I don’t have to reconcile anything.
 
Showing off through practice? That is just Kelvin bashing. Even a fool knows the championship is better than the toughest practice.


WV is crushing Marshall
 
My question has still not been answered. Has there been a title team that didn't have a single NBA player?
 
Kansas is going to win the title and it makes me sick.
 
And don't misconstrue what I'm saying. OU doesn't have to have Kentucky, Duke, UNC, etc talent, but to win the NCAA title you have to have at least some NBA talent on your roster.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

BoulderSooner
Sooner transfers stats 23/24 version
2
Replies
39
Views
5K
StoopsBros
StoopsBros
S
#9 OU @ Wichita State 6pm 11/19
2
Replies
23
Views
694
Soonercuda
S
NickZepp
Tournament expansion
Replies
10
Views
354
TINY
T
B
Would we be happy…
Replies
15
Views
805
CoachTalk
CoachTalk
BoulderSooner
NEWS about the NCAA TOURNEY and a ?
2
Replies
32
Views
689
Skeeter1
S
Back
Top