Gonzaga
258
16
Stanford
248
17
Oklahoma
226
18
Xavier
222
19
Memphis
216
20
Oklahoma St.
208
21
Syracuse
203
22
Georgetown
196
23
Louisville
192
T-24
Boston College
188
T-24
Cincinnati
188
26
Tennessee
186
27
Indiana
172
28
Butler
170
29
Ohio State
168
T-30
Villanova
160
T-30
Purdue
160
32
West Virginia
158
T-33
NC State
154
T-33
Wake Forest
154
T-33
Notre Dame
154
36
Southern Illinois
140
37
Miss. St.
138
38
Alabama
130
39
Missouri
128
40
Tulsa
126
T-41
Oregon
122
T-41
Utah
122
43
Nevada
120
44
Texas A&M
118
45
LSU
116
46
USC
112
T-47
Washington
102
T-47
Vanderbilt
102
T-47
Marquette
102
T-47
Georgia Tech
102
For the decade, Duke is the top ranked team. This is consistent with ESPN’s rankings, even though they go back fifteen more years.
There were 198 teams that had a score (made the tournament at least one year). For comparison, there are currently 340 teams in Division I.
I plan to post the rankings going back to 1985 shortly, and then I will make comparisons to the rankings ESPN got.
For readers too lazy to click the link at the top of the page, ESPN’s rankings take a lot more into account than just tournament success.
One thing I noticed just by reading the rankings was that teams from smaller conferences seemed to be getting more credit than they should have because they had seasons with large win totals. I will go into this issue more in future articles.
I also will analyze the scores by conference and find the top teams in each conference as well as the top conferences. I was planning on saving this analysis for the rankings back to 1985, but can easily analyze these more current rankings as well if there is interest.
Also, please let me know if there are certain teams you are interested in to a more detailed extent, or teams you are interested in that may have fallen outside of this list.
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