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Message: [QUOTE="bpo57, post: 1365154, member: 1572"] I hear ya on this era being different but one thing with Wooden he didn't have any Lehigh or Mercer losses on his NCAA resume. I'm just going by the results as I don't know much about the UCLA extra-curriculars. You can go on the web and easily find accusations against Coach K. Wooden's run essentially spanned my time in grade school and high school. Kinda makes an impression on you when the guy wins 10 out of 12. People tend to focus on Alcindor and Walton but he won 4 NCs without those guys. His teams were just phenomenally well coached. Lots of times he won with guys that did nothing in the professional ranks. As for the international, back then the US Olympic Committee used Hank Iba as their HC. Wooden never coached the Olympic team but I imagine he could have gotten the job done. [/QUOTE]