I would pay a lot of money to watch that team play the 2002 team.
I'm guessing you were too young to remember the 1988 team...it was clearly superior to the 2002 team. Billy Packer wrote a book shortly after that season and in it was a section stating that the OU 1988 team was the best college team EVER to not win a Natty. Granted, that would be debatable with the 1985 Georgetown team...and eventually the 1991 UNLV team...but that's really all you need to know how great they were if you weren't old enough to appreciate that team. What I would have loved is to see Kelvin coach two of the best defensive players who ever played at OU - Mookie and Harvey Grant (GREAT NBA defensive players as well). As great of a coach as Kelvin is, he's not slowing down Grant and Stacey King with J Brown and A McGhee (or Daryan Selvy)...I loved the 2002 team (especially their memorable wins over Maryland, Arizona and Kansas), so it's not a knock on them. They're just not winning that game.
To this day, when I'm asked if I could have a do-over for ONE game out of any one of my favorite teams losses, college or pro, and I don't hesitate. 1988 OU-Kansas final is my choice...and OU has lost a lot of big football games through the years. I'm also a lifelong LA Lakers and D Cowboys fan...try to imagine all the games I can pick from either of those two...I want the 1988 Final and I want refs who won't worship Danny Manning.
Back on topic, as for favorites who I enjoyed watching, I'm picking these 5 guys from the 1990 team - Anthony Martin, Kermit Holmes, Terrance Mullins, Terry Evans, and Mike Harris. Along with Roland Ware (when he was eligible), these guys were the DEPTH on the undisputed DEEPEST team in OU history (starters were Jackie Jones, Skeeter Henry, William Davis, Damon Patterson and Smokey McCovery). It was the only year in my lifetime when 11 guys could be easily rotated. Practices must have been unreal with redshirted Brent Price and Jeff Webster. It remains the only OU team to enter the NCAA Tournament as the overall #1 seed...got a bad matchup in Round 2 playing an underachieving North Carolina team with 9 Burger Boys that came together for one game...we lost at the buzzer.