I have never considered Wooden and UCLA all that great. Very good sure, but there is one important fact that people never want to bring up, or they simply don't know. That was when certain special teams didn't have to play that many games on neutral courts. How many times did I watch the West Regional Championship being played at Pauley Pavilion? How many times did I have to watch Weber State, Long Beach State, and other schools play for the West Regional Championship in front of a pro- UCLA crowd? I have always maintained that if they played all of their tournament games on neutral courts, they would not have been so successful. Sure they would have won games and the championship, but not as often. Duke and North Carolina also got special treatment. Why? The networks wanted teams like UCLA, Duke, North Carolina in the Final Four, not the Weber States, Long Beach States, Pennsylvanias, or the Princetons of college basketball. I remember one year, St. John's played Wichita State on a neutral court, and then had to play Ray Meyer"s DePaul team at DePaul, while in the same tournament, Syracuse played the first two rounds on their own court. This is what I remember. This is why I have never sung praises about Wooden, UCLA, Duke, or North Carolina and their games and championships in college basketball, since they were always given an easy road back then. Back then, the George Masons, Butlers and St. Mary's would have been forced to play tournament games in front of hostile crowds.