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[QUOTE="HoustonCuse, post: 1644459, member: 87"]
It is funny how many "regional mid-major programs" there are in the all-time Top 5 winningest programs list.

I get that Syracuse was not what it is now back in the day, but who was? College basketball in general has exploded into whole new dimensions since 1976. Syracuse was still a program who made it to a Final Four before that, and remember that was in the true regional days where SU had to win the east to get there and that meant some of the all-time best programs were in the way. The program was big enough to bring in Dave Bing and a host of other top players, it was big enough to be invited into the Big East as a cornerstone member, it was big enough to even considering playing games in a 50,000 seat dome with a straight face and immediately draw 25-30k crowds in 1980.

I just don't buy that a program could go from being Colgate in 1975 to drawing 30k fans in 1981. It took UConn nearly 2 decades to make a transition like that, even with a hall of fame coach.
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