NCAA March Madness 2015: John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins Contend Their 2010 Team Is Better Than Undefeated Kentucky

Former Kentucky standouts turned professional basketball players John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins are on the fence about naming the current undefeated Kentucky team as the best-ever in the history of the National College Athletic Association, or NCAA. Wall and Cousins prefer their 2010 team which entered the tournament as the top seeded team only to bow out early after enduring a shocking defeat to West Virginia in the regional stage.

"We were a better team, but we didn't win," Wall recently told CSN Washington’s Ben Standig when the Sacramento Kings visited the capital. "They're going to have the leverage because they went 40-0 and got a national championship to back it up."

Cousins, who also thrived under John Calipari during his 2010 stint when he was named as an All-American voiced the same opinion but wished the current iteration to do what they did not accomplish during his lone stint with the famed school – win the coveted championship. Wall and Cousins' team was also loaded as the current undefeated Wildcats but disappointed in their swan song by only reaching the Elite Eight and broke the hearts of the Big Blue Nation, even after posting the leagues best record at 35-3.

"I mean, yeah. [John is] right. They would be considered the best, but we all know the truth," Cousins reverberated his former teammate’s opinion. "Hopefully these guys do pull this off."

Both the 2010 and the 2015 teams are loaded with talent. Wall and Cousins were then joined by notable NBA players such as Toronto Raptors’ Patrick Patterson and Phoenix Suns star guard Eric Bledsoe. Not to be outdone, the current team has a deluge of NBA worthy players such as Karl Towns, Willie Cauley-Stein, and Devin Booker, who are all projected to go into the top-15 of the next NBA Draft in June.

The success of the team has led some analysts to compare their strength to some of history’s best NCAA’s team such as the 1976 Indiana squad which was led by Isaiah Thomas, Larry Bird’s 1979 Indiana State team that also went defeated and Larry Johnson’s UNLV team in 1991. All of these teams went undefeated and the current Wildcats squad is hoping to be heads and shoulders above the rest by going all the way.

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