North Carolina's all-time hoops roster reads like a who's who in college basketball. Michael Jordan. Phil Ford. Walter Davis. Jerry Stackhouse. James Worthy. Bob McAdoo. Len Rosenbluth. Vince Carter.

In Dean Smith, the Tar Heels have one of the game's coaching icons.

And that's just for starters.

After nearly 100 years of hoops, the Heels have had just 10 losing seasons (three came in their first five seasons). They've won titles (NCAA, ACC, NIT, Helms), produced NBA talent and been a NCAA tournament contender every decade. They're the only school to play in the title game in the '40s, '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and 2000s.

That lasting excellence and periods of dominance make Carolina No. 2 on the list of greatest programs.

It's essentially a testimony to the Heels' overall résumé. They rank among the best teams in nearly every measure of success.

• UNC has four NCAA titles (4^th), been to 17 Final Fours (2^nd) and has won 71 percent of its NCAA tournament games (3^rd). Those 40 berths to the Big Dance? Third.
• The Heels' 1,950 wins are just 16 behind Kentucky. The .7361 overall win percentage also is right on the Wildcats.
• UNC has won 33 regular-season conference titles (4^th), and at least two a decade since 1920. Only Kansas and Kentucky have done better.
• Carolina has won at least 25 games 8 times in the last 15 years, and at least 30 four times. Maybe that's why they've been a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament 12 times, best in tourney history.
• The Heels have sent 70 players to the NBA, according to basketballreference.com. Only UCLA has sent more.
• Fourteen Heels have been consensus All-Americans 19 times. Four players (Ford, Jordan, Jamison and Tyler Hansbrough) have won the Wooden Award.
• The most impressive statline? North Carolina didn't miss the NCAA tourney between 1975 and 2001, a streak of 27 years and the NCAA record.

Essentially, those stats are ever so slightly better than Kansas, which is No. 3 on this list. The Heels nearly match Kansas' overall success, and are better in the NCAA tournament and NBA player production. Those are ever-so-slight distinctions, but serve as the deciding factors here.

No, the 1957 NCAA title game isn't the deciding factor, but it's a good place to start.

Kansas featured Wilt Chamberlain, the game's most dominant player in his day. The Heels were the No. 1 ranked team and hadn't lost all season. Perhaps the ensuring 54-53 triple overtime Tar Heel victory wasn't what some expected, but it remains one of the game's most exciting and memorable finishes.

(To underscore UNC's rich hoops history, the 32-0 season broke the school record for wins – Heels were 30-5 about a decade before – and was the second undefeated season, matching the 1924's squad's 26-0 mark.)

The title also established Frank McGuire as a larger-than-life figure in Chapel Hill. He'd left St. John's in 1952 to come to UNC and had trouble convincing recruits to leave the New York area, but by 1955, McGuire had finally gathered enough talent to compete with N.C. State in the powerhouse ACC. The NCAA title was his crowning achievement.

His Heels won three more ACC regular-season titles in the next four years, but left after allegations of minor NCAA violations.

Those allegations turned out to be gift for Carolina.

In 1961, Dean Smith was promoted from assistant to head coach and had an inauspicious start, going 8-9 in his first season. It also was his only losing season.

Smith is the backbone of Carolina basketball. His record (879 wins, 11 Final Fours, 2 titles, 17 ACC crowns) speaks for itself, while Smith's coaching tree and dignified, humble manner only serve to enhance his stature. He and John Wooden continue to be the examples for all coaches today.

(Amazingly enough, Carolina has excelled even without Smith. If one discounts Smith's tenure, the Heels have still won more than 70 percent of their games, which is better than four teams in NCAA history. They've also won titles without Smith, coming under McGuire and Roy Williams. That's an impressive winning tradition.)

It took Smith six years to finally win an ACC title, but once it began, it rarely stopped. Between 1965 and 1986, UNC never finished worse than tied for 2^nd in the ACC.

His 1966-67 squad stormed through the ACC and reached the Final Four, the first of three straight. Smith's squad reached the Final Four again in 1972 (a year after winning the NIT).   

A year after leading the U.S. to Olympic gold, Smith's Heels reached the NCAA title game, but couldn't get past Marquette. Butch Lee's Warriors ripped through the Heels' four corners offense, but Smith's style had more lasting influence. The four corners soon had imitators throughout the game. Enough teams started using the slow-down, clock-eating style that it eventually helped bring about the shot clock.

Still, after another trip to the NCAA title game in 1981 (this time losing to Indiana), Smith, like most coaches who win but haven't won a title, endured criticism about his methods. He always had great talent – most recently Ford and Davis – but why couldn't UNC win?

That talk ended in 1982.

Jordan's shot helped beat Georgetown for Smith's first NCAA title, but it wasn't a shot that made Smith's career. He's always held himself to a different standard than his critics, which is partly why he's been so successful. It also started off another ridiculous streak for UNC.

The Heels won more games than any other school during the 1980s, arguably college basketball's most competitive and most outstanding era. That carried into the '90s, when only four teams won more games, but the Heels went to five Final Fours and won another title in 1993.

Sure, some of Carolina's teams were upset – the '84 squad with Jordan and Sam Perkins the defending champs in '94 both failed to reach the Elite Eight, let alone the Final Four – but that underscored just how good Carolina was. Even when the Heels thrived in the regular-season, anything less than a title was considered a failure.

When longtime assistant Bill Guthridge took over, the Heels didn't miss a beat. (Having Carter and player of the year Antawn Jamison helps.) But after just three seasons – and two Final Fours – Guthridge had enough.

New coach and ex-Heel Matt Doherty took Carolina to No. 1 in just his first season, but his eventual demise has become a cautionary tale for how to handle star players. An 8-20 season followed by an NIT berth? Unacceptable.

Maybe that's why Carolina couldn't help but bring ex-assistant and Smith disciple Roy Williams home to Carolina. In five seasons, Williams has UNC in places only Smith did before, winning a title and reaching two Final Fours.

This season, his team, led by reigning player of the year Tyler Hansbrough, is expected to be among Carolina's most talented ever. Another Final Four – and a national title – will be expected.

And it seems that for as long as Williams remains in Chapel Hill, the Heels will remain on the short list of annual contenders. And they'll certainly remain among the top 5 on this list.

After all of this, surely you've guessed No. 1. If this wasn't a ridiculous week at work, I'd move up the post for No. 1. But why mess with routine? Look for No. 1 next Tuesday.

