Blue Bloods Breakdown

Basketball
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Preach on Ryon!

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20-25 years of sustained excellence from this point on, coupled with multiple titles might get us in the conversation. A title this year would maybe pull us even with Arkansas.

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Poor Indiana used to be a blue blood but not anymore. Yes, they were in the National Championship Game in 2002, before many Coogfans were born (lost to Maryland). Previous to that, the last final four they appeared in was 1992. Not enough sustained excellence.

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Ohio State has been to more final fours than Indiana.

Purdue has won more Big 10 championships than Indiana.

Indiana and Bobby Knight are myths.

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They have 5 championships and 3 of them in a span of 11 years under Knight. Indiana is a legacy blue blood.

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Idk about myths but their light has definitely faded. Their numbers looked a lot better 20 years ago which ironically was the last time they made a final four.

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From Kent Benson to Isaiah Thomas they were good. Past that
meh. Myth.

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Didn’t the bald-headed guy from Georgetown Graham not have the grades to play in the Championship game in 1984 vs Houston?

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I believe Graham’s GPA was a John Blutarski like 0.00. Never passed a single class in his only year at Georgetown. Was probably on probation at Georgetown during the spring semester. Considering it was his freshman year, the NCAA never even got a chance to look at it.

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IMO, there are exactly five blue bloods in College Basketball:

Duke
UNC
UCLA
Kentucky
Indiana

Indiana, Kansas, and UConn are borderline. For me, the conversation starts at 3 titles, and starts being worth discussing at 4. Until you get there, I don’t care if you’ve been runners up in every tournament for the last decade, you ain’t a blue blood.

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how did Georgetown lose their status as a blueblood?
wouldn’t Arkansas be on the bubble also?

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There was a sports magazine called Inside Sports during the 80s, into the 90s. Sometime during the early 90s I believe, they ran a piece on the Top Basketball programs of all-time. I’m fairly certain that they had UH rated as 9th or 10th, definitely “blue blood” territory. Of course a couple of years later the program fell off the cliff

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Not one but multiple championships and continuously be relevant nationally, i.e. year in and year out, to be blue blood. Is UConn blue blood? I think they are very close but not quite though they have have won 4 championships.

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Kansas is not borderline. They have four ships and have been a perennial power since the 80s.

Kansas has been conference champs 26 times since 1986 and they own an all-time winning percentage of .729. They haven’t missed a tournament since 1983. They’ve been to the sweet 16 64% of the time since ‘86 with 16 E8 appearances and 10 FF appearances. That is insane and purely blue blood material.

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If Kansas is not a blue blood, James Naismith will turn over in his grave.

Kansas is a blue blood.

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The answer is:
Duke
Kansas
Kentucky
North Carolina

These four schools are head and sholders above everyone else

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I have to include UCLA b/c of rings.

UK
KU
UCLA
DUKE
UNC

plus their colors are all blue, so


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IMO UCONN was a blue blood until they payed in the AAC
 :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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Ummm
 Louisville
?

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Louisville only has 2 rings, right? Not even blue blood in their own state