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 Baylor
3 Kansas
4 Houston
5 Arizona
6 Purdue
7 Gonzaga
8 LSU
9 Villanova
10 Texas Tech
11 Wisconsin
12 Kentucky
13 Duke
14 USC
15 BYU
16 Michigan St
17 Alabama
18 Iowa St
19 Marquette
20 Wake Forest
21 Xavier
22 Tennessee
23 San Francisco
24 Providence
25 Illinois
The teams in the Big Ten, ranked:
6 Purdue
11 Wisconsin
16 Michigan St
25 Illinois
26 Iowa
29 Indiana
43 Ohio St
74 Minnesota
80 Maryland
88 Michigan
99 Rutgers
104 Northwestern
114 Penn St
147 Nebraska