No. 3, Kansas.

No. 4, UCLA.

No. 5, Duke.

No. 6, Indiana.

No. 7, Louisville.

No. 8, Arizona. 

No. 9, Syracuse. 

No. 10, Connecticut. 

No. 11, Cincinnati. 

No. 12, Utah. 

No. 13: Villanova. 

No. 14: Illinois. 

No. 15: Michigan State. 

No. 16: Georgetown. 

No. 17: Arkansas. 

No. 18: Ohio State. 

No. 19: St. John's.  

No. 20: UNLV.  

No. 21: Texas.  

No. 22: Notre Dame.  

No. 23: Temple.  

No. 24: Oklahoma.  

No. 25: N.C. State.

Rule of thumb when planning the fall months is to let the NFL, baseball playoffs and college football carry the load (fantasy football gets lumped into the NFL). NASCAR's chase gets some attention, along with an occasional golf event, depending on who's involved. Once the NBA begins, that works into the mix.

Those sports are the backbone to just about any site's coverage. College basketball is usually secondary until the NFL season ends and Duke-North Carolina gets all the casual fans involved (we die-hards will be watching on Nov. 10 when Coaches Vs. Cancer tourney kicks off).

So imagine the die-hards' glee at ESPN's brilliant idea: A hoops marathon to give college basketball a proper season opener.

Nov. 18 (a Tuesday) will feature 14 games and 23 hours of hoops, headlined by North Carolina vs. Kentucky, among others. It starts at Midnight ET (UMass vs. Memphis), and, with a slight break in the morning hours, end with an NIT regional final at 11:30 ET. (Those of us on the West Coast don't mind that time.)

Here's a complete sked, with all times ET.

Midnight: UMass at Memphis (ESPN)
2 a.m.: Fresno St. at St. Mary's (ESPN)
4 a.m.: Idaho St. at Hawaii (ESPN)
6 a.m.: College Hoops Tip-Off Special (ESPN)
10 a.m.: Penn at Drexel (ESPN)
Noon: Liberty at UNC-Asheville (ESPN)
2 p.m.: Iowa at Kansas (women) (ESPN)
4 p.m.: Centenary at Baylor (ESPN)
6 p.m.: Richmond at Syracuse (ESPN)
7 p.m.: NIT Regional Final-Purdue (ESPNU)
7:30 p.m.: NIT Regional Final-Boston College (ESPN2)
8 p.m.: College GameDay-Chapel Hill (ESPN)
9 p.m.: Kentucky at North Carolina (ESPN)
9 p.m.: Florida Gulf Coast at Kansas (ESPNU)
9:30 p.m.: NIT Regional Final-Oklahoma (ESPN2)
11:30 p.m.: NIT Regional Final-Arizona (ESPN2)

For more analysis an each matchup, click here.

Yes, give the sports behemoth some credit on this one. It's a genuinely great idea that will earn it plenty of points from the fans. Bust out the amphetamines and caffeine.

And credit the folks at Storming the Floor for the line of the day (just above the games list).

If there's a cradle of college basketball, it may be the University of Kansas.

James Naismith, the game's inventor, coached there. As a coach, Phog Allen influenced two of the game's winningest coaches, Dean Smith and Adolph Rupp, and was a driving force behind the NCAA tournament. Wilt Chamberlain was a Jayhawk. Few schools boast that kind of history.

Beyond the lore, Kansas is one of today's preeminent programs. It's one of six schools with at least 2 NCAA titles in the last 20 years, and no team has won more games since 1990. (Kansas also had its share of NCAA disappointments. More on that later.)

That tradition, mixed with consistent excellence and modern prosperity makes Kansas No. 3 on the list of greatest programs.

It begins with coaching.

Kansas has had eight coaches in 110 seasons. Only one (Naismith) sports a losing record. Three (Larry Brown, Roy Williams and Bill Self) won at least 75 percent of their games. Even Ted Owens, a coach fired because his teams failed to thrive, reached two Final Fours, won 348 games in 19 years and claimed seven conference crowns. Most schools would envy those results.

But that's how it goes at one of the elite programs. Winning is paramount.

• Kansas' 1,943 wins are behind only Kentucky (1,966) and North Carolina (1,950) in NCAA history, while its .7122 win percentage is 4^th best.
• The Jayhawks have won 3 NCAA tournaments (tied for 5^th) and have been to 13 Final Fours (tied for 5^th); one in every decade except the '60s. Only UNC can top that.
• In 37 appearances in the Big Dance, KU has won 70 percent of its games. It hasn't missed the big show since 1989, the third-best streak in NCAA history.
• The Jayhawks have dominated lately, winning at least 25 games 10 times in the last 15 years and at least 30 six times. Only Duke has more.
• Eleven Kansas players have been consensus All-Americans 15 times, five in the last 10 years.
• Kansas' most impressive area? No team can match its 51 regular-season conference titles. Only three teams have more than 34.

Those conference crowns are the best indicator of Kansas' success through the years. Starting in 1910, the Jayhawks have won at least 3 times in each decade except the 1980s (when they won a national title and 3 Big 8 tournament titles). Every coach has at least two. The longest KU went without a conference crown? Six years. Lest one thinks it's all ancient history, 21 have come since 1960.

Simply put, Kansas was a national power before some programs even existed.

Most of the early history (after Naismith and before Chamberlain) revolves around Allen's time at Kansas. He took over for Naismith in 1907, won 43 games in two years at Lawrence before a 10-year hiatus in Missouri. His successor, William Hamilton, helped establish Kansas as the team to beat in the Missouri Valley Conference, winning five titles in six years.

Allen returned in 1919. Two years later, he guided Kansas to a 16-2 record and the first of six consecutive conference titles. Though it wasn't clear at the time, two things were significant about that season: Junior Adolph Rupp was on the roster and Kansas emerged as the nation's best team.

Rupp, of course, went onto fame as Kentucky's coach, winning 876 games and four NCAA titles. He's second third all-time in wins and second in win percentage.

The Helms Foundation – a panel of experts that determined champions retroactively -- bestowed titles on Kansas' 1922 and 1923 teams. Helms titles weren't considered in this list, but serves as an important reference points for how good a team was compared to the competition.

For the next 30 years, Allen ensured the Jayhawks kept winning (4^th winningest team of the '30s and an NCAA championship game in 1940 showed as much). By 1952, he had one of his best teams, featuring the nation's best player, Clyde Lovellete, and another future coaching star, Dean Smith.

