Ohio State is now ranked #1 in both the football and basketball coaches poll. Only two other universities have achieved this benchmark. Can you name the other two? :roll: Don
I can answer your question. No I can't. But if I had to guess I'd go with Tex. and UCLA with OK an honorable mention.
hmmm... I'm thinking one might be Notre Dame, in the 70's were had a great run in both football and basketball.
I could be wrong but I don't think so. I used to follow ND basketball in the 70's when John Shumate played for you. He was a few years older than me , but we went to the same HS and I used to watch him play. I know ND had a huge upset of UCLA with Shumate and another Jersey guy Gary Brokaw but I don't think they were ranked # 1. After Shumate came Dantley and then later came another Jersey kid Kelly Tripucka from Bloomfield. ND had some good teams in the 70's and early eighties. Lambeer, Woolridge, a couple others I can't think of. My high school have a couple of pretty good football players. Gil Chapman who went to Michigan and later played for the Saints and Richie Wood who was a 2 time All American LB at USC.
Wrong, Joel. ND has never been ranked #1 in BB, at least to my knowledge. I'm guessing Michigan is one of the teams. I'm thinking the other could be Georgia Tech.
Maybe if we work backwards... Hey Joel, can we agree it wasn't Brown? I'm also pretty sure it wasn't CCNY.
No Gipper..not Brown..But speaking or CCNY..NYU..LIU..NYU..St Johns Wow what a hot bed for roundball in the 40s! jif
I'm going to throw out 2 more teams as possibilities in addition to Michigan and Ga. Tech: Iowa and Oklahoma. Don, do I assume correctly that you mean they are ranked #1 at the same point in time? If so, then the BB team would be ranked #1 very early in the season and the FB team very late or at the end of its season. If you mean #1 at some point during the same school year, then that would change my thinking a bit.
Sid, At the same time for both sports. This is what makes it more difficult to sort out and is a bit tricky. Don
Think my memory bank recalls one. Kentucky in the late 40s and early 50s had a great run under coach Rupp in basketball. I believe the football team had a couple of good years then also. jif
I had indicated I would post the answer Friday, but today seems a bit more appropriate. Jif made the only correct pick: UCLA & Notre Dame. Congratulations! The following details the information from the Clemson sports information director. OHIO STATE 3RD SCHOOL TO BE NO. 1 IN FOOTBALL, MEN'S BASKETBALL Two schools, UCLA and Notre Dame, have been ranked No. 1 in both football and men's basketball at the same time, according to research performed by Tim Bourret, Clemson sports information director, who sought the information for a book project. Ohio State (6-0) moved to the No. 1 spot in men's basketball Monday in the USA Today/ESPN coaches poll and to the No. 3 spot in the Associated Press writers poll. The Buckeye football team (12-0) is No. 1 in both polls, as it has been the entire 2006 season. UCLA was No. 1 in both sports the week of Nov. 13-19 in 1967. The Bruins were No. 1 in the AP and UPI football polls that week and had won the national championship in men's basketball the previous March. The first poll of the college basketball season that fall was on Dec. 5, 1967. UCLA was No. 1. The Bruins then lost to USC in football, 21-20, in the next Saturday (Dec. 9, 1967) to drop from No. 1 spot in football. Notre Dame won the national championship (football) in the AP poll with a 24-23 win over Alabama in the Dec. 31, 1973 Sugar Bowl. The Fighting Irish basketball team then defeated UCLA 71-70 in basketball to end the Bruins' 88-game winning streak and move to No. 1 in both basketball polls. That game was played Jan. 19, 1974 and Notre Dame was ranked No. 1 the next Monday. The Irish stayed No. 1 in basketball for just that week before traveling to UCLA for a rematch the following Saturday (Jan. 26, 1974, where they lost to the Bruins. Both UCLA (Nov. 13, 1967) and Notre Dame (Jan. 21, 1974) were No. 1 for just one week in both football and men's basketball.