[Lotto StudParticipant]

 From the time you started watching NCAA ball up until now, who were your favorite teams to follow.

 

I watched NCAA ball at an early age but my followings were….

’95-’96 Georgetown Hoyas

’97-’98 St. John’s Red Storm, Cincinnati Bearcats, North Carolina Tarheels, Michigan Wolverines

’98-’99 Maryland Terps, Connecticut Huskies, Duke Blue Devils

’99-’00 Cincinnati Bearcats, Michigan State Spartans, Florida Gators, Syracuse Orangemen

’00-’01 Arizona Wildcats, Michigan State

’01-’02 Memphis Tigers, Maryland Terps, Kansas Jayhawks, Connecticut Huskies, Missouri Tigers, NC State Wolfpack, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Duke Blue Devils*

’02-’03 Texas Longhorns, Syracuse Orangemen, Louisville Cardinals, Maryland Terps, North Carolina Tarheels

’03-’04 Connecticut Huskies, Arizona Wildcats St. Joseph’s Hawks, Oklahoma State Cowboys

’04-’05 North Carolina Tarheels, Illinois Fighting Illini, Florida State Seminoles, Pittsburgh Panthers, Indiana Hoosiers, Kentucky Wildcats, Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

’05-’06 Memphis Tigers, Connecticut Huskies, Villanova Wildcats, Texas Longhorns, LSU Tigers, Michigan State

’06-’07 Ohio State Buckeyes, Florida Gators, Georgetown Hoyas, Maryland Terps, Kansas Jayhawks, Boston College Eagles, Oklahoma State Cowboys, North Carolina Tarheels

’07-’08 Memphis Tigers, Kansas Jayhawks, Kansas State Wildcats, Virginia Cavaliers

’08-’09 Memphis Tigers, Syracuse Orangemen, Oklahoma Sooners, Louisville Cardinals, North Carolina Tarheels, Connecticut Huskies, Pittsburgh Panthers, UCLA Bruins

’09-’10 Kentucky Wildcats, Oklahoma Sooners, Ohio State Buckeyes, Baylor Bears, Kansas Jayhawks, Maryland Terps, Texas Longhorns, West Virginia Mountaineers, Villanova Wildcats, Wake Forest Demon Deacons, Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, Syracuse Orangemen, Butler Bulldogs, 

’10-’11 Connecticut Huskies, Kentucky Wildcats, Kansas Jayhawks, UCLA Bruins, Florida Gators, Texas Longhorns, Washington Huskies, BYU Cougars

’11-’12 Memphis Tigers, Kentucky Wildcats, Washington Huskies, Ohio State Buckeyes, Kansas Jayhawks, Baylor Bears, Connecticut Huskies, Florida Gators, North Carolina Tarheels, Syracuse Orangemen, Missouri Tigers, Duke Blue Devils

’12-’13 Indiana Hoosiers, Kansas Jayhawks, Michigan Wolverines, Louisville Cardinals, Miami Hurricanes, NC State Wolfpack, Syracuse Orangemen, Georgetown Hoyas, Oklahoma State, Duke Blue Devils

’13-’14 Memphis Tigers, Florida Gators, Syracuse Orangemen, Oklahoma State, Duke Blue Devils, Kentucky Wildcats, NC State Wolfpack, Michigan State Spartans, Arizona Wildcats, Kansas Jayhawks

 

 * I hated Duke’s ’01-’02 with a passion but over the years I realized they were great to watch once I put my hatred to the side.

 

Now that I’ve walked you through my evolution of NCAA ball, walks us through your journey.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[rileymcshea3Participant]

 The main evolution I see is the growing amount of teams you like each year.

[Lotto StudParticipant]

Throughout the years rosters changed as they always do. The teams I listed had a nice nucleus whether they were highly ranked or not. If you are able to go as far back like I did, you would know those teams were legit to an extent. I was then and still am a true follower of good ball even before I chose 1 team.

[ChewyParticipant]

First you pick your team (usually this is pushed upon you by geographical location and peer pressure at an early age).

For example, a 3rd grader in Kansas wouldn’t color the Jayhawk picture that her teacher gave her because she was a Wildcat fan.

Then you can go out and watch other teams and appreciate them, but they can’t ever be “your team.”

