PiRate Ratings Bracketology For January 13, 2020

Date	1/13/2020
Seed	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team
1	Duke	Baylor	Gonzaga	Butler
2	San Diego St.	Auburn	Kansas	Michigan St.
3	West Virginia	Louisville	Oregon	Dayton
4	Wichita St.	Maryland	Florida St.	Kentucky
5	Villanova	Seton Hall	Ohio St.	Arizona
6	Michigan	Colorado	Stanford	Arkansas
7	Penn St.	Creighton	Memphis	Texas Tech
8	Wisconsin	Iowa	Marquette	BYU
9	Virginia	Indiana	Illinois	Purdue
10	Saint Mary’s	Houston	LSU	Oklahoma
11	Rutgers	VCU	Washington	Florida	Xavier	Georgetown
12	Liberty	Northern Iowa	Akron	Yale
13	Stony Brook	Western Carolina	Georgia St.	Stephen F Austin
14	New Mexico St.	Charlotte	Wright St.	William & Mary
15	UC-Irvine	Northern Colorado	Colgate	Belmont
16	North Dakota St.	Radford	Rider	Grambling	Bethune-Cookman	St. Francis (PA)
	First Four Out
	Virginia Tech	Duquesne	N. Carolina St.	Tennessee
	Next Four Out
	Oregon St.	TCU	Minnesota	Saint Louis

PiRate Ratings Bracketology For January 10, 2020

Date	1/10/2020
Seed	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team
1	Duke	Gonzaga	Kansas	Butler
2	San Diego St.	Baylor	Auburn	Michigan St.
3	West Virginia	Oregon	Maryland	Florida St.
4	Dayton	Ohio St.	Wichita St.	Louisville
5	Villanova	Michigan	Kentucky	Seton Hall
6	Penn St.	Colorado	Arizona	Memphis
7	Arkansas	Creighton	Virginia	Marquette
8	Iowa	Stanford	Rutgers	Texas Tech
9	Saint Mary’s	Florida	Houston	Indiana
10	BYU	Oklahoma	LSU	VCU
11	Xavier	N. Carolina St.	Wisconsin	Illinois	Washington	Georgetown
12	Liberty	N. Iowa	Akron	Furman
13	S.F. Austin	N. Mexico St.	Wright St.	Yale
14	Charleston	Stony Brook	Colgate	Charlotte
15	Murray St.	UCSB	N. Colorado	Little Rock
16	Omaha	Winthrop	Quinnipiac	Grambling	Robert Morris	Morgan St.
	First Four Out
	Georgia	Purdue	Richmond	Oklahoma St.
	Next Four Out
	USC	Utah	Duquesne	Minnesota

PiRate Ratings College Basketball For January 10, 2020

Power Conference Games & Top 25 Teams Playing Friday

 

Home	Visitor	Spread
Iowa	Maryland	-0.7
Providence	Butler	-3.7

 

PiRate Ratings For January 10, 2020

 

