There is no comparison to Curry IMO. Davidson was in the Southern conference back then and he played around a bunch of juniors his freshman year and seniors his sophomore year. The PAC 12 was a much stronger conference this year than most other conferences in the nation and couple that with having terrible teammates and coaching and the record really isn't all that shocking.
To be clear I'm talking about his soph year when he took them within a few plays of a final 4 beating Gonzaga, Georgetown and Wisconsin before losing by 2 points to a loaded Kansas team that won the national title that year.
yes they were more experienced but they went 29-7.
I don't actually think the Pac 12 was particularly good this year, there were 3 really good teams, Oregon, Arizona and UCLA, and everyone else was pretty mediocre to terrible. USC was good enough I guess. But there were some god awful teams in the Pac 12 this year.
UW lost to Yale, TCU twice and Washington State twice, their best win all year was a 2 point win over a mediocre Colorado team.
That team Curry was on played UNC, Duke, UCLA, NC State, only UCLA beat them by double digits. That time would have finished 4th in the Pac 12 this year IMO. They went 27-8 the next year, no tourney bid, and then Curry left and they went 16-15 or 11 less wins without Curry.
I get that Curry is one of the best players in the NBA now but that's what elite players do in college, they elevate the team they're on.
I remember watching that loss to Kansas and thinking my goodness if you took Curry off the floor this is a 40 point win for KU, they had perhaps the best defensive backcourt in the country and they were still doubling Curry all over the place.
