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List of AP all-time Top 100 college basketball programs
Updated: March 29, 2017, 4:25 PM ETAssociated Press
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1. KENTUCKY (1,111 Points)
Total appearances: 75.37% of all polls
First appearance: Jan. 18, 1949 (first-ever poll)
No.1 rankings: 124
Best full decade: 1950s, appeared in 89.63% of polls, but 1990s were close with 89.33%.
Worst full decade: 1960s, appeared in 59.59% of polls.
2. NORTH CAROLINA (1,098 Points)
Total appearances: 76.68% of all polls
First appearance: Jan. 25, 1953
No.1 rankings: 110
Best full decade: 1980s, appeared in 98.19% of polls.
Worst full decade: 1960s, appeared in 42.96% of polls.
3. DUKE (1,032 Points)
Total appearances: 67.6% of all polls
First appearance: Dec. 10, 1951
No.1 rankings: 129
Best full decade: 2000s, appeared in 98.95% of polls, but on pace to top that in the 2010s.
Worst full decade: 1970s, appeared in 17.86% of polls.
Poll point: Coach Mike Krzyzewski's Blue Devils have been ranked more times than any other team under the same coach. He has led them to nearly 80 percent of the program's poll appearances. To top that off, Duke has been left out of only four weekly polls since the start of the 1996-1997 season, the highest percentage of any program over that span.
4. UCLA (957 Points)
Total appearances: 60.17% of all polls
First appearance: March 8, 1949
No.1 rankings: 134, most of any program.
Best full decade: 1970s, appeared in 100% of polls, only program with a perfect percentage over an entire decade.
Worst full decade: 1980s, appeared in 39.76% of polls.
5. KANSAS (857 Points)
Total appearances: 63.49% of all polls
First appearance: March 7, 1950
No.1 rankings: 65
Best full decade: 1990s, appeared in 91.57% of polls, but also hasn't missed a poll yet in the 2010s.
Worst full decade: 1960s, appeared in 30.14% of polls.
6. INDIANA (662 Points)
Total appearances: 48.38% of all polls
First appearance: Jan. 5, 1950
No.1 rankings: 54
Best full decade: 1990s, appeared in 71.35% of polls.
Worst full decade: 1960s, appeared in 15.75% of polls.
7. LOUISVILLE (627 Points)
Total appearances: 54.41% of all polls
First appearance: Jan. 17, 1950
No.1 rankings: 2
Best full decade: 1970s, appeared in 75.60% of polls, but so far on pace to top that in the 2010s.
Worst full decade: 1960s, appeared in 26.03% of polls.
8. ARIZONA (594 Points)
Total appearances: 45.41% of all polls
First appearance: Feb. 7, 1950
No.1 rankings: 37
Best full decade: 1990s, appeared in 99.44% of polls, missing only one weekly poll during the decade.
Worst full decade: 1960s, didn't appear in a single poll.
9. SYRACUSE (581 Points)
Total appearances: 47.77% of all polls
First appearance: Dec. 25, 1951
No.1 rankings: 17
Best full decade: 1990s, appeared in 76.97% of polls.
Worst full decade: 1960s, appeared in only 2.05% of polls..
10. CINCINNATI (500 Points)
Total appearances: 35.81% of all polls
First appearance: Jan. 18, 1949 (first-ever poll)
No.1 rankings: 45
Best full decade: 1990s, appeared in 61.25% of polls.
Worst full decade: 1980s, didn't appear in a single poll during the decade.
11. ILLINOIS (479 Points)
Total appearances: 38.86% of all polls
First appearance: Jan. 18, 1949 (first-ever poll)
No.1 rankings: 17
Best full decade: 1950s, appeared in 65.93% of polls, but 2000s was a close second, making 65.79% of polls
Worst full decade: 1970s, appeared in 10.12% of polls.
Poll point: The Illini's most successful run was from 2000-2001 to 2005-2006, when the team missed only eight weekly polls and the program collected most of its No. 1 rankings.
12. OHIO STATE (453 Points)
Total appearances: 33.1% of all polls
First appearance: Feb. 8, 1949
No.1 rankings: 37
Best full decade: 1960s, appeared in 45.21% of polls, but so far on pace to top that in the 2010s.
Worst full decade: 1950s, appeared in 17.04% of polls.
13. MICHIGAN STATE (434 Points)
Total appearances: 35.98% of all polls
First appearance: Jan. 1, 1952
No.1 rankings: 11
Best full decade: 2000s, appeared in 71.58% of polls, but so far on pace to top that in the 2010s.
Worst full decade: 1960s, appeared in 2.74% of polls.