True/False: College basketball in the 90's was on par with (or BETTER than) college football?

[UserNameless]

YES. Alabama, Auburn, LSU, Arkansas, Vandy, Mississippi State, South Carolina and of course Kentucky all won either a Regular Season or Tournament title in the 90s.

Facts.

 

[jadillac]

Never.

It's a toss up.

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

College b ball was the shyt in the 90s. But college football was always

 

[Jean toomer]

College basketball in the 80s-90s was FLAMES

Just incredible.

NBA future pros staying all four years as seniors

Patrick Ewing at Georgetown
Fab Five at Michigan
Grant Hill and the easy to hate Duke Blue Devils
Tar Heels
Big East Tournaments

The rivalries

College basketball was a cultural MOVEMENT

Cosign fully.
Big east in the 80s was a goddamn movement! No one I knew was checkin football.
Hell I saw Walter Berry ball out on west 4th (or was it Rucker???) and it was like the resurrection.

 

[PS5 Pro]

IMO, it was every bit as equal and at times it was better.




And now look at it

Conference rivalries are not the same. The Big East used to mean something

 

[MikelArteta]

yes

its also disgusting how there is no college sports game

growing up playing coach ks, march madness and bill walsh's, college football, ncaa football

 

[mastermind]

Can we stop with these nostalgia threads? You sound like the old heads you hated on when you were younger.

 

[mastermind]

some are too young to understand it.

lets go down the list.

cwebb was a superstar in the nba, jalen rose became a almost star player in the nba, Juwan howard was the star of the bullets(wizards now).

Those 3 fools played on the same team at the same time.

Dennis scott aka 3D was on the same team with kenny andersen (G-tech). (edited for accuracy)
The LSU team with shaq, Chris Jackson(the dude phil jackson compared curry to)and stanley roberts(another nba center.)

think about that for a moment.and they didnt win it all

Grant hill played with Hurley, and laetner.

Larry Johnson played with Greg anthony and stacey augmon


If i 'm right about that pat ewing Gtown roster. i think he played with david windgate and reggie williams who i believe were both solid nba players. oh oh and they even had sleepy floyd on the team with pat ewing. he was another baller from way way back. i only remember him as nba player.


do yall realize Alonoz Morning and Mutumbo were both on the same team at the same time. how on earth did anyone score on them in the paint?

we already know about the tarhells with perkins, worthy, jordan all on the same team. just disgusting. or sheed and Stackhouse. or we can go to Vince and Jamison.. i mean....

shoot, that maryland team with Joe Smith
UCLA 94-95 and the obannon brothers, Tyus Edney, Toby bailey


The funny thing about it. as much as we loved the mid 90's. the 80's were even better. i was to young to notice. but when people remind you that some of your favorite nba players played with other SOLID nba dudes who had 15 year nba careers. like multiple nba dudes. thats when you realize how stacked those teams were.

Last year's Duke team had a few guys who will have ten year NBA careers.

Same is true for the Kentucky team that did not win it all.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Here we go.

*rolls eyes*

 

[rapbeats]

Last year's Duke team had a few guys who will have ten year NBA careers.

Same is true for the Kentucky team that did not win it all.

this is true. and thats how many teams. 2 lets throw in 4 more. that still aint comparing to like 15 teams doing this

 

[jadillac]

othe than the big paycheck, I dont see how dikk Vitale stans this current game the way he does.

He has to compare it in his mind sometimes, and be like

 

[mastermind]

this is true. and thats how many teams. 2 lets throw in 4 more. that still aint comparing to like 15 teams doing this

The post mentioned team across different seasons.

 

[soulfuljah]

The Great Midwest Conference/Early Conference USA

Those battles that use to go down at the UAB Arena/The Bartow
We could never beat that Penny led Memphis State or the Nick Van Exel/Kenyon Martin Bearcats Come to think of it, Cincinnati kept a squad on the 90s.

 

[tuckgod]

College basketball was definitely equal to NCAA football and often times better in the 80's and 90's. IMO it was better than the NBA too. Anybody who says differently probably wasn't there

 

[RammerJammer]

yes

its also disgusting how there is no college sports game

growing up playing coach ks, march madness and bill walsh's, college football, ncaa football

They even had a College Baseball game Summer 06 was piff