Coaches Poll College Basketball Rankings Final Top 25 2000 to 2009
College basketball in the 2000s was weird.
Carmelo Anthony led Syracuse to the 2003 national title, but he was one-and-done. 2000 Michigan State is the only break in the Big Ten gloom of national titles since Michigan won it all in 1989, and Maryland took home the 2022 national championship.
Florida won back-to-back national titles in 2007 and 2008, but that just hasn't registered historically as much as it should've. North Carolina won a few national championships, UConn started its push to blue blood status, and Duke was good every year, but ...
There was little to no star power with most of the top prospects were turning pro early or were gone before America really started to care.
It was also the first decade when the USA TODAY College Basketball Coaches Polls concluded each of the seasons with the final rankings coming after the NCAA Tournament was over. So all the final No. 1 teams were national champs.
We give each final No. 1 team 25 points, No. 2 team 24, and on from there to come up with the final decade rankings for the 2000s. Below that are the year-by-year final USA TODAY College Basketball Coaches Polls.
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Coaches Poll Final College Basketball Rankings 2000 to 2009
NCAA Basketball National Champions
2000 Michigan State, 2001 Duke, 2002 Maryland, 2003 Syracuse, 2004 UConn, 2005 North Carolina, 2006 Florida, 2007 Florida, 2008 Kansas, 2009 North Carolina
1 Duke 172
2 Kansas 161
3 North Carolina 141
T4 Michigan State 115
T4 UConn 115
6 Pitt 106
T7 Florida 102
T78 Texas 102
9 Arizona 101
10 UCLA 100
11 Illinois 97
12 Kentucky 96
13 Stanford 83
T14 Memphis 80
T14 Oklahoma 80
16 Wisconsin 79
17 Louisville 77
18 Syracuse 73
T19 Gonzaga 69
T19 Maryland 69
21 Oklahoma State 62
22 Villanova 59
T23 Georgetown 55
T23 Ohio State 55
Others Receiving Votes:: Cincinnati 50, Marquette 46, Wake Forest 46, LSU 45, Tennessee 45, Washington 41, Boston College 37, Oregon 37, Iowa State 34, West Virginia 34, Missouri 33, Butler 31, Purdue 29, Temple 26, Georgia Tech 23, Indiana 23, St. Joseph’s 23, USC 23, Alabama 21, Notre Dame 21, Texas A&M 21, Washington State 20, Southern Illinois 19, George Mason 18, Mississippi State 18, Davidson 17, Ole Miss 17, Tulsa 17, Kent State 14, UNLV 12, Utah 12, NC State 11, Nevada 10, Texas Tech 10, Vanderbilt 9, St. John’s 8, Arizona State 7, George Washington 7, Virginia 7, Miami 6, Wichita State 5, Florida State 4, Winthrop 4, WKU 4, Creighton 3, Drake 3, Iowa 3, UAB 3, UW Milwaukee 3, Bradley 2, Bucknell 1, Dayton 1, Penn State 1, Virginia Tech 1
