Category: Polls Rankings

Where did all the top college basketball teams rank in the final 2020 to 2022 top 25 Coaches polls? Which programs made the cut and which ones just missed out, but received votes?

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According to the final Coaches rankings, how do the programs rank all-time, by decade, and by era? Which ones were the best over the 2020s?

Take all the Coaches Poll final rankings and use our CFN scoring system – the Coaches final regular season No. 1 gets 25 points, the No. 2 team 24, No. 3 23, and so on down to the bottom.

The COVID year of 2020 meant no one got a true national championship, but  the Coaches Poll liked Kansas. The national title in 2022 certainly helped crank up the ranking so far, but even without getting a championship, Gonzaga has been the most consistent power program.

Coaches Poll, All-Time College Basketball Rankings
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AP Poll, All-Time College Basketball Rankings
1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s
Coaches Top 25 2020 | 2021 | 2022 

NCAA Basketball National Champions
2020 NONE, 2021 Baylor, 2022 Kansas, 2013 COMING

Coaches Poll: 2020 to 2022 Final All-Time College Basketball Rankings

1 Gonzaga 69

2 Baylor 64

3 Kansas 60

4 Villanova 53

5 Houston 45

6 Duke 41

7 Arkansas 38

8 Florida State 37

9 UCLA 34

10 Creighton 30

T11 Illinois 29

T11 Kentucky 29

13 North Carolina 24

T14 Dayton 23

T14 Michigan 23

T16 Alabama 21

T16 Oregon 21

T18 Arizona 20

T18 San Diego State 20

T20 Iowa 19

T20 Ohio State 19

T22 Auburn 18

T22 Texas Tech 18

24 USC 17

25 Purdue 16

Others Receiving Votes (Points): Maryland 15, Wisconsin 15, Loyola-Chicago 14, Michigan State 14, Louisville 13, Providence 13, Seton Hall 11, Tennessee 11, Virginia 11, BYU 10, Miami 10, West Virginia 10, Oklahoma State 7, Oregon State 6, Saint Mary’s 6, Butler 5, Texas 5, Murray State 4, Colorado 3, Iowa State 3, Saint Peter’s 2, Syracuse 1

Coaches Poll, All-Time College Basketball Rankings
Final All-Time College Basketball Rankings | 1950s | 1960s
1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s
Coaches Top 25 2020 | 2021 | 2022 

NEXT: Coaches Poll College Basketball Rankings: 2013 Final Top 25

Where did all the top college basketball teams rank in the final 1980 to 1989 top 25 Coaches polls? Which programs made the cut and which ones just missed out, but received votes?

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According to the final Coaches rankings, how do the programs rank all-time, by decade, and by era? Which ones were the best in the 1980s?

Take all the Coaches final rankings and use our CFN scoring system – the Coaches final No. 1 team gets 25 points, the No. 2 team 24, No. 3 23, and so on down to the bottom.

The Coaches Poll didn’t start coming out with its final rankings after the NCAA Tournament until after the 1991 season, so there are a whole slew of issues with this decade.

1985 Villanova and 1988 Kansas – both won national titles – don’t get any love in this formula.

Coaches Poll, All-Time College Basketball Rankings
1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s
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AP Poll, All-Time College Basketball Rankings
1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s
Coaches Top 25 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985
1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989

NCAA Basketball National Champions
1980 Louisville, 1981 Indiana, 1982 North Carolina, 1983 NC State, 1984 Georgetown, 1985 Villanova, 1986 Louisville, 1987 Indiana, 1988 Kansas, 1989 Michigan

Coaches Poll: 1980 to 1989 Final All-Time College Basketball Rankings

1 North Carolina 200

2 Georgetown 147

3 Kentucky 135

4 DePaul 125

5 Indiana 123

6 UNLV 114

7 Syracuse 108

8 Duke 100

9 Oklahoma 98

10 Illinois 97

T11 Louisville 97

T11 St. John’s 82

T13 Michigan 77

T13 Missouri 77

15 Oregon State 73

16 Memphis State 72

17 Virginia 68

18 Iowa 64

19 Arkansas 58

20 Purdue 57

21 Notre Dame 55

22 LSU 53

23 Arizona 49

24 UCLA 47

25 Houston 46

Others Receiving Votes (Points): Alabama 44, Kansas 44, NC State 43, Temple 43, Wyoming 43, Tulsa 41, Georgia Tech 40, Maryland 40, UTEP 33, Pitt 32, Arizona State 28, Bradley 27, BYU 23, Kansas State 20, Minnesota 20, Wake Forest 19, Idaho 18, Louisiana Tech 18, Ohio State 17, Fresno State 16, Utah 16, West Virginia 16, Seton Hall 15, VCU 15, Villanova 15, Michigan State 14, Stanford 14, Boston College 13, Loyola Marymount 12, Clemson 11, Georgia 11, Tennessee 11, Washington 11, Chattanooga 10, Florida State 10, TCU 10, Texas A&M 10, Texas Tech 10, Loyola-Chicago 9, Weber State 9, Illinois State 8, Auburn 7, New Orleans 7, Oklahoma State 7, Xavier 7

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Final All-Time College Basketball Rankings | 1950s | 1960s
1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s
Coaches Top 20 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985
1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989
College Football Coaches Greatest Programs of All-Time

NEXT: Coaches Poll College Basketball Rankings: 1989 Final Top 20

Where did all the top college basketball teams rank in the final 1970 to 1979 top 25 Coaches polls? Which programs made the cut and which ones just missed out, but received votes?

