<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Top 10 of the last 10: Best programs By Andy Glockner ESPN.com Editor's note: The Top 10 lists are an aggregate of the individual ballots from five ESPN/ESPN.com basketball experts. The experts' ballots can be found if you follow the link. Early entry into the NBA draft wasn't a new thing when Kevin Garnett took the leap in 1995 from the preps directly to the pros, but when he skipped college altogether, it empowered a new generation of prep stars to reconsider how long they needed to play at the college level. Whether they followed Garnett's path (like Kobe Bryant in 1996 and Tracy McGrady in 1997) or just started shrinking the amount of time spent in college (like Lamar Odom's one season, in 1999) -- the change in the recruiting landscape to deal with the one- and two-year players ushered in a very new era of college basketball. As such, we thought it would be intriguing -- and argument-forming -- to take a look at the best of the best of the past decade of college basketball. Over the next five days, we will explore the top 10 programs, individual teams, surprise programs and underachieving programs, and we'll wrap up on Friday with an examination of the 10 programs best positioned for success going forward. First up: ESPN.com's Top 10 programs of the last 10 years.</div> http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?i...ht&lid=tab2pos1 Do you agree or disagree with it?
I was scared that when I clicked on this I'd see Florida #1. What a relief... Seriously though, two titles and another final four are amazing accomplishments in ten years time, but does that put them over a team like North Carolina that has had a title and three finals fours but also five or six great seasons? I'm not sure how this list was devised, but I think consistency does have to play a part in the equation, and the Tar Heels, aside from one horrible down year, have been fairly dominant over the last ten years, whereas Florida has just had a quick spark of success. Like I said though, I'm not sure exactly how this list is devised. There are millions of ways to rank these teams. Based purely on overall accomplishments and not consistency, or anything like that, here's how I'd rank them - 1) Duke 2) UConn 3) Michigan State 4) Florida 5) North Carolina 6) Kentucky 7) Kansas 8) Maryland 9) Arizona 10) Syracuse Hmm... that's actually not too far off from ESPN's list. It looks like these guys may have gotten it right this time.
