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Also, how does Southern Cal make the top 25 - have I missed some Final Fours or Elite Eights with them in it?
 
How are we not ranked in the Top 40 for the 2000's based on our first couple of years alone?
 
Iowa has 3 Final 4 appearances and they might have 1 title game appearance.

They had a very successful program under Lute Olson and were also a good program after WWII.

Note: I looked up their wiki page real quick to make sure on their Final 4's and came across this gem:
The roots of Iowa basketball lie in 1742, when Ed Rule coached the Hawkeyes to a 10-2 record in their very first season of basketball
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That said, theirs and Illinois' rankings are ridiculous.
 
Note that Jeff did his research based on a program's entire history. Our run of success under Orr/Floyd/Eustachy does not discount for many years of obscurity
 
The roots of Iowa basketball lie in 1742, when Ed Rule coached the Hawkeyes to a 10-2 record in their very first season of basketball
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1742, eh? Written like a true hok.
 
Stewo said:
1742, eh? Written like a true hok.
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Perhaps that has something to do with how they're able to be ranked so high? Iowa was playing basketball a full 150 years before that liar Naismith claimed to have invented it? :biglaugh:
 
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Bader said:
Perhaps that has something to do with how they're able to be ranked so high? Iowa was playing basketball a full 150 years before that liar Naismith claimed to have invented it? :biglaugh:
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Being #1 for the first 150 years probably did help with the ranking a bit.
 
Taking issue with Sagarin's all-time college basketball rankings - ESPN

Pat Forde makes a lot of good points. A lot of Sagarins computations leave a lot to desired.

Most notably Colorado ahead of Iowa State? Nobody cares about basketball in Boulder.

Nebraska ahead of UNLV? Granted, UNLV isn't what they were, but still they have won an NCAA tournament as opposed to Nebraska which hasn't ever won a NCAA tournament game.

Northwestern ahead of Providence. As Forde points out, Providence has made it to a couple of final fours as opposed to Northwestern, which has never made the NCAA tournament. Let me repeat that, NORTHWESTERN HAS NEVER MADE THE NCAA TOURNAMENT.

Illinois ahead of Duke and Michigan State?


But we're talking about a guy whose computer rankings screw up college football every year so maybe we shouldn't be surprised.
 
Here is an interesting tibit about college basketball and when it started.

The first college basketball game was organized intramurally by students at Geneva College in February 1892 under the coaching of professor Charles O. Bemies, Geneva's first Athletic Director. He was a protégé of Dr. James Naismith, who is credited with inventing the sport in 1891 at the YMCA Training School in Springfield, Mass. Geneva first played in collegiate competition on April 8, 1893 using peach baskets as goals, defeating the New Brighton YMCA 3 - 0.
 
Tornado man said:
I thought K-State would be even higher. Their tradition under coaches like Cotton Fitzsimmons, Tex Winter, Jack Hartman and Lon Kruger is impressive.
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You're right, KState actually had a very good basketball history before they fell off the basketball planet after Kruger left. They went to four Final Fours and lost the NC game to Kentucky in 1951, and won half of the conference titles in the 50's and 60's, and almost half in the 70's. The only BXII teams they have a losing record against are KU and OU. As a KU fan, I'm reluctant to admit it, but they have a pretty impressive history.
 
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