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[QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 40579, member: 716"]
Both were very important (actually everyone on those teams who contributed to wins was really important). In my eyes, though, that Final Four season in 1996 was the most important part of the bridge from pre-probation SU to the present.

Without Wallace, not only would that Final Four likely not have happened, but I think 1995-1996 would've been a lot closer to the 19-13 year of '96-'97. Before Moten graduated, we had ok talent. After he and Lloyd and Jackson left, we had little other than Wallace. Without Wallace, we'd have been a ~.500 team for two years in a row; that would likely have had a significant effect on recruiting going forward.

Both were huge, though, and we'd have lost a ton of games without both of them.

(No worries about Moten at Maryland, though. Their athletic department pushed hard to admit him, but the admissions people won out. He was there for the taking, and Boeheim had one of his best diamonds in the rough.)
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