Thursday, December 3, 2009

What are some division I basketball colleges/universities?

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What are some division I basketball colleges/universities?nba street





Michigan State University.



(Also, any of the schools in the ACC, SEC, Big 10, Pac 10, Big 12, C-USA, Big East...just to name a few D-I basketball conferences.)



What are some division I basketball colleges/universities?nba news ,nba teams



UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
Duke



Florida



Kansas



Kentucky



UCLA



Gonzaga



California (UC Berkeley)



Stanford



Pepperdine



UNLV (University of Nevada Las Vegas)



UTEP (University of Texas El Paso)



Ohio State



Oklahoma



Memphis



Tennessee



Marquette



Here's a complete list



http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/teams;_ylt...
Division I has over 300 basketball schools divided among 31 conferences and a handful of independent schools.
You can find a list of all schools in Division I easily enough. Maxwell has a few facts mixed up, though. Florida is NOT the only team to win back to back national titles... his afformentioned UCLA Bruins are also in that category. Also Maxwell cleverly notes that Michigan pays players to be there... but loves Augmon and Larry Johnson from UNLV. Does anyone else see the irony in that?
First off the three top schools for basketball of all time would have to be North Carolina, Georgetown and Duke. There have been COUNTLESS NBA players that came out of those schools... but you have to add UCLA in the factor just because there has NEVER been a coach as successful as Wooden! Florida has made their mark as a basketball school now. No other team has ever won back-to-back National Championships. But, other than those five schools I'd have to list off:



Kentucky (breathes basketball)



Indiana (nothing quite like the Hoosier state for basketball)



St. John's (they've faded off the face of the earth lately)



Michigan St. (ever since Izzo came to East Lansing)



Ohio State (since Thad Matta is the man at recruiting)



Marquette (...don't have anything else to cheer for!)



Illinois (ridiculous atmosphere, so much orange!)



Gonzaga (Stockton put them on the map)



Louisville (Petino really put them on the map hard core)



Michigan (because they pay you to play there)



Kansas (great coaches from Owens to Self)



UNLV (still live in the L.J. and Augman era... can't blame 'em)



Massachusetts (under the radar hard core, Dr. J went there)



Temple (because their football team is a joke)



Valparaiso (real good small conference team)



Butler (Lickliter put them on the map, and is now at Iowa)



Arizona (face it, Olsen turns basketball programs to gold)



... I'm sure I'm missing a few, but those are some of the major ones!
Umm, there's like 350 of them. Take a look here......



http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/teams;_ylt...
The most prominent NCAA Division I basketball programs are the UCLA Bruins, Kentucky Wildcats, Duke Blue Devils %26amp; the North Carolina Tar Heels.
These are the "traditionally" powerfully Division I basketball program.



- Univ. of North Carolina



- Duke University



- Univ. of Indiana



- Univ Cal. Los Angeles (UCLA)



Here are last season's Top 25 as of April 3, 2007



1 Florida



2 Ohio State



3 UCLA



4 Georgetown



5 Kansas



6 U of North Carolina



7 Memphis



8 Oregon



9 Texas A%26amp;M



10 Pittsburgh



11 Southern Illinois



11 Univ of Wisconsin (tie)



13 Butler



14 UNLV



15 Southern California (USC)



16 Texas



17 Washington State



18 Tennessee



19 Vanderbilt



20 Louisville



21 Nevada



22 Winthrop



23 Maryland



24 Virginia



25 Virginia Tech



There are many more Div. I programs besides these. Many Div. I programs may NEVER rank in the "Top 25". Butler University and the Southern Illinois Salukis are relative newcomers to such high ranking. I have known about Butler for years and made lots of money off them with point spreads in legal gambling. Whoever coaches that team should be considered for an NBA job cause he definitely knows his X's and O's.



There are 31 DIVISION basketball conferences. Each CONFERENCE has roughly 10 teams. So, doing the math there are more than 300 DIVISION I BASKETBALL TEAMS in the US of A. There are no DIV I teams in Canada or Mexico.



Also, just because a school has a Division I football team does not mean they have a Division I basketball team or vice versa. St. John's University is an excellent example of this. St. John's is 5th all time in NCAA basketball wins but doesn't even HAVE a football team. Georgetown also has a powerful basketball team most of the time but their football team plays in the Div. I "Patriot" League, compared to the basketball team's Big East campaigns. Not quite on the same level.

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