Updated- Team of the decade rankings

[alexrgct]

Rank Team Points
1 Uconn 220
2 Stanford 190
3 Baylor 180
4 Notre Dame 155
5 A&M 125
6 Tennessee 115
7 Duke 105
8 Kentucky 60
9 OU 45
10 Xavier 45
11 Maryland 40
12 Nebraska 35
13 Florida State 35
14 Ohio State 30
15 Gonzaga 25

Notes:

• UConn must get a #1 seed and get to the championship round to be guaranteed to stay ahead of Baylor next year.
• Stanford and UConn have been models of consistency. Can Stanford keep it up? UConn appears to be set to do so.
• With A&M joining the SEC, the league has three programs currently in the top 10. Can they all stay there? Who will emerge?
• Tennessee finished the 1980s as the clear #2, the 1990s as the clear #1, and the 2000s as the clear #2. So although #6 is pretty darn respectable, especially when you consider the accomplishments of the five teams in front of them, that still represents a titanic shift in WCBB.
• Teams likely movin' on up: Duke, Maryland
• Teams likely falling out of the top 15 soon: Florida State, Xavier, Ohio State, Nebraska. Penn State: opportunity is knocking in the B1G.
• Jeff Walz is a hot name, but in the first part of this decade, Louisville is barely registering a blip in my rankings. Mitchell is killing him so far. Eventually, doesn't Louisville have to produce without Angel? Yeah, I know injuries have had an impact.
• Would you rather be ND, Stanford, or A&M? As a fan, probably A&M, but you have to reward consistency too.

 

[UcMiami]

The next two years will be interesting - Stanford has a major player loss this year as does ND and TN, and next year Baylor's team gets a real whack - BG plus 4.

 

[Wonkster]

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Somehow I missed some key info. Exactly when did this decade in question start?
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[MarieM]

umm.......... since 2002 (10 years= decade) uconn has had 3 undefeated seasons and 5 national championships.. how are they only 30 points ahead of Stanford and 40 points ahead of baylor? .. IMO Baylor can win the national title next year and they wont be the team of the decade!!

 

[EricLA]

umm.......... since 2002 (10 years= decade) uconn has had 3 undefeated seasons and 5 national championships.. how are they only 30 points ahead of Stanford and 40 points ahead of baylor? .. IMO Baylor can win the national title next year and they wont be the team of the decade!!

bingo. UCONN is light years ahead of every other program out there in the past decade. and actually, it's not even close. any list that needs UCONN to be a 1 seed and make the NC game is insane.

 

[MarieM]

exactly this list makes no type of sense

bingo. UCONN is light years ahead of every other program out there in the past decade. and actually, it's not even close. any list that needs UCONN to be a 1 seed and make the NC game is insane.

 

[alexrgct]

We are taking about the current decade- the 2010s, so this is just an update from the 2009-10 through 2011-12 season. Thought that was apparent in the discussion notes below the rankings, but clearly it was not!

Rankings for the 2000s:

1 Uconn 705
2 Tennessee 590
3 Duke 405
4 LSU 315
5 UNC 260
6 Stanford 225
7 Maryland 200
8 Purdue 195
9 Oklahoma 190
10 Rutgers 185
11 Baylor 170
12 Vanderbilt 155
13 Notre Dame 145
14 Penn State 130
15 Georgia 130

Rankings for the 1990s:

1 Tennessee 655
2 Stanford 520
3 Uconn 365
4 Lousiana Tech 325
5 Virginia 290
6 Purdue 245
7 Georgia 240
8 Texas Tech 225
9 Vanderbilt 185
10 UNC 185
11 Old Dominion 155
12 Iowa 130
13 Penn State 120
14 Auburn 115
15 Colorado 115

Rankings for the 1980s (NCAA era only):

1 La Tech 530
2 Tennessee 445
3 USC 350
4 Texas 345
5 Long Beach State 310
6 Old Dominion 245
7 Georgia 225
8 Auburn 220
9 Maryland 160
10 Ole Miss 140
11 Cheyney 135
12 Ohio State 115
13 Virginia 90
14 Rutgers 85
15 Iowa 85

 

[EricLA]

oh then that makes more sense Alex. i thought they were going for the past 10 years.