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[QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 10169, member: 716"]
The 1995 team just didn't want to play defense. Boeheim hadn't hitched his wagon to the 2-3 yet, and those guys couldn't consistently defend anyone, despite the fact that they were very gifted offensively.

We did hand away the Arkansas game, and perhaps we could have made a run through the regional, but I feel that 20-10 was an honest record for that bunch. Talented but limited team.

1989 was the best and 2010 was the most fun.

I loved 1996, but we overrate them. That team was simply the most fortunate. Our half of the bracket lost both #1 seeds. Drexel and Georgia folded down the stretch, and nobody had seen that kind of zone before. Check out those old tapes. By today's standards, the zone was slow and lazy. Outside of Wallace and Hill, most of those guys would have gotten no court time for 3/4 of Boeheim's teams. Burgan couldn't do anything right until the two Final Four games; even then, he couldn't play a lick of defense on the wing. Cipolla and Janulis defined limited. Still, Z was as good as he needed to be and made everyone around him better. Getting 29 wins and a national runner-up out of that talent was a great credit to Boeheim's coaching ability.
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