NCAA Basketball: 25 best recruiting classes since 2000

11) 2010 UConn Huskies

This class bookended their college basketball careers with two of the most magical NCAA Tournament runs ever. The seven-man group did include several misses for UConn – Roscoe Smith and Michael Bradley transferred from the school, while Niels Giffey, Tyler Olander and Enosch Wolf were only role players – but their accomplishments cannot go unnoticed.

Jeremy Lamb and Shabazz Napier were right at the center of most of those accomplishments. The 2011 National Championship team really started and ended with Kemba Walker, but Lamb was that team’s second-leading scorer and Napier was their key sixth man.

Lamb took his game to the next level as a sophomore, earning All-Big East honors before departing for the NBA Draft.

Napier, however, stayed all four years and became the face of the UConn program. As a senior in 2013-14, Napier was named American Player of the Year in the conference’s first year and was a consensus All-American – but he put etched himself in college basketball lore forever in the NCAA Tournament.

Napier, along with Giffey and Olander as role players, led the Huskies to their second national championship in four years – becoming the first and only No. 7 seed to ever to win the title.

Despite only winning one conference championship, the 2011 Big East Tournament, this group sits at No. 11 because of the key roles they played on two national championship teams.