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Ranking the All-Time Best NCAA Teams
Posted on 4/1/16 at 3:09 pm
Posted on 4/1/16 at 3:09 pm
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In Basketball...
UCLA has 3 in the Top 5 and 8 in the Top 20.
Kentucky has 3 in the Top 20
North Carolina 2.
1. UCLA (1972) - The average -- repeat, average -- final score of a UCLA game in 1971-72 was 95-64. The Bruins finished the season 30-0, having played only two games that were decided by single digits (one being UCLA's 81-76 victory over Florida State in the national championship game). Bill Walton made his collegiate debut and averaged a 21-point, 16-rebound double-double for the season, and Henry Bibby joined him on the consensus All-American first team. Curiously, in this pre-shot-clock era, only one opponent chose to take the air out of the ball. Notre Dame hosted the Bruins in January, and Digger Phelps' team attempted only one shot in the first 10 minutes of the second half. The Irish lost, 57-32.
2. Indiana (1976)
3. UCLA (1973)
4. SF (1956)
5. UCLA (1968)
6. UCLA (1967)
7. UTEP (1966)
8. North Carolina (1957)
9. North Carolina (1982)
10. NC State (1974)
11. UCLA (1969)
12. SF (1955)
13. Kentucky (1996)
14. Cincy (1962)
15. Duke (1992)
In Basketball...
UCLA has 3 in the Top 5 and 8 in the Top 20.
Kentucky has 3 in the Top 20
North Carolina 2.
1. UCLA (1972) - The average -- repeat, average -- final score of a UCLA game in 1971-72 was 95-64. The Bruins finished the season 30-0, having played only two games that were decided by single digits (one being UCLA's 81-76 victory over Florida State in the national championship game). Bill Walton made his collegiate debut and averaged a 21-point, 16-rebound double-double for the season, and Henry Bibby joined him on the consensus All-American first team. Curiously, in this pre-shot-clock era, only one opponent chose to take the air out of the ball. Notre Dame hosted the Bruins in January, and Digger Phelps' team attempted only one shot in the first 10 minutes of the second half. The Irish lost, 57-32.
2. Indiana (1976)
3. UCLA (1973)
4. SF (1956)
5. UCLA (1968)
6. UCLA (1967)
7. UTEP (1966)
8. North Carolina (1957)
9. North Carolina (1982)
10. NC State (1974)
11. UCLA (1969)
12. SF (1955)
13. Kentucky (1996)
14. Cincy (1962)
15. Duke (1992)
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Posted on 4/1/16 at 3:17 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
That UNLV team that beat Duke by 30 in the title game is not listed?
List is shite.
List is shite.
Posted on 4/1/16 at 3:17 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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3. UCLA (1973)
Fortunate they didnt have to play the best team in the country that year.
Posted on 4/1/16 at 3:20 pm to sjmabry
quote:
That UNLV team that beat Duke by 30 in the title game is not listed?.
First thing I thought about.
Posted on 4/1/16 at 3:21 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
07 UF >
Posted on 4/1/16 at 3:22 pm to sjmabry
They are on the list, just way down at #45. OP doesn't mention that this is a ranking of every NCAA tourney winner
quote:
Though the national championship game is remembered as the most one-sided ever, UNLV's 103-73 win over Duke was recorded by a team that had lost five times in the regular season. (Jerry Tarkanian's group also had to survive a 69-67 scare from No. 12 seed Ball State in the Sweet 16.) It was the Rebels team the following season that really looked unstoppable. Larry Johnson, Anderson Hunt, Stacey Augmon and Greg Anthony all returned and the Rebels won their first 34 games before the Blue Devils got their revenge in the Final Four, 79-77.
Posted on 4/1/16 at 3:24 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Was Florida State ever closer than 5 in that title game? Talk about one of the greatest potential upsets.
This post was edited on 4/1/16 at 3:29 pm
Posted on 4/1/16 at 3:27 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
No 08-09 UNC?
Dumb
Dumb
Posted on 4/1/16 at 3:29 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Only two of the best teams ever played since the field expanded to 64, and none in the past 20 years? I remain skeptical.
Posted on 4/1/16 at 3:32 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
2007 UF at 31?
Posted on 4/1/16 at 3:37 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Are the 2005 Illini the best to not win? Stupid, cheating UNC.
Posted on 4/1/16 at 3:39 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Way too much of an old school bias
Posted on 4/1/16 at 3:46 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Actually pleasantly surprised with how high Kansas '08 is. They have great arguments to be even higher but normally they are an afterthought.
Posted on 4/1/16 at 4:05 pm to REG861
That '96 UK team is still one of the deepest teams I've ever seen and scored something like 120+ points in games that season multiple times. I can't see them that low.
Posted on 4/1/16 at 4:18 pm to sjmabry
Yep. That team should be in the top 10.
Posted on 4/1/16 at 4:26 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
I still say 1999 Duke is the greatest college basketball team to ever step foot on the basketball court. They were just obliterating everybody that season and then proceeded to lay a complete egg in the biggest game of the year.
This post was edited on 4/1/16 at 4:29 pm
Posted on 4/1/16 at 4:33 pm to Bench McElroy
quote:A list of the best teams not to win a championship would be interesting. Ohio State in 07 was nasty good.
I still say 1999 Duke is the greatest college basketball team to ever step foot on the basketball court. They were just obliterating everybody that season and then proceeded to lay a complete egg in the biggest game of the year.
Posted on 4/1/16 at 4:35 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
They got the top 2 right 
This post was edited on 4/1/16 at 4:37 pm
Posted on 4/1/16 at 4:54 pm to Bench McElroy
quote:
1999 Duke
Greatest Duke team ever.
Posted on 4/1/16 at 5:09 pm to Baloo
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Only two of the best teams ever played since the field expanded to 64, and none in the past 20 years? I remain skeptical.
It makes sense when you consider a few factors:
1)Prior to the 1980's BB was not as popular as it is now and hence there were fewer great players. Now there are more good players (the gap between the best and the rest is narrower) so you can't have a team as stacked as those UCLA teams were. (See current women's BB)
2)prior to the 80's most players stayed for 4 years for a variety of factors, 1 being the NBA was nowhere near as big as it is now and the salaries where not nearly as large as they would become. Also the league was much smaller
3)The tourney was much smaller, 16-20 teams iirc for most of UCLA's run. Also only teams that won their conference got in, no at large for a while.
Now with more great players, spread out over way more competitive teams, in a bigger toruney while the best players stay for only 1 year, I'm not in the least bit surprised, nor can i disagree with a list like ranking all time best teams to win the NCAA.
ETA: College basketball is the one sport in my lifetime where i believe the overall play is worse now than 20-30 years ago.
This post was edited on 4/1/16 at 5:13 pm
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