That sometimes happens to oloder guys. By the way, and while duke professor might well have a point to make, others who have posted clearly were going the way that I addressed--that the game in the 60s somehow that they don't mention was inferior to the game as it is played today. As a general proposition, throughout college basketball in both eras, the proposition is indefensible by any measure. Three of the Ivy league players I mentioned played on teams that would have won NBA Championships in this era, and many other NCAA and pro teams of the 60's, 70's, 80s of that era would have rocked the best of the best on both levels. In addition to the Wilt-West Championship team--it is difficult to see any "modern" team matching them--and the Knicks, I forgot to say that Bilsky played on two Net ABA Championship teams, that last lead by a tamdom of forwards, a Carl Malone equivolent in George McKinnis and some guy that was simply referred to as Doc.
You need to remember that the era I'm talking about produced great teams lead by those two UCLA guys, Kareem and Bill Walton, a State team lead by a guy named Thompson, Duke teams lead by guys named Heyman and Mullins, and scores of other names and teams that would have rocked the current college basketball world. Bradley's Princeton went to the final four, as did the great Penn team in the 60s, and, as I pointed out, only because I am intimately familiar with it, Cornell beat the best of the best in two out of the four years I was there, including Bradley's great Princeton team that in addition to Bradley contained the Hummer brothers who was easily the equivolent as college players as the Plumlee brothers.
The Cornell team that I spoke of, by the way, produced at least one player who has and probably will continue to play in the pros, Foote, and who was probably the best passer and smartness in terms of what everyone likes to call "basketball smarts" in the college game. He was the guy that Cornell went to when the clock was closing down.
A few other points, the Ivy League only permits the League's Champion to go to the Dance; many of the best Ivy League teams, lead by many great players, never make the dance. Who can say how those teams would have faired in the Dance had they been allowed to compete for sports. Also, the Ivies play back-to-back on weekends, travel by bus, and suffer the disadvantages of being thinner beond the starting five because of no-scholorship rules. That is often where they fall short of other non Ivies (recall the Cornell Duke game that was of course played at Cameron).
This ratings of recruits I think is of little consequence. Sports magazine had the same type ratings system. The best of the best, top 20 so, everyone could agree were likely to succeed at a high level in College. Beyond that, especially today, the lesser "athletic" players and those with terrific "basketball smarts" and those from the tiny obscure Hamlets are, I would bet, are often overlooked by this rating organization. They often are the guys that the Ivies grab up, particularly if they are interested in a high level education (there are few such players who can get to play for teams like Duke and I would suspect many who do not want to.
Hey, this was quite an enjoyable go round for me. I trust it was for the rest of you guys. I'm done in a nice way.