Most exciting college basketball teams in the past 20 years?

[hailtoyourvictor]

A poster on our home board said this Duke team is more exciting than any team he has watched since the Fab 5.

I brought these teams up as teams I thought were more exciting....

J.J. Reddick's Duke
Dee Brown's Illinois
John Wall's Kentucky
Joakim Noah's Florida



What do you think the most exciting teams have been?

 

[lurkeraspect84]

2015 UK.

 

[Bruiser1]

2018 Villanova. Dominating

 

[DallasJayhawk]

2008 Jayhawks
2008 Tarheels
2008 Memphis Tigers

 

[GOO_HAM]

Ok definitely a NO on Noah's Florida's teams , not sure who brought excitement from them

 

[dukedevilz]

This may or may not be correct...

2017 UCLA
2016 Oklahoma
2015 Kentucky
2009 UNC
2008 Davidson
2007 Ohio State
2005 Illinois
2001 Duke
2000 Cincinnati
1999 Duke
1998 UNC
1997 Kansas
1996 Kentucky
1995 Wake Forest

 

[northeastspartan]

That 08-09 UNC team was a monster

 

[rockycard]

2015 Wisconsin

 

[Wall2Boogie]

2015 UK.

That one will sting as long as the duke game in 92.

 

[BasketBallJunkie-UK]

If I could go back a couple of more years, for me it was our comeback 97-98 Cats. Awesome tourney run, behind most games.

 

[oldsports_]

2013 U6 Tards

 

[MileHighSpartan]

Gotta have the Flintstones on there. 3 straight F4 99-01, winning it all in 2000.

 

[IUfanBorden]

A poster on our home board said this Duke team is more exciting than any team he has watched since the Fab 5.

I brought these teams up as teams I thought were more exciting....

J.J. Reddick's Duke
Dee Brown's Illinois
John Wall's Kentucky
Joakim Noah's Florida



What do you think the most exciting teams have been?

If by exciting you mean entertaining....I'd go with this Duke team. Remind a lot of UNLV, and how they just got out an ran---athletes all over the place. Lobs from everywhere.

BTW----Noah's UF teams? Really?

When I think of exciting I think of teams like Phi Slamma Jamma, UNLV, even Loyola Marymount. Arkansas under Nolan Richardson; especially his title team in '94.

 

[Jaycg15]

2015 Wisconsin

You probably like 17-18 Virginia too.

 

[hailtoyourvictor]

If by exciting you mean entertaining....I'd go with this Duke team. Remind a lot of UNLV, and how they just got out an ran---athletes all over the place. Lobs from everywhere.

BTW----Noah's UF teams? Really?

When I think of exciting I think of teams like Phi Slamma Jamma, UNLV, even Loyola Marymount. Arkansas under Nolan Richardson; especially his title team in '94.

Noah, Horford, Brewer, Green. #3 offense one year, #1 offense the following year. Very good team and Noah was as animated as anyone. Fun team for sure.

I personally don't consider who has the best dunks to be the most exciting, btw. Watch J.J. Reddick drag his guy down, through, and around the lane to catch and shoot contested 3's is every bit as entertaining to me as a fast break highlight dunks.

 

[BigGeorge38 Fan]

2016-17 Carolina Gamecocks

 

[tw3301]

Noah, Horford, Brewer, Green. #3 offense one year, #1 offense the following year. Very good team and Noah was as animated as anyone. Fun team for sure.

I personally don't consider who has the best dunks to be the most exciting, btw. Watch J.J. Reddick drag his guy down, through, and around the lane to catch and shoot contested 3's is every bit as entertaining to me as a fast break highlight dunks.

Yeah those days were fun, but highlight dunks are more "exciting."

 

[lurkeraspect84]

That one will sting as long as the duke game in 92.

Yeah, that one game sucked, but that team as a whole was exciting to watch.

 

[Wall2Boogie]

Yeah, that one game sucked, but that team as a whole was exciting to watch.

I wish nothing but failure in all things basketball for that Wisconsin team and those players

 

[IUfanBorden]

Noah, Horford, Brewer, Green. #3 offense one year, #1 offense the following year. Very good team and Noah was as animated as anyone. Fun team for sure.

I personally don't consider who has the best dunks to be the most exciting, btw. Watch J.J. Reddick drag his guy down, through, and around the lane to catch and shoot contested 3's is every bit as entertaining to me as a fast break highlight dunks.

Not just dunks. The athletic ability...the shot blocking. Playing well above the rim. Smothering defense. I love to watch designed play as the next. Or for a guy to run his guy off 2-3 screens. THat's FUN. Exciting is Phi Slamma Jamma.

 

[WeAreDePaul]

I really enjoyed watching the 1997 Arizona Wildcats. What an amazing collection of guards that team had....Simon, Bibby, Terry, Dickerson.

 

[hailtoyourvictor]

Not just dunks. The athletic ability...the shot blocking. Playing well above the rim. Smothering defense. I love to watch designed play as the next. Or for a guy to run his guy off 2-3 screens. THat's FUN. Exciting is Phi Slamma Jamma.

