Are uniforms the most important part of college basketball? No. Are they more important than we talk about? Oh, yes.



Jerseys can be timeless. They can set trends. They can inspire untold millions of kids on playgrounds and in malls to show up to their grade schools and basketball practices wearing the Nike-designed shorts of a college basketball program most of those kids otherwise wouldn’t care about, for no other reason than those shorts look so cool.



At their best, great uniforms can set teams apart, can enshrine them in our memories, can help you see the great teams of your childhood for more than the players on the floor or the statistics they recorded. Great uniforms preserve teams in the mind’s eye. The best are something close to art.



What follows is a totally objective, unimpeachable, inarguable list: the best college basketball uniforms of all time. Enjoy.



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