Sports analytics from Laura Albert's team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering

NCAA men’s basketball rankings: February 22, 2019

My Markov chain based NCAA men’s basketball rankings are below, and the full rankings are here.

  1. Duke
  2. Gonzaga
  3. Virginia
  4. Michigan_St
  5. Michigan
  6. Tennessee
  7. Houston
  8. Kentucky
  9. Texas_Tech
  10. Nevada
  11. North_Carolina
  12. Kansas
  13. Villanova
  14. Virginia_Tech
  15. Buffalo
  16. Cincinnati
  17. Iowa_St
  18. Marquette
  19. LSU
  20. Florida_St
  21. Purdue
  22. Kansas_St
  23. Maryland
  24. Iowa
  25. Washington
  26. Mississippi_St
  27. NC_State
  28. Wisconsin
  29. Auburn
  30. Louisville

The B1G, ranked.

4 Michigan_St
5 Michigan
21 Purdue
23 Maryland
24 Iowa
28 Wisconsin
48 Ohio_St
52 Minnesota
67 Nebraska
83 Indiana
114 Northwestern
116 Penn_St
123 Rutgers
144 Illinois