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[QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 2528982, member: 716"]
Exactly. These and 1996 are suddenly underappreciated with a surprise play-in game bid. And why no love for 2010? Yeah, they had talent. Most teams have talent. Boeheim picked some bad apples out of an up-and-down team, made a major coaching change, and ripped off the best regular season to that point in school history.

Obviously nobody (or next to nobody) can really judge how good Boeheim's "coaching" is, but from an outsider's perspective it's very impressive to take a troubled group or a lot of newcomers and build a very successful team. Especially when it involves a strategic change like going all-zone, moreso when it's done by coaching up a lot of three-star kids who haven't done much before. (This is why I raise my eyebrows at summer 2016 "we're going to the Final Four" posts...this stuff isn't easy.)

In no order, 2001, 1996, 2003, 1992, and 2010 are among Boeheim's best work. Let's say he's submitting what he's proudest of as a portfolio of his career, I'd have to think those years are featured prominently.
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