#	Team	PiRate	Conference
1	Duke	122.6	Atlantic Coast
2	Kansas	121.8	Big 12
3	Michigan St.	120.3	Big Ten
4	Gonzaga	117.6	West Coast
5	Ohio St.	117.5	Big Ten
6	Arizona	117.0	Pac-12
7	Maryland	116.8	Big Ten
8	Louisville	116.1	Atlantic Coast
9	Dayton	116.0	Atlantic 10
10	Baylor	115.7	Big 12
11	Butler	115.4	Big East
12	Florida St.	115.1	Atlantic Coast
13	Seton Hall	115.0	Big East
14	West Virginia	114.9	Big 12
15	Auburn	114.8	Southeastern
16	Kentucky	114.7	Southeastern
17	Oregon	114.6	Pac-12
18	Michigan	113.9	Big Ten
19	San Diego St.	113.6	Mountain West
20	Penn St.	112.9	Big Ten
21	Florida	112.9	Southeastern
22	LSU	112.9	Southeastern
23	Villanova	112.8	Big East
24	Memphis	112.7	American Athletic
25	BYU	112.7	West Coast
26	Iowa	112.6	Big Ten
27	Texas Tech	112.6	Big 12
28	Illinois	112.3	Big Ten
29	Houston	112.3	American Athletic
30	Purdue	112.3	Big Ten
31	Marquette	112.2	Big East
32	Wichita St.	112.2	Big East
33	Arkansas	112.1	Southeastern
34	Wisconsin	112.0	Big Ten
35	Rutgers	111.8	Big Ten
36	Colorado	111.6	Pac-12
37	Saint Mary’s	111.4	West Coast
38	VCU	111.2	Atlantic 10
39	Minnesota	111.2	Big Ten
40	Indiana	111.0	Big Ten
41	Xavier	110.9	Big East
42	Washington	110.8	Pac-12
43	Creighton	110.8	Big East
44	North Carolina St.	110.7	Atlantic Coast
45	Georgetown	110.6	Big East
46	Alabama	110.6	Southeastern
47	Oklahoma	110.5	Big 12
48	Virginia	110.2	Atlantic Coast
49	Tennessee	110.0	Southeastern
50	Cincinnati	109.7	American Athletic
51	Stanford	109.6	Pac-12
52	TCU	109.2	Big 12
53	Missouri	109.0	Southeastern
54	Iowa St.	108.9	Big 12
55	Oklahoma St.	108.9	Big 12
56	Utah St.	108.9	Mountain West
57	Notre Dame	108.8	Atlantic Coast
58	East Tennessee St.	108.6	Southern
59	North Carolina	108.6	Atlantic Coast
60	Georgia	108.3	Southeastern
61	Mississippi St.	108.3	Southeastern
62	Richmond	108.3	Atlantic 10
63	Providence	108.2	Big East
64	Yale	108.2	Ivy
65	Virginia Tech	108.0	Atlantic Coast
66	Furman	107.9	Southern
67	Liberty	107.9	Atlantic Sun
68	Temple	107.8	American Athletic
69	Oregon St.	107.7	Pac-12
70	Duquesne	107.6	Atlantic 10
71	Louisiana Tech	107.5	Conference USA
72	St. John’s	107.4	Big East
73	Belmont	107.4	Ohio Valley
74	Syracuse	107.4	Atlantic Coast
75	Pittsburgh	107.3	Atlantic Coast
76	Texas	107.3	Big 12
77	DePaul	107.3	Big East
78	Arizona St.	107.2	Pac-12
79	Rhode Island	107.2	Atlantic 10
80	SMU	107.2	American Athletic
81	USC	107.1	Pac-12
82	Connecticut	106.9	American Athletic
83	Georgia Tech	106.7	Atlantic Coast
84	Northern Iowa	106.5	Missouri Valley
85	Vermont	106.4	American East
86	Akron	106.3	Mid-American
87	Davidson	106.3	Atlantic 10
88	UNC Greensboro	106.2	Southern
89	Clemson	106.2	Atlantic Coast
90	Miami (Fla.)	105.9	Atlantic Coast
91	Kansas St.	105.8	Big 12
92	New Mexico St.	105.8	Western Athletic
93	New Mexico	105.6	Mountain West
94	Utah	105.6	Pac-12
95	Nevada	105.4	Mountain West
96	Harvard	105.3	Ivy
97	Kent St.	105.2	Mid-American
98	Wake Forest	105.2	Atlantic Coast
99	Mississippi	105.1	Southeastern
100	San Francisco	104.9	West Coast
101	Georgia St.	104.7	Sun Belt
102	Ball St.	104.6	Mid-American
103	Boise St.	104.6	Mountain West
104	Toledo	104.5	Mid-American
105	Bradley	104.5	Missouri Valley
106	Northwestern	104.3	Big Ten
107	Wright St.	104.2	Horizon
108	Western Kentucky	104.2	Conference USA
109	Saint Louis	104.1	Atlantic 10
110	UCLA	104.0	Pac-12
111	Central Florida	104.0	American Athletic
112	South Carolina	103.9	Southeastern
113	Loyola (Chi.)	103.7	Missouri Valley
114	North Texas	103.3	Conference USA
115	Vanderbilt	103.2	Southeastern
116	Tulsa	103.1	American Athletic
117	South Florida	103.1	American Athletic
118	UC Irvine	103.0	Big West
119	Charleston	102.9	Colonial Athletic
120	St. Bonaventure	102.8	Atlantic 10
121	Wofford	102.7	Southern
122	Nebraska	102.6	Big Ten
123	Stony Brook	102.5	American East
124	Indiana St.	102.5	Missouri Valley
