NCAA basketball: 25 best college basketball teams of all time

14. 1959-1960 Ohio State Buckeyes

There are some schools with underrated basketball traditions and Ohio State is one of them. The Buckeyes have a storied history of producing great teams and players but the school has only one national championship to its name.

That team was the 1959-60 edition of Ohio State, which had an absolutely loaded roster. The Buckeyes had three future Hall-of-Famers playing for them that year, including Jerry Lucas, John Havlicek and Bob Knight.

The trio helped lead Ohio State to a dominant regular season, with the Buckeyes cruising to a 13-1 record in Big Ten play. The Buckeyes saw an excellent performance from Lucas who manned the middle by shooting an absurd 63 percent from the floor.

The NCAA Tournament was no challenge at all for the Buckeyes, who stormed through March and won by an average of 19.5 points per game. The title game was also a blowout with Ohio State knocking off Cal by 20 to claim the program’s first national championship.

This group was so brilliant that they lost only three games over the course of the following two seasons. Two of those losses came in the National Championship Game to Cincinnati and if one of those went Ohio State’s way the Buckeyes would surely have another entry on this countdown.