ESPN.com Men's Hoops prestige rankings

[muskieman]

on a side note with Umass in the 41 to 50 here are other A-10 schools on the list.

Atlantic 10
T-57. Saint Joseph's
T-65. Richmond
73. Charlotte
123. George Washington
T-132. La Salle
T-134. Rhode Island
T-148. Saint Louis
T-168. Dayton
T-214. Fordham
T-278. St. Bonaventure
293. Duquesne

[xu2010]

A few comments about this list:
1. Dayton is 168. With the way things are computed now, we are probably in the top 30. Dayton fans, get back.

2. Temple, Xavier, UMass are the three A-10 teams in the top 50. Temple can thank John Cheney, Umass John Calapari, Xavier can thank tradition. When you look at the final A-10 listings on here, you will see that we are by far the class of the A-10.

3. 13 Big 6 Schools below 150. This really is not that surprising. Figure that every Big 6 conference has 2 bottom dwellers. The A-10 has 4 below the 150 mark, 2 of which (Bonaventure and Fordham) we should kick out of our conference. This obviously makes the A-10 better as a conference.

4. Butler, Wisconsin, Pitt in the 41-50 range. This makes sense because these 3 all have just sprung onto the college basketball forefront.

5. I can't wait for the next few regions.

[BobbyBoucher]

Here is 40-31

40. Princeton (93)
39. Tulsa (97)
38. Wake Forest (98)
37. Missouri (98)Negatives: 3 losing seasons; just 12 NCAA tourney wins in 14 trips; NCAA sanction in 2004; loss to 13th-seeded XAVIER in 1987, loss to 14th-seeded Northern Iowa in 1990
36. St. John's (100)
35. Alabama (100)
34. Penn (102)
33. Georgia Tech (117)
32. Oklahoma St. (125)
31. Villanova (126)

[X-Men]

31-40 just came out and we aren't on that as well. I'm thinking #20 overall. Anything top 25 and I'll be pleased.

[GoZags]

I had some free time and a media guide, so I attempted to tally up what score Xavier would receive. I ended up with 167, which puts us well ahead of # 41 LSU which had 93 points. 167 should be within at least a couple points of the score they come up with, so I think we should be safely inside the top 25 with a score like that.

Zags and XU should be very, very close (I have GU at 159, with all but a couple of points coming post '94).

[rickf]

No Xavier yet 31-40. Wed.21-30

[GoZags]

Top 30 (courtesy of a couple of Zag posters with more time than me). This is in no particular order. Edited to addL these are likely the 30 schools that have heretofore been unmentioned in the current ESPN series.

Kansas
North Carolina
Florida
Duke
Georgetown
Michigan State
UCONN
Kentucky
UCLA
Arizona
Indiana
Maryland
Memphis
Louisville
Syracuse
Texas
Xavier
Gonzaga
UNLV
Stanford
Purdue
Ohio State
Illinois
Michigan
Cincinatti
Oklahoma
Virginia
Arkansas
Temple
Utah

[MuskiePimp23]

Hey Muskie Cinci,
I did the math and we should be well over 167...I came up with 203 total...Here is the break down:

2 Elite 8 Loss X10 = 20
Best W/L in Conf Reg Season 12 X5 = 60
30 win season = 5
Sweet 16 Loss = 5
Conference Tourney Title 9 X 3 = 27
AP 1st Team All American = 3 (David West 2003)
Losing in NCAA 2nd round 7X3 = 21
Top 10 NBA Draft Pick = 2 ( Brian Grant 8th overall )
NCAA Win as a 12-16 seed 2 X 2 = 4
AP 2nd Team All American = 2 ( David West 2002)
20-29 wins...18 X 2 = 36
17 NCAA Tourneys = 17
3 NIT's = 3
AP 3rd Team All American = 1 (Byron Larkin 1988)
Losing Season = -3

Total : 203

[XU Horns]

Any chance you can put the math down here. I did it off the top of my head and came up with 175. Clearly the media guide is a better source - just curious where I am off 8 points. Thanks.

[suspectx]

GoZags,

That list is not completely accurate. Virginia came in at 70. The team in the top 30 that will shock everyone is Murray State out of the Ohio Valley. They have not come in yet from anything I have seen and have a very impressive, under the radar resume.