125	Murray St.	102.5	Ohio Valley
126	Stephen F. Austin	102.4	Southland
127	Northern Colorado	102.4	Big Sky
128	Fresno St.	102.3	Mountain West
129	Penn	102.3	Ivy
130	UT Arlington	102.2	Southland
131	Boston College	102.2	Atlantic Coast
132	Colgate	102.2	Patriot
133	Washington St.	102.1	Pac-12
134	Radford	102.0	Big South
135	Winthrop	101.9	Big South
136	Missouri St.	101.8	Missouri Valley
137	Hofstra	101.8	Colonial Athletic
138	Northeastern	101.7	Colonial Athletic
139	Colorado St.	101.7	Mountain West
140	UTEP	101.6	Conference USA
141	UNLV	101.6	Mountain West
142	Texas St.	101.5	Sun Belt
143	Marshall	101.5	Conference USA
144	UC Santa Barbara	101.4	Big West
145	South Dakota St.	101.3	Summit
146	Drake	101.3	Missouri Valley
147	Santa Clara	101.2	West Coast
148	North Dakota St.	101.2	Summit
149	Northern Kentucky	101.0	Horizon
150	Oral Roberts	101.0	Summit
151	William & Mary	100.9	Colonial Athletic
152	Texas A&M	100.9	Southeastern
153	Buffalo	100.9	Mid-American
154	Georgia Southern	100.8	Sun Belt
155	Southern Utah	100.8	Big Sky
156	Western Carolina	100.8	Southern
157	Coastal Carolina	100.8	Sun Belt
158	George Mason	100.7	Atlantic 10
159	Pacific	100.5	West Coast
160	Hawaii	100.3	Big West
161	Pepperdine	100.2	West Coast
162	UAB	100.2	Conference USA
163	Little Rock	100.2	Sun Belt
164	La Salle	100.1	Atlantic 10
165	Tulane	100.1	American Athletic
166	North Florida	100.1	Atlantic Sun
167	Air Force	99.9	Mountain West
168	Bowling Green	99.9	Mid-American
169	Appalachian St.	99.9	Sun Belt
170	Northern Illinois	99.9	Mid-American
171	Charlotte	99.9	Conference USA
172	Sam Houston St.	99.8	Southland
173	St. Francis (PA)	99.7	Northeast
174	Valparaiso	99.5	Missouri Valley
175	Massachusetts	99.5	Atlantic 10
176	Montana	99.5	Big Sky
177	California Baptist	99.4	Western Athletic
178	California	99.4	Pac-12
179	Old Dominion	99.3	Conference USA
180	Towson	99.3	Colonial Athletic
181	Florida Int’l.	99.3	Conference USA
182	Eastern Washington	99.3	Big Sky
183	Rider	99.2	Metro Atlantic
184	Delaware	99.2	Colonial Athletic
185	Florida Atlantic	99.1	Conference USA
186	South Alabama	99.1	Sun Belt
187	Southern Illinois	99.1	Missouri Valley
188	Central Michigan	99.0	Mid-American
189	Omaha	98.7	Summit
190	Austin Peay	98.5	Ohio Valley
191	Sacramento St.	98.5	Big Sky
192	Nicholls St.	98.4	Southland
193	UTSA	98.3	Conference USA
194	Princeton	98.1	Ivy
195	Chattanooga	98.0	Southern
196	Siena	97.9	Metro Atlantic
197	Sacred Heart	97.9	Northeast
198	Lafayette	97.7	Patriot
199	Ohio	97.7	Mid-American
200	Green Bay	97.7	Horizon
201	Miami (O)	97.6	Mid-American
202	San Diego	97.5	West Coast
203	Portland St.	97.4	Big Sky
204	Illinois St.	97.3	Missouri Valley
205	Boston U	97.2	Patriot
206	Loyola Marymount	97.2	West Coast
207	Dartmouth	97.2	Ivy
208	Bryant	97.2	Northeast
209	Brown	97.1	Ivy
210	South Dakota	97.1	Summit
211	North Dakota	97.1	Summit
212	UC Riverside	97.0	Big West
213	Oakland	96.9	Horizon
214	American	96.8	Patriot
215	Monmouth	96.7	Metro Atlantic
216	Eastern Illinois	96.7	Ohio Valley
217	Evansville	96.6	Missouri Valley
218	Eastern Michigan	96.5	Mid-American
219	Albany	96.5	American East
220	Samford	96.5	Southern
221	Montana St.	96.5	Big Sky
222	Youngstown St.	96.5	Horizon
223	Abilene Christian	96.4	Southland
224	Navy	96.3	Patriot
225	Rice	96.3	Conference USA
226	Quinnipiac	96.1	Metro Atlantic
227	Lipscomb	96.1	Atlantic Sun
228	Northern Arizona	96.1	Big Sky
229	Prairie View A&M	96.1	Southwestern Athl.
230	Grand Canyon	96.0	Western Athletic
231	Campbell	96.0	Big South
232	Missouri-KC	95.9	Western Athletic
233	Jacksonville St.	95.9	Ohio Valley
234	East Carolina	95.8	American Athletic
235	Bucknell	95.8	Patriot
236	Seattle	95.7	Western Athletic
237	Purdue Fort Wayne	95.7	Summit
238	Canisius	95.6	Metro Atlantic
239	Jacksonville	95.6	Atlantic Sun
240	Loyola (MD)	95.6	Patriot
241	Cal St. Bakersfield	95.6	Western Athletic
