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What does Team Recruiting Rankings tell us by BabaGhanouj
for the last few years? Here are selective team rankings from 2014:
Recruiting Classes of Selected Teams Ranked From 2014
| Year | Notre Dame | UConn | Louisville | Duke |
Tennessee | Baylor | Maryland |
|---|
| 2014 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 6 | | |
| 2015 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 4 | 11 |
| 2016 | 5 | 14 | 6 | | | 2 | 1 |
| 2017 | 19 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 1 | 7 | |
| 2018 | 7 | 2 | 15 | | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2019 | 10 | | 14 | 12 | 8 | | 1 |
Taking a brief look and knowing that this will not be how the teams end up after the signing period reveals, I’d say Tennessee and then Louisville have squandered their players the most, although Louisville did get to the final four last year. Duke also is a first rate squanderer along with Baylor and Maryland. Hmm…OK everyone except Notre Dame and UConn squander talent and I’m not so sure about UConn.
EDIT: I glance at the results again and, perhaps, Maryland squandered the most talent. Anyway, it seems to be another indication that, while ND may not be the best recruiter, they are fairly consistent, and certainly get the most out of their recruits. Kudos to Coach McGraw, a Hall of Fame coach according to another piece of evidence.