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BASKETBALL RANKINGS OF SELECTED UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES
1. Introducing the ESPN/Sagarin All-Time Rankings
2. The ESPN/Sagarin All-Time Rankings (1937-2009)
3. The ESPN/Sagarin Top 40 Programs of Each Decade
4. The Top 40 Programs of Each Decade – 2010-2019
5. The ESPN/Sagarin All-Time Rankings - Adjusted through the 2016-17 Season for Dayton and Xavier
6. How Much is Your College Basketball Team Worth? and 2016-17 Average Home Attendance
7. Basic School Information from Wikipedia (Schools listed in order of Year Founded.)
… 7.1 Selected Schools Ranked in order of Endowment Value
… 7.2 Selected Schools Ranked in order of Total Number of Students
… 7.3 Selected Schools Ranked in order of Number of Undergraduate Students
… 7.4 Selected Schools Ranked in order of Number of Postgraduate Students
… 7.5 Selected Schools Ranked in order of Campus Size
8. Cost of Attendance from CollegeData.com (Schools Ranked in order of Cost of Attendance.)
9. Academic Admissions Information from CollegeData.com (Ranked in order of Range of ACT Scores.)
10. ACADEMIC RANKINGS OF SELECTED UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES
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BASKETBALL RANKINGS OF SELECTED UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES
1. Introducing the ESPN/Sagarin All-Time Rankings
ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia: The Complete History of the Men’s Game - ESPN Press Release - October 5, 2009
Reactions vary to all-time rankings - Andy Katz, ESPN - October 5, 2009
Dissecting Sagarin's all-time rankings - Pat Forde, ESPN - October 5, 2009
ESPN/Sagarin All-Time Rankings - Chicago College Basketball - October 5, 2009
Sagarin's computer comes up with questionable ranking of college hoops' all-time best - Mike DeCourcy, Sporting News - October 6, 2009
1. Introducing the ESPN/Sagarin All-Time Rankings
2. The ESPN/Sagarin All-Time Rankings (1937-2009)
3. The ESPN/Sagarin Top 40 Programs of Each Decade
4. The Top 40 Programs of Each Decade – 2010-2019
5. The ESPN/Sagarin All-Time Rankings - Adjusted through the 2016-17 Season for Dayton and Xavier
6. How Much is Your College Basketball Team Worth? and 2016-17 Average Home Attendance
7. Basic School Information from Wikipedia (Schools listed in order of Year Founded.)
… 7.1 Selected Schools Ranked in order of Endowment Value
… 7.2 Selected Schools Ranked in order of Total Number of Students
… 7.3 Selected Schools Ranked in order of Number of Undergraduate Students
… 7.4 Selected Schools Ranked in order of Number of Postgraduate Students
… 7.5 Selected Schools Ranked in order of Campus Size
8. Cost of Attendance from CollegeData.com (Schools Ranked in order of Cost of Attendance.)
9. Academic Admissions Information from CollegeData.com (Ranked in order of Range of ACT Scores.)
10. ACADEMIC RANKINGS OF SELECTED UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES
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BASKETBALL RANKINGS OF SELECTED UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES
1. Introducing the ESPN/Sagarin All-Time Rankings
ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia: The Complete History of the Men’s Game - ESPN Press Release - October 5, 2009
The ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia: The Complete History of the Men’s Game is the most comprehensive reference guide ever assembled. The ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia bounces into stores Tuesday, October 6th. Highlights of the book include:
• The ESPN/Sagarin All-Time Rankings: Computed by rankings expert Jeff Sagarin exclusively for ESPN, the first ranking of every Division I program.
• The Top 40 teams of each decade, the 1940’s through the 2000’s
Reactions vary to all-time rankings - Andy Katz, ESPN - October 5, 2009
The editors of ESPN put together an exhaustive project, creating the "ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia," subtitled "The Complete History Of The Men's Game."
ESPN empowered noted computer guru Jeff Sagarin to pump figures into his hard drive, looking strictly at wins and losses, scoring margin, and a rating that is the combination of the two. Sagarin looked back at the past 72 years of the sport to spit out Kentucky as No. 1, two percentage points ahead of UCLA. (For the complete rankings, click here ).
Dissecting Sagarin's all-time rankings - Pat Forde, ESPN - October 5, 2009
I have absolutely no doubt that the first 1,195 pages of the brand-new "ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia" will thrill readers …
But just wait until you reach page 1,196. That's when the arguing will start.
On that page, computer master Jeff Sagarin has applied his giant math brain to the history of college basketball and put it in an all-time pecking order. The Division I teams are ranked 1-330. Subsequent charts rank the schools by decade.
And the rankings are flat crazy. Hey, I like the Sagarin Ratings as much as anyone. Look at them regularly during college football and basketball. And I respect a man who will even save some mainframe space for Indiana high school rankings, as well.
But, Jeff, we've got to talk about your all-time hierarchy. There appears to be way too much respect given to accomplishments during the segregated, set-shot, eight-team-NCAA-tournament era and not nearly enough to programs that have thrived since the sport exploded behind Bird-Magic in 1979.
ESPN/Sagarin All-Time Rankings - Chicago College Basketball - October 5, 2009
History looks fondly on Chicago's college basketball teams, well at least when viewed through the eye-glass of ESPN and Jeff Sagarin. They undertook the task of ranking every NCAA Division I college basketball program from 1-330. There are a number of surprises in the rankings.
ESPN has the necessary reaction pieces from Andy Katz and Pat Forde, but what about the Chicago-area teams. Did they get their proper due?
Well, DePaul's ranking surely is going to surprise some newcomers to the college basketball world. Yes, the Blue Demons have been pretty bad since joining the Big East, but DePaul was once a collegiate power. They're ranked 26th in front of a number of more recognizable teams, including Georgetown (#42), Wisconsin (#28), and Connecticut (#54).
Why are the Blue Demons ranked so high? One reason is that DePaul has been playing Division I basketball for the entire 72 years of the study. The second is that there doesn't appear to be any extra weight given to more recent performance. Thus, DePaul's dominance in the 1940's - where the Blue Demons are ranked sixth - 1950's (37th) and 1980's (15th) help boost the program up overall.
Sagarin's computer comes up with questionable ranking of college hoops' all-time best - Mike DeCourcy, Sporting News - October 6, 2009
On an autumn Monday that would be better spent fighting off seasonal allergies and analyzing some fantasy football carnage, I instead am led to consider how mathematician Jeff Sagarin’s computer again is misleading those who follow the glorious sport of college basketball.
For years, USA Today has been publishing Sagarin’s computer ratings of college basketball teams, and now ESPN has commissioned an even broader study: ranking teams based not just on the current season, but on their historical performance. This list might be the dopiest thing we’ve seen come out of a computer since Monsters vs. Aliens. The ranking is part of a very cool project ESPN commissioned that could end up on my personal Christmas wish list: The ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia. But the ranking certainly is not the coolest part of that project.
There is one college basketball term that suits this list: madness. Sagarin’s annual college basketball ratings always have been problematic because they purport to be objective and yet begin each year with a subjective rating -- as opposed to the NCAA’s Ratings Percentage Index, which starts from scratch each year. That’s not an issue here. This time, the methodology is flawed in a different manner.
Sagarin’s system for determining the all-time ratings considers wins, losses and margin of victory. He counts NCAA Tournament victories twice as heavily as a regular-season wins, but that doesn’t begin to properly magnify their importance. Michigan State has won 43 NCAA Tournament games to Minnesota’s 12, and yet the Gophers are ranked higher. Minnesota has made one Final Four in its history; the Spartans made that many Final Fours in the past six months.