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[QUOTE="orange2win, post: 262166, member: 849"]
Some excellent comments here.
 
No, I did not do a check for the likes of Duke and UNC. It is quite a bit of work, but if I can find the time, it would be interesting to see. Still, Elite and Strong teams should rarely if ever lose to one of these WEAK teams. Even if a WEAK program has a strong - non McDAA - player on their team, they cannot be deep enough to overpower Elite and Strong teams.
 
Take SU. Every player on the current team was rated 4 Star or higher coming out of HS, except for Brandon and James, who were each 3 Star recruits. The other Strong teams such as Louisville, Indiana, Arizona, Ohio State, all operate the same way.
 
There are only 24 McDAAs per year, so they only provide an indicator of which programs are attracting the best HS players. As for the best college players, I believe the NBA draft is a better indicator. There 60 NBA draft picks per year. Over the last 37 years, JB has averaged 2.3 NBA pros on his teams. Enough I would think to get it done. Problem with the NBA draft picks as a measure, there is a three year time lag. For example, we will not know how many Pros were on this year's team unril 3 years from now.
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