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According to the final Coaches rankings, how do the programs rank all-time, by decade, and by era? Which ones were the best over the 1970s?

Take all the Coaches final rankings and use our CFN scoring system – the Coaches final No. 1 team gets 25 points, the No. 2 team 24, No. 3 23, and so on down to the bottom.

Yeah, enough of that mess from the 1960s when Duke was ranked high enough to be in the top spot of the Coaches Poll of the decade, even though UCLA owns the NCAA Tournament. The 1970s were about the Bruins, at least for the first half of it.

Call it a make-good for the previous decade.

The Coaches Poll were still doing the final rankings at the end of the regular season and not after the NCAA Tournament.

Coaches Poll, All-Time College Basketball Rankings
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AP Poll, All-Time College Basketball Rankings
1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s
Coaches Top 20 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975
1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979
College Football Coaches Greatest Programs of All-Time  

NCAA Basketball National Champions
1970 UCLA, 1971 UCLA, 1972 UCLA, 1973 UCLA, 1974 NC State, 1975 UCLA, 1976 Indiana, 1977 Marquette, 1978 Kentucky, 1979 Michigan State

Coaches Poll: 1970 to 1979 Final All-Time College Basketball Rankings

1 UCLA 238

2 Marquette 194

3 North Carolina 167

4 Kentucky 134

5 Notre Dame 118

6 Indiana 98

T7 Louisville 88

T7 Maryland 88

T9 Long Beach State 81

T9 South Carolina 81

T11 NC State 80

T11 Penn 80

13 Arkansas 59

14 Michigan 56

15 UNLV 54

T16 Alabama 52

T16 Florida State 52

T16 Providence 52

19 USC 48

20 San Francisco 46

21 Syracuse 45

22 Kansas State 44

23 Michigan State 43

24 Houston 41

T25 Kansas 40

T25 Minnesota 40

Others Receiving Votes (Points): DePaul 37, Louisiana (SW Louisiana) 37, Duke 36, Jacksonville 36, Indiana State 35, Iowa 34, Arizona State 32, BYU 32, Missouri 31, Utah State 31, Villanova 31, Cincinnati 30, New Mexico 30, New Mexico State 30, Memphis State 28, Western Kentucky 28, Drake 27, Utah 24, Arizona 23, Rutgers 23, St. Bonaventure 23, Kansas 22, UTEP 21, Georgetown 20, Weber State 20, Creighton 19, Vanderbilt 19, Purdue 18, Texas 18, Fordham 17, LSU 17, Ohio State 16, Washington 16, Detroit 13, Pitt 12, Virginia 11, Temple 10, Niagara 9, Duquesne 8, Marshall 8, St. John’s 8, Tennessee 8, Clemson 7, Dayton 7, Princeton 7, Western Michigan 7

Coaches Poll, All-Time College Basketball Rankings
Final All-Time College Basketball Rankings | 1950s | 1960s
1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s
Coaches Top 20 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975
1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979
College Football Coaches Greatest Programs of All-Time  

NEXT: Coaches Poll College Basketball Rankings: 1979 Final Top 20

Where did all the top college basketball teams rank in the final 1960 to 1969 top 25 Coaches polls? Which programs made the cut and which ones just missed out but received votes?

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According to the final Coaches rankings, how do the programs rank all-time, by decade, and by era? Which ones were the best over the 1960s?

Take all the Coaches final rankings and use our CFN scoring system – the Coaches final regular season No. 1 gets 25 points, the No. 2 team 24, No. 3 23, and so on down to the bottom.

Okay, so this is wrong. And there’s a reason.

Duke didn’t win any national titles in the 1960s, but it managed to be ranked at a higher level than UCLA … at the end of the regular season.

OF COURSE UCLA and its five NCAA titles was the college basketball program of the 1960s, but the Coaches Poll – like the AP version – didn’t rank teams after the NCAA Tournament. And why because it wasn’t the be-all-end-all dominant March Madness force like it is today.