Lovellette, a 6-10 center who led the nation in scoring and rebounding, carried Kansas to its first NCAA title, dominating St. John's in the title game. It was sweet for Allen, who refused to let Kansas participate in the NIT because he viewed the tournament as a hotbed for gamblers to fix games. He helped push the NCAA into the big time, both as a backer and with his teams' success.

Smith played sparingly on that '52 team, but he, like Rupp, went onto greater coaching endeavors. He won 879 games and two NCAA titles at UNC. Is it a coincidence UNC and Kentucky are the only schools with more wins than Kansas?

(Ralph Miller, who played on Kansas' 1940 runner-up squad, also became another great coach who played under Allen. Only in a group like this would Miller, who won 657 games, be overshadowed.)

Allen was 66 years old when KU won in '52. Froced into retirement at 70, he never got to coach Chamberlain, his prize recruit. That fell to new coach Dick Harp, who tried to capitalize on the greatest talent the game had ever seen.

Kansas reached the national title game in 1957 against unbeaten North Carolina, but ultimately fell short, losing in triple overtime, 54-53, holding Chamberlain to 23 points, six below his average.

Harp coached another seven years, reaching the 1960 regional finals, but never seemed to recover from losing that title game. He only got to coach Chamberlain for another season, who was even better as a junior, averaging 30.1 points a game and grabbing 17.5 rebounds, often out of double and triple teams. But Kansas finished 18-5 and missed the NCAA tourney. Chamberlain left KU after that school year.

Kansas had the nation's most dominant player for two season but couldn't claim a title. It wasn't the last time failure to fulfill expectations would dog the program.

Owens took over in 1964. He logged back-to-back 23-4 seasons in '66 and '67, but never broke through to the Final Four, just missing a chance against Texas Western with future Boston Celtics star Jo Jo White running the show.

But he re-tooled and by '71 had the strongest team of his tenure. The Jayhawks would finish 27-3 and go unbeaten in the Big 8, but an 8-point loss to UCLA in the Final Four prevented a title shot. Three years later, Marquette upended KU in the Final Four.

Owens' teams weren't as consistently good as Allen's, recording an occasional sub-.500 season. Still, the fans loved their Jayahwks, and Allen Fieldhouse, build in '55 to honor their legendary coach, remained one of college hoops' holy spots.

Owens, however, eventually ran out of support, prompting his firing after the 1982-83 season. Kansas turned to Larry Brown, a UNC grad and ex-UCLA coach, who promptly delivered the desired results.

The Jayhawks won the Big 8 tournament title in his first season and reached the Final Four in his third. But few would've predicted the miracle in '88.

Danny Manning, a two-time consensus All-American who came to Kansas as the most heralded recruit since Chamberlain, was long thought to be the player who could carry the Jayhawks to a title. A 6-10 forward who do it all, with or without the ball, Manning couldn't carry the team on his own during the regular season, when KU finished third in the Big 8 and entered the Big Dance 21-11 overall.

So when Kansas reached the Final Four, then upset Duke, then Oklahoma for the title, it was a both a big surprise and a big relief. The downside? Kansas missed the 1989 tournament due to NCAA probation and couldn't defend its title. Brown jumped to the pros and Kansas turned to Williams, a UNC assistant to ensure the program's continued success.

His first team started 19-12, but the next season, Kansas took off. It won the preseason NIT, went from unranked to 4^th in the AP poll (still the biggest jump in the poll's history), won 30 games and finished second in a brutal Big 8.

The next season, Kansas was in the national title game, beating Carolina and Williams' mentor, Smith in the process. Another Final Four followed in 1993, which cemented Williams as one of the game's best coaches.

Kansas thrived under Williams, averaging nearly 29 wins a season in the '90s and claiming seven conference crowns. But it wasn't all good. Kansas was a No. 1 seed four times in the '90s, but never reached the Final Four as a top seed in that span. The 1996-97 team entered the Big Dance 34-1, but lost in the Sweet 16.

Was Kansas an underachiever? It didn't claim a NCAA tournament trophy, but few would say the program wasn't one of the nation's best. Yet in a winner-take-all world, the Jayhawks and Williams weren't seen as good enough.

Kansas dealt with more of the same when it reached the Final Four in 2003, but lost to Syracuse in the title game. When Williams left for UNC after that season, more NCAA heartbreak followed under new coach Bill Self. Kansas lost first-round games in back-to-back seasons in '05 and '06. Call it a March backlash.

But now, after a 37-3 season that culminated with an NCAA title, there aren't any doubters left. Self's winning percentage (.816) is the best of any Kansas coach and the school has swept Big 12 regular-season and tournament titles the last three seasons. The winning tradition is still in full swing.

It's no different than when Allen was coaching – the Jayhawks are among the teams to beat, just like in every other decade since 1910. And that's something only two other programs can boast.

Next Tuesday: No. 2 on the list of greatest programs.

No. 4, UCLA.

No. 5, Duke.

No. 6, Indiana.

No. 7, Louisville.

No. 8, Arizona. 

No. 9, Syracuse. 

No. 10, Connecticut. 

No. 11, Cincinnati. 

No. 12, Utah. 

No. 13: Villanova. 

No. 14: Illinois. 

No. 15: Michigan State. 

No. 16: Georgetown. 

No. 17: Arkansas. 

No. 18: Ohio State. 

No. 19: St. John's.  

No. 20: UNLV.  

No. 21: Texas.  

No. 22: Notre Dame.  

No. 23: Temple.  

No. 24: Oklahoma.  

No. 25: N.C. State. 

Midnight Madness is less than four weeks away (well, unless you're a Kentucky fan). Are you up on your reading?

If you need to prep for the season, there are two places to begin: College Basketball Prospectus and Blue Ribbon Yearbook. Both are available in October.

Blue Ribbon is nearly 400 pages of essentials. Team previews, stats, player profiles, schedules, and analysis on every team. Because of printing schedules, the book's info can be outdated if injuries pop up in October, but there's not a better source of basic information in one place. Skim it for the top teams, but pay attention to all the mid-major conferences.

The prospectus, by tempro-free gurus Ken Pomeroy and John Gasaway, isn't for traditional hoop heads. Points per game and field-goal percentage aren't their concern – efficiency is. Read up on their methods and pay attention. Pomeroy's stats usually predict the national champion.

Don't have that much time? I'm thinking Dickie V's "50 Fabulous Players and Moments in College Basketball" might work. It's not so much about this season as it encapsulates his 30 years of time spent at ESPN, but would get most hoops fans hyped for the season.

