57. Who Would Win? Introducing UConn Men's Basketball's Greatest Teams Challenge (1999 vs. 2021)

Who Would Win? That's the million dollar question we'll be looking to answer this summer, as we at Yes UConn dive deep into the greatest UConn men's basketball teams of all time.

What would happen if Kemba Walker's 2011 championship team squared off against one of Ray Allen's mid-1990s juggernauts? How would the 1990 Dream Season team fare against an NBA factory like Rudy Gay's 2006 team? Over the next few months we'll be pitting two great teams against each other, picking a side and debating how the teams would match up against one another. Then, we will turn it over to you, the listeners, to decide which team would win a hypothetical matchup.

A couple of things to consider. We're not debating which team was more successful. "They won the title so they're better" isn't an argument that should fly here. We're not debating importance to the program or whether a team lived up to its potential. We're debating on-court factors and trying to imagine what would actually happen if the two teams met on the floor.

The 16 teams were selected based on their overall success, taking regular season, conference tournament and NCAA tournament resumes into account, as well as factors like KenPom and the level of professional talent on the roster. To determine seeding, Tim and I ranked each team and reached out to some friends of the podcast and to various UConn opinion-havers for their thoughts, and then we seeded the teams 1-16 based on those rankings.

Who will stand tall as the Top Dog when all is said and done? Join us on this journey as we find out, starting with this week's 1 vs. 16 matchup between 1999 and 2021.

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Podcast artwork courtesy of Jon Kulakofsky/The Daily Campus 2014.

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