242	George Washington	95.5	Atlantic 10
243	Columbia	95.4	Ivy
244	UC Davis	95.4	Big West
245	Arkansas St.	95.3	Sun Belt
246	Robert Morris	95.2	Northeast
247	Louisiana	95.2	Sun Belt
248	Iona	95.2	Metro Atlantic
249	Tennessee St.	95.2	Ohio Valley
250	Louisiana Monroe	95.1	Sun Belt
251	Gardner-Webb	95.1	Big South
252	Portland	95.1	West Coast
253	Drexel	95.1	Colonial Athletic
254	UT Rio Grande Valley	95.0	Western Athletic
255	Milwaukee	94.9	Horizon
256	Manhattan	94.9	Metro Atlantic
257	Fairfield	94.9	Metro Atlantic
258	Utah Valley	94.8	Western Athletic
259	Illinois Chicago	94.8	Horizon
260	UNC Asheville	94.7	Big South
261	Western Michigan	94.7	Mid-American
262	Long Island	94.6	Northeast
263	Saint Peter’s	94.5	Metro Atlantic
264	Fordham	94.5	Atlantic 10
265	UMass Lowell	94.4	American East
266	Lehigh	94.4	Patriot
267	Troy	94.4	Sun Belt
268	Cal St. Northridge	94.3	Big West
269	Saint Joseph’s	94.3	Atlantic 10
270	Mercer	94.2	Southern
271	James Madison	94.2	Colonial Athletic
272	Cal St. Fullerton	94.0	Big West
273	Lamar	93.9	Southland
274	McNeese St.	93.8	Southland
275	Morehead St.	93.8	Ohio Valley
276	Norfolk St.	93.8	Mideastern Athletic
277	Southern Miss.	93.7	Conference USA
278	Weber St.	93.6	Big Sky
279	Bethune Cookman	93.5	Mideastern Athletic
280	New Hampshire	93.5	American East
281	Texas Southern	93.4	Southwestern Athl.
282	Middle Tennessee	93.3	Conference USA
283	Merrimack	92.9	Northeast
284	Cornell	92.8	Ivy
285	North Alabama	92.8	Atlantic Sun
286	Mount St. Mary’s	92.7	Northeast
287	Detroit	92.6	Horizon
288	VMI	92.5	Southern
289	UM Baltimore Co.	92.4	American East
290	Citadel	92.4	Southern
291	Texas A&M CC	92.3	Southland
292	Grambling	92.3	Southwestern Athl.
293	Hartford	92.2	American East
294	Wyoming	92.1	Mountain West
295	San Jose St.	92.0	Mountain West
296	NJIT	91.9	Atlantic Sun
297	Army	91.8	Patriot
298	Fairleigh Dickinson	91.6	Northeast
299	Morgan St.	91.6	Mideastern Athletic
300	New Orleans	91.5	Southland
301	Idaho St.	91.4	Big Sky
302	UT-Martin	91.4	Ohio Valley
303	IUPUI	91.4	Horizon
304	Wagner	91.2	Northeast
305	Cleveland St.	91.1	Horizon
306	Niagara	91.1	Metro Atlantic
307	North Carolina Central	90.9	Mideastern Athletic
308	UNC Wilmington	90.8	Colonial Athletic
309	Long Beach St.	90.8	Big West
310	Elon	90.5	Colonial Athletic
311	Longwood	90.4	Big South
312	Stetson	90.2	Atlantic Sun
313	Idaho	90.2	Big Sky
314	Florida Gulf Coast	90.1	Atlantic Sun
315	Alcorn St.	90.0	Southwestern Athl.
316	SE Missouri	90.0	Ohio Valley
317	St. Francis (NY)	89.9	Northeast
318	Florida A&M	89.8	Mideastern Athletic
319	Binghamton	89.8	American East
320	Hampton	89.7	Big South
321	USC Upstate	89.7	Big South
322	Charleston Southern	89.6	Big South
323	Eastern Kentucky	89.6	Ohio Valley
324	North Carolina A&T	89.5	Mideastern Athletic
325	Western Illinois	89.4	Summit
326	Southern	89.4	Southwestern Athl.
327	Central Arkansas	89.3	Southland
328	Denver	89.3	Summit
329	SE Louisiana	89.2	Southland
330	Cal Poly	88.9	Big West
331	Jackson St.	88.7	Southwestern Athl.
332	Coppin St.	88.6	Mideastern Athletic
333	South Carolina St.	88.3	Mideastern Athletic
334	Northwestern St.	88.3	Southland
335	Holy Cross	88.2	Patriot
336	Alabama A&M	87.8	Southwestern Athl.
337	Marist	87.7	Metro Atlantic
338	Tennessee Tech	87.6	Ohio Valley
339	SIU Edwardsville	87.6	Ohio Valley
340	Presbyterian	87.5	Big South
341	Alabama St.	87.1	Southwestern Athl.
342	Maine	86.8	American East
343	Houston Baptist	86.5	Southland
344	High Point	86.0	Big South
345	Arkansas Pine Bluff	85.0	Southwestern Athl.
346	Kennesaw St.	84.7	Atlantic Sun
347	Incarnate Word	83.2	Southland
348	Howard	81.8	Mideastern Athletic
349	MD Eastern Shore	81.8	Mideastern Athletic
350	Central Connecticut	81.3	Northeast
351	Delaware St.	80.7	Mideastern Athletic
352	Chicago St.	77.8	Western Athletic
353	Mississippi Valley St.	77.0	Southwestern Athl.

