The Associated Press has been ranking the best teams in college basketball since January 1949. Over 68 years and more than 1,100 polls, a total of 200 schools have been ranked and 59 of them have ...
The AP’s top 25 poll is better known for its football rankings, but it’s been among the most consistently reliably systems for basketball, too. The football side started in 1936, basketball in the 1948-1949 season. No other rankings are as good when it comes to providing a college basketball historical snapshot.
The 2025 NCAA men's basketball tournament has yielded a potentially all-time great Final Four. For just the second time in tournament history, all four No. 1 seeds have advanced to the national ...
Coaches Poll All-Time College Basketball Rankings. The AP rankings get more love, respect, and eyeballs than the Coaches Poll for both college football and college basketball, but … At least until this year - when the AP ranked teams after March Madness for the first time - the Coaches Poll has historically been a tad more representative for ...
Michael Jordan, James Worthy, Phil Ford, Dean Smith, Roy Williams. College basketball does not get much more special than at Carolina. For those keeping score at home, the Tar Heels rank among the all-time leaders in wins, National Championships (six), title game appearances (12) and Final Four appearances (21). Now that’s pretty special.
The Lou Carnesecca era alone is enough to make St. John’s a top 20 all-time program. The Red Storm rarely missed the NCAA Tournament during that time while also helping to form one of the greatest conferences in college basketball history. The years before and after Carnesecca coached St. John’s weren’t exactly black holes either.
Choosing the greatest college basketball program is not easy. Overall, these rankings look at which programs were consistently the best. If this list were made in 2000, a program like Indiana would be in the top three, but the last twenty years hurt its ranking. ... Magic Johnson and Greg Kesler won the title with Michigan State in 1979 in what ...
The college basketball off-season provides an opportunity to ponder unusual topics like an all-time starting five battle. Given a time machine and the ability to accumulate the top players from a ...
Coaches Poll, All-Time College Basketball Rankings 1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s College Football AP Greatest Programs of All-Time.
To determine the all-time Top 100, the AP formula counted poll appearances (one point each) to mark consistency and No. 1 rankings (two points each) to acknowledge elite programs.
The Associated Press has been ranking the best teams in college basketball since January 1949. Over 68 years and more than 1,100 polls, a total of 200 schools have been ranked and 59 of them have ...
The Greatest College Basketball Programs Ever: Ranking the top teams of all time, Nos. 68-51 Presenting CBS Sports' grand reveal of the most successful hoops schools since the birth of the NCAA ...
It all started in 1949 with Saint Louis on top. And 68 years later, The Associated Press college basketball poll has ranked a total of 200 schools through more than 1,100 polls — 59 at No. 1.
ANAHEIM, CA - MARCH 24: Head coach Mike Krzyzewski of the Duke Blue Devils looks on from the sidelines during the west regional semifinal of the 2011 NCAA men's basketball tournament at the Honda ...
Duke is fourth all-time in victories with more than 2,100 and tied with Indiana for national titles with five. Duke’s 16 Final Four appearances rank fourth all time, and it produced Christian Laettner, arguably the best player in college basketball history. Image Source: Patrick Smith/Getty Images
Find out as we rank the 25 greatest college hoops programs of all time. Every NCAA basketball program likes to claim that they’re No. 1 – all you have to do is go to any arena in the country ...
College Football News did the blue blood ranking thing for football for years, and expanded it to basketball using a basic formula for the rankings. How many 20-win seasons has the school banked?
Coaches Poll, All-Time College Basketball Rankings 1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s . Coaches Poll: 1949 to 2022 Final All-Time College Basketball Rankings 1 Kentucky 1030