Sean Carroll

Because Georgetown with Patrick Ewing was just an incredibly talented team.

Everyone thought that they would win quite easily.

And Ed Pickney was the center for Villanova, the guy who got matched up against Patrick Ewing.

He was not as good as Patrick Ewing by any stretch of the imagination.

And I remember the two of them became friends, Patrick Ewing and Ed Pickney.

And they were being interviewed years later on some TV program.

And Patrick Ewing said, yeah, you know, I finally gotten Ed to admit that our team was actually better, even though we didn't win that game.

And I think that that's just a wrong way of thinking about it.

What matters is who wins the game.

That's the point.

The fact that you maybe should have been better in some metaphysical sense in other possible worlds, you won the game.

Who cares?

It matters who wins the game.

That's what the game is about.

That's why we play the games.

um that's why it's fun to watch them because you don't know ahead of time who's going to win and so when you say the top five players i don't mean for robert to you know bash you like everyone in the world talks about the top five players we have our favorite players to watch and things like that but i just think that you know if once you start taking the project seriously it falls apart like what do you mean like as you as you say how do you classify them does it

Is it the team performance that matters?

Because it is a team sport.

Is it individual stats?

Is it championships?