 

Alphabetical

 

Team	PiRate	Conf.
Abilene Christian	96.4	Southland
Air Force	99.9	Mountain West
Akron	106.3	Mid-American
Alabama	110.6	Southeastern
Alabama A&M	87.8	Southwestern Athl.
Alabama St.	87.1	Southwestern Athl.
Albany	96.5	American East
Alcorn St.	90.0	Southwestern Athl.
American	96.8	Patriot
Appalachian St.	99.9	Sun Belt
Arizona	117.0	Pac-12
Arizona St.	107.2	Pac-12
Arkansas	112.1	Southeastern
Arkansas Pine Bluff	85.0	Southwestern Athl.
Arkansas St.	95.3	Sun Belt
Army	91.8	Patriot
Auburn	114.8	Southeastern
Austin Peay	98.5	Ohio Valley
Ball St.	104.6	Mid-American
Baylor	115.7	Big 12
Belmont	107.4	Ohio Valley
Bethune Cookman	93.5	Mideastern Athletic
Binghamton	89.8	American East
Boise St.	104.6	Mountain West
Boston College	102.2	Atlantic Coast
Boston U	97.2	Patriot
Bowling Green	99.9	Mid-American
Bradley	104.5	Missouri Valley
Brown	97.1	Ivy
Bryant	97.2	Northeast
Bucknell	95.8	Patriot
Buffalo	100.9	Mid-American
Butler	115.4	Big East
BYU	112.7	West Coast
Cal Poly	88.9	Big West
Cal St. Bakersfield	95.6	Western Athletic
Cal St. Fullerton	94.0	Big West
Cal St. Northridge	94.3	Big West
California	99.4	Pac-12
California Baptist	99.4	Western Athletic
Campbell	96.0	Big South
Canisius	95.6	Metro Atlantic
Central Arkansas	89.3	Southland
Central Connecticut	81.3	Northeast
Central Florida	104.0	American Athletic
Central Michigan	99.0	Mid-American
Charleston	102.9	Colonial Athletic
Charleston Southern	89.6	Big South
Charlotte	99.9	Conference USA
Chattanooga	98.0	Southern
Chicago St.	77.8	Western Athletic
Cincinnati	109.7	American Athletic
Citadel	92.4	Southern
Clemson	106.2	Atlantic Coast
Cleveland St.	91.1	Horizon
Coastal Carolina	100.8	Sun Belt
Colgate	102.2	Patriot
Colorado	111.6	Pac-12
Colorado St.	101.7	Mountain West
Columbia	95.4	Ivy
Connecticut	106.9	American Athletic
Coppin St.	88.6	Mideastern Athletic
Cornell	92.8	Ivy
Creighton	110.8	Big East
Dartmouth	97.2	Ivy
Davidson	106.3	Atlantic 10
Dayton	116.0	Atlantic 10
Delaware	99.2	Colonial Athletic
Delaware St.	80.7	Mideastern Athletic
Denver	89.3	Summit
DePaul	107.3	Big East
Detroit	92.6	Horizon
Drake	101.3	Missouri Valley
Drexel	95.1	Colonial Athletic
Duke	122.6	Atlantic Coast
Duquesne	107.6	Atlantic 10
East Carolina	95.8	American Athletic
East Tennessee St.	108.6	Southern
Eastern Illinois	96.7	Ohio Valley
Eastern Kentucky	89.6	Ohio Valley
Eastern Michigan	96.5	Mid-American
Eastern Washington	99.3	Big Sky
Elon	90.5	Colonial Athletic
Evansville	96.6	Missouri Valley
Fairfield	94.9	Metro Atlantic
Fairleigh Dickinson	91.6	Northeast
Florida	112.9	Southeastern
Florida A&M	89.8	Mideastern Athletic
Florida Atlantic	99.1	Conference USA
Florida Gulf Coast	90.1	Atlantic Sun
Florida Int’l.	99.3	Conference USA
Florida St.	115.1	Atlantic Coast
Fordham	94.5	Atlantic 10
Fresno St.	102.3	Mountain West
Furman	107.9	Southern
Gardner-Webb	95.1	Big South
George Mason	100.7	Atlantic 10
George Washington	95.5	Atlantic 10
Georgetown	110.6	Big East
Georgia	108.3	Southeastern
Georgia Southern	100.8	Sun Belt
Georgia St.	104.7	Sun Belt
Georgia Tech	106.7	Atlantic Coast
Gonzaga	117.6	West Coast
Grambling	92.3	Southwestern Athl.
Grand Canyon	96.0	Western Athletic
Green Bay	97.7	Horizon
Hampton	89.7	Big South
Hartford	92.2	American East
Harvard	105.3	Ivy
Hawaii	100.3	Big West
High Point	86.0	Big South
Hofstra	101.8	Colonial Athletic
Holy Cross	88.2	Patriot
Houston	112.3	American Athletic
Houston Baptist	86.5	Southland
