Who’s Who in the Top Ten

If you’re already placing bets for which NCAA men’s basketball teams will make it to the Final Four in 2009, ESPN’s countdown of the most prestigious programs since 1984-85 will give you a leg up on your competition. The 1984-84 season is significant because it was the first time the NCAA expanded to include 64 teams, thus making a national champion win six tournaments to trim down the teams. ESPN’s Prestigious Rankings score the best Division I men’s collegiate basketball programs numerically according to a number of criteria from the team’s cumber of national titles to the amount of players recruited in the top ten of the NBA draft.

At the top of the list is the Georgetown Hoyas, followed by the Syracruse Orange and the UNLV Rebels. The UCLA Bruins take the number seven spot with the Connecticut Huskies, and the Wildcats from Arizona followed by the Kentucky Wildcats are slated next. The bottom three are rounded out but the the Kansas Jayhawks, the North Carolina Tar Heels and the Duke Blue Devils. For a complete breakdown of the top NCAA men’s basketball programs of the past 24 seasons check out the article on ESPN.com.

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