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RANKINGS AND RECORDS
The ESPN/Sagarin All-Time Rankings We know what you’re thinking: How in the world did UCLA not come out on top? Well, as d...
The ESPN/Sagarin All-Time Rankings We know what you’re thinking: How in the world did UCLA not come out on top? Well, as dominant as the Bruins were under John Wooden, they didn’t even rank as a top-40 program in the 1940s. Meanwhile, Kentucky hasn’t finished lower than 10th in any decade. We’re guessing you’re nearly as shocked by Northwestern’s No. 77 ranking—pretty remarkable for a team that’s never made the NCAA Tournament. But with eight Big Ten programs in the Top 20, the Wildcats have faced some of college basketball’s toughest conference slates for more than seven decades. Just goes to show how much strength of schedule matters. ABOUT THE RANKINGS: Only active Division I programs are listed in the all-time ranking. CHESS (named for the system of rating chess players) considers only a school’s wins and losses. PREDICTOR considers only its scoring margin. RATING is a combination of the two. YRS indicates the number of seasons in which the program qualified for ranking, beginning in 1937-38 (the maximum number is 72). Schools that played fewer than five games against other qualified schools during a season did not qualify for that season, nor did schools that did not field teams or were on NCAA probation. A small penalty was assessed to a team’s rating for every season in which it failed to qualify. RATING 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54
Kentucky UCLA Kansas North Carolina Indiana Illinois Duke Purdue Ohio State Iowa Louisville Notre Dame Michigan Minnesota Michigan State St. John’s Cincinnati Oklahoma State Utah Oklahoma Villanova NC State Syracuse Marquette Southern California DePaul Kansas State Wisconsin Missouri Stanford Temple Arkansas Tennessee California Washington West Virginia Wake Forest Maryland Bradley Oregon State Brigham Young Georgetown Alabama Western Kentucky Alabama-Birmingham Vanderbilt Texas Dayton Arizona Oregon Colorado Iowa State Saint Louis Connecticut
Houston Saint Joseph’s Nebraska UNLV Xavier Pittsburgh Memphis Louisiana State Wyoming Florida Georgia Tech Tulsa Duquesne Virginia Miami (OH) Washington State La Salle Utah State Boston College Florida State San Francisco Seton Hall Northwestern Providence Santa Clara Auburn Wichita State Penn State Toledo Southern Illinois Princeton Creighton Pennsylvania Ohio University Texas Tech Mississippi State South Carolina Southern Methodist Bowling Green Arizona State Loyola-Chicago St. Bonaventure George Washington Butler Murray State Holy Cross Georgia Colorado State Clemson Drake Virginia Tech Evansville Detroit Marshall
UTEP New Mexico Texas A&M Missouri State Illinois State Rhode Island Mississippi Weber State Baylor Oral Roberts New Mexico State Western Michigan New Orleans Niagara Tulane Pepperdine Indiana State Fresno State Gonzaga South Florida Rice South Alabama Manhattan Miami (FL) Fordham Wisconsin-Green Bay Texas Christian Eastern Kentucky Tennessee State Pacific Saint Mary’s (CA) San Diego State Kent State UC Santa Barbara San Jose State Akron Canisius Navy Idaho Ball State Rutgers Hawaii Montana Charlotte Louisiana-Lafayette Loyola Marymount Southern Miss Long Beach State Massachusetts Richmond Morehead State Old Dominion Boise State Louisiana Tech Denver Iona Air Force Nevada VCU Lamar Montana State Wright State Northern Illinois Valparaiso East Tennessee State Davidson Long Island UC Irvine
Saint Peter’s Portland Cornell North Texas Idaho State Tennessee Tech Central Michigan Hofstra Yale SE Missouri State Saint Francis (PA) McNeese State Eastern Illinois William and Mary Portland State Columbia Jacksonville Cal State Fullerton Northern Iowa Arkansas State San Diego Army Fairfield Lafayette Texas-San Antonio Stephen F. Austin Siena Alcorn State Jackson State Centenary Texas Southern Eastern Washington Wisconsin-Milwaukee Western Illinois American Austin Peay Alabama State Gardner-Webb Middle Tennessee St. Texas State Dartmouth NC Wilmington Norfolk State Boston University James Madison Youngstown State Furman Northwestern State East Carolina South Dakota State Eastern Michigan Monmouth Georgia Southern Central Florida North Carolina A&T Bucknell Illinois-Chicago Missouri-Kansas City Colgate Harvard Rider Texas-Pan American Sam Houston State Southern University St. Francis (NY) Fairleigh Dickinson Mount St. Mary’s Chattanooga
