Florida Best Team of Last 10 Years?

A recent ESPN poll of experts picked the 2007 Florida Gators as the best college hoops team of the past 10 years. The poll, which admits its bias towards recent teams and teams that won the NCAA championship picked the 2005 UNC Tar Heels as the No. 2 team, and the 1999 UConn Huskies as the No. 3.

It was hard for the people of ESPN to combat the “recency effect.” It’s funny how a 10-year poll happens to fall on a year that ends in the number 7. Could you create a poll with any more of a desired effect? I found that there was also a poll for the top 50 boxers of all time somewhere on the main page. Mayweather actually came in at about 45 or so, so the people of ESPN probably made the list prior to his weekend defeat of De La Hoya. Otherwise it would have been “Goodbye Joe Louis, hello Pretty Boy.”

But I suppose such a poll is used primarily to promote debate. So in that case, I guess it worked. Too bad you can’t get a poll to tell which is the most annoying team, otherwise it’d show that the Gators are true back-to-backers. Thank heavens you can’t get anymore NCAA basketball tickets at StubHub.com to witness the obnoxious and victorious 2007 Gators.

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Who Will Win Mock Draft?

Most people have their theories about who will win the NBA Draft. Some say there is an easily detectable conspiracy which allows the best players to get to the teams with the biggest markets. Some are helpless romantics who think it’s all luck of the draw and the NBA would put millions of dollars of revenue on the line just for the integrity of the game.

But thanks to ESPN you can simulate your own draft and have your lottery team end up with their logo next to a picture of Greg Oden. Check out the Mock Draft by Chad Ford. If you press the reset button enough, you can end up with the Bulls getting Oden as the first pick. That would be a nice inside presence: Ben Wallace and Greg Oden. Oddly enough, the Celtics always end up No. 2 with Kevin Durant. Fishy…

Don’t get too caught up with this fantasy, though. Some of these guys might go back to another year of school. There are still a few weeks for players to pull out of this draft. You know that if a top 15 pick like Thaddeus Young of Georgia Tech decides to get some more schooling, you can see him play by getting over to StubHub.com for some NCAA basketball tickets for games next season.

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