Repeat champs

The best team absolutely won last night. Florida had a REALLY hot shooting night and Ohio State (outside of Oden) couldn't hit anything. I think Oden made it pretty clear last night why he is hyped the way he is. He basically outplayed the ENTIRE Florida frontline. Stayed out of foul trouble. Never left the floor and took a beating from 4 big bodies all night, and they couldn't stop him. They threw everything they could at him, and he just ripped them over and over. Nothing was happening around the rim when he was on defense, and they absolutely could not stop him on the other end. I have never seen him demand the ball like that before. It really was an awesome performance, if only his guards could have made more than 6-23 of their outside shots.

That Florida team was absolutely loaded, but we really need to stop with the best team ever? debates.. I won't go too far into it, but I can name about 10 teams in the last 20 years that would spank this Florida team. Taking nothing away from them, they were DAMN good.. especially when they are making damn near every 3 they take, but there is no doubt in my mind that probably 3 teams from the 80's alone (one in particular that didn't win the title) would beat that team. (82 Tar Heels, 84 Hoyas, and 86 blue devils.) MOST of the teams from the 90's would (90 UNLV, 91 UNLV, 92 Duke, maybe 91 Duke, 96 Kentucky, 99 Duke, 99 Uconn) ALL were better... then in the last several years.. I would make the argument that 01 Duke, 01 Arizona, 02 Maryland, 02 Duke, 04 Uconn, and 05 heels would all beat this Florida team. Winning back to back is a HUGE accomplishment, but lets not go overboard. College basketball is in a weird flux state right now with the new NBA rule. The talent is weirdly distributed, and in about 2 years when there is more talent into college, you will see about 10 teams in a season that could have given this particular Florida team a game. hell, there were 10 teams THIS year that could have.. They did lose 5 games afterall. They weren't unbeatable.

Last year's title for them, in my opinion, was a fluke.. It was probably the worst season of college ball in memory.. the talent was so diluted that you had 2 nonathletic shooters as the unanimous best players. It was an all time low for college hoops and Florida got hot at the right time, and got a gift in having to play George Mason in the final 4. They went half speed through that game, and it made the title game all that much easier... Add in the fact that UCLA matches up horribly for them.. Anyway, I think it is a huge accomplishment to win back to back anyway. We might see it again..... as a matter f fact I KNOW we will see it again eventually, but their biggest accomplishment was getting all 5 starters to come back from a title run. THAT will never happen again. So I say give them praise for doing what they did, but lets not get carried away.