Howard	81.8	Mideastern Athletic
Idaho	90.2	Big Sky
Idaho St.	91.4	Big Sky
Illinois	112.3	Big Ten
Illinois Chicago	94.8	Horizon
Illinois St.	97.3	Missouri Valley
Incarnate Word	83.2	Southland
Indiana	111.0	Big Ten
Indiana St.	102.5	Missouri Valley
Iona	95.2	Metro Atlantic
Iowa	112.6	Big Ten
Iowa St.	108.9	Big 12
IUPUI	91.4	Horizon
Jackson St.	88.7	Southwestern Athl.
Jacksonville	95.6	Atlantic Sun
Jacksonville St.	95.9	Ohio Valley
James Madison	94.2	Colonial Athletic
Kansas	121.8	Big 12
Kansas St.	105.8	Big 12
Kennesaw St.	84.7	Atlantic Sun
Kent St.	105.2	Mid-American
Kentucky	114.7	Southeastern
La Salle	100.1	Atlantic 10
Lafayette	97.7	Patriot
Lamar	93.9	Southland
Lehigh	94.4	Patriot
Liberty	107.9	Atlantic Sun
Lipscomb	96.1	Atlantic Sun
Little Rock	100.2	Sun Belt
Long Beach St.	90.8	Big West
Long Island	94.6	Northeast
Longwood	90.4	Big South
Louisiana	95.2	Sun Belt
Louisiana Monroe	95.1	Sun Belt
Louisiana Tech	107.5	Conference USA
Louisville	116.1	Atlantic Coast
Loyola (Chi.)	103.7	Missouri Valley
Loyola Marymount	97.2	West Coast
Loyola (MD)	95.6	Patriot
LSU	112.9	Southeastern
Maine	86.8	American East
Manhattan	94.9	Metro Atlantic
Marist	87.7	Metro Atlantic
Marquette	112.2	Big East
Marshall	101.5	Conference USA
Maryland	116.8	Big Ten
Massachusetts	99.5	Atlantic 10
McNeese St.	93.8	Southland
MD Eastern Shore	81.8	Mideastern Athletic
Memphis	112.7	American Athletic
Mercer	94.2	Southern
Merrimack	92.9	Northeast
Miami (Fla.)	105.9	Atlantic Coast
Miami (O)	97.6	Mid-American
Michigan	113.9	Big Ten
Michigan St.	120.3	Big Ten
Middle Tennessee	93.3	Conference USA
Milwaukee	94.9	Horizon
Minnesota	111.2	Big Ten
Mississippi	105.1	Southeastern
Mississippi St.	108.3	Southeastern
Mississippi Valley St.	77.0	Southwestern Athl.
Missouri	109.0	Southeastern
Missouri-KC	95.9	Western Athletic
Missouri St.	101.8	Missouri Valley
Monmouth	96.7	Metro Atlantic
Montana	99.5	Big Sky
Montana St.	96.5	Big Sky
Morehead St.	93.8	Ohio Valley
Morgan St.	91.6	Mideastern Athletic
Mount St. Mary’s	92.7	Northeast
Murray St.	102.5	Ohio Valley
Navy	96.3	Patriot
Nebraska	102.6	Big Ten
Nevada	105.4	Mountain West
New Hampshire	93.5	American East
New Mexico	105.6	Mountain West
New Mexico St.	105.8	Western Athletic
New Orleans	91.5	Southland
Niagara	91.1	Metro Atlantic
Nicholls St.	98.4	Southland
NJIT	91.9	Atlantic Sun
Norfolk St.	93.8	Mideastern Athletic
North Alabama	92.8	Atlantic Sun
North Carolina	108.6	Atlantic Coast
North Carolina A&T	89.5	Mideastern Athletic
North Carolina Central	90.9	Mideastern Athletic
North Carolina St.	110.7	Atlantic Coast
North Dakota	97.1	Summit
North Dakota St.	101.2	Summit
North Florida	100.1	Atlantic Sun
North Texas	103.3	Conference USA
Northeastern	101.7	Colonial Athletic
Northern Arizona	96.1	Big Sky
Northern Colorado	102.4	Big Sky
Northern Illinois	99.9	Mid-American
Northern Iowa	106.5	Missouri Valley
Northern Kentucky	101.0	Horizon
Northwestern	104.3	Big Ten
Northwestern St.	88.3	Southland
Notre Dame	108.8	Atlantic Coast
Oakland	96.9	Horizon
Ohio	97.7	Mid-American
Ohio St.	117.5	Big Ten
Oklahoma	110.5	Big 12
Oklahoma St.	108.9	Big 12
Old Dominion	99.3	Conference USA
Omaha	98.7	Summit
Oral Roberts	101.0	Summit
Oregon	114.6	Pac-12
Oregon St.	107.7	Pac-12
Pacific	100.5	West Coast
Penn	102.3	Ivy
Penn St.	112.9	Big Ten
Pepperdine	100.2	West Coast
Pittsburgh	107.3	Atlantic Coast
Portland	95.1	West Coast
Portland St.	97.4	Big Sky
