Candid Coaches: Who is the best college basketball team of the 21st century?

We’re in the final week of our 2026 Candid Coaches series. Links to all previous questions are at the bottom of this story. In July and August, college basketball insiders Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander polled nearly 100 men’s Division I coaches on a variety of questions about the sport. Honesty was exchanged for anonymity. Today, question No. 8, is a walk down memory lane. Nothing sparks a great sports debate like a topic with an answer that is not empirically provable, and today we have just that. So let’s take a stroll through the past and stir up some…