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Anything pertaining to basketball: college, pro, HS, recruiting, TV coverage
ATWP D1 MBB AY2025-26
16 hours 9 minutes ago #34956
by HawkErrant
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
ALL TIME WINNINGEST PROGRAMS D1 MEN'S BASKETBALL
Top 25 programs by Wins total
OF NOTE THIS PAST WEEK
• #4 Duke (overall 1 seed in the NCAAT) loses in the East Regional final on a last seconds trey to #20 UConn
• #12 Illinois and #13 Arizona also make the Final Four
• No AWTP members in Men's NIT
• WVU is in the College Basketball Crown Tournament v Stanford on April.2.
ALL-TIME & ACADEMIC YEAR 2025-26 WON-LOST TOTALS
games through 2026-03-29 after NCAA Regional FinalsLEGEND
WON-LOST-WIN% are all time figures.
CY: Current Academic Year
WB: Wins Behind #1
ΔKU: Current year change compared to KU
NCAAC: NCAA Tournament Championships
$ NCAA Tournament 2025
¢ NIT 2025
+ College Basketball Crown Tournament
Ʃ No postseason play, finished for 2025
X lost in postseason, finished for 2025
NB: 12 of the Top 25 ATWP have no NCAA Tournament titles.
The other 13 members account for 55 of the 86 (64%) NCAAT titles as of last AY.
Only 10 have multiple titles, accounting for 52 (60%) of the NCAAT titles won to date.
As always, please let me know if you have any questions or spot any errors, and thanks in advance!
AY2025-26 KU OBJECTIVES
21/64: Win KU's 21st Big 12 title in 30 Big 12 seasons, and NCAA best 64th conference title in program history.
No joy for a third straight season. 
12/29: Looking for KU's 12th Big 12 Tournament title, and 29th overall conference tournament title
(currently 11 Big 12 titles + 4 Big 8 postseason titles 1977-96 + 13 Big 6/7/8 Holiday Tournament titles 1947 to 1979).
No joy for a fourth straight season.
and
5/7: NCAA & total National Championships to go with their COVID-19 Season Final 2020 Consensus #1 ranking.*
6th time in last 7 NCAA Tournaments that Kansas has not made it to the Sweet 16
Round 1 out: 2025
Round 2 out: 2019, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2026
NATIONAL CHAMPIONS: 2022
No NCAAT in 2020.
Top 25 programs by Wins total
OF NOTE THIS PAST WEEK
• #4 Duke (overall 1 seed in the NCAAT) loses in the East Regional final on a last seconds trey to #20 UConn
• #12 Illinois and #13 Arizona also make the Final Four
• No AWTP members in Men's NIT
• WVU is in the College Basketball Crown Tournament v Stanford on April.2.
ALL-TIME & ACADEMIC YEAR 2025-26 WON-LOST TOTALS
games through 2026-03-29 after NCAA Regional Finals
RANK PROGRAM WON LOST WIN% CYW CYL CYW% WB ΔKU NCAAC
1 Kentucky X 2444 784 .757 22 14 .611 0 -2 8
2 Kansas X 2438 920 .726 24 11 .686 6 na 4
3 N Carolina X 2419 883 .733 24 9 .727 25 0 6
4 Duke X 2370 936 .717 35 3 .921 74 11 5
5 UCLA X 2049 928 .688 24 12 .667 395 0 11
6 Temple Ʃ 2026 1188 .630 16 16 .500 418 -8 0
7 Syracuse Ʃ 2022 1012 .666 15 17 .469 422 -9 1
8 St. John’s X 2003 1110 .643 30 7 .811 441 6 0
9 Notre Dame Ʃ 1991 1145 .634 13 18 .419 453 -11 0
10 Purdue X 1983 1101 .643 30 9 .769 461 6 0
11 Indiana Ʃ 1968 1144 .632 18 14 .563 476 -6 5
12 Illinois $ 1957 1082 .644 28 8 .778 487 4 0
13 Arizona $ 1949 1001 .660 36 2 .947 495 12 1
14 Cincinnati Ʃ 1948 1110 .637 18 15 .545 496 -6 2
15 BYU X 1941 1167 .625 23 12 .657 503 -1 1
16 Texas X 1940 1170 .624 21 15 .583 504 -3 0
17 W Kentucky Ʃ 1929 1014 .655 18 14 .563 515 -6 0
18 Villanova X 1927 1013 .655 24 9 .727 517 0 3
19 Utah Ʃ 1924 1123 .631 10 22 .313 520 -14 0
20 UConn $ 1894 1031 .648 33 5 .868 550 9 6
21 W Virginia + 1892 1202 .612 18 14 .563 552 -6 0
22 Washington Ʃ 1891 1303 .592 16 17 .485 553 -8 0
23 Michigan StX 1888 1171 .617 27 8 .771 556 3 2
24 Gonzaga X 1873 1132 .623 31 4 .886 571 7 0
25 Penn Ʃ 1872 1201 .609 18 12 .600 572 -6 0WON-LOST-WIN% are all time figures.
CY: Current Academic Year
WB: Wins Behind #1
ΔKU: Current year change compared to KU
NCAAC: NCAA Tournament Championships
$ NCAA Tournament 2025
¢ NIT 2025
+ College Basketball Crown Tournament
Ʃ No postseason play, finished for 2025
X lost in postseason, finished for 2025
NB: 12 of the Top 25 ATWP have no NCAA Tournament titles.
The other 13 members account for 55 of the 86 (64%) NCAAT titles as of last AY.
Only 10 have multiple titles, accounting for 52 (60%) of the NCAAT titles won to date.
As always, please let me know if you have any questions or spot any errors, and thanks in advance!
AY2025-26 KU OBJECTIVES
(currently 11 Big 12 titles + 4 Big 8 postseason titles 1977-96 + 13 Big 6/7/8 Holiday Tournament titles 1947 to 1979).
No joy for a fourth straight season.
and
6th time in last 7 NCAA Tournaments that Kansas has not made it to the Sweet 16
Round 1 out: 2025
Round 2 out: 2019, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2026
NATIONAL CHAMPIONS: 2022
No NCAAT in 2020.
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
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