Maybe you'd prefer some coaching stories?

Dick "Hoops" Weiss' upcoming book is a tribute to Coach K, while Bill Self, fresh off a national title, has his own book coming out called "At Home in the Phog."

Even a lesser-known coach like Rich Zvosec is on the act. He's spent time at places like North Florida and UMKC, which allows his book to focus on life at mid-major schools. Then again, if you've never heard of Zvosec, you could always turn to Michael Litos' book on the subject of mid-majors. It's been on my to-read list for a few months now.

Hardcore fan of Kansas, Kentucky or North Carolina? Whitman publishing is producing books on all three schools' histories. The Jayhawks' version is penned by our own Ken Davis.

But two of the books I'm most excited about are already out.

Tom Graham's "The Unknown story of Bill Garrett and the Integration of College Basketball" focuses on Indiana basketball and how Garrett became the Big Ten's first black player. Always a fan of history and hoops' significant players.

Same goes for Mark Kriegel's 2007 bio on Pistol Pete Maravich. Never got to see the Pistol play, but I've read rave reviews about this book. Short of buying a highlights tape, this is the closest I'm gonna get.

Bill Self got himself a fat raise this year. So did Trent Johnson, John Beilein, Travis Ford and Jeff Capel, all first-timers into the millionaire coaches club. Billy Donovan (even he hasn't officially signed the dotted line yet), Bruce Pearl and Tony Bennett snagged huge pay bumps last season.

Though not quite in the same league as their football counterparts, college hoops coaches have been handsomely paid for some time, usually because of NCAA tournament success. (Average salary for a college football coach is about $1 million, according to USA Today. Average hoops coach makes $800,000.)

The top-paid coaches are who you'd expect. Donovan, Self, Thad Matta, John Calipari and Billy Gillispie are the top five, according to the list on this story. Pearl, Tom Crean, Rick Pitino and Rick Barnes round out the coaches making at least $2 million annually, with Ben Howland, Roy Williams, Tubby Smith and Tom Izzo right behind.

Yup, that's a lotta dimp.

It made me wonder: Which coaches due for a big payday?

John Thompson III would seem like a good bet (back-to-back Big East titles and a Final Four the last two season) with another solid season at Georgetown. But he signed an extension last September that pays him about $900,000 a season through 2013, which makes him a longshot to get another pay bump without winning an NCAA title. Plus, would he really push Georgetown officials for more dough?

Gonzaga's Mark Few reportedly makes about $600,000 a year. He's had some NCAA tourney success and the Zags have dominated their conference every season, making him one of the hot commodities every offseason when coaching vacancies arise. Usually, the job rumors revolve around Oregon, his alma mater. The Ducks gave Ernie Kent an extension this offseason that includes a buyout around $1.5 million, so Few wouldn't be cheap. Still, all that Nike money would make the move possible – IF Few wanted to go. So far, he's always said no.

Jamie Dixon signed an extension with Pitt two years ago that took him into the $900,000 range. He's won 132 games in five seasons, a Big East regular-season crown and a tournament title, along with a couple of Sweet 16 berths. He reportedly turned down Cal's offer this summer, but could still jump at the right opportunity. After all, Ben Howland went from Pitt to UCLA.

Miami's Frank Haith is another coach who recently signed an extension, but with the 'Canes returning all five starters from last year's 23-11 squad, he seems poised for a big year. Could a hoops-first school be in his near future?

Nevada has Mark Fox under contract through 2014, but he's another coach who's name is always circulated in the offseason rumor mill. He interviewed for the Cal job, but the Bears turned to Mike Montgomery instead.

Other young coaches like VCU's Anthony Grant or Southern Illinois' Chris Lowery seem like promising fits, but unlikely to command big paydays.

The guys I'd tag as the most likely for big raises? Lon Kruger, Tim Floyd and Sean Miller.

Kruger, who will make about $800,000 through 2013, has had success at big schools (Kansas State, Florida and Illinois), been to NBA and thrived with UNLV, winning 57 games in the last two seasons and reaching the Sweet 16 two years ago. If a big school comes calling, Kruger's track record shows he'd jump.

Floyd makes about $850,000 at USC, but his reported price tag of $1.5 to $2 million scared off LSU this summer. Next time, that may not be too much.

Miller's the one I'd really want, though. He's coming off a 30-win season that included a run to the Elite Eight. He's also the one with a contract that runs through 2018 at Xavier. He wouldn't be cheap, but he'd be worth it.

No school can match UCLA's 11 NCAA tournament titles and 18 Final Fours.

The Bruins won 10 of those championships between 1964 and 1975 and established one of sports' most celebrated dynasties when John Wooden coached legendary players like Lew Alcindor, Bill Walton, Sidney Wicks and Gail Goodrich.

So a simple question remains: How did the celebrated Bruins only land at No. 4 on the list of greatest college basketball programs? In a word, consistency.

UCLA's place among the elite – college basketball's elite of Kansas, Kentucky, North Carolina and Indiana – was assured thanks to those titles, but it never again equaled that run under Wooden (who could?). Its basketball fortunes have been uneven ever since, to say nothing of when Wooden first started at UCLA or before him.

The Bruins haven't suffered in the post-Wooden era. They won it all in '95 and have been to the last three Final Fours. But that isn't the same consistency shown by North Carolina, Kentucky and Kansas.

To be clear:

Between the 1963-64 and the 1974-75 seasons, UCLA was 335-14 (.9599 win percentage), with 10 titles and 11 final fours.

The rest of the time: the Bruins' record is 1,311-705 (.6463), with 1 title and 7 final fours. That's still impressive, but it's a record more on par with Arkansas (1,473 wins, .6463 %, 1 title and 6 Final Fours), which is a top 20, but not top 5 program.

UCLA's overall résumé looks like this:

• Its 1,646 victories are 9^th most, while its .6955 win percentage is sixth, better than Duke's. Its 11 titles are four more than anyone else, and its 18 Final Fours are one more than UNC.
• Oddly enough, UCLA is second in NCAA tourney win percentage, just behind Duke at .7368. It's also second in total tourney appearances (42).
• The Bruins' 30 conference titles are 6^th (more than Duke or Louisville).
• They've spent an NCAA best 134 weeks atop the AP poll, including four seasons in which they went wire-to-wire.

