# What is the greatest college basketball team of all time?

> Unbeaten dynasties, one-season juggernauts and teams that changed the sport sit side by side, men's and women's alike. Eras differ wildly, so judge dominance however you like.

*By YPB Team · Published November 5, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/what-is-the-greatest-college-basketball-team-of-all-time*

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## Current results (no votes yet)

1. **1973–74 NC State Wolfpack** — score 1000/1000
   David Thompson's 30–1 champions, who ended UCLA's run of seven straight titles with a double-overtime semifinal win.
2. **1975–76 Indiana Hoosiers** — score 863/1000
   Bob Knight's 32–0 team, the last men's Division I champion to finish a season unbeaten, with Scott May and Kent Benson.
3. **2014–15 Kentucky Wildcats** — score 863/1000
   A platoon-system team with Karl-Anthony Towns that started 38–0 before losing to Wisconsin in the Final Four.
4. **2023–24 South Carolina Gamecocks women** — score 806/1000
   Dawn Staley's 38–0 champions with Kamilla Cardoso, who beat Caitlin Clark's Iowa in the national final.
5. **2008–09 North Carolina Tar Heels** — score 779/1000
   Tyler Hansbrough and Ty Lawson's 34–4 team, which won all six tournament games by at least 12 points.
6. **1967–68 UCLA Bruins** — score 779/1000
   Lew Alcindor's 29–1 champions, who avenged their only loss by routing Houston 101–69 in the national semifinal.
7. **1959–60 Ohio State Buckeyes** — score 652/1000
   Jerry Lucas, John Havlicek and a reserve named Bob Knight won Ohio State's only NCAA men's title with a 25–3 record.
8. **1981–82 North Carolina Tar Heels** — score 652/1000
   Dean Smith's first title team, 32–2, with James Worthy, Sam Perkins and freshman Michael Jordan hitting the winner against Georgetown.
9. **1978–79 Michigan State Spartans** — score 652/1000
   Magic Johnson and Greg Kelser's 26–6 champions, who ended Larry Bird's Indiana State run of 33 straight wins in the 1979 final.
10. **2017–18 Villanova Wildcats** — score 652/1000
   Jay Wright's 36–4 champions, who set a then-record 464 three-pointers and won every tournament game by double digits.
11. **1990–91 UNLV Runnin' Rebels** — score 575/1000
   Larry Johnson and Stacey Augmon's team went 34–1, winning every game until a Final Four loss to Duke.
12. **1971–72 UCLA Bruins** — score 575/1000
   John Wooden's 30–0 national champions led by sophomore Bill Walton, who beat opponents by an average of about 30 points a game.
13. **1966–67 UCLA Bruins** — score 575/1000
   A 30–0 title team in Lew Alcindor's first varsity season, the first of UCLA's seven straight national championships.
14. **1983–84 Georgetown Hoyas** — score 575/1000
   Patrick Ewing's 34–3 champions, making John Thompson the first Black head coach to win the NCAA men's title.
15. **1949–50 CCNY Beavers** — score 487/1000
   Nat Holman's City College team, the only school to win the NCAA tournament and the NIT in the same season.
16. **1955–56 San Francisco Dons** — score 487/1000
   Bill Russell led this 29–0 side, with K. C. Jones through the regular season, to a second straight NCAA title during a 60-game winning streak.
17. **2023–24 UConn Huskies** — score 487/1000
   Dan Hurley's 37–3 repeat champions, who won all six NCAA tournament games by at least 14 points.
18. **2011–12 Kentucky Wildcats** — score 487/1000
   John Calipari's 38–2 champions, built around national player of the year Anthony Davis, with six players drafted in 2012.
19. **1995–96 Kentucky Wildcats** — score 384/1000
   Rick Pitino's 34–2 champions, a deep roster with Antoine Walker, Tony Delk and Ron Mercer that sent nine players to the NBA.
20. **1991–92 Duke Blue Devils** — score 384/1000
   Christian Laettner, Bobby Hurley and Grant Hill's 34–2 team, the first repeat national champion since UCLA in 1973.
21. **1965–66 Texas Western Miners** — score 384/1000
   Don Haskins's 28–1 team, the first to win the NCAA title with an all-Black starting five, beating Kentucky 72–65 in the final.
22. **2013–14 UConn Huskies women** — score 384/1000
   Geno Auriemma's 40–0 team with Breanna Stewart and Stefanie Dolson, who beat unbeaten Notre Dame in the national final.
23. **1956–57 North Carolina Tar Heels** — score 384/1000
   Frank McGuire's 32–0 Tar Heels, who beat Michigan State and then Wilt Chamberlain's Kansas in back-to-back triple-overtime games for the title.
24. **1972–73 UCLA Bruins** — score 262/1000
   Unbeaten at 30–0, this group won the final against Memphis State behind Bill Walton's 44 points on 21-of-22 shooting.
25. **1963–64 UCLA Bruins** — score 262/1000
   Wooden's first national champion, a 30–0 small-ball team with Walt Hazzard and Gail Goodrich and no starter taller than 6-foot-5.
26. **2015–16 UConn Huskies women** — score 0/1000
   A 38–0 squad that won a fourth straight NCAA title, with Breanna Stewart, Moriah Jefferson and Morgan Tuck going 1-2-3 in the WNBA draft.
27. **1947–48 Kentucky Wildcats** — score 0/1000
   Adolph Rupp's 36–3 'Fabulous Five', who won the NCAA title and then helped the United States to Olympic gold in London.

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