FYI to respond to the original post….

Kenyon Martin was the most dominate player I have ever seen in college (I’m fairly young so don’t go old school names on me. I know Pistol Pete but I never watched him)

That Illini team would have won easily the next year if they had the same team. They were just unlucky running into a whip of a UNC team.

I loved the Bibby/Simon backcourt of Zona

Bynum was sick in college (happy he carved out a nice cereer with the Pistons) but Muhammed always had the best highlights.

Is Zoubek the worst starting C to win a national championship?

I can’t believe KU made it to the finals with the team they had, but everyone knew they couldn’t compete with the eyebrow.

[ChewyParticipant]

First you pick your team (usually this is pushed upon you by geographical location and peer pressure at an early age).

For example, a 3rd grader in Kansas wouldn’t color the Jayhawk picture that her teacher gave her because she was a Wildcat fan.

Then you can go out and watch other teams and appreciate them, but they can’t ever be “your team.”

FYI to respond to the original post….

Kenyon Martin was the most dominate player I have ever seen in college (I’m fairly young so don’t go old school names on me. I know Pistol Pete but I never watched him)

That Illini team would have won easily the next year if they had the same team. They were just unlucky running into a whip of a UNC team.

I loved the Bibby/Simon backcourt of Zona

Bynum was sick in college (happy he carved out a nice cereer with the Pistons) but Muhammed always had the best highlights.

Is Zoubek the worst starting C to win a national championship?

I can’t believe KU made it to the finals with the team they had, but everyone knew they couldn’t compete with the eyebrow.

[Lotto StudParticipant]

 You absolutely hit the nail on the coffin! I was brought up around the time it was really good. And that Cincy team had guys like Helicopter Levett, Reuben Patterson was fun to watch.  Just that whole late 90s era did it for me as a kid.

Now as far as Illinois since you brought them up, they were decent to watch when they had Frank Williams the previous year.

 

[Lotto StudParticipant]

 You absolutely hit the nail on the coffin! I was brought up around the time it was really good. And that Cincy team had guys like Helicopter Levett, Reuben Patterson was fun to watch.  Just that whole late 90s era did it for me as a kid.

Now as far as Illinois since you brought them up, they were decent to watch when they had Frank Williams the previous year.

 

[ChewyParticipant]

 Steve Logan was my favorite player for at least 2 years (it wasn’t until later that I developed my hate for Bob Huggins and his lack of intrest in his player’s academics or gneral well being.

Frank Williams and Sergio were both good, but Brian Cook was soft in HS, soft in College and soft in the NBA.

But, Dee Brown, Deron, Luther, Augustine and Powell would have won it all the following year. Luther Head had no buisness being an NBA player before Weber came along. Self recruited all those guys, but Weber coached the crap out of em.

I remember loving Mateen Cleaves, Mo Pete and Z-Bo on MSU (Their jerseys were ugly as hell tho).

The whole Luke Reker (sp?) drama of Indiana-Iowa-and off the court stuff was unbelievable.

 

 

 

 

 

[ChewyParticipant]

 Steve Logan was my favorite player for at least 2 years (it wasn’t until later that I developed my hate for Bob Huggins and his lack of intrest in his player’s academics or gneral well being.

Frank Williams and Sergio were both good, but Brian Cook was soft in HS, soft in College and soft in the NBA.

But, Dee Brown, Deron, Luther, Augustine and Powell would have won it all the following year. Luther Head had no buisness being an NBA player before Weber came along. Self recruited all those guys, but Weber coached the crap out of em.

I remember loving Mateen Cleaves, Mo Pete and Z-Bo on MSU (Their jerseys were ugly as hell tho).

The whole Luke Reker (sp?) drama of Indiana-Iowa-and off the court stuff was unbelievable.

 

 

 

 

 

[ChewyParticipant]

double post sorry

[ChewyParticipant]

double post sorry

[Lotto StudParticipant]

Throughout the years rosters changed as they always do. The teams I listed had a nice nucleus whether they were highly ranked or not. If you are able to go as far back like I did, you would know those teams were legit to an extent. I was then and still am a true follower of good ball even before I chose 1 team.

[rileymcshea3Participant]

 The main evolution I see is the growing amount of teams you like each year.

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