Most undeserving team to win a national title, college or pro...

Jim Harrick was their coach. So they were all academically eligible, and would have known how many points a 3-point basket was worth, had the 3-pointer been in effect at that time.

 

Anyone mention the 1994 and 1995 Houston Rockets' championships, courtesy an NBA sans Michael Jordan? Let's face it, His Airness came back and picked up right where he left off; dominating and winning.

Or, in sticking with basketball, the 1999 San Antonio Spurs in a lockout-shortened season?

But I go with 1990 Colorado overall.

 

Halfmiler, your point is valid on Guy. But, as he said, Drexler picked up a fourth foul before Lewis could get him out of the game. If Houston had made its free throws, if Olajuwon - along with Patrick Ewing, then college basketball's two most intimidating post players of that year - had been defending in the lane, if this, if that ...

True, Pepperdine couldn't make its free throws. Yes, NCSU scraped by Virginia. Yes, Phi Slamma Jamma took out the Doctors of Dunk in that other semifinal. Was NCSU a dominant national champion in '83? Of course not. But there's no way the Wolfpack wasn't the most undeserving team ... that's all I'm saying.

 

Hold on, JR. Maybe you don't like the neutral zone trap, but that team was around the top for quite a while.

The year before, they lost in double overtime of game 7 to the Evil Blueshirts Across the Hudson River after leading that series 3-2 (Damn Messier, Damn Stephan Mattieu )

With Scott Stevens, Martin Brodeur, and Ken Daneyko, the core of the team won the Cup in 2000 and 2003, and went to Game 7 of the 2001 Finals. If anything, they should have won another Cup or two.

 

i think it was the magic who bounced jordan and the bulls in the playoffs in 1995.

 

I'll go with any team that won based on votes from the media or coaches. Therefore, I'd say just about every D-I football national champion didn't 'deserve' it.

Champions win things. They don't get voted on.

 

Boxing. Gymnastics. Figure skating.

A lot of sports vote on their champions.

And while you can argue about how bogus some of these are (i.e. the French figure skating judge), I'm not sure an incompetent figure skating judge is any worse than a football official that gives a team a fifth down.

 

I think the word deserving needs to be specific... The 1988 Dodgers, in my mind, were clearly weaker than both the Mets and the Athletics. But Orel Hersheiser came up big and the Dodgers won, so give them credit.

Brigham Young in 1984 is an example of an undeserving team. It was voted and the won a bowl game against a 6-5 Michigan team in a very close game.. That Michigan team beats them 5 of 10 times. But without a playoff and champion on the field, Division I college football has no credibility as far as naming a national champion.

 

I don't need rumors or innuendo to know that Sanders got away with blatant interference on Irvin on the play that single handedly cut short what would have been an all-time comeback on the way to 4 straight titles.

 

It was, but Jordan only played 17 games that season.

 

That's every Duke team, every weekend of every year.