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RTC Bracket Championship Results: Best Team of the Modern Era (1985-2008)

rtmsf — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:44:59 +0000

Ok, we’re ready for the firestorm. The four of you who are still reading this are going to swim the moat and scale the walls of the RTC castle after you read this post. You’re going to want to string up those responsible by their testicles, and ritualistically flog them until they admit that a grievous error has been made. We’re ready for it.

And the reason we’re prepared for such a thing is because the best team of the Modern Era is one that didn’t even win the championship in its given year (cringe). Hell, they didn’t [...]

RTC Bracket Final Four Results: Best Team of the Modern Era (1985-2008)

rtmsf — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 03:55:26 +0000

And we’re down to two… the two teams, that in our highly-valued and respected opinion, are the most talented, battle-tested and worthy of the RTC Modern Era.

We’d be shocked if this didn’t inspire some debate, simply due to the fact that all four of these teams were damn near unbeatable in their primes. Still, we had to choose two to advance into the Finals, and while the choices were far from easy, we made them and we’ll live with them. Surprisingly (or maybe not surprisingly), we’re left with one national champion and another team that didn’t [...]

RTC Bracket Elite Eight Results: Best Team of the Modern Era (1985-2008)

rtmsf — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 05:20:26 +0000

Here we are, the Final Four of the RTC Modern Bracket – the four very best individual teams of the last quarter-century? Does anyone have any major issue with any of these four? If so, let us know in the comments.

We’re left with three #1 seeds and an unreal #2 seed, which happens to be the only team that didn’t win the national title during this span. The cream always rises, so they say.

For the full 64-team bracket, click here. The game analyses are below the bracket.

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#1 [...]

RTC Bracket Sweet Sixteen Results: Best Team of the Modern Era (1985-2008)

rtmsf — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 06:49:14 +0000

We’re down to the Elite Eight of the RTC Modern Bracket.

There was some serious talent and accomplished teams on display in tonight’s games, but we’re left with three #1 seeds, three #2 seeds, a #3 seed, and (egads) a #8 seed. Cinderella is still rollin’ in the Modern Bracket.

Interestingly, we only have four national champions remaining, three runners-up and one at-large team. For the full 64-team bracket, click here. The game analyses are below the bracket.

Instant Analysis

#1 Duke 1992 def. #13 St. John’s 1985 – This one is [...]

RTC Bracket Second Round Results: Best Team of the Modern Era (1985-2008)

rtmsf — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:27:13 +0000

Now we’re starting to get to the good stuff. Below is our sweetest of Sweet Sixteens in the RTC Modern Bracket.

We have ten national champions still alive, three runners-up and three at-large teams. There were a couple of minor upsets, but one of our #1 seeds has already exited this Dance.

Explanations of each game below the bracket.

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#1 Duke 1992 def. #8 Arizona 1988 – Lute Olson‘s Wildcats keep this game closer than you might expect thanks to Sean Elliott, Steve Kerr and Anthony Cook, but Coach K’s [...]

RTC Bracket First Round Results: Best Team of the Modern Era (1985-2008)

rtmsf — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:51:43 +0000

Welcome back. The RTC Braintrust got together tonight and hammered out our 32 first round winners for the RTC Modern Bracket, one step closer to picking the team that we believe is the very best squad of the last quarter-century.

A reminder: we used resume/body of work to select and seed our 64 finalists, but that criterion now takes a step back to how we think teams would perform in head-to-head matchups. So if your favorite team won a title but had a relatively weak inside game, don’t be surprised if a runner-up or at-large from another [...]

RTC Bracket: Best Team of the Modern Era (1985-2008)

rtmsf — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:02:28 +0000

We’ve been sitting on this idea for some time now, and we figured that the relatively quiet week prior to the 2009 Final Four would be the best time to unveil it for your vetting, review and diligence. So the plan is this: each weekday we’ll advance one round until we get to a Modern Era Final Four on Friday. On Sunday following the F4, we’ll release our two finalists and the Modern Era champion will be crowned on this year’s Championship Monday.

Let’s get down to it with our criteria for selection of the 64 teams:

We [...]