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Originally Posted by ddthetide
alot of coach smith teams were wrecked by guys leaving early, clear back to bob mcadoo. also some of his best teams were back when the tourny. was only 16 teams and only 1 team from the acc got in. that's the acc tourny. winner.
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That is simply not true. He coached in the era of players staying 4 years until the end of his career when he had the most success. He was an underachiever as a coach though he was a great recruiter and ran a great program. Coach Wooden seemed to do ok under the smaller tourney format.