Coaches Poll, All-Time College Basketball Rankings
1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s
College Football All-Time Rankings Coaches Poll | AP Poll
AP Poll, All-Time College Basketball Rankings
1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s
Coaches Top 20 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965
1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 

NCAA Basketball National Champions
1960 Ohio State, 1961 Cincinnati, 1962 Cincinnati, 1963 Loyola-Chicago, 1964 UCLA, 1965 UCLA, 1966 Texas Western (UTEP), 1967 UCLA, 1968 UCLA, 1969 UCLA

Coaches Poll: 1960 to 1969 Final All-Time College Basketball Rankings

1 Duke 150

2 UCLA 143

3 Kentucky 121

4 Cincinnati 114

5 North Carolina 101

6 Ohio State 100

7 Kansas State 86

8 Davidson 83

9 Providence 75

10 Loyola-Chicago 74

11 Utah 72

T12 Bradley 68

T12 Michigan 68

T12 Villanova 68

15 Louisville 66

T16 St. John’s 64

T16 Vanderbilt 64

18 St. Bonaventure 61

19 Oregon State 59

20 UTEP 58

21 Houston 57

22 West Virginia 54

T23 Bowling Green 52

T23 Wichita State 52

25 Kansas 50

Others Receiving Votes (Points): Colorado 49, Utah State 49, St. Joseph’s 43, Arizona State 41, Mississippi State 41, New Mexico 37, Wake Forest 35, Princeton 32, Illinois 31, New Mexico State 31, Santa Clara 31, Dayton 29, NYU 29, San Francisco 29, Drake 28, Marquette 28, BYU 27, Texas 27, Tennessee 26, Cal 25, Duquesne 24, Indiana 24, USC 21, Columbia 20, La Salle 20, Pacific 19, Purdue 19, Saint Louis 19, Western Kentucky 19, Georgia Tech 18, Minnesota 18, Texas A&M 17, Iowa 16, Stanford 16, DePaul 15, Nebraska 15, Toledo 15, NC State 14, Oklahoma City 13, Oklahoma State 13, Tulsa 13, UConn 11, Army 10, Syracuse 10, Auburn 9, Weber State 9, Wyoming 9, Colorado State 7, Miami University 7, Seattle 7, Texas Tech 7, Florida 6, Iowa State 6, Memphis State 6, South Carolina 6

Coaches Poll, All-Time College Basketball Rankings
1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s
Coaches Top 20 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965
1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 

NEXT: Coaches Poll College Basketball Rankings: 1969 Final Top 20

Where did all the top college basketball teams rank in the final 1951 to 1959 top 25 Coaches Polls? Which programs made the cut and which ones just missed out, but received votes?

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According to the final Coaches rankings, how do the programs rank all-time, by decade, and by era? Which ones were the best over the 1950s? The Coaches college basketball poll started at the end of the 1951 season, so the Coaches polls for the era are missing a few of the seasons the AP polls ranked.

Take all the Coaches final rankings and use our CFN scoring system – the Coaches final regular season No. 1 gets 25 points, the No. 2 team 24, No. 3 23, and so on down to the bottom.

Kentucky won three national championships from 1951 to 1959, and like it was in the AP version, it turned out to be the program of the decade with ease.

One key note: The Coaches final rankings came out at the end of the regular seasons, not after the NCAA Tournaments.

Coaches Poll, All-Time College Basketball Rankings
1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s
College Football All-Time Rankings Coaches Poll | AP Poll
AP Poll, All-Time College Basketball Rankings
1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s
Coaches Poll Top 20 1951 | 1952 | 1953 | 1954 | 1955
1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959

College Football Coaches Greatest Programs of All-Time

NCAA Basketball National Champions
1951 Kentucky, 1952 Kentucky, 1953 Indiana, 1954 La Salle, 1955 San Francisco, 1956 San Francisco, 1957 North Carolina, 1958 Kentucky, 1959 Cal

Coaches Poll: 1951 to 1959 Final All-Time College Basketball Rankings

1 Kentucky 170

T2 Kansas State 113

T2 NC State 113

4 Kansas 105

5 Indiana 102

6 Saint Louis 91

7 Illinois 90

8 Dayton 85

T9 Iowa 77

T9 Oklahoma State 77

11 North Carolina 74

12 San Francisco 73

13 Duquesne 70

14 West Virginia 67

15 Bradley 65

16 Notre Dame 60

17 Washington 58

T18 Holy Crosss 55

T18 UCLA 55

20 La Salle 54

21 Cincinnati 52

22 Cal 51

23 Michigan State 49

24 SMU 48

25 Utah 47

Others Receiving Votes (Points): Western Kentucky 45, Louisville 44, St. John’s 43, LSU 38, Seton Hall 38, St. Bonaventure 36, Vanderbilt 36, BYU 35, Wyoming 35, Seattle 34, Temple 33, Marquette 28, Oklahoma City 28, Oregon State 28, TCU 27, Alabama 21, Columbia 21, Duke 21, Maryland 20, Mississippi State 20, Auburn 16, Colorado 15, Arizona 13, Minnesota 13, Beloit 12, DePaul 12, Tulsa 12, George Washington 11, USC 11, Tennessee A&I State 10, Xavier 10, Niagara 9, Siena 9, Villanova 9, Navy 8, Saint Mary’s 8, Canisius 7, St. Joseph’s 6

Coaches Poll, All-Time College Basketball Rankings
Final All-Time College Basketball Rankings | 1950s | 1960s
1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s
Coaches Top 20 1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 | 1954 | 1955
1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959
College Football Coaches Greatest Programs of All-Time 

NEXT: Coaches Poll College Basketball Rankings: 1959 Final Top 20