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

NCAA men’s basketball rankings: February 5, 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. Nevada
  7. Iowa_St
  8. Tennessee
  9. Houston
  10. Virginia_Tech
  11. Texas_Tech
  12. Villanova
  13. Kentucky
  14. Kansas
  15. Marquette
  16. Louisville
  17. Cincinnati
  18. North_Carolina
  19. Purdue
  20. Buffalo
  21. LSU
  22. Wisconsin
  23. Washington
  24. Iowa
  25. Maryland

The B1G conference, ranked:

4 Michigan
5 Michigan_St
19 Purdue
22 Wisconsin
24 Iowa
25 Maryland
41 Minnesota
44 Ohio_St
54 Indiana
57 Nebraska
88 Northwestern
114 Rutgers
122 Penn_St
160 Illinois