Prairie View A&M	96.1	Southwestern Athl.
Presbyterian	87.5	Big South
Princeton	98.1	Ivy
Providence	108.2	Big East
Purdue	112.3	Big Ten
Purdue Fort Wayne	95.7	Summit
Quinnipiac	96.1	Metro Atlantic
Radford	102.0	Big South
Rhode Island	107.2	Atlantic 10
Rice	96.3	Conference USA
Richmond	108.3	Atlantic 10
Rider	99.2	Metro Atlantic
Robert Morris	95.2	Northeast
Rutgers	111.8	Big Ten
Sacramento St.	98.5	Big Sky
Sacred Heart	97.9	Northeast
Saint Joseph’s	94.3	Atlantic 10
Saint Louis	104.1	Atlantic 10
Saint Mary’s	111.4	West Coast
Saint Peter’s	94.5	Metro Atlantic
Sam Houston St.	99.8	Southland
Samford	96.5	Southern
San Diego	97.5	West Coast
San Diego St.	113.6	Mountain West
San Francisco	104.9	West Coast
San Jose St.	92.0	Mountain West
Santa Clara	101.2	West Coast
SE Louisiana	89.2	Southland
SE Missouri	90.0	Ohio Valley
Seattle	95.7	Western Athletic
Seton Hall	115.0	Big East
Siena	97.9	Metro Atlantic
SIU Edwardsville	87.6	Ohio Valley
SMU	107.2	American Athletic
South Alabama	99.1	Sun Belt
South Carolina	103.9	Southeastern
South Carolina St.	88.3	Mideastern Athletic
South Dakota	97.1	Summit
South Dakota St.	101.3	Summit
South Florida	103.1	American Athletic
Southern	89.4	Southwestern Athl.
Southern Illinois	99.1	Missouri Valley
Southern Miss.	93.7	Conference USA
Southern Utah	100.8	Big Sky
St. Bonaventure	102.8	Atlantic 10
St. Francis (NY)	89.9	Northeast
St. Francis (PA)	99.7	Northeast
St. John’s	107.4	Big East
Stanford	109.6	Pac-12
Stephen F. Austin	102.4	Southland
Stetson	90.2	Atlantic Sun
Stony Brook	102.5	American East
Syracuse	107.4	Atlantic Coast
TCU	109.2	Big 12
Temple	107.8	American Athletic
Tennessee	110.0	Southeastern
Tennessee St.	95.2	Ohio Valley
Tennessee Tech	87.6	Ohio Valley
Texas	107.3	Big 12
Texas A&M	100.9	Southeastern
Texas A&M CC	92.3	Southland
Texas Southern	93.4	Southwestern Athl.
Texas St.	101.5	Sun Belt
Texas Tech	112.6	Big 12
Toledo	104.5	Mid-American
Towson	99.3	Colonial Athletic
Troy	94.4	Sun Belt
Tulane	100.1	American Athletic
Tulsa	103.1	American Athletic
UAB	100.2	Conference USA
UC Davis	95.4	Big West
UC Irvine	103.0	Big West
UC Riverside	97.0	Big West
UC Santa Barbara	101.4	Big West
UCLA	104.0	Pac-12
UM Baltimore Co.	92.4	American East
UMass Lowell	94.4	American East
UNC Asheville	94.7	Big South
UNC Greensboro	106.2	Southern
UNC Wilmington	90.8	Colonial Athletic
UNLV	101.6	Mountain West
USC	107.1	Pac-12
USC Upstate	89.7	Big South
UT Arlington	102.2	Southland
UT Rio Grande Valley	95.0	Western Athletic
UT-Martin	91.4	Ohio Valley
Utah	105.6	Pac-12
Utah St.	108.9	Mountain West
Utah Valley	94.8	Western Athletic
UTEP	101.6	Conference USA
UTSA	98.3	Conference USA
Valparaiso	99.5	Missouri Valley
Vanderbilt	103.2	Southeastern
VCU	111.2	Atlantic 10
Vermont	106.4	American East
Villanova	112.8	Big East
Virginia	110.2	Atlantic Coast
Virginia Tech	108.0	Atlantic Coast
VMI	92.5	Southern
Wagner	91.2	Northeast
Wake Forest	105.2	Atlantic Coast
Washington	110.8	Pac-12
Washington St.	102.1	Pac-12
Weber St.	93.6	Big Sky
West Virginia	114.9	Big 12
Western Carolina	100.8	Southern
Western Illinois	89.4	Summit
Western Kentucky	104.2	Conference USA
Western Michigan	94.7	Mid-American
Wichita St.	112.2	Big East
William & Mary	100.9	Colonial Athletic
Winthrop	101.9	Big South
Wisconsin	112.0	Big Ten
Wofford	102.7	Southern
Wright St.	104.2	Horizon
Wyoming	92.1	Mountain West
Xavier	110.9	Big East
Yale	108.2	Ivy
Youngstown St.	96.5	Horizon

