NCAA Basketball All-Time Top Rivalries

• Duke-North Carolina

  Often mentioned in discussions of the greatest sports rivalries, the Duke-North Carolina rivalry is among the fiercest and most passionate matchups, not just in the collegiate realm, but in all of sports. With two of college basketball programs in the ...

• UCLA-USC

  Twelve miles apart from each other, the University of California (UCLA) and the University of Southern California (USC) trace their basketball rivalry back to 1928. During that year, the UCLA Bruins took two games out of three from the USC Trojans. ...

• Syracuse-Georgetown

  The Big East Conference wouldn’t be as big today if not for the Syracuse-Georgetown rivalry. Considered as one of the most influential rivalries in all of college basketball, this rivalry has been credited with making the Big East Conference a premie...

• Kansas-Kansas State

  Also known as the Sunflower Showdown, the athletic rivalry between the Kansas Jayhawks and the Kansas State Wildcats can be traced back to as early as 1898. The basketball affair between these two teams started in 1907 before reaching its peak in the 1...

• Cincinnati-Xavier

  It is not difficult for a rivalry to develop when two universities are just minutes apart from each other. This is the case in one of the fiercest rivalries in college basketball involving University of Cincinnati Bearcats and Xavier University Muskete...

• Indiana-Purdue

  Both grouped in the competitive Big Ten Conference and located in the basketball-mad state of Indiana, the Indiana Hoosiers and the Purdue Boilermakers make for a big rivalry on the hardwood. The rivalry is considered as one of the most intense and hig...

• Maryland-Duke

  Duke’s main rival might be North Carolina but another college team can claim being the Blue Devils’ nemesis as well: the Maryland Terrapins. With both teams competing in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) the intensity of this rivalry continues to...

• Kansas-Missouri

  Also known as The Border War, the intense rivalry between the University of Kansas and University of Missouri traces its origin to as far back as the Civil War years. The Kansas-Missouri rivalry’s historical significance is reflected by it being the ...

• Kentucky-Louisville

  Dubbed the Battle of the Bluegrass, the college basketball rivalry between same-state teams University of Kentucky Wildcats and the Louisville Cardinals materialized during the teams’ first meeting in 1913. The two teams did not go up against each ot...