Best school to never be ranked No. 1?

Tim K, Marysville, OH — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:22:45 GMT

The 1996 Kentucky Wildcats.

Best school to never be ranked No. 1?

Jason Walker — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:54:28 GMT

Love to see Wichita State was once a No. 1. Thank you, Xavier McDaniel and Antoine Carr.

Best school to never be ranked No. 1?

john m, st. louis, mo — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:11:23 GMT

2007-2008 kansas jayhawks

duh

Best school to never be ranked No. 1?

Mikey A, Forest Hills, NY — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:24:10 GMT

I think we need the list of the 54 teams that HAVE been #1 - I, for one, do not have encyclopedic memory of the polls over the last 60 years...

Best school to never be ranked No. 1?

Mike Miller — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:38:51 GMT

Schools that have been ranked No. 1 at some point (this is in order of most often):
UCLA
Duke
North Carolina
Kentucky
Cincy
Indiana
Kansas
UNLV
Ohio State
Arizona
San Francisco
Connecticut
Michigan
Illinois
Kansas State
Stanford
DePaul
Massachusetts
N.C. State
Arkansas
Georgetown
Virginia
Houston
Florida
St. John's
West Virgnia
Syracuse
Memphis
Missouri
Seton Hall
Temple
Bradley
Holy Cross
Notre Dame
Oklahoma
Oregon State
Indiana State
La Salle
Loyola (Ill.)
Michigan State
Marquette
Alabama
Duquesne
St. Louis
Wake Forest
Georgia Tech
Iowa
Oklahoma State
St. Joe's
South Carolina
Tennessee
Wichita State
Wisconsin
Pitt

Best school to never be ranked No. 1?

Kenny B, Columbus, OH — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:42:50 GMT

How about Gonzaga? Sustained excellence since Mark Few got there, but no. #1...yet

Best school to never be ranked No. 1?

Maliubscott — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:02:49 GMT

Gee, Mike, UCLA is first on THAT list?

Oh well.

Best school to never be ranked No. 1?

Harley Santa Monica California — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:58:39 GMT

Easily the 1990 Loyola Marymount Lions. If Hand Gathers had not tragically died then they would have dominated everyone all the way to what would have been one of the best Championship games ever... a date with LSU. Sadly, it never was to be.

Best school to never be ranked No. 1?

Harley Santa Monica — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:01:52 GMT

Excuse me, UNLV.... had Hank still been around then LMU would have had a much higher seed than #11 and would have been placed in an opposite bracket (most likely) for the dramatic NCAA Championship.

Best school to never be ranked No. 1?

Bill Peoria IL — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:02:25 GMT

How about what team has been over ranked the most??

DUKE, the ACC,then the BIG EAST--lol

this year is a prime example of east coast bias...

they just want to hand it to UNC...the lost to a team at home that Iowa about beat on the road--lol

I'm not saying Ark or IL should be ranked in top 10...but clearly teams from the other conferences beside ACC and Big East get overlooked....Kansas(defending national champions)

Best school to never be ranked No. 1?

Howard Julian — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:47:32 GMT

We're not talking about the best team in any given year that wasn't ranked #1 in that same year. We're talking about which college has a consistently good program but never reached a number one ranking during any given regular season. So I"ll say CCNY - back to back NCAA champions way back in the early '50's (I think '50 and '51).

Best school to never be ranked No. 1?

Chris Hale, Murfreesboro, Tennessee — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:31:06 GMT

Xavier University, this team is knocking on the door of the powerhouses.

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Andy Bailey, Pittsburgh, PA — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:22:53 GMT

Cincy is 5th behind Kentucky, ahead of Indiana??
How many, and when - -
Too bad about the program - - - we are only 5 years away from what was a top 5 team; though academics and thuggery was a problem; couldn't the boosters and regents had enough influence to talk the UC president to get a top flight coach that still liked to graduate its players? -
UC grad, 1975

Best school to never be ranked No. 1?

Mike Miller — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:35:04 GMT

That's 45 weeks for Cincy, 44 for Indiana. The Hoosiers haven't been ranked No. 1 since 1993.

Best school to never be ranked No. 1?

Ron Reed Louisville, Ky — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:49:51 GMT

To answer the mans simple question....Louisville is by far the best SCHOOL to never be ranked #1. He didn't ask for a paticular team....he asked for a school. Louisville, hands down.No school has a riher hoops program than U of L without ever being ranked #1. It's not even debatable. It also made the win over Pitt that much sweeter ( and I was the luckiest man in town to be there on a pair of free tickets given to me last fall by a woman I do some work for )