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Message: [QUOTE="RF2044, post: 2412533, member: 40"] I don't think your last sentence is an accurate description -- those teams beat a LOT of great teams over that span, and had a gaudy W/L record. Some of our best teams in program history were from that era. The occasional black eye loss [like to Richmond at the end of that 1991 season or Rhode Island in 1998 when Sherman Douglas was so sick he could barely stand] doesn't fundamentally change how strong those teams were. That Villanova game you reference @ Nova in 1989 was a game we lost by 2 points, going 13-20 from the free throw stripe. Hardly getting "crushed" [and later that season, when they weren't getting every call in the Palaestra, we whipped them 90-57]. We lost quite a few games in that fashion, where we'd outplay the opponent but lose close games due to subpar FT shooting. FT shooting was an enormous problem between 87 - 90. [/QUOTE]