ESPN.com has an article on Lute Olson reaching 304 Pac-10 wins to tie Coach Wooden. And of course, while not trying to overly diminish Wooden's accomplishments, the piece highlights how difficult it is to win today versus Wooden's era. Overall, I have no problem with the story. However, one issue that i do have is that it refers to a separate article in the Arizona Daily Star to give us one specific fact to show how weak Wooden's conference competition was:

Using the Associated Press poll, 1955 to 1970, as astonishing as it seems, UCLA did not play a conference game against a ranked opponent. That is across 15 seasons.

Ummm, Cal won the national title in 1959 under Pete Newell and was runner up in 1960 - the AZ Daily Star even mentions this - and yes, Cal was nationally ranked when they played UCLA in both seasons. And USC was ranked in the top ten during 1961, finishing the year at #7. You can see UCLA's game-by-game history in this pdf file, which also gives the ranking of each UCLA's opponent at the time the game was played. You also can see the final AP top-twenty polls at the infoplease.com college basketball season recaps. And if you're wondering just who was in UCLA's conference over the years, you can check out historical standings of the Pac-10 (fka PCC, AAWU, Pac-8).

Now in the big scheme of things, whether Olson's 304 wins are better or worse than John Wooden's is a stupid argument to have, as we all know how Wooden's teams did once they played against the best competition the entire country had to offer. but if you're going to try and have that argument, at least get the facts right.