Marquette ties Notre Dame most ever top 10 AP Poll appearances

[Cheeks]

Today's Top 10 appearance marks the 166th time MU has appeared in the top 10 in the AP poll history which is tied for 18th best in NCAA men's basketball history with Notre Dame.

[MountainCreekHouse]

Full list of most all-time Top-10 appearances?

[Galway Eagle]

Full list of most all-time Top-10 appearances?

College poll archive

[MU82]

According to my sources, ND sucks.

[Mr. Sand-Knit]

Today's Top 10 appearance marks the 166th time MU has appeared in the top 10 in the AP poll history which is tied for 18th best in NCAA men's basketball history with Notre Dame.

Today's Top 10 appearance marks the 166th time MU has appeared in the top 10 in the AP poll history which is tied for 18th best in NCAA men's basketball history.
FIFY
Who gives a Fück about Notre Dame or Iu or Kansas?? No one but you.

[GooooMarquette]

According to my sources, ND sucks.

You have solid sources.

[Cheeks]

Full list of most all-time Top-10 appearances?

1. Kentucky   694
2. North Carolina   676
3. Duke   671   
4. Kansas   553   
5. UCLA
6. Arizona   299
7. Louisville   288
8. Indiana   282   
9. Syracuse   255
10. Michigan State   238
11. Ohio State   226
12. Illinois   225
13. Michigan   213
14. Villanova   212
15. Cincinnati   210
16. Connecticut   196
17.Maryland   186
18.Notre Dame   166
  Marquette. 166

[GooooMarquette]

1. Kentucky   694
2. North Carolina   676
3. Duke   671   
4. Kansas   553   
5. UCLA
6. Arizona   299
7. Louisville   288
8. Indiana   282   
9. Syracuse   255
10. Michigan State   238
11. Ohio State   226
12. Illinois   225
13. Michigan   213
14. Villanova   212
15. Cincinnati   210
16. Connecticut   196
17.Maryland   186
18.Notre Dame   166
  Marquette. 166

While appearances on the list generally translates well into National Championships, Illinois and ND are the exceptions. For all those top 10 appearances, 0 NCs and only 2 FFs between them.

[Cheeks]

While appearances on the list generally translates well into National Championships, Illinois and ND are the exceptions. For all those top 10 appearances, 0 NCs and only 2 FFs between them.

Crapshoot

[JWags85]

And yet Wisconsin game is our a Super Bowl and they only measure success on tourney wins 

[burger]

Where is the "Harvard of the Midwest"......

How far back????

[Cheeks]

Where is the "Harvard of the Midwest"......

How far back????

Northwestern is 120th with 4 appearances in the top 10 all time

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Where is the "Harvard of the Midwest"......

How far back????

AP Poll stats for Wisconsin:

t-#36 in Total Appearances with 257 (tied with UNLV)
#53 in Top 10 Appearances with 64 (between Duquesne/Georgia Tech and USC)
t-#46 in Top 5 Appearances with 32 (tied with Wichita State and La Salle)
t-#47 in #2 Appearances with 5 (tied with St. Joe's)
t-#52 in #1 Appearances with 1 (tied with Baylor, Georgia Tech, Iowa, Oklahoma State, St. Joe's, South Carolina, and Wichita State)

[Heisenberg]

Northwestern is 120th with 4 appearances in the top 10 all time

Well played sir!

[GooooMarquette]

AP Poll stats for Wisconsin:

t-#36 in Total Appearances with 257 (tied with UNLV)
#53 in Top 10 Appearances with 64 (between Duquesne/Georgia Tech and USC)
t-#46 in Top 5 Appearances with 32 (tied with Wichita State and La Salle)
t-#47 in #2 Appearances with 5 (tied with St. Joe's)
t-#52 in #1 Appearances with 1 (tied with Baylor, Georgia Tech, Iowa, Oklahoma State, St. Joe's, South Carolina, and Wichita State)

Duquesne? Georgia Tech?

That's some college hoops royalty right there....

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Duquesne? Georgia Tech?

That's some college hoops royalty right there....

I honestly didn't know about the history at Duquesne. 1949-1955 were good years for the Dukes. They spent 48 weeks ranked in the top 10 over those 6 seasons. Tied for 3rd most in that stretch with Indiana. They were 1 behind #2 Oklahoma State. Kentucky was king at the time with a 23 point lead on #2 OKST.

[buckchuckler]

Northwestern is 120th with 4 appearances in the top 10 all time

And yet, just one tourney appearance still correct?  That is amazing.

Also to me, the biggest surprise on the list is Illinois.  I wouldn't have guessed that high for them.

[Cheeks]

And yet, just one tourney appearance still correct?  That is amazing.

Also to me, the biggest surprise on the list is Illinois.  I wouldn't have guessed that high for them.

Correct.  Remember that for many years only the conference champion made the NCAA tournament.  There were years USC was ranked top 5 in the country and didn't make it because UCLA won the conference.  No conference tournaments back then.

[Galway Eagle]

Duquesne? Georgia Tech?

That's some college hoops royalty right there....

Depressing but Georgia tech has more final fours than us

[oldwarrior81]

Correct.  Remember that for many years only the conference champion made the NCAA tournament.  There were years USC was ranked top 5 in the country and didn't make it because UCLA won the conference.  No conference tournaments back then.

in '70-71 USC ended up ranked 5th with a 24-2 record.  Both losses to eventual National Champion UCLA.  The biggest name on the USC team was Paul Westphal, although Mo Layton led the team in scoring.

UCLA was undefeated and ranked #1 when they lost at Notre Dame in late January.
Marquette jumped up to #1, and undefeated USC moved to #2 ahead of UCLA.
When UCLA beat #2 USC they jumped back to #1, and MU slipped to #2 (where they remained the rest of the season)

[WarriorDad]

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Who gives a Fück about Notre Dame or Iu or Kansas?? No one but you.

It appears he was saying Marquette moved from 19th to 18th by tying the next school on the list.  The next school on the list is Notre Dame? We were taught to hate Notre Dame when attending Marquette.  If we caught them and can pass them in something that is a positive in my book. 

[Cheeks]

It appears he was saying Marquette moved from 19th to 18th by tying the next school on the list.  The next school on the list is Notre Dame? We were taught to hate Notre Dame when attending Marquette.  If we caught them and can pass them in something that is a positive in my book.

Correct.  Sandknit has a special loving bond with me so you have to remember that.

[MUMountin]

Depressing but Georgia tech has more final fours than us

??? I think that they only have two ('90 and '04).  But, they had a pretty strong stretch there under both Cremins and Hewitt.

[NorthernDancerColt]

Duquesne? Georgia Tech?

That's some college hoops royalty right there....

If you ever get a chance, catch a concert by the Duquesne University Tamburitzans. I am a little biased as a guy with 100% Croatian lineage. The "Tammies" are comprised of talented student musicians and dancers most of whom have Slavic backgrounds. As such, the focus used to be entirely Serbo-Croatian folk music. However, the latest iteration of their show features cultural dances and music from Ireland, Central America, Armenia, Slovenia, and Bulgaria among others. To give you an idea how good they are, their recent performance at the Irish American Heritage Center in Chicago brought the Irish employees of the building to their feet upon the Gaelic dance segment of the show. The costumes and choreography are out of this world.

The Tamburitzans are the longest running continuous stage performance in North America, this being their 82nd year.

[Cheeks]

Depressing but Georgia tech has more final fours than us

Georgia Tech has two total.

Georgia has one.

Marquette has three