Building on my previous post, here is the Barttovik page for "school history," rankings, and adjusted efficiency ratings on offense and defense since 2008.
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This is the best team in that era -- #9 overall, with the next best team being Georges' senior year, which was still kind of back of this team at #17 overall in the ratings.
The Hoiberg teams were good, especially on offense, but I think we can see the column for defensive ratings and see where the problems were with them. The analogy that CW made about Fred wanting to be the Texas Tech football of CBB is apropos.
Those Fred teams could score, but they ranked below fiftieth in defensive efficiency. This team can score just as well
AND it is in the top thirty in defense nationally.
I know the computer rankings above are missing the good Morgan teams from 2003 through 2005 with Stinson, Blalock, Homan, Clark, Vroman, Sullivan, and the rest of that era, and while those teams had their moments, I do not think anybody would say they were as good as the four Fred teams to make the tournament, much less this season's squad.
We are not a hyper-elite team, dominant on both ends of the floor, like these four...
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...but we are excellent on offense and very good on defense.
Fred's teams were always the former but never really the latter.