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Originally Posted by KC_Connection
It's interesting that 2021 and 2022 were almost exactly the same team roster-wise with the exception of Garrett being replaced with Remy. Shows what a year of development can do.
That 2010 team is one of the best teams not to win a title over the past couple of decades.
2008 team also remains the best overall team in the KenPom era (2002-2022).
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I think there is an element of luck to it. If Remy played the whole season, his ... we'll call it "magic"...might have worn off. Let's face it, that level of energy is hard to sustain over a season, and it seems like KU had trouble summoning it when it mattered without Remy. Maybe this is an exception, but it's hard to tell. And the team most likely would have adjusted to his play and potentially (probably) developed some of the bad habits around it.
Such as it is, he came in with massive levels of **** off and it absolutely lit a fire under the team.
We've rolled into March with tremendously talented teams before only to watch other teams catch lightning in a bottle and get super hot to beat us.
I'll admit, it's fun as **** to have that team, even though we were a 1, it felt like an underdog story, at least comparatively.