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Monday, April 28, 2008 --- 87 days ago http://beyondthearc.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/04/28/955140.aspx
 A handful of football schools made the list of the greatest basketball programs of all time . Couldn’t be helped. Even football schools produce good hoops teams, though it seems like more and more are emerging.
And at No. 24, the Oklahoma Sooners are the first football school on this list. (I swear, it’s a coincidence .)
It may seem strange that Oklahoma landed one spot ahead of N.C. State , one of the game’s historic powers, but give the Sooners their due. They’re worthy.
They score thanks to four Final Four appearances, 15 regular-season conference crowns and plenty of recent success. Oklahoma has 1,469 wins, 30 th most among D-I schools, right behind Villanova and more than schools like Connecticut, Oklahoma State and St. Joe’s all of whom are basketball schools. If not for struggling in the 50s and 60s when only football mattered in Norman, the Sooners might be higher on this list.
Consider:
Only Texas has more NCAA tournament wins without a title, while the ‘Horns, Notre Dame and Temple are the only schools with more tourney appearances without a crown.
They’ve had talented, players, too. Sooners have been named consensus first-team All-Americans eight times, tied for 10 th all time. That’s more than Arizona, Louisville, N.C. State and Georgetown. The individual talent has been there.
And Oklahoma has finished as runner-up in NCAA or NIT three times. Sooner or ... |
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