We (Finally) Broke our Tie with San Francisco: Most Weeks Ranked #1

[gtcam]

Bill Russell: great man, great player, didn't have the good sense to play for UConn and played for a clearly inferior college basketball program, historically speaking. He had great success in the northeast, but didn't have the good sense to play for UConn. genius.

Your history is totally false and sounds like you are shooting from the hip
USF experienced good history before and after BRussell
They won an NIT in the late 40s (that was considered the national championship over the NCAA)
Russell was not recruited out of high school at all - BTW he graduated from HS in Oakland and grew up dirt poor not but in the Northeast.
Did UConn offer him a scholarship? UConn was not worth a jump on the plane and trip across the country when you had Holy Cross, Fordham and NYU on the east coast. BTW, USF had Pete Newell and Phill Woolpert as back to back coaches.
He never even came to the northeast until he donned a Celtic uniform.
USF, in the 40s and 50's was superior to UConn basketball wise.

genius??????????????????????????????

 

[FfldCntyFan]

It'll be very tough, but if we can hang on through the Seton Hall rematch, that'll get us to 37 weeks, tying Ohio State at 10th. Even if Marquette beats us at home on March 6th and knocks us out of #1, we'd have made great headway. This will involve beating Marquette here and Creighton on the road, most likely. Otherwise, we'll need Purdue to lose one, and maybe Houston, Kansas and UNC as well.

A fun side project, no?

I think a reasonable goal us to be the next school to get to fifty weeks.

 

[tzznandrew]

UPDATE

1. Duke (145)
2. UCLA (134)
3. Kentucky (125)
4. UNC (113)
5. Kansas (76)
6. Indiana (54)
7. Cincinnati (45)
8. Gonzaga (42)
9. Arizona (39)
10. Ohio State (37)
11. UConn (33)
12. Losers: Everyone else.

Let's keep climbing.

 

[tzznandrew]

Your history is totally false and sounds like you are shooting from the hip
USF experienced good history before and after BRussell
They won an NIT in the late 40s (that was considered the national championship over the NCAA)
Russell was not recruited out of high school at all - BTW he graduated from HS in Oakland and grew up dirt poor not but in the Northeast.
Did UConn offer him a scholarship? UConn was not worth a jump on the plane and trip across the country when you had Holy Cross, Fordham and NYU on the east coast. BTW, USF had Pete Newell and Phill Woolpert as back to back coaches.
He never even came to the northeast until he donned a Celtic uniform.
USF, in the 40s and 50's was superior to UConn basketball wise.

genius??????????????????????????????

Why didn't Bill Russell know how good UConn was going to be? Was he stupid?

 

[alexd]

UNLV had a great three year run.

 

[Skiblets]

A better metric to cull the pretenders from this list would be total national championships divided by weeks at number 1. That would knock Gonzaga out completely.

 

[bendm]

i think we enjoy 2 more weeks at #1 (including this week). got some tough ones on the horizon.

but maybe our next loss coincides with a purdue loss and we both stay 1 and 2. we are clearly the top 2 teams especially with KU losing again to unranked K state last night.

 

[tzznandrew]

UNLV had a great three year run.

More like a 1983 to 1992.

They made a Final Four in 1977 with Tark and were pretty solid, but they reached #1 in 1983, and spent the bulk of 1985-1991 in the Top 10. They were banned in 1992 but finished 26-2.

They were a good program for a good 15 years or so.

 

[Chin Diesel]

UNLV had a great three year run.

LJ and Stacey Augmon.

What a set of forwards!!

 

[aburks41]

Lol Gonzaga with 42 weeks at #1 and zero championships. Just brutal

 

[selles]

More like a 1983 to 1992.

They made a Final Four in 1977 with Tark and were pretty solid, but they reached #1 in 1983, and spent the bulk of 1985-1991 in the Top 10. They were banned in 1992 but finished 26-2.

They were a good program for a good 15 years or so.

Armen "the Hammer" Gilliam and Fearless Freddie Banks. Those were fun teams.

 

[HuskyHoosier]

i think we enjoy 2 more weeks at #1 (including this week). got some tough ones on the horizon.

but maybe our next loss coincides with a purdue loss and we both stay 1 and 2. we are clearly the top 2 teams especially with KU losing again to unranked K state last night.

I don't know - I took a look at Purdue's schedule - don't see a loss there anytime soon.

Very weak B10

 

[bendm]

I don't know - I took a look at Purdue's schedule - don't see a loss there anytime soon.

Very weak B10

well they did lose to NW

 

[LStudfellow]

well they did lose to NW

And if not for some obvious home cooking by the refs, Purdue would have (should have, in fact) been swept. 46-8 discrepancy in foul shots, 29 to 19 in fouls in a game decided in overtime is straight criminal. CRIMINAL!

Honestly, there are only 2 things that keep us from making a deep tournament run this year: a bad injury or two, or a game where the refs let a team get away with doing to us what Seton Hall and Villanova got away with in those respective games. Barring that... we all know this team is fully capable of going back-to-back.

Oh man, the next two months are going to be fun!... and probably somewhat stressful, too

 

[ninety-nine]

i think we enjoy 2 more weeks at #1 (including this week). got some tough ones on the horizon.

but maybe our next loss coincides with a purdue loss and we both stay 1 and 2. we are clearly the top 2 teams especially with KU losing again to unranked K state last night.

I think we'll beat Marquette at home a week from Saturday (and winning at DePaul next Wednesday is a lock). If we expect to get knocked off (at home, no less) the first time our primary Big East challenger comes a-calling, we're not much of a title contender, are we?

