NCAA Basketball Standings Getting High

College is the strongest foundation of sporting careers, especially in basketball. And the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), USA’s 65 top teams clustered into 11 and 1 independent of 3 teams, is leading the pack. In fact, it is the most prominent tournament known as March Madness or the Big Dance to their fans and supporters.

Among the most sought after basketball news in the industry is the NCAA basketball standings and the elimination schedules. This is basically where the fans can get the notions of how their supported team’s faring in the game, which is usually held on March at its hosting college. To date, the team standings are as follows:

- America East

UMBC is taking the lead with a conference standing of 13-3 and a national standing of 24-9 over Hartford, Albany, Vermont, Binghamton, Boston U, New Hampshire, Maine, and Stony Brook.

- Atlantic Coast

North Carolina tops in the conference with 14-2 conference standing and 36-3 in the nationals while Duke is in the 9th position and Clemson at 22nd.

- Atlantic Sun

Belmont steals the conference standing at 14-2 and the national with 25-9 away from the rest of 11 competing college teams.

- Atlantic

Xavier lands at the 12th overall position with its 14-2 win over loss conference standing and 30-7 in the national competition.

- Big East

The big East has the most position grabbers in the overall standing with Georgetown leading the pack at 8th spot. It has a conference standing of 15-3 and national of 28-6. Louisville follows in the 13th position with conference standing of 14-4 and national of 27-9. It is followed by Notre Dame in the 15th slot with 14-4 conference standing and 25-8 in the national. Connecticut follows in the 16th position, then Pittsburgh, and Marquette at 25th slot.

- Big Sky

Portland is the highest team in the Big Sky conference. It has a conference standing of 14-2 and 23-10 in the national.

- Big South

The N.C. Ashville leads the Big South conference with 10-4 local and 23-10 national standings.

- Big Ten

The Big Ten is also a promising conference with three teams making it to the top: Wisconsin at the 6th position, Michigan St. at 18th, and Purdue at 29th slot.

- Big 12

Kansas also brought home the bacon landing at 4th place overall while Texas in number 7.

- Big West

The Big West failed to join the overall standings but CSU Fullerton takes up the lead in conference standings with 12 wins and 4 losses while taking 24 wins and 9 losses in the national.

- Colonial Athletic

In the conference standing, VCU is taking the lead with 15-3 and 24-8 in the national over the other 11 teams in the cluster.

- Conference USA

Memphis, the USA conference pride, sweeps other teams after landing the 2nd place in the overall standings. It also made 16-0 in the conference, meaning no losses at all; and 38-2 in the national.

- Missouri Valley

Drake ends at 14th place, taking the great leap for the conference.

- Pacific-10

This conference is another promising group in NCAA with UCLA leading at 3rd place, followed by Stanford at 10th and Washington at 21st.

- Southeastern

Tennessee brings home the pride for the conference at 5th slot while Vanderbilt was at 19th position.

These NCAA basketball standings are based on the latest results of April 16, 2008. As it continues to change every after game, check out the tournament schedule for the next results.