The Virginia Tech men’s basketball team won the national championship in the 2010 NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament. The team was then ranked number one in the country at the time.
This year, the Kentucky Wildcats won the national championship, becoming only the third in NCAA history to win the national title in both the men’s and women’s championship. Since the teams are both of the same type (men’s and women’s professional basketball teams), and both teams were national powerhouses at the time, it makes a lot of sense that they would have similar records.
When I saw this year’s championship game, I was amazed to see that the Kentucky Wildcats were ranked number one in the country by USA Today. I don’t know how much of that is due to the fact that Kentucky is number one in its conference, but I’d like to think it has something to do with the fact that Kentucky has a very similar record to the team for whom this was played.
Virginia Tech is the only other school in the top ten that has been ranked in the top ten by USA Today. Kentucky has been ranked as high as number one in its conference for most of the past decade, and its current record is second in the nation.
The game was a close match between the two, which I am sure is due to the fact that both have some history of making it to the top ten in the preseason polls. Kentucky has had a number of highly competitive teams, and the fact that it’s in the top ten in its conference is a bonus.
Virginia Tech, on the other hand, has been to the top ten in the past eight years. It’s been in the top ten in its conference for much longer than the past four years, which is a great thing, but a bit of a drawback to its position as #10. They’ve never made the College Football Playoff. It doesn’t mean that they won’t in the future.
It still does, although the ACC has a number of teams who are just as good. For example, Virginia Tech has been in the top ten for four years in a row, and its in the top ten for five years in a row. The Hokies have been to the top ten in their conference for eight years in a row. These are two different types of success.
Sure, they could have been ranked higher in the past, but the ACC has a number of teams who are similar in talent and accomplishments to the Tech program. For example, Virginia Tech has been a top ten team in the conference for twelve years in a row; Tennessee has been a top ten team for ten years in a row; and Florida State has been a top ten program for seven years in a row. These are two different types of success.
Virginia Tech was ranked in the top one percent of all ACC schools, and Tennessee was ranked in the top ten. Both of those programs have been excellent since the ACC was created in 2003, but they have been successful in different ways. Virginia Tech was good because they had a ton of great players, but they still weren’t good enough to really compete for a national title.
Well, if you think about it, that isn’t really what it means to be a top ten program. The ACC was created in 1980 and is a division of the ACC to start with. The top 10 teams in the ACC are the same as the top ten in the Big Ten, which are the top ten teams from the conference that has the most teams.
