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[QUOTE="orange2win, post: 127265, member: 849"]
I do not use opinion in my analyses.  Just data.  You are correct, the 88-89 was very good.  I only listed the first two teams with the best season record ever in the polls.  The 88-89 team is a very close 3rd.  Mainly because it dropped to #14 for two weeks in a row, although it actually climbed to #2 for one week.

If you do the analysis based only on personnel, the 88-89 is virtually tied with the 89-90 team as the best ever.  Here are the results, with the NBA draft Nos. shown in brackets.  Both of these teams had 6 NBA pros and 2 Euro pros.  No other SU team comes close to this level of talent.

1.  1988-89 Douglas (28), Thompson (-), Coleman (1), Owens (3), Roe, Johnson (26),  Harried, Manning (43)
2.  1989-90 Owens (3), Coleman (1), Thompson (-), Edwards, Ellis (22), Johnson (26), Manning (43), McRae (38).

Thompson is one of the rare SU players who did not get drafted, but still played in the NBA, while McRae did get drafted but never played in the NBA.

By comparison, our only championship team had just 2 NBA pros (Anthony (3) and Warrick (19).  All the more credit to their great achievement.
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