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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 5030432, member: 1969"]
I can accept their 2023 and likely 2024 titles much more easily, than the 2011 and 2014 National Titles.    These are great teams -- dominant teams.  It probably doesn't help that we were also in our sweet spot between 2009-2014 as well.

I don't think it matters what breaks they got in terms of matchups this year - nobody is likely going to stop them.   Its dominance which has to be respected.    Could have been a similar thing to a lesser extent last year - they had breaks in terms of who they played, but dominated them so maybe it didn't matter either.

Hurley has this program at a totally different level than those 2011 and 2014 teams, and he inherited a bit of a mess.   I don't why it irks people so much to call that stretch somewhat "lucky", and for saying that Hurley has massively elevated what we saw from that era.   But it does apparently.

They could be on a long run like the 1994-2009 UConn team, who had 4 #1 seeds and 6#2 seeds over a 16 year period (63% a top 2 seed over 16 year period, has probably only been matched by Kansas maybe).     If anything that run could have resulted in more than 2 titles.
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