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Message: [QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 1176940, member: 716"] Not sure if Rivals ranked teams' entire classes back then (1996 is the one you're referring to) and I can't find an exact rank, but there were a couple interesting links out there. [url]http://www.basketballforum.com/college-hoops-central/59990-1996-top-recruits-revisited.html[/url] This has Walton at #9 and Etan at #42 (higher than I'd remembered in Etan's case) in Sporting News. As I recall, Ramel Lloyd was a bit higher than that; no idea where Hart and Howard were, though I think Hart was borderline top-50. We probably had a ~top-30 class that year. (I'm also stunned to see Illinois recruit Ryan Blackwell sitting at #16 for the previous year. Well-rounded player for us, but he was only a top-16 talent when matched up against Troy Murphy.) [/QUOTE]