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Counting down the most prestigious programs since 1984-85

By Harold Shelton, Nick Loucks and Chris Fallica
ESPN Research

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

What is prestige? What does a college basketball program have to do to prove its prestige? What program is the most prestigious? And who's to judge? This summer, we decided to tackle the hundreds of Division I men's college basketball teams, weighing the thousands of regular-season and postseason wins and losses, the NBA draft picks, the All-Americans and the national titles to come up with a numerical point system to provide unbiased rankings of every college hoops program's success since the ...

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