Cal Poly Brown Grambling Cal State Northridge Alabama A&M Northern Arizona Stetson George Mason South Carolina State Northeastern Drexel Radford Louisiana-Monroe Ark.-Little Rock Mississippi Valley St. Florida A&M Winthrop Appalachian State Buffalo Robert Morris Cleveland State North Dakota State Loyola (MD) Delaware Texas-Arlington High Point Southern Utah Oakland (MI) Texas A&M-C.C. Northern Colorado Vermont SE Louisiana Fla. International IUPUI Western Carolina Hampton Sacred Heart Wagner Mercer Elon Chicago State Maine UNC Asheville
Samford Tennessee-Martin Prairie View A&M Campbell Nicholls State The Citadel Coastal Carolina Jacksonville State Troy VMI Central Conn. State Savannah State Longwood Md. Eastern Shore Coppin State UC Riverside Liberty Arkansas-Pine Bluff Bethune-Cookman Belmont Marist Charleston Southern Sacramento State Florida Atlantic Lehigh Lipscomb Towson State Delaware State Albany Howard Quinnipiac UNC Greensboro Morgan State UC Davis Hartford Wofford IPFW New Hampshire Georgia State Md.-Baltimore County Stony Brook College of Charleston Binghamton
The Top 40 Programs of Each Decade THE 1940s 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
Oklahoma State Kentucky Illinois Notre Dame Indiana DePaul Purdue Ohio State Long Island Michigan Holy Cross NYU Wisconsin Minnesota Southern California Iowa Western Kentucky Utah Duquesne
Hamline St. John’s Arkansas Northwestern Colorado Kansas West Virginia Loyola-Chicago Wyoming California Oklahoma Bowling Green Oregon Oregon State Bradley Dartmouth Temple Penn State Washington State Toledo Stanford
Kentucky Illinois Kansas State Kansas Indiana UCLA Dayton Iowa Louisville Cincinnati Minnesota Oklahoma State Duquesne Saint Louis La Salle NC State Notre Dame California Tennessee State Bradley Michigan State San Francisco Western Kentucky Holy Cross Ohio State Washington Southern California Missouri St. John’s Purdue Duke Brigham Young Niagara Xavier Oklahoma City Utah DePaul Colorado Seattle Fordham
UCLA Cincinnati Duke Ohio State Kentucky North Carolina Dayton Bradley Kansas Villanova Kansas State Illinois Wichita State Louisville Vanderbilt Houston St. John’s Saint Louis Providence Iowa Southern California Saint Joseph’s Utah
Loyola-Chicago Princeton Drake Indiana Purdue Oregon State Tennessee Colorado Wake Forest West Virginia Minnesota Colorado State St. Bonaventure Michigan Utah State Auburn Stanford
UCLA North Carolina Marquette Kentucky Indiana NC State Maryland Notre Dame Louisville Purdue Michigan Southern California South Carolina Duke Long Beach State Tennessee Minnesota Alabama Florida State Pennsylvania San Francisco Houston St. John’s Kansas State Kansas Syracuse Washington Cincinnati Oregon State Wake Forest Providence Michigan State Virginia Utah Arizona State Missouri New Mexico Oregon Iowa UNLV
North Carolina Georgetown Indiana Illinois Kentucky Louisville Syracuse Iowa Virginia Purdue Duke Oklahoma Michigan Missouri DePaul NC State UNLV St. John’s Kansas Alabama Louisiana State Ohio State Villanova Memphis Oregon State UCLA Arkansas Maryland Georgia Notre Dame Kansas State Tennessee Clemson Temple Houston Auburn Pittsburgh UTEP Minnesota Wake Forest
Georgia Tech Louisville Oklahoma Stanford Virginia Illinois Missouri Villanova St. John’s Clemson Georgia Florida State Alabama Texas Xavier Providence California
Duke Kansas North Carolina Florida Michigan State Illinois Arizona Texas Connecticut Kentucky Wisconsin Oklahoma Pittsburgh Maryland Memphis Stanford Gonzaga Syracuse Louisville UCLA Oklahoma State Ohio State Wake Forest Xavier Villanova Tennessee Cincinnati Notre Dame Georgetown Mississippi State Indiana Marquette Louisiana State NC State Boston College Alabama Missouri Southern California Butler Purdue