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Of those two? Definitely '21 Baylor. Historically good team...almost the perfect college team...that would have at least been a back-to-back F4 team if not for Covid. Good chance they go undefeated in the championship season too if not for Covid.

But if we're talking best of that decade, I think you'd have to consider the '15 Kentucky team (Booker, KAT) that got upset in the F4.

It's crazy to think this team could be coming off 3 straight F4 appearances. Definitely one of the 5 best teams in the Covid season. And if not for Cryer and JTTs injuries last year I think we make F4 especially with how that bracket broke

Hotsauce said:

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Of those two? Definitely '21 Baylor. Historically good team...almost the perfect college team...that would have at least been a back-to-back F4 team if not for Covid. Good chance they go undefeated in the championship season too if not for Covid.

But if we're talking best of that decade, I think you'd have to consider the '15 Kentucky team (Booker, KAT) that got upset in the F4.

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2012 Kentucky could have won 4 straight if that core of freshmen weren't all mostly 1 and done

Athlon Sports ranked the 21 Baylor Bears as the 3rd best National Title team since 1985 only behind 92 Duke, and 96 Kentucky.

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3. 2021 Baylor
Record: 28-2, 13-1 Big 12
Championship Game: Beat Gonzaga, 86-70
Head Coach: Scott Drew

Punctuating a national championship with a thoroughly dominant performance against a previously undefeated No. 1 isn't the kind of final statement most title winners get to make. The rout of Gonzaga was the perfect reflection of the Bears' March run overall, in which every game was won by at least nine points but all played out less competitively than the final scores indicate.

Were it not for a COVID-19 shutdown during conference play, it's not unrealistic to consider the 2021 Bears could have run the table in their own right.
With the versatility of MaCio Teague and Jared Butler, Davion Mitchell demonstrating offensive and defensive games reminiscent of Gary Payton, Mark Vital's workmanlike play, and the spark (not to mention glorious mullet) of Matthew Mayer, Baylor proved itself one of the all-time balanced teams in NCAA Tournament history.

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https://athlonsports.com/college-basketball/ranking-college-basketballs-national-champions-since-1985