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[QUOTE="Ward, post: 1731578, member: 1958"]
In most cases it probably plays a a big role but I'm not sure it plays out that way here to override the huge gap in talent.

The Harrison twins as true freshmen beat the same back court the year before in the Final Four and made a lot of clutch plays in doing so. Cauley-Stein was a junior and top 6 pick. Dakari Johnson and Marcus Lee were on a team that made the national championship and played key minutes the year before so they're experienced. Towns and Booker are both studs and probably going to be perennial all stars with Towns probably an NBA MVP at some point so experience isn't as big a factor with guys that talented or else Melo would've cracked at some point in '03, Okafor last year, etc.

Then the other two guys in Kentucky's rotation were Tyler Ulis who everyone says plays years older than he is but I'm not going to pretend that means something tangible for this argument and Lyles who was a lottery pick.

I'm not by any means trying to play Wisconsin off as Robert Morris but more saying that Kentucky team was historically loaded and Calipari was outcoached by Bo Ryan in the Final Four.
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