ESPN Ranks Most Prestigious Programs: ‘Nova #31

July 22, 2008 · Filed Under Article 

ESPN has created a point scheme to determine the best programs of Modern Basketball. The system grants points on National Championships, and yearly success and takes points away for sub-500 seasons.

Villanova came in at #31 with 126 points.

We Did the Math…

Update- thanks to Eric for at noting Allan Ray’s 3rd Team All-America (which earns 1 point). Also, initially a 20-Win season was worth 2 points (but it was changed to 1 point)- So, Villanova should have 120 points or 134 points
National Championship: 25 (1985)
Elite 8: 20 (1988, 2006)
Best Record in Big East: 10 (1997, 2006)
Sweet 16 loss: 10 (2005, 2008)
Conference Tourney Title: 3 (1994)
Losing in 2nd Round: 12 (1986, 1991, 1996, 1997)
Player in Top 10 Draft: 8 (Foye, Kittles, Pickney, Thomas)
20-29 win seasons: 13 (85, 86, 88, 94, 95, 96, 97, 99, 00, 05, 06, 07, 08)
First round win as a 12-16 seed: 2 (2008)
NIT Title: 2 (1994)
Tourney Birth: 13 (85, 86, 88, 90, 91, 95, 96, 97, 99, 05, 06, 07, 08)
NIT: 9 (87, 89, 90, 94, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04)
AP 1st Team All American: 6 (Kittles, Foye)
AP 2nd Team All American: 4 (Kittles, Bradley)
AP 3rd Team All American: 1 (Ray)
Loss to 12-16 seed: -2 (Old Dominion)
Losing Seasons: -15 (87, 92, 93, 98, 03)

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5 Responses to “ESPN Ranks Most Prestigious Programs: ‘Nova #31”

  1. eric on July 22nd, 2008 1:18 pm

    ARay was 3rd team AA

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  2. Bob Natiello on July 22nd, 2008 1:58 pm

    1971 ‘Cats made the NCAA finals. No points for that?

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  3. mike on July 22nd, 2008 2:06 pm

    Originally Posted By Bob Natiello
    1971 ‘Cats made the NCAA finals. No points for that?

    They are only considering success since 1985 when the Tourny was expanded to 64 teams.

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  4. greyCat on July 24th, 2008 10:20 am

    The 8 additional points would have raised Villanova’s rank by…1. Murray State (#30) had 126 points, Purdue (#29) had 140 points. The value of the exercise may be less in who actually comes in #1 (or #341…), but rather what makes a program "great"? Quantifying the criteria does not necessarily make that criteria unbiased. What did the ESPN researchers "value" as they did their research and compiled their list? How was that criteria different than Mark Miller’s (over at Beyond the Arc Blog)?

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  5. VUhoops.com on July 24th, 2008 12:31 pm

    Originally Posted By greyCat
    The 8 additional points would have raised Villanova’s rank by…1. Murray State (#30) had 126 points, Purdue (#29) had 140 points. The value of the exercise may be less in who actually comes in #1 (or #341…), but rather what makes a program "great"? Quantifying the criteria does not necessarily make that criteria unbiased. What did the ESPN researchers "value" as they did their research and compiled their list? How was that criteria different than Mark Miller’s (over at Beyond the Arc Blog)?

    And this is why we love greyCat. You bring up very valid points.

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