The Prestige: Conference rankings

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Rankings
Published 7/25/2008 by Big Money Tony at The DC Sports Page
... What is almost more interesting is how they rank conferences. Duke and NC are number 1 & 2 respectively, yet the ACC is third, losing out to the Big East and the Big Ten. Part of that problem is that they include all ACC teams as of today in the ranking, vs using only traditional teams. Let's face it, BC, VA Tech, and Miami weren't tearing up the court in their pre-ACC days. ...

Odds and Ends: Luxury Suites Edition
Published 7/25/2008 by Tar Heel Fan at Tar Heel Fan
... Also in the rankings done by Gottlieb, the ACC ranks 3rd behind the Big East and Big Ten/Eleven.  However if you remove the three expansion teams because let’s face it at least two of them suck in basketball(historically speaking) the ACC is easily #1.  Now I know expansion has been deemed a success because of the money, blah, blah, blah.  That still does not mean I am not going occassionaly gripe about the unbalanced schedule and the fact the league has been watered down in basketball somewhat. ...

Ranking the Mountain West Basketball Programs Nationally
Published 7/26/2008 by Jeremy at The Mountain West Conference Connection
...  has a pretty nice article during the college basketball offseason, and ranked every program with at least 15 years of division one play since 1984-85 season when the NCAA tournament expanded to 65 teams.  It is amazing where some of the teams in the MWC landed, and what is most surprising is that the Mountain West ranked 6th in average position per team in a conference ahead of the Pac-10 with an average 113th ranking compared to 118th, not too bad.  Only the top 50 goes into details of their score rankings.  Very interesting article, and I was very surprised where a few ...

ACC Places Duke #1 in 'ESPN.com Top Programs'; UNC is #3; Everyone Else is Back
Published 7/27/2008 at FanHouse
... great names but haven't had the elite success to match. The other ACC schools ... #38-Wake Forest: Produced elite players Tim Duncan and Chris Paul but hasn't made a Final Four. #52-NC State: State had some good years in there ... and some horrible ones. Infractions hurt. #70t-Boston College: Most of this was from their Big East years. #70t-Virginia #111-Clemson #128-Florida State #145t-Miami (Fla) #210-Virginia Tech The ACC finished third in the "prestige rankings" behind the Big East and the Big Ten.   ...