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[QUOTE="billsin01, post: 1736550, member: 837"]
I agree with this to an extent but I think the tough part is that we're always looking at it from a particular point in time. If you look at it this year we limped through the regular season, nearly missed the tourney and had zero depth all year, even when we made our run. However, Nova, as an example, blasted teams all season, had great depth and made a run all the way to the title. So advantage (in whatever you want to discuss -- coaching, recruiting, development, etc) Nova.

But, if you looked at the bigger picture of the past five seasons, for example, you have Nova missing the post season in 12, going out in the first round in 13 and then getting knocked out early despite gaudy records and impressive seeds in each of the two seasons prior to this run.

The Cuse, meanwhile, hasn't been world-beaters in that stretch, but despite the whole Fab thing, won 34 games and reached the elite 8 in 12, won 30 and got to the final four in 13, won 28 but lost in an upset to DAyton in 14, had the ban last season and then went to the final four despite a brutal regular season this year. So cuse with 133 wins and two final fours; Nova with 130 wins, a title and three relatively early tourney exits. So who was better in that stretch? Hard to say that Nova's overall strategy has been better, though I admit I'm just taking five years as a random increment. In the past three seasons, obviously Nova's been impressive.
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