• UCLA owns three of the longest win streaks in NCAA history, including an amazing 88-game run from 1971-1974.
• Thirteen Bruins have been All-Americans 19 times. Only Kentucky has more.

This also includes five seasons in the 1980s when UCLA missed the NCAA tournament; when the Bruins had back-to-back losing seasons in 2003 and 2004; and when they lost in the Big Dance's first round three times in six seasons in the '90s.

None of this is meant to overly criticize the Bruins. They're one of today's elite teams and one of the all-time great programs. But rankings like there reflect an overall program, not just how it performed in March.

Besides there's plenty to celebrate in UCLA's history. And it begins with Wooden.

He coached 27 years at UCLA, starting in 1948 when the Bruins went from 12-13 to 22-7. The Bruins were solid in the '50s, yet when Wooden made some small adjustments in the early '60s UCLA took off.

Starting with an undersized, up-tempo squad in 1964, the Bruins overwhelmed foes by running them into the ground. Walt Hazzard and Gail Goodrich led the way to an unbeaten 1964 season, while Goodrich's marvelous 42-point performance in '65 against Michigan capped back-to-back titles.

The Bruins' unrelenting press made them tough to stop. When the nation's best recruit came to town, they became unbeatable.

Lew Alcindor, who later changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, spearheaded the truly dominant UCLA era. As a sophomore, he led the Bruins to a 30-0 season, though he was far from the only great player on the roster, which also featured standouts like Lynn Shackleford, Lucius Allen and Mike Warren.

Even when teams managed to beat UCLA, the Bruins always won when it mattered most. By the time Alcindor was a senior, he had put his stamp on college hoops as a three-time MOP of the Final Four and perhaps the best the game would ever see. 

He was a breathtaking mix of size, speed, strength and agility, with a devastating hook shot and an intimidating defensive presence. He wasn't explicitly why the dunk was once banned, but most accounts point to him as the reason. It's as if people tried to halt UCLA's dominance, but couldn't.

Even when Alcindor graduated, the Bruins still beat down foes in the NCAA tourney. Whether it was Sidney Wicks outplaying Artis Gilmore or getting 29 points from Steve Patterson to outlast Villanova in '71, the Bruins wouldn't be denied.

And things only got tougher for foes starting the next year when Bill Walton arrived. Behind their star sophomore center and Wilkes, UCLA won its 8^th title and sixth straight. Like death and taxes, the Bruins were the best in March every season.

Walton, like Alcindor, was a singular talent, the kind of player that made everyone around him better behind his defense, passing and stellar low-post game. Leave it to UCLA to bring in players this good nearly every season.

Attracting once-in-a-generation players like Walton and Alcindor ensured the Bruins remained the team to beat and a program unlike anyone'd ever seen in the college game. Most teams hoped for winning streaks. UCLA aimed for unbeaten seasons.

In a way, the Bruins' era of dominance was capped by Walton's remarkable performance in the 1973 championship game against Memphis. His 21-of-22 shooting performance (and 13 rebounds) was as close to perfection people had ever seen on the grand stage. Who else but a Bruin?

When the Bruins' NCAA run ended to David Thompson's N.C. State Wolfpack in the 1974 Final Four, few knew that just one UCLA title remained. Wooden went out a winner the next season, after beating Kentucky in the title game.

He left a legacy that was impossible to match, though.

Gene Bartow was the first to try. In two years, UCLA went 52-9, won two conference titles and reached a Final Four, but it wasn't good enough. He left for UAB.

Next was former player and Wooden assistant Gary Cunningham. In two seasons, UCLA was 50-8, won two conference titles and reached an Elite Eight, but it wasn't enough.

Larry Brown followed. Brown didn't have the same sterling record (42-17 in two season), but took the Bruins to the 1980 championship game where they almost upset Louisville.

From there it was seven more seasons with ex-players leading the way. Larry Farmer (61-23 overall, but only 1 NCAA tourney berth) and Walt Hazzard (77-47, one NCAA tourney berth) turned what may have been respectable seasons for other schools, but neither lasted in Westwood.

In came Jim Harrick, who put together solid and occasionally great teams. In four years, the Bruins were a contender, grabbing a No. 1 seed in the 1992 tournament before losing to Indiana in the Elite Eight.

By '95, the Bruins had a balanced, experienced team led by seniors Ed O'Bannon and Tyus Edney. With a little luck (Edney's full-court scamper against Missouri remains the stuff of March lore) and a lot of O'Bannon, UCLA upended defending champions Arkansas for its first title in 20 years.

Not that it lasted. Princeton ousted the defending champs in the first round the next season, and Harrick was fired for NCAA recruiting violations. UCLA hired assistant Steve Lavin, who could recruit, but wasn't an accomplished coach. After seven seasons, including a 10-19 campaign in 2002-03, UCLA hired its eight coach since Wooden's retirement.

And it finally proved to be a stellar hire.

Ben Howland stumbled to start (29-28 in his first two seasons), but hasn't missed a Final Four in three years. He's made UCLA one of March's most dangerous teams and a threat to win a title each season. He may never match Wooden's team in terms of titles (who could?), but the Bruins are once again one of college basketball's elite.

It also gives UCLA that rare feat in college hoops – a school that found a worthy successor to the legend that established the program.

Next Tuesday: No. 3 on the list of greatest programs.

No. 5, Duke.

No. 6, Indiana.

No. 7, Louisville.

No. 8, Arizona.

 

No. 9, Syracuse.

 

No. 10, Connecticut.

 

No. 11, Cincinnati.

 

No. 12, Utah.

 

No. 13: Villanova.

 

No. 14: Illinois.

 

No. 15: Michigan State.

 

No. 16: Georgetown.

 

No. 17: Arkansas.

 

No. 18: Ohio State.

 

No. 19: St. John's.

 

No. 20: UNLV.

 

No. 21: Texas.

 

No. 22: Notre Dame.

 

No. 23: Temple.

 

No. 24: Oklahoma.

 

No. 25: N.C. State. 

Big ol' bummer on Monday: We won't be able to watch Kenny George this season.

UNC Asheville's 7-foot-7 center had surgery on his right foot in his native Chicago this summer, but remains hospitalized. He's not expected to return to school this semester.

Normally, a player of George's size wouldn't be mobile enough to truly make an impact on the court. But there have been exceptions (Shawn Bradley, Manute Bol, among others). But that's why the news about George is such a bummer.

He was the Big South's defensive player of the year after helping the Bulldogs win a school-record 23 games and reach the NIT last season. George averaged 12.4 points, 7.0 rebounds and 3.3 blocks.

