Category: Weekly NCAA basketball rankings

NCAA men’s basketball rankings: January 31, 2022

Here are this week’s top 25 composite rankings for NCAA Division 1 men’s basketball. My composite rankings use Markov chains and analytics to rank teams. Auburn remains in the top spot. Wisconsin moves down a spot to 12th, and there are 5 Big 10 teams in the top 25. The full rankings are here. 1 …

NCAA men’s basketball rankings: January 25, 2022

Here are this week’s top 25 composite rankings for NCAA Division 1 men’s basketball. My composite rankings use Markov chains and analytics to rank teams. Auburn moves into the top spot. Wisconsin moves up to 11th, and there are 4 Big 10 teams in the top 25. The full rankings are here. 1 Auburn 2 …

NCAA Men’s basketball rankings for January 10, 2022

Here are my top 25 composite rankings for NCAA Division 1 men’s basketball on January 10, 2022. My composite rankings use Markov chains and analytics to rank teams. Wisconsin is ranked 10th, and there are 5 Big 10 teams in the top 25. The full rankings are here. 1 Baylor 2 Auburn 3 LSU 4 …

NCAA Men’s basketball rankings, end of 2021 season

Here are my top 25 composite rankings for NCAA Division 1 men’s basketball now that the season is over. Gonzaga retained the top spot despite losing to Baylor in the title game. Wisconsin is ranked 27th. The entire list of rankings is here. 1 Gonzaga 2 Baylor 3 Houston 4 Alabama 5 USC 6 Michigan …

NCAA Men’s basketball rankings after the 2021 Final Four

Here are my top 25 composite rankings for NCAA Division 1 men’s basketball now that the Final Four are set. The teams in the Final Four are in boldface. UCLA moved up from 39th place on Selection Sunday to 13th after five tournament victories. My composite rankings use Markov chains and analytics to rank teams. …

NCAA Men’s basketball rankings after the 2021 Sweet Sixteen

Here are my top 25 composite rankings for NCAA Division 1 men’s basketball after the play in games, the rounds of 64 and 32 (Sweet Sixteen), and the NIT and CBI games this past week. My composite rankings use Markov chains and analytics to rank teams. The full rankings are here. 1 Gonzaga 2 Alabama …

NCAA Men’s basketball rankings for Selection Sunday 2021

Here are my top 25 composite rankings for NCAA Division 1 men’s basketball on Selection Sunday. My composite rankings use Markov chains and analytics to rank teams. The full rankings are here. 1 Gonzaga 2 Illinois 3 Baylor 4 Alabama 5 Houston 6 Iowa 7 Michigan 8 Ohio St 9 Colorado 10 Texas 11 USC …

NCAA Men’s basketball rankings: March 17, 2019 (Selection Sunday!)

Here are my full composite rankings on Selection Sunday. 1 Duke 2 Virginia 3 Michigan_St 4 Michigan 5 North_Carolina 6 Tennessee 7 Gonzaga 8 Kentucky 9 Texas_Tech 10 Auburn 11 Florida_St 12 Kansas 13 Houston 14 Purdue 15 Virginia_Tech 16 Iowa_St 17 Villanova 18 Wisconsin 19 Kansas_St 20 LSU 21 Cincinnati 22 Buffalo 23 Mississippi_St …

NCAA men’s basketball rankings: March 11, 2019

My Markov chain based NCAA men’s basketball rankings are below, and the full rankings are here. 1 Duke 2 Virginia 3 Gonzaga 4 Michigan St 5 North Carolina 6 Michigan 7 Tennessee 8 Kentucky 9 Texas Tech 10 Houston 11 LSU 12 Purdue 13 Virginia Tech 14 Kansas 15 Nevada 16 Florida St 17 Kansas St …

NCAA men’s basketball rankings: March 4, 2019

My Markov chain based NCAA men’s basketball rankings are below, and the full rankings are here. 1 Duke 2 Virginia 3 Gonzaga 4 Michigan 5 Michigan St 6 Tennessee 7 North Carolina 8 Texas Tech 9 Kentucky 10 Purdue 11 Houston 12 Kansas 13 Virginia_Tech 14 Villanova 15 LSU 16 Cincinnati 17 Nevada 18 Iowa St …