NCAA men’s basketball rankings: February 28, 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, and Purdue falls to 5th. Wisconsin is 13th. The full rankings are here.
1 Auburn
2 Baylor
3 Kansas
4 Gonzaga
5 Purdue
6 Arizona
7 Kentucky
8 Texas Tech
9 Houston
10 Villanova
11 Duke
12 Tennessee
13 Wisconsin
14 Arkansas
15 St Mary’s CA
16 LSU
17 Texas
18 USC
19 UCLA
20 Connecticut
21 Providence
22 Illinois
23 Alabama
24 Iowa
25 Iowa St
The Big Ten teams, tanked:
5 Purdue
13 Wisconsin
22 Illinois
24 Iowa
30 Michigan St
32 Ohio St
36 Indiana
61 Michigan
76 Rutgers
78 Maryland
99 Minnesota
101 Northwestern
107 Penn St
157 Nebraska