Because of his size and hoops improvement, George became a mini-celebrity last season. Getting posterized by Tyler Hansbrough also helped boost his name recognition.

Without George, who will be this season's giant story?

Unless you live in Florida, it won't be Paul Sturgess.

Sturgess, a 7-7 center from England, played in 16 games last season for Florida Tech, but transferred Brevard Community College. Apparently, "Tall Paul" struggled to make the switch to the U.S. academic system.

Anyway, BCC rarely leaves the state. So count him out.

There are plenty of 7-footers around, but none are the size of George and Sturgess.

Tallest you could watch? That's Gonzaga's Will Foster (7-4), though he won't see a lot of time for the Bulldogs.

That leaves us with UConn's Hasheem Thabeet. He's four inches shorter than George, but could be the Player of the Year. And who won't settle for watching that?

No matter what your feelings are about the Blue Devils, it's impossible to ignore their success in every aspect: titles, Final Fours, wins, conference championships, NBA players, etc.

It's all a huge reason why people love to hate Duke. The Devils are the envy of just about every program. Almost.

Duke may dominate the recent results, but it's No. 5 on the list of greatest college programs. Kansas, Kentucky, North Carolina and UCLA all have more consistent, longer winning traditions or have more championships. Or both.

Before Mike Krzyzewski arrived in 1980, Duke was a good basketball program. Four Final Fours, 10 regular-season conference championships and a national player of the year attest to as much.

It's Coach K's tenure that has elevated the Devils to an elite program, which they're still building on. When he retires, that's the test for Duke's standing among the all-time programs.

Still, it's not like the Devils are going to drop in these rankings anytime soon.

• Duke's 1,846 wins are the fourth most all time (100 behind Kansas, 100 more than Syracuse), while it's win percentage (.6956) is sixth best.
• The Devils own three NCAA championships (tied with Kansas for 5^th), have been to 14 Final Fours (behind just UNC and UCLA) and have the best winning percentage in the Big Dance (.7478). Yes, better than even the Bruins.
• They've been to the NCAAs 32 times and haven't missed 'em since 1995, the fourth-longest active streak.
• Duke's won 21 regular-season conference titles, won at least 25 games 11 times in the last 15 years (best in the nation) and have had 14 players be named consensus All-Americans 18 times. Art Heyman, Danny Ferry, Christian Laettner, Elton Brand, Shane Battier, Jason Williams and J.J. Redick have all won national player of the year honors.
• The Devils have been atop the AP rankings for 110 weeks (only UCLA has more) and are the last team to do it for an entire season, in 1992.

And the current dominance? It can be summed up like this: Between '98 and 2004, Duke was 221-32, (.874) with four final fours and a title. Between '86 and '94 Duke was 264-59, (.817) with 7 final fours and 2 titles. Take your pick for measuring success. Duke's done it.

Coach K's responsible for the biggest highlights, but Duke's hoops tradition started with Eddie Cameron. His name happens to be on the arena, probably the toughest NCAA venue for opponents to play.

In 14 seasons, Cameron's Devils won 226 games, claimed Southern Conference championships twice and three tourney titles. Because of that success, the school built their indoor stadium in 1940, which was the largest basketball arena south of Philly's Palestra.

Duke had more success under Gerry Gerrard in the '40s and Harold Bradley in the '50s (conference titles were won and there were no losing records), but the occasional .500 mark popped up, while North Carolina and North Carolina State emerged as the region's national powers. Dick Groat was a sensational player, but he couldn't do it all for Duke.

That changed in 1959 when Vic Bubas arrived in Durham. He ushered in the first truly great era for the Devils, winning the ACC tournament in 1960, his first season.

More importantly, Bubas recruited Art Heyman, which opened the doors for Duke's national recruiting. Heyman, with his non-stop motor, is still regarded as one of the Devils' all-time greats. A ferocious rebounder and determined scorer, the New York native bulled Duke into the national spotlight.

Kick-starting the local rivalry with UNC into a national one helped, too.

Both Duke and UNC were ranked in the top five when they met in the 1961 season. Both had sparkling records and both had designs on the ACC crown. Duke won the game, but it ended with brawl, which served to fan the flames of what's become sport's greatest rivalry.

The rivalry has seen other highlights and lowlights through the years, but there's little doubt both teams' success and the rivalry's intensity has only served to raise both program's profiles. The immediate aftermath of the brawl seemed to have Duke come out on top, though.

The Devils reached three Final Fours in four years from 1963-66, and reaching were in the '64 title game. That's a run only accomplished only by Kentucky, Cincinnati, Ohio State and San Francisco until then. Yet Bubas was done by '69, worn out by the job's demands.

That brought on the mediocre seasons. Duke hovered around or below .500 for six seasons until Bill Foster's 1977-78 squad emerged as a surprise contender and reinvigorated the program.

The Devils lost to Kentucky in the NCAA title game that season, and had a taste of success it never wanted to lose again. When Foster left for South Carolina in 1980, it opened the door for the Coach K. Things haven't been the same since.

Sure, things started slow (a 17-13 season to begin, followed by two losing seasons didn't ease the boosters' concerns), but the Devils were back in the Big Dance by '84, and by '85 they finally ended a brutal losing streak to North Carolina.

The next season showcased Coach K's first great team. That 37-3 squad had a star player (Johnny Dawkins), steady point guard (Tommy Amaker) and solid big men (Mark Alarie, Jay Bilas and Danny Ferry) who won swept the ACC regular-season and tourney titles and came up just short of the school's first NCAA title.

Since then, Duke has had dominant teams, but that group established the Devils as a perennial contender. It also began a Final Four run not seen since the days of John Wooden's Bruins.

From 1986 to 1992, Duke played in six of college hoops' final weekends seven weekendstimes. It was like clockwork: when the Big Dance began, Duke, behind all-around stars like Ferry, would be in the Final Four.

Slowly, the hate began to build. Winning does that. Naysayers talked about the Devils coming up short, especially after losing the 1990 title game to UNLV by a record 30 points.

Then, just like that, Duke silenced everyone. It beat UNLV in the '91 Final Four – perhaps the most significant win of the last 20 years – and repeated as champs in 1992.

Along the way, the Devils played in one of college basketball's most memorable games, the '92 East Regional final against Kentucky, that featured the best finish anyone had ever seen. People hated the Devils even more – especially Laettner – but it didn't stop their success.

