So How Good Would This Team Be Today?
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HawkeyeMike23
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Pretty much any top 25 team from the late 80's early 90's would be a title contender in this year's field. The talent level has fallen off so much since then.
PeoriaHWKI
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Kids today are better athletes but not better basketball players
IATrainMaster101
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Factoring they grew up in today's environment (diet/ work out ect) they would be the top team in the country hands down.
Factoring that out bringing them in exactly as they were in 1987, they would be a top 15team and a dark horse favorite IMHO.
Factoring that out bringing them in exactly as they were in 1987, they would be a top 15team and a dark horse favorite IMHO.
TritonHawkeye
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That team could have gone ubdeafted this season.
blkngoldUofI
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Agree 100%.
Not calling out Eric May but he is an example of being on hell of an athlete but he needs to work on his basketball skills to be good at basketball.
ColumbusHawk
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How about the '70 team that averaged over 100 pts. in the Big Ten without the three point arc & the shot clock. That team was made for today's game.
Without a doubt that team was the best shooting Iowa team I've ever seen. The '70 team shot 52.3 percent from the field & 78.0 percent from the line. John Johnson lead the way with 56.9 percent shooting & 27.9 points a game. Vidnovic shot 87.5 percent from the line.
Calabria shot 54.8 percent from the field, 80.1 percent from the line & scored 19.1 points per game. Freddie Brown shot 50 percent from the field, 80.2 percent from the line, for only 17.9 points a game.
Oh, by the way, Vidnovic averaged 17.3 points a game & Ben McGilmer came off the bench to average 10.3 points a game.
Without a doubt that team was the best shooting Iowa team I've ever seen. The '70 team shot 52.3 percent from the field & 78.0 percent from the line. John Johnson lead the way with 56.9 percent shooting & 27.9 points a game. Vidnovic shot 87.5 percent from the line.
Calabria shot 54.8 percent from the field, 80.1 percent from the line & scored 19.1 points per game. Freddie Brown shot 50 percent from the field, 80.2 percent from the line, for only 17.9 points a game.
Oh, by the way, Vidnovic averaged 17.3 points a game & Ben McGilmer came off the bench to average 10.3 points a game.
Hawkeye11en1
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Is that when you don't get scored on? Or is that when they make the stadium so loud they go "deaf"?
Benddontbreak
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The talent level is not down, unless you're talking about Iowa. Anyone thats good enough to play in the nba doesn't stick around anymore. Example: Derrick Rose, Kevin Love, Cole Aldrich/Xavier Henry, Blake Griffin, Kentucky's starting 5 from last year, Gordon Heyward, the list goes on. So if the '87 team were to play in this era against guys that all stuck around for 4 years, they probably wouldn't be as dominate as you think.
TritonHawkeye
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Ha!! Hopefully you didn't try Wikipedia on it because I am not that smart. That is just your old fashion typo...
