A Sea Of Red

What is the single best team achievement in the history of Liberty athletics?

WBB

Depends on how you define "best." This is certainly the highest finish ever at an NCAA Championship, and because of that it got my vote.

JK37 wrote:WBB

Let the heated debates begin. I do not think the WBB team would have finished better than 10th if you had an elimination tournament of the remaining 8 from the Sweet 16.

Had to vote WBB Sweet 16. No comparison between this and golf and how many people know about it.

I think if we make the top 8, it is definitely the best. Finishing 10th, I'll have to go with WBB. Very close though, and I'm glad we can have this debate.

I voted for WBB as well. While the golf thing is huge, it gets no national recognition. How many people knew that Augusta State were 2 time defending champs before this week? I know I didn't.

This is a 2-horse race and I have a tough time picking one over the other. There is no question that the Sweet 16 run attracted a ton more attention. But what these guys just pulled off at Riviera is amazing. After three days of competition, to finish one stroke out of match play is tough to quantify in comparison to hoops. Perhaps it would be similar to a 2-point loss in the Sweet 16 matchup.

Sly Fox wrote:This is a 2-horse race

As of 10 votes, it seems it's a 1-horse race

Sly Fox wrote:This is a 2-horse race and I have a tough time picking one over the other. There is no question that the Sweet 16 run attracted a ton more attention. But what these guys just pulled off at Riviera is amazing. After three days of competition, to finish one stroke out of match play is tough to quantify in comparison to hoops. Perhaps it would be similar to a 2-point loss in the Sweet 16 matchup.

Probably closer to a loss in the Elite 8. If you make it to the sweet 16 you're one of the 16 best basketball teams in the country. You could be 9th or you could be 16th. Golf was 10th, no doubt about it and no debates. If we're going by popularity of course WBB would win it. If we're going by the better team and better overall finish, I just don't know that WBB was the 10th best team in the nation in 2005.

With regards to popularity, I can name a lot of professional golfers and maybe 1-2 professional female basketball players. Odd then that women's college basketball receives more press than men's golf. I suppose golf only gets big press at the pro level?

Had to go with WBB. however knowing what little i know about college golf and listening to my dad(who is an avid pro and college golf fan) tell me how amazing Liberty's run was in cali it is nothing short of awesome what those guys accomplished. The coaches and players have done a phenomenal job this year and should be commended as such.

I voted for Golf finish -- because 9th in the Nation is pretty remarkable...

But to the biggest event that had more impact Liberty than any other event was the 1994 Men's Big South Championship...I guarantee enrollment went thru the roof the following year and playing #1 seed UNC to a tie ball game until around the 10 minute mark made it even better.

Nothing boost a school like March madness -- Men's that is not women's.

Had to go with golf because in all reality I believe them to be closer to whoever wins it all than the women's team was to the eventual national champs. I think had things fallen just right they could have won it all. The women had no shot of that.
Also, don't sell the 1980 men's BB team short - that was an amazing achievement considering the school was only 8-9 years old at the time. They had the "swagger" that some on here like to talk about for some time after that.