People talk every few years about a great recruiting class and say this one or that one is the best of all time. It’s a futile argument, first because it’s really hard to tell who’s done best until they leave and second because the best class ever was in 1966 and it was because of one guy: Lew Alcindor.
Later known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, he was ineligible as a freshman - but the freshman team at UCLA beat the varsity by 15 in a traditional exhibition.
At the time, UCLA was the two-time defending national champions.