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Best Team Of All Time: Team Analysis

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I want to find out more of the hard evidence on the topic instead of opinions and shallow statistics. More facts that can be used to compare teams from different eras will be extremely helpful. These stats will go further in determining who was truly the best team of all time, rather than just overall team wins. Also I'd like to look at the individuals on the teams and use their stats comparatively to also help determine the overall team success.
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Many of the teams that are considered to be among the best of all-time come from varying decades and time periods, so it is very difficult to find statistical data on a few of them. Also because of this many of today’s programs and algorithms are obsolete for those teams because …show more content…

The two 70’s teams went undefeated with the ‘68 team having only one blemish in a loss at #2 Houston, which was dubbed as “The Game of the Century” by basketball fans of the era. And those two teams met again in the Final Four with UCLA winning handily 101-69, to avenge their only loss in an otherwise dominant season. Much like the two Indiana teams, the two UCLA teams in 1972 and 73 had a familiar feel about them the second time around, with four starters from the 1972 team returning and starting for the 1973 squad. Both teams went 30-0 and won the National Title game at the end of March, but because both teams are so similar I chose the more experienced 1973 team for my …show more content…

Now that I had eliminated the 1975 Indiana team, Georgetown was the only team on the list to not win the National Championship, and only UCLA and Indiana went undefeated throughout the entire season. And every team on the list besides Georgetown won their regular season conference championship, so all of these teams are very similar in overall resumes. Looking at their superficial resumes was not enough to properly compare these teams due to the fact that they all come from such different time periods. The style of play and amount of elite competition played a large role in how much success each of these particular teams had. I pondered whether or not to make this paper about the most dominant team in college basketball history, but then that would be UCLA unanimously because they played against the least amount of elite teams. So I knew it must be about the best team in college basketball history, but I still did not know how to properly compare all of the teams. I eventually decided, after researching effective ways to compare teams, to use record against top 25 and top 5 teams, average win margin, number of players drafted into the NBA, and also other intangible as my measuring stick of these

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