Which school had the best overall collection of individual talent in the history of college basketball?

That is a question that have sparked barroom and cookout debates for years.

In this episode co-hosts Dana Auguster and Charles Combs will add their two cents into the debate.

In this all new edition of the Historically Speaking Sports Podcast the Podcast that gives the best of sports from back in the day, we will continue our discussion of the best of the best in college basketball history.

In the previous episode we determined the starting lineup, a reserve and coach of the 12 most prestigious programs in history. Now. in part two, the Co-hosts will put together a bracket and forecast a winner in a hypnotical tournament with the 12 teams.

Then later in the show, Charles and Dana will put the lineups in AI and have it determine a winner.

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The Final Four returns to Indianapolis for the ninth time with four schools arriving in the Circle City with varying degrees of pedigree but a whole lot of Final Four history.

This weekend four teams, UConn, who reached the tournament by erasing a 15 point Duke half time lead that climaxed with one of the most memorable shots in tournament history makes their way to the final four for the 8th time.

Illinois, back in the final four for thie first time since 2005 aiming to win its fist ever Final Four, the school's first National Championship since 1915.

Then there's Michigan, back in the Final Four since 2021 and trying to bring Michigan back to heights never before reached since 1989 when interim coach Steve Fisher led Glen Rice and the Wolverines to their title.

Rounding out the Final Four field is the Arizona Wildcats.

Its been 25 years since Arizona has been to the final four and nearly 30 years since the Wildcats cut down the nets led by coach Lute Olsen and point guard Mike Bibby.....that year U of A won the title in, of all places....Indianapolis.

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As a sports fan and more specifically a basketball fan, the month of march consists of making brackets and then after the first four days of the tournament, possibly ripping up those very same brackets.

It is a month of hoops, last second buzzer beaters and ultimately one shining moment.

For us here at the Historically Speaking Sports podcast, the month of March also means looking back on the best that the sport of college basketball has to offer From the Indiana Hoosiers perfect season to Christian Laettner's game winner against Kentucky and the unrivaled dominance of the UCLA Bruins led by Lew Alcindor (Later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), Bill Walton and the "Wizard of Westwood" John Wooden.

Yet in this episode --- we are going to be treading into dangerous waters.

In this special March Madness edition of the Historically Speaking Sports Podcast Co-hosts Dana Auguster and Charles Combs will share their takes on basketball history that will certainly spark debate among the listeners as well as possible outrage.

Those so called dangerous waters that the hosts will be drifting into in this episode is putting together the starting five, one bench player and the coach of 12 of the most prestigious college basketball programs in history.

Some of the questions we will be tackling, who starts at point guard for Georgetown, Allen Iverson or Eric Sleepy Floyd.

Who will team up with Michael Jordan at the University of North Carolina?

Which two supremely talented guards will make up the back court for the University of Arizona which has a very rich history at those positions.

And which of the five Kentucky coaches that have won championships in Lexington be tapped to be the head coach of the ultimate collection of Wildcats.

All those questions and much more will be answered in this episode.

But there is a point to all of this. this is only part one of a two part series.

After the teams are constructed with lineups filled with legendary players, the second part of the series will feature a 12 team bracket and Charles and Dana will predict the winner of the tournament.

Then with the help of artificial intelligence it will determine a winner and we will compare our predications with AI.

Now how close they will come is yet to be seen. But....in this episode.... Charles and Dana will discuss and in some cases debate who is most deserving to be on their alma maters greatest collection of hoops talent.

So sit back and prepare to either be in agreement or in total outrage on who we select for the first annual Historically Speaking Sports Alumni Basketball tournament... right here on the sports history network.

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