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

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
19 Buffalo
20 Florida St
21 Marquette
22 Kansas St
23 Wisconsin
24 Mississippi St
25 Maryland

The B1G, ranked.

4 Michigan
5 Michigan St
10 Purdue
23 Wisconsin
25 Maryland
29 Iowa
38 Ohio St
47 Minnesota
59 Indiana
69 Nebraska
76 Penn St
92 Rutgers
109 Northwestern
116 Illinois