Notre Dame Boasts Most Successful Combined Basketball Programs The University of Notre Dame boasts the most successful combined men's and women's basketball programs of any institution in the country--whether the teams are compared by combined Associated Press rankings, combined victories, combined winning percentage or combined NCAA graduation rates. The numbers are based on the 21 programs that earned selection to both the men's and women's brackets in the NCAA Division I Men's and Women's Basketball Championships. Five of those programs have both men's and women's teams alive for the NCAA Sweet 16 rounds this weekend. Notre Dame ranks atop the standings in four combined categories: Associated Press poll rankings (based on March 16 poll): Notre Dame women were #2, men were #8. Victories: 64 (Notre Dame women have 33, men have 31). That qualifies as the all-time Irish combined record, topping the numbers from 2012-13 when the women finished 35-2 and the men ended up 25-10 (for a combined 60). Winning Percentage: .901, based on a combined 64-7 record for the two Notre Dame teams (women are 33-2, men are 31-5). Graduation Success Rate figures: Both the Notre Dame men's and women's programs featured perfect 100 figures in the combined four-year individual sport graduation rates released by the NCAA in October 2014. There are only seven institutions that ranked in both the final regular-season Associated Press men's and women's basketball polls last week - and Notre Dame boasts the best combined rankings (four of the seven schools came from the Atlantic Coast Conference): -- Associated Press Poll Rankings
Very nice, be even nicer if they both make it to the final 4. UConn men and women have won a NCAA Championship in the same season as recent as ...last year and they also did it in 2004. I don't think there has ever been another school that has done that..but I could be wrong.