Comments on: ACC Basketball Roundup(1/15)

By: TxTarheel

TxTarheel — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:16:16 +0000

William, back on your topic of titles and winning-est of all. How would you necessarily present the facts, which coincides with Wooden’s retirment following title # 10, that UCLA has a sole champeenship won in 1995 ?

With the tournament widened for additional entrants 2-4 times post-Wooden, expanded to 64 in 1985 (?), I have wondered if there is some demarkation line for the post-Wooden era. His UCLA teams were just sick, sick with talent

By: uncgirl50

uncgirl50 — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:08:30 +0000

Anyone worried about Miami and McClinton? Besides me I mean.

By: TxTarheel

TxTarheel — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:01:28 +0000

william, if you check out the UK website for men’s hoops they have a highly interesting link to basically an all-time college basketball statistical analysis. It is fairly cool to look over…

By: william

william — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:25:29 +0000

I went to bed at halftime and I am shocked by that Maryland result.

FYI, a friend of mine ailed and asked me whether it was true if Kentucky had the winningest program in college basketball. Here is my response, which I believe is overlooked by many fans:

Greg,

It depends on how you define “winningest.”

Kentucky has won about 15 or 20 more games in its history than UNC, although both schools keep finding previously unpublished results from 100 years ago. They have also won more titles overall than UNC although over half of their titles predate Bill Russell and integration, and are suspect since blacks weren’t usually allowed to play back then.

UCLA has won by far the most titles overall, all of them in the modern integrated age, so I would probably cite them as the winningnest program.

In terms of titles overall, it is UCLA, Kentucky, Indiana, UNC, Duke, Kansas.

In terms of titles since the Russell era and integration began, roughly 1955 in the tournament, but later in some conferences, it is UCLA, UNC, Duke, Indiana, Kentucky, Kansas, NC State.