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SN 140: Ranking the greatest college basketball teams of all time, from UCLA to Kentucky

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As part of our SN 140 celebration, we asked a panel of Hall of Fame basketball writers to select the top 15 college teams of all time. Spoiler alert: UCLA did well in the rankings.

SN 140: Ranking the greatest college basketball teams of all time, from UCLA to Kentucky originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . Yes, it is a challenge to compare teams across eras, if it’s college basketball or professional football or whether Martin and Lewis were a better comedy duo than Steve Martin and Martin Short.

Sporting News is up to the challenge of ranking the greatest college basketball teams in history, though. Of course we are. We just got done ranking the 140 Greatest Moments in Sports as part of the 140 th birthday celebration for our publication , so this project was a layup.

And here’s how we made it happen: Fill a room with Hall of Famers – a virtual room, in this case – let them think on it. We put together a panel of nine members of the U. S.

Basketball Writers Hall of Fame and asked them to rank the Top 15 teams in college hoops. It may not surprise you the team at the top of the list is nicknamed “Bruins”. But which one?

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