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[QUOTE="Cuse23, post: 1934294, member: 3310"]
<<I think any season where we: 1) Achieve a #1 ranking; 2) Win or tie for the conference regular season title, (even if it’s unofficial as it is in the ACC), 3) Win the conference tournament or 4) Make the Final Four is a ‘special’ season by SU standards. A national championship would be an historical season. We’ve won or tied for a conference regular season title 10 times and won 5 conference tournament titles, all in different seasons. We’ve reached #1 five times and gone to 6 Final Fours, again never in the same season. There have been 19 ‘special’ seasons in the 37 since the Big East was formed. That’s more fun than having just one adequate year when we won it all.>>

What an amazing post, thank you! This is a very succinct and reasonable way to put this into perspective. With all the handwringing over March Madness and the tourney being the be all, end all, I've not heard or read any analyst/coach/writer come up with anything better than these four criteria for looking back and feeling what a special season it was. For example, I think we would all agree that while the way the 2013-14 season ended was very disappointing, its 25-0 start that culminated in a #1 ranking surely was special as it was happening, and as fans we'd all be remiss in not acknowledging that.
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