Rank these 12 teams based on which class you would want the most...not most talented, not most successful..simply, the class you would most want.

'06 UNC
Wayne Ellington
Ty Law
Brendan Wright
Deon Thompson
Will Graves
Alex Stepheson

'06 Texas
Kevin Durant
Damien James
Dexter Pittman
DJ Augustin
Matt Hill
Justin Mason
Harrison Smith

'02 Illinois
Dee Brown
Deron Williams
James Augustine
Aaron Spears

'09 Kentucky
John Wall
Eric Bledsoe
Daniel Orton
Demarcus Cousins
John Hood
Darnell Dodson

'05 Kansas
Mario Chalmers
Julian Wright
Brandon Rush
Micah Downs
CJ Henry

'02 UNC
Ray Felton
Rashad McCants
Sean May
David Noel
Damion Grant
Byron Sanders

'02 Syracuse
Carmelo Anthony
Gerry McNamara
Matt Gorman

'05 Memphis
Antonio Anderson
Chris Douglass Roberts
Robert Dozier
Kareem Cooper
Ricky Sanchez
Shawne Williams

'06 Ohio State
Greg Oden
Mike Conley
Daequan Cook
Othello Hunter
David Lighty

'04 Florida
Al Horford
Corey Brewer
Taurean Green
Cornelius Ingram
Joakim Noah

'05 UCLA
Alfred Aboya
Darren Collison
Luke Richard mbah a moute
Michael Rolle
Ryan Wright

'02 Duke
JJ Redick
Sheldon Williams
Shavlick Randolph
Sean Dockery
Lee Melchionni

I might have missed a few, if I did let me know..I just put these together real quick.

Anyone have UCONN's best recruiting class from 2000 or 2001? I looked at Rivals to get these, and they don't have 2000 and 2001..I'm sure UCONN's class from one of those years would be on my list, I just cant find it.

Here's how I'd rank them:

1) '04 Florida
2) '06 Ohio State
3) '06 UNC
4) '05 Kansas
5) '02 UNC
6) '06 Texas
7) '02 Syracuse
8) '02 Duke
9) '09 Kentucky
10) '05 UCLA

just missed: '02 Illinois, '05 Memphis

1. '06 UNC
2. '06 OSU
3. '04 Florida
4. '05 Kansas
5. '06 Texas, but I expect this years Kentucky class to overtake that before it's all said and done.

It's tough to include the 2009 UK class with classes from 2006 and before. You can't really fairly judge them until you are a few years removed. If we are going on pure talent, I think this UK class will rank up at the very, very top.

John Wall will likely be a #1 overall pick. Daniel Orton, DeMarcus Cousins and Eric Bledsoe will likely be 1st round picks. It's possible Cousins and Orton are both lottery picks at some point.

If this is the criteria, based on TALENT, then the only classes I'd take over them is the 2004 Florida, 2006 Ohio State and 2006 North Carolina.

based on potential or based upon what they actually did?

02' UNC is #1 in my books.. That class was special and brought UNC basketball back.

That '06 OSU class is sick too, though.

It's really tough to rank these...

06 Texas has the best player of all these, so I'll go with that as #1.

ZeroCool wrote: based on potential or based upon what they actually did?

It's in the first line of my post.

06 texas hands down then.

06 OSU.

They could have done magical things I think had they stayed. Since their only year was a Natl Championship game appearance, I'll go with them.

04 Florida is the best for what they accomplished, but that 06 OSU team was stacked.

UConn Class of 01
Ben Gordon
Emeka Okafor
Mike Hayes
Chad Wise

Class of 02
Rashad Anderson
Hilton Armstrong
Denham Brown
Marcus White

Class of 04
Rudy Gay
AJ Price
Antonio Kellog

Class of 07
Hasheem Thabeet
Stanley Robinson
Jerome Dyson
Gavin Edwards
Ben Eaves
Curtis Kelly
Doug Wiggins
Jonathon Mandelove

^^Thanks.

I'd put the '01 class at #7 on my list...and drop 7-10 down one.