For those of you who don't follow college basketball year round, ESPN released a college basketball encyclopedia ranking the top all time college basketball programs. The University of Kentucky was ranked number 1. Naturally there were people who wanted to oppose for various reasons, so ESPN took it upon themselves to let people rank the schools themselves. Guess who is number 1? UK. C'mon now.
Now, granted there is ONE argument I think could be made, and that is the fact UCLA has 11 titles to UK's 7. However, the computer took into consideration total wins, and UK is the winningest program in the history of college basketball. In addtion, it took into consideration margin of victory. While in the end this is a trivial and loose ranking, it is the closest thing to a solid ranking we have. And until Big Blue Madness in 2 weeks (The practice that sells out in minutes) this is the fraction of basketball I have to get me through.
Click here to see the original rankings
Click here to see ESPN's new interactive list
Click here for Andy Katz's report on the rankings
2 comments:
Is North Carolina - at #4 - the highest ranked program without a probationary period?
'Cause UK - cheaters...
UCLA - cheaters (not under Wooden, but under two other coaches)
Kansas - cheaters in the late 80's, right?
Good question. Not really sure. Although technically that is sort of factored in due to the value of NCAA tourney wins.
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