bradley
PhD Student
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Age: 74
Reg: 01-15-16
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03-01-16 09:23 PM - Post#203102
In response to puband09
Harvard's best team was probably 2013-14 when the Crimson was 13-1 and 27-5. Extremely talented team that had the benefit of the prior one year suspension return of Curry and Casey in addition to Saunders, Chambers, Rivant, Mondu-Misi, etc. etc. Besides being talented, they were also basketball players who had basketball instincts and a head for the game. I do not believe that these H.S. ratings do a very good job of capturing the intangibles and softer skill sets.
If you go down the name of all 3 and 4 star high school recruits that have played in the Ivies and then put their numbers, actual performance, next to the rating, the correlation is shaky at best.
The probable all Ivy first and second team this year may well be comprised of at least 8 "2 or less star" rated players.
Is it better to have higher rated H.S. recruits in the long run -- of course and next year's Harvard class is truly unusual but when there is a closer correlation to performance vs. rating, one should pay closer attention to the ratings. Yale, Princeton and Columbia have a combined total of 2 "3 star" rated starters and their combined record is 31-4 --- those ratings are a great predictor for this year.
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