Until another National Championship is won by the Arizona Wildcats, every team will be compared to the 1997 squad. But is that a good thing? You could argue the '97 team isn't even one of the top-five Arizona teams of all-time, and in a ranking list put together by Prediction Machine, that '97 team is the fourth-worst National Championship team ever. Only 2011 UConn, 1975 UCLA and 1950 CCNY are worse. The 1997 team went 25-9, 11-7 in the Pac-10, finishing fifth in the conference. That UConn team went 9-9 in the Big East in 2011 (8th in the conference).
Sonoran Hot Reads: 1997 Arizona one of the worst National Championship teams
