Best of College Basketball

The Best of College Basketball Tournament features the 300 most relevant programs to basketball nationally, based on their wins and losses, both regular season and in championships. We looked at every college program that has existed and determined which players and coaches were the best statistically as individuals and on teams.

Looking at the teams over the years, we chose the most influential coach who had the most impact over 70 years of play.

We looked at every college program established and picked the players with the best stats and record for each position and have starters and backups for each slot. We only considered players for a team if that college was their final program.

Each team has 5 starters and 5 backups for Center, Power Forward, Small Forward, Shooting Guard and Point Guard. We assigned them a college year based on what two decades they came from between 1939 and 2010.

Each conference is made up of the top 8 to 12 teams relevant to that conferences’ history. We have 31 conferences and 4 independent teams.

We assigned teams to conferences based on historical relevance, either length of time on the conference or overall impact on the conference.

In a regular season, each team has 28 games. We used the usual percentage of conference games vs. outside games to schedule the games in weeks 1-16. The winners of those games will be determined based on our equations. We take 14 data points into account including each team’s win-loss record, tournament appearances, conference championships, poll ratings and ten other stats.

The regular seasons scores are based on the program historic stats and impact.

We have designed a different way of scoring tournaments based on individual scores for each player (based on statistical analysis of individual stats and honors received) plus additional scores for the coaches. Each player and coach is ranked, and gets stats assigned based on the games played in the regular season!

We are excited to run the numbers each week, because we have no idea which teams will end up in the final sixteen, or the final four.