Rankings = Success?

There are rules and exceptions (like for many things in life).

You can clearly see, for the most part, the Sweet 16 is full of teams with top HS talent.
 
Interesting read. Articles like this that contextualize talent make me uneasy as they relate to our current team. If you were to include this year's SJU team as a 17th team in this analysis, we would likely raise the mean in every category except 5-star recruits. So there is little question that Lavin can and has brought in consensus talent.

Yet, despite this consensus talent, we are so far away from other teams with similar and even lesser talent in terms of on-court results. It begs the question if Lavin isn't going to do a better job coaching the high level of talent that he's recruited, does he need to recruit at an even higher level in order to have real success here?
 
Things have shifted West. Not as many top players or teams from the East.
 
Article just proves what I and many others have said all along: Successful coaches recruit a combination of higher ranked kids and lower/un ranked kids who sometimes blossom(IE Russ Smith) or otherwise serve as role players. This allows those coaches to build teams with continuity and stability since the lower and un ranked kids are much more apt to stay for 4 years.
 
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