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The 2 schools with most No. 1 overall picks in NBA Draft history

From 1947 to 2022, 19 schools have had at least two players selected No. 1 overall in the NBA Draft. In the 1955 and 1956 season, Duquesne became the first school to have multiple players picked first overall, with Dick Ricketts and Si Green going first in back-to-back years to the Saint Louis Hawks and Rochester Royals, respectively. While 18 other teams have had multiple players go first overall, no school has had the No. 1 pick in two straight years since then.

The list of schools with multiple first overall picks has great variety, with most of them being the typical college basketball powerhouses.