NCAA Hoops Teams with Bright Furures

Lately ESPN.com has been ranking the “Top Ten of the last Ten” years in college basketball in every category from best overall program to most underachieving team. Today the topic is the teams with the brightest futures. You probably could have guessed the teams that made the top of the list, North Carolina, Florida, UCLA, Ohio State… gosh, what a coincidence that these teams were the Final Four this year!

An explanation of their reasoning is this: “Everything matters — history, tradition, facilities, administrative support, recruiting reach, conference, TV Q-rating, coaching and fans. The more of those a team has in place — and the more it looks like they will be in place for the long term — the better positioned a program is.”

Still, I don’t foresee Florida or Ohio State doing much next year, considering the NBA draft will likely gut their programs of the key players who won all their games. If you want to see if ESPN is right, you can always get NCAA basketball tickets at StubHub.com to watch the next ten years unfold before your eyes.

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