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

NCAA men’s Division I basketball rankings

I am using the ln(mLRMC) method to rank basketball teams. I’m doing the men for now, and will hopefully branch into women’s basketball and other sports in the future. I’ll post my rankings every Monday until the end of the season. I have the Top 25 below; the full ranking is under the “NCAA BB rankings” tab.

January 11, 2016 rankings:

1 Michigan St
2 Oklahoma
3 North Carolina
4 Villanova
5 Kansas
6 Xavier
7 Purdue
8 Maryland
9 SMU
10 Virginia
11 Duke
12 Pittsburgh
13 Miami FL
14 South Carolina
15 West Virginia
16 Butler
17 Louisville
18 Providence
19 Iowa
20 Indiana
21 Texas A&M
22 Arizona
23 USC
24 Iowa St
25 Creighton