I think Nik Stauskas was more exciting than Glenn Robinson III and Glenn Robinson III is one of the best dunkers the Big Ten has seen in recent memory.


Agree to disagree

 

[hawkit3113]

05 IL was fun. And Davidson. And Arizona.


Tough call.

 

[jace4655555]

A poster on our home board said this Duke team is more exciting than any team he has watched since the Fab 5.

I brought these teams up as teams I thought were more exciting....

J.J. Reddick's Duke
Dee Brown's Illinois
John Wall's Kentucky
Joakim Noah's Florida



What do you think the most exciting teams have been?

He should have said that Zion is the most interesting player he's seen. Because in reality, that's what he really meant.

 

[jwardelt]

I wish nothing but failure in all things basketball for that Wisconsin team and those players

 

[rockycard]

Yeah, that one game sucked, but that team as a whole was exciting to watch.

You know that I had to go there...lol

 

[brooky03]

I'd think the team with Carmelo Anthony, a freshman 3 point shooter with limitless range, and one of the most prolific dunker/shot blockers in college hoops was pretty exciting.

 

[greenemarine]

98 Auburn

They just blitzed teams

 

[CB3UK]

2015 and 1996 UK if you're going to go back to the Fab 5.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

98 Auburn

They just blitzed teams

Geeze are you kidding?

National Champions Kentucky beat Auburn at Auburn by a score of 83-58. If Auburn just blitzed teams what did Kentucky do to them.

Anyway the 1998 UK team is the "most exciting" I have ever seen. They simply refused to lose.

 

[greenemarine]

Geeze are you kidding?

National Champions Kentucky beat Auburn at Auburn by a score of 83-58. If Auburn just blitzed teams what did Kentucky do to them.

Anyway the 1998 UK team is the "most exciting" I have ever seen. They simply refused to lose.

I meant the 98-99 team, which went 29-4. Two losses to Kentucky still though

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

I meant the 98-99 team, which went 29-4. Two losses to Kentucky still though

Sorry about that greenemarine.

 

[UKcats1988]

05 Illinois
08 Memphis

 

[j-doolsheels]

Loyola Mmt, and UNLV of the early 90s. I always wonder how LMU would have done against UNLV if they hadn't lost Geathers. Technically they were there when the Fab 5 was playing.

Arkansas mid 90s
Duke w/ JWill, and Battier
2009 UNC

 

[sgrooms]

2001 Duke

Shane Battier
Carlos Boozer
Mike Dunleavy Jr.
Jay (Jason) Williams
Chris Duhon

Man that team was fun to watch.

 

[EvilMonkeyInTheCloset]

A poster on our home board said this Duke team is more exciting than any team he has watched since the Fab 5.

I brought these teams up as teams I thought were more exciting....

J.J. Reddick's Duke
Dee Brown's Illinois
John Wall's Kentucky
Joakim Noah's Florida



What do you think the most exciting teams have been?

Hype-wise those teams could compete.....

Exciting though? 06-07 Florida teams were not exciting and f*** JJ Reddick and f*** Duke, so cross them off as well.

 

[EvilMonkeyInTheCloset]

I'd think the team with Carmelo Anthony, a freshman 3 point shooter with limitless range, and one of the most prolific dunker/shot blockers in college hoops was pretty exciting.

2003 was a fun year of college basketball.

 

[denniden]

A poster on our home board said this Duke team is more exciting than any team he has watched since the Fab 5.

I brought these teams up as teams I thought were more exciting....

J.J. Reddick's Duke
Dee Brown's Illinois
John Wall's Kentucky
Joakim Noah's Florida



What do you think the most exciting teams have been?

As a Duke fan, this years Duke team is far more exciting than any other Duke team for me, (with the exception on '92.) That is with a team full of brick masons this year too.

Outside of Duke teams that are/were exciting to watch, i always loved watching the Loyola Marymount teams with Hank Gathers and Bo Kimble. They played less defense than James Harden, but they loved to run and gun.

 

[CDNCBBFan]

Slightly outside the time frame you were asking about but, like others, I love the Kimble Loyola Marymount team and the LJ/Augmon/Hunt UNLV team.

In a slightly lower tier I'd put:

1987 Iowa with Armstrong/Gamble/Marble
1987 UNLV with Gilliam/Banks/Padio
1988 Oklahoma with Grant/King/Blaylock
1990 Georgia Tech with Scott/Anderson
1990 Arkansas with Day/Mayberry/Big O
1993 Cal with Kidd/Murray wasn't bad either

 

[hailtoyourvictor]

Hype-wise those teams could compete.....

Exciting though? 06-07 Florida teams were not exciting and f*** JJ Reddick and f*** Duke, so cross them off as well.

Exciting to me doesn’t just mean who is the best dunker. Glenn Robinson III wasn’t more exciting than Nik Stauskas IMO.