They developed more stars in Bobby Hurley and Grant Hill, and reached another title game in 1994. Coach K was on top of the coaching profession, and rightfully so. This was success in the modern game unlike any program had seen.

The slight dip didn't seem possibly, but maybe it couldn't be helped. How does one stay so good for so long?

In the 1994-95 season, Krzyzewski never recovered from offseason back surgery and was forced to sit out midway through the year. As a result, Duke finished 12-18 and missed the Big Dance. The Duke haters loved it.

It didn't last, though.

After a season of rebuilding, the Devils grabbed a No. 2 seed in the '97 tournament, then assumed their place as a No. 1 seed for the next five years. It sparked more talk of Duke bias -- another 1 seed? -- but the Devils' record reflected just how good they were each season (133-15 from '98 to '01, better than any team in NCAA history).

By 1999, Duke was taking a shot at the greatest single-season anyone had ever seen. People wondered if anyone could anyone beat a 37-1 team with multiple lottery picks on the roster. (The short answer: Yes.)

It didn't matter. Two years later, Coach K won his third title. The Devils reached the Final Four again in 2004, and have been an annual contender ever since. No more dips, just consistently great teams.

What happens now?

Well, Krzyzewski won his 800^th career game last season. He turned 61 in February, which gives him at least another four years of coaching, though he'll stop whenever he chooses. (He just guided Team USA to a gold medal, so there's another feature in his cap.) In a few years, he'll break Bobby Knight's all-time wins record and, if he wants to, hit 1,000 career victories sometime around 2015.

And he'll leave Duke cemented as one of the truly great programs in college hoops.

Coming next Tuesday, No. 4 on the list of greatest programs.

No. 6, Indiana.

No. 7, Louisville.

No. 8, Arizona.

 

No. 9, Syracuse.

 

No. 10, Connecticut.

 

No. 11, Cincinnati.

 

No. 12, Utah.

 

No. 13: Villanova.

 

No. 14: Illinois.

 

No. 15: Michigan State.

 

No. 16: Georgetown.

 

No. 17: Arkansas.

 

No. 18: Ohio State.

 

No. 19: St. John's.

 

No. 20: UNLV.

 

No. 21: Texas.

 

No. 22: Notre Dame.

 

No. 23: Temple.

 

No. 24: Oklahoma.

 

No. 25: N.C. State. 

If you're in sports, you're lucky to have a nickname, let alone a cool one. Yet Don Haskins, the legendary ex-UTEP college basketball coach who died Sunday at the age of 78, had two: "the Bear," and "the John Wayne of college basketball."

OK, so "Bear" was much more common. Even my mom knew who "the Bear" was. That gruff scowling guy on the sidelines whose teams seemingly won the WAC every season was hard to miss.

(It helped that we lived in Wyoming, where Haskins' Miners always seemed to have the edge on the Cowboys, even when the Pokes had Fennis and Leckner in the Dome of Doom. It all sounds like an Indiana Jones movie…)

Even when Wyoming finally had a team that was more highly touted, UTEP still held home court in 1988, beating the No. 5-ranked Pokes, 68-62, in El Paso. I had a Wyoming scrapbook of game clippings that season (when you're 10 and a Wyoming player is on the cover of SI, you make sure you document everything), and couldn't believe UW couldn't pull out a much-needed road win.

Turns out BYU won the regular-season title that year anyway. UTEP, after winning a share or the outright title the five previous years, finished fourth, but still made the NCAA tournament. The Miners usually did, playing in the Big Dance from 1984-1990. That's consistency any school can envy.

Haskins' final trip to the NCAAs was 1992, when UTEP stunned top-seeded Kansas in the second round. The Miners had won three NCAA tourney games from '84-'90. Now, using a slow-down, four-corners type offense, they'd just beaten the Midwest region's top seed.

Leave it to the Bear. Of course, that wasn't his finest NCAA tournament moment.

The 1966 championship has been covered form every angle imaginable. Thousands of articles, plenty of retrospectives, books and interviews. Hollywood took its shot two years ago with the movie "Glory Road."

Others can provide better perspective where that Texas Western victory (it changed to UTEP a year later) ranks in the annuls of racial history. (The bottom line: it was crucial.)  

The other amazing thing about Haskins? He never left UTEP.

He was only 36 when he won that title. He toyed with the idea of the ABA at one time, but never left. He prowled the UTEP sideline for 38 years, longer than all but six coaches at one school. He was the WAC's lowest paid coach, but stayed in El Paso because he loved the town and didn't want to leave the program he built. (Click here for excellent Haskins coverage from the El Paso Times.)

That kind of longevity still happens (Jim Boeheim will spend his entire career at Syracuse), but it's a rare thing. And it's something of a marvel. Just like the Bear.

It's time to hit the Friday links.

Less than a week after Kansas' barnstorming tour through Canada (where coach Bill Self was more than a little pleased about his young team's play), the Jayhawks got another boost of good news on Thursday: the long-awaited clearing of the Morris twins, Markieff and Marcus.

The 6-foot-9 twins, the gems of Kansas' 2008 recruiting class, didn't play during the trip north of the border, can now enroll for classes, which begin Aug. 21.

"We've been waiting for this day for a long time, and we're excited that it is finally here," the twins said in a statement.

Smart move to issue the statement. Their image is still hurtin' after Markieff allegedly shot a woman from his dorm with a BB gun.

High five for Dickie V
Today's a huge day for Dick Vitale, who will be one of seven inductees to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.

Dickie V goes in as a contributor, boosted by nearly 30 years of doing color commentary and analysis for ESPN. Yes, his style can wear on you (he's two hours of catchphrases, all at a volume that goes to 11), but he has more than his share of supporters, and not all of them are from ESPN.

"Am I a cheerleader at times? Yes, and I don't regret that at all," Vitale said. "I feel like I'm a kid and it's a kid's sport and I attack it that way."

Frankly, I'm happy to see Vitale honored this way. He's a fabulous ambassador for the sport. College hoops was missing something last season when he had to miss time because of throat cancer.

• The BracketBuster field was announced Thursday, with a healthy dose of Horizon, Colonial, Metro Atlantic, MAC, Mo Valley, Ohio Valley and WAC teams involved. (Hey, you gotta get to 102 teams showhow…) No surprises among the teams, though I wonder how much Stephen Curry will overshadow the entire field.

• A host of other team schedules have come down this week, mostly from the ACC and Big Ten. Click here for ACC breakdowns and here for some Big Ten links.
• And the best non-conference games on next year's slate? Mike DeCourcy has it covered.

