This week college basketball crowned another champion. Starting with the Oregon Webfoots in 1939, there have now been 84 NCAA Tournament champions. Your University of Kentucky Wildcats have taken the title back to Lexington on average once every 10 years. How do those champions stack up with the rest? ESPN attempted to answer that question.
In the aftermath of the 2023 NCAA Tournament, ESPN’s John Gasaway ranked every single championship team. An imperfect exercise, the pecking order was based on the “relative strength” of each team. Simply put, “how much did each team dominate?”
As a Kentucky fan, naturally I scrolled to find the Wildcats first, then got mad they were ranked higher.