 

[tzznandrew]

UPDATE

1. Duke (145)
2. UCLA (134)
3. Kentucky (125)
4. UNC (113)
5. Kansas (76)
6. Indiana (54)
7. Cincinnati (45)
8. Gonzaga (42)
9. Arizona (39)
10. Ohio State (37)
11. UConn (34)
12. Losers: Everyone else.

We're coming Ohio State.

 

[willie99]

Gonzaga 42, LOL

And I didn't know the AP was doing college basketball polls when Lincoln was POTUS

 

[DRBackup]

Gonzaga at #8 is surprising to Me.

Also, any idea how many of Cincinnati's weeks are under Bob Huggins?

Meh. Once you get to #1 if you play in a small conference that you can dominate, you're going to stay at #1 for a while.

 

[Skiblets]

UPDATE

1. Duke (145)
2. UCLA (134)
3. Kentucky (125)
4. UNC (113)
5. Kansas (76)
6. Indiana (54)
7. Cincinnati (45)
8. Gonzaga (42)
9. Arizona (39)
10. Ohio State (37)
11. UConn (34)
12. Losers: Everyone else.

We're coming Ohio State.

We're already #1in a new metric - call it the Skiblets Championship DNA Ratio. Others can have their in-season, process-oriented, weak t-shirt-producing plaudits. What matters is March (and sometimes April)...

		Weeks at #1	# of Nattys	% of Nattys to Weeks at #1
1​	UConn	34​	5​	15%​
2​	Indiana	54​	5​	9%​
3​	UCLA	134​	11​	8%​
4​	Kentucky	125​	8​	6%​
5​	UNC	113​	6​	5%​
6​	Kansas	76​	4​	5%​
7​	Cincy	45​	2​	4%​
8​	Duke	145​	5​	3%​
9​	Ohio State	37​	1​	3%​
10​	Arizona	39​	1​	3%​
11​	Gonzaga	42​	0​	0%​

 

[Tenspro2002]

We're already #1in a new metric - call it the Skiblets Championship DNA Ratio. Others can have their in-season, process-oriented, weak t-shirt-producing plaudits. What matters is March (and sometimes April)...

		Weeks at #1	# of Nattys	% of Nattys to Weeks at #1
1​	UConn	34​	5​	15%​
2​	Indiana	54​	5​	9%​
3​	UCLA	134​	11​	8%​
4​	Kentucky	125​	8​	6%​
5​	UNC	113​	6​	5%​
6​	Kansas	76​	4​	5%​
7​	Cincy	45​	2​	4%​
8​	Duke	145​	5​	3%​
9​	Ohio State	37​	1​	3%​
10​	Arizona	39​	1​	3%​
11​	Gonzaga	42​	0​	0%​

I want both weeks at #1 and national championships.

 

[FatElvis]

We're already #1in a new metric - call it the Skiblets Championship DNA Ratio. Others can have their in-season, process-oriented, weak t-shirt-producing plaudits. What matters is March (and sometimes April)...

		Weeks at #1	# of Nattys	% of Nattys to Weeks at #1
1​	UConn	34​	5​	15%​
2​	Indiana	54​	5​	9%​
3​	UCLA	134​	11​	8%​
4​	Kentucky	125​	8​	6%​
5​	UNC	113​	6​	5%​
6​	Kansas	76​	4​	5%​
7​	Cincy	45​	2​	4%​
8​	Duke	145​	5​	3%​
9​	Ohio State	37​	1​	3%​
10​	Arizona	39​	1​	3%​
11​	Gonzaga	42​	0​	0%​

So if a team that's never been ranked #1 wins it all this year they tie Gonzaga at 0?

 

[Skiblets]

So if a team that's never been ranked #1 wins it all this year they tie Gonzaga at 0?

No. Their metric would be #DIV/0!

 

[OceanDoggie]

I want both weeks at #1 and national championships.

Then you my friend are no believer in the Skiblets method.

 

[NowInStorrs]

Skiblets still makes more sense than RPI. I'm on board.

 

[Drame]

A better metric to cull the pretenders from this list would be total national championships divided by weeks at number 1. That would knock Gonzaga out completely.

Or all the weeks after you win a title you get credit for being #1, until the next season.

 

[ARIDE]

Bottom line is we have to play some really good BB these next few weeks and into March madness...schedule starts sat !!!

 

[ninety-nine]

Today's update:

1. Duke (145)
2. UCLA (134)
3. Kentucky (125)
4. UNC (113)
5. Kansas (76)
6. Indiana (54)
7. Cincinnati (45)
8. Gonzaga (42)
9. Arizona (39)
10. Ohio State (37)
11. UConn (35)

If we can get by Creighton tomorrow night, you have to like our chances to reach 37 weeks.

 

[uconngb]

No. Their metric would be #DIV/0!

I think your method should also take into consideration the number of times a team was clearly over-rated at number one and subtract those out. I believe that would put us ahead of Dook.

 

[AZHuskiePop]

Show him the trophies.

Some of those years might have been before he was born1958-62 . The Big O or Paul Hogue era
I’m not sure if he even remembers Huggies' great teams from 25-30 years ago . especially 1998-2000.
Their best ranking since was in the AAC .

 

[TRUCONN76]

About thirty of the weeks were 59, 60, 61, 62 and 63. I think they were number one for every week the won nc in 61 and 62 and were #1 for all of 62 and 63 before the lost their chance to three peat losing in nc game. It started when Oscar Robertson hit there but they got better in 61 the first year without him. He never won a national championship. Made it to one or two final fours.

When I was at Uconn as a student in the 70's there was a rumor circulating at the time that the Big O had actually visited UConn during his recruitment in the 60's.