Indiana has the tradition. It has the titles. It has legendary coaches, players and a fan base few teams can match.

What the Hoosiers don't have is a recent résumé comparable to the rest of its storied history. Just one Final Four since 1993. One Big Ten title since 1994. NCAA tournament misses in 2004 and 2005, their first since the mid-80s.

Those kind of on-court struggles – complicated by their coaching issues since 2000 – are why the Hoosiers are No. 6 on the list of greatest college basketball programs.

Not that six is low, mind you. It's just a little strange to think of five programs being better than Indiana. But someone from Duke, Kansas, Kentucky, Indiana, North Carolina and UCLA was going to miss out on the top five. The Hoosiers can make up the difference, though. They certainly have a rich history to build on.

• Indiana's five NCAA tournament titles are behind only UCLA (11) and Kentucky (7), while their eight Final Fours are tied with Louisville for seventh most.
• The Hoosiers have been to the Big Dance 35 times (more than Duke), but their tourney win percentage (.666) is 10^th best, just behind Michigan State.
• Indiana's 1,635 victories are 10^th most, but its .649 win percentage is just behind Illinois and Utah. The Hoosiers' 20 regular-season conference titles  are 1 more than Ohio State).
• Indiana also has had 11 players named consensus All-Americans 14 times and have sported two players of the year in Scott May and Calbert Cheaney.

Yet, it's a single-season accomplishment that Indiana seems to be most remembered for lately – the perfect season of 1976, the last time a men's champ has completed a campaign unbeaten.

This is somewhat of an odd notion. Six NCAA champions finished their seasons with a loss between 1956 and 1973. Heck, Indiana was one of two undefeated teams in that '76 Final Four. Yet, here we are, more than 30 years later and still no one's ended their season without a loss.

(Usually omitted in talk about the '76 team is that Indiana also entered the 1975 NCAA tourney without a loss. A Scott May injury before the tourney hindered those title hopes, though.)

Of course, Indiana's other title teams were no slouches.

The 1940 squad claimed the second NCAA tourney trophy, finishing 20-3 after nearly a 20-point win against Kansas in the final. Oddly enough, it was the Hoosiers' first outright title of any kind.

Purdue ruled the Big Ten in the 1930s and won the regular-season crown in 1940. But when the Boilermakers turned down an invite to the Big Dance, Indiana rolled through the eight-team field, winning by an average of 17 points a game.

That signaled the birth of the "Hurrying Hoosiers," an up-tempo style favored by legendary coach Branch McCracken, who was an All-America at IU in 1930.

(McCracken played under Everett Dean, the first great Indiana coach who won 64 percent of his games and three Big Ten titles between 1925 and 1938. He left for Stanford and coached the Cardinal to their only NCAA crown in 1942.)

McCracken – who won 87 percent of his games during his first five seasons before serving as a Navy lieutenant during World War II – won his first Big Ten title in 1953, the same year Indiana won its second NCAA title. The driving force? A 6-10 forward named Don Schlundt.

Schlundt, the first Indiana and Big Ten player to crack 2,000 career points, scored 30 points in another title-game win against Kansas. He was the first of many big-time scorers under McCracken in the '50s. Archie Dees, Walt Bellamy (a double-double machine before the term existed and Jimmy Rayl (the school's single-game scoring leader, twice hitting 56).

When the McCracken era ended in '65, Indiana started to struggle. Except for an 18-8 season in 1966-67, the Hoosiers finished 9^th or 10^th in the Big Ten four out of five seasons.

That set the stage for Bob Knight, coming off a hugely successful six-year run at Army, to guide Indiana into its most glorious era – three NCAA titles, 11 Big Ten championships and 661 wins. No matter what Knight's other issues were (chair throwing, belligerent cussing, intimidating his players or the media), there's little debate about his on-court success.

Especially when his teams claim three titles in 11 years. Tough to ignore those results.

Indiana's fourth title was a result of Knight's guidance, a team that jelled at the right time and the individual brilliance of Isiah Thomas, who was remarkable in the '81 title game against North Carolina. The fifth? Great guard play and a Knight-hardened team that just two years earlier had missed the Big Dance.

Of course, there was that one shot…

By now, Keith Smart's jumper in the final seconds against Syracuse has gone down as one of the great moments in NCAA history. People ask Smart about the baseline move "almost every day," though he wasn't even the Hoosiers' biggest star.

That was senior Steve Alford, an Indiana native who led the team in scoring each season. Few players endured more of Knight's berating and black moods, but few would argue with the results, either.

Knight's teams still had some punch, winning three more Big Ten titles in the next six years, with the 1992-93 squad standing out as one of his best. Behind Wooden Award winner Calbert Cheaney, it finished 31-4 and just missed out on sending Knight to back-to-back Final Fours.

After seven more seasons of about 21 wins a year, just one trip to the Sweet 16 and with the off-court incidents piling up, Indiana severed ties with Knight. It replaced him with assistant Mike Davis, which wasn't an easy transition for the school or Davis.

Amazingly enough, Davis guided the Hoosiers to their eight Final Four in just his second season. The No. 5 seed Duke in the Sweet 16 and eventually reached the 2002 title game, where it lost to Maryland.

That was the highlight of Davis' tenure, though. Indiana finished 9^th in the Big Ten just two years later. By 2006, Davis was out, replaced by Oklahoma coach Kelvin Sampson. Two years later, Sampson was gone too, the result of NCAA violations.

Now, under new coach Tom Crean, the Hoosiers face a re-building challenge they haven't seen since Knight arrived. To remain among college hoops top programs, it's not essential IU hits the same heights it reached under Knight.

But to keep its spot in the top six, it'll take nothing less.

Coming next Tuesday, No. 5 on the list of greatest programs.

No. 7, Louisville.

No. 8, Arizona.

 

No. 9, Syracuse.

 

No. 10, Connecticut.

 

No. 11, Cincinnati.

 

No. 12, Utah.

 

No. 13: Villanova.

 

No. 14: Illinois.

 

No. 15: Michigan State.

 

No. 16: Georgetown.

 

No. 17: Arkansas.

 

No. 18: Ohio State.

 

No. 19: St. John's.

 

No. 20: UNLV.

 

No. 21: Texas.

 

No. 22: Notre Dame.

 

No. 23: Temple.

 

No. 24: Oklahoma.

 

No. 25: N.C. State.