ESPN Ranking all NCAA Champions

[tentoes4rings]

ESPN has released a list of how Virginia ranks vs all previous NCAA champions.

Interesting to see that our 99 team is ranked 21 but 2004 is 51. 11 and 14 were ranked 59 and 60. Maybe they looked at the 03-04 team’s 6 losses. I’m ok with the rest of the list, but I think they significantly underrated the 04 team, which when healthy was right on par or more talented than 99.


Where does Virginia rank among all the national championship teams?

 

[Towney007]

Hmmm. I'm actually fine with that 99 team ranking considering some of the other teams on here.

UNLV seems like it's pretty low. UTEP while being wildly important in history, seems overrated to me.

That 2005 UNC team seems overrated to me.

UCLA's '95 team being at #42 should be a war atrocity. That team was at least in the top third of their national title winners. They should be right there, maybe even a little ahead of the '99 UConn team.

In fact, a lot of the 40's is a mess. That Syracuse team was completely pedestrian. And all those UNC, DUke and Louisville teams rolled in there i'd say the same thing about. I at least think our 2004 team was better than all of them.

 

[Excalibur]

Once I get to the mid-upper 20's I'm pretty consistently thinking to myself "the '04 team would bury them". So I guess around 25 would be the spot.