 

PiRate Ratings By Conference

 

#	American Athletic	PiRate
1	Memphis	112.7
2	Houston	112.3
3	Cincinnati	109.7
4	Temple	107.8
5	SMU	107.2
6	Connecticut	106.9
7	Central Florida	104.0
8	Tulsa	103.1
9	South Florida	103.1
10	Tulane	100.1
11	East Carolina	95.8
Avg	American Athletic	105.7
#	American East	PiRate
1	Vermont	106.4
2	Stony Brook	102.5
3	Albany	96.5
4	UMass Lowell	94.4
5	New Hampshire	93.5
6	UM Baltimore Co.	92.4
7	Hartford	92.2
8	Binghamton	89.8
9	Maine	86.8
Avg	American East	94.9
#	Atlantic 10	PiRate
1	Dayton	116.0
2	VCU	111.2
3	Richmond	108.3
4	Duquesne	107.6
5	Rhode Island	107.2
6	Davidson	106.3
7	Saint Louis	104.1
8	St. Bonaventure	102.8
9	George Mason	100.7
10	La Salle	100.1
11	Massachusetts	99.5
12	George Washington	95.5
13	Fordham	94.5
14	Saint Joseph’s	94.3
Avg.	Atlantic 10	103.4
#	Atlantic Coast	PiRate
1	Duke	122.6
2	Louisville	116.1
3	Florida St.	115.1
4	North Carolina St.	110.7
5	Virginia	110.2
6	Notre Dame	108.8
7	North Carolina	108.6
8	Virginia Tech	108.0
9	Syracuse	107.4
10	Pittsburgh	107.3
11	Georgia Tech	106.7
12	Clemson	106.2
13	Miami (Fla.)	105.9
14	Wake Forest	105.2
15	Boston College	102.2
Avg	Atlantic Coast	109.4
#	Atlantic Sun	PiRate
1	Liberty	107.9
2	North Florida	100.1
3	Lipscomb	96.1
4	Jacksonville	95.6
5	North Alabama	92.8
6	NJIT	91.9
7	Stetson	90.2
8	Florida Gulf Coast	90.1
9	Kennesaw St.	84.7
Avg	Atlantic Sun	94.4
#	Big 12	PiRate
1	Kansas	121.8
2	Baylor	115.7
3	West Virginia	114.9
4	Texas Tech	112.6
5	Oklahoma	110.5
6	TCU	109.2
7	Iowa St.	108.9
8	Oklahoma St.	108.9
9	Texas	107.3
10	Kansas St.	105.8
Avg	Big 12	111.6
#	Big East	PiRate
1	Butler	115.4
2	Seton Hall	115.0
3	Villanova	112.8
4	Marquette	112.2
5	Wichita St.	112.2
6	Xavier	110.9
7	Creighton	110.8
8	Georgetown	110.6
9	Providence	108.2
10	St. John’s	107.4
11	DePaul	107.3
Avg	Big East	111.2
#	Big Sky	PiRate
1	Northern Colorado	102.4
2	Southern Utah	100.8
3	Montana	99.5
4	Eastern Washington	99.3
5	Sacramento St.	98.5
6	Portland St.	97.4
7	Montana St.	96.5
8	Northern Arizona	96.1
9	Weber St.	93.6
10	Idaho St.	91.4
11	Idaho	90.2
#	Big Sky	96.9
#	Big South	PiRate
1	Radford	102.0
2	Winthrop	101.9
3	Campbell	96.0
4	Gardner-Webb	95.1
5	UNC Asheville	94.7
6	Longwood	90.4
7	Hampton	89.7
8	USC Upstate	89.7
9	Charleston Southern	89.6
10	Presbyterian	87.5
11	High Point	86.0
Avg	Big South	93.0
#	Big Ten	PiRate
1	Michigan St.	120.3
2	Ohio St.	117.5
3	Maryland	116.8
4	Michigan	113.9
5	Penn St.	112.9
6	Iowa	112.6
7	Illinois	112.3
8	Purdue	112.3
9	Wisconsin	112.0
10	Rutgers	111.8
11	Minnesota	111.2
12	Indiana	111.0
13	Northwestern	104.3
14	Nebraska	102.6
Avg	Big Ten	112.3
#	Big West	PiRate
1	UC Irvine	103.0
2	UC Santa Barbara	101.4
3	Hawaii	100.3
4	UC Riverside	97.0
5	UC Davis	95.4
6	Cal St. Northridge	94.3
7	Cal St. Fullerton	94.0
8	Long Beach St.	90.8
9	Cal Poly	88.9
Avg	Big West	96.1
#	Colonial Athletic	PiRate
1	Charleston	102.9
2	Hofstra	101.8
3	Northeastern	101.7
4	William & Mary	100.9
5	Towson	99.3
6	Delaware	99.2
7	Drexel	95.1
8	James Madison	94.2
9	UNC Wilmington	90.8
10	Elon	90.5
Avg	Colonial Athletic	97.6
#	Conference USA	PiRate
1	Louisiana Tech	107.5
2	Western Kentucky	104.2
3	North Texas	103.3
4	UTEP	101.6
5	Marshall	101.5
6	UAB	100.2
7	Charlotte	99.9
8	Old Dominion	99.3
9	Florida Int’l.	99.3
10	Florida Atlantic	99.1
11	UTSA	98.3
12	Rice	96.3
13	Southern Miss.	93.7
14	Middle Tennessee	93.3
Avg	Conference USA	99.8
#	Horizon	PiRate
1	Wright St.	104.2
2	Northern Kentucky	101.0
3	Green Bay	97.7
4	Oakland	96.9
5	Youngstown St.	96.5
6	Milwaukee	94.9
7	Illinois Chicago	94.8
8	Detroit	92.6
9	IUPUI	91.4
10	Cleveland St.	91.1
Avg	Horizon	96.1
#	Ivy	PiRate
1	Yale	108.2
2	Harvard	105.3
3	Penn	102.3
4	Princeton	98.1
5	Dartmouth	97.2
6	Brown	97.1
7	Columbia	95.4
8	Cornell	92.8
Avg	Ivy	99.6
#	Metro Atlantic	PiRate
1	Rider	99.2
2	Siena	97.9
3	Monmouth	96.7
4	Quinnipiac	96.1
5	Canisius	95.6
6	Iona	95.2
7	Manhattan	94.9
8	Fairfield	94.9
9	Saint Peter’s	94.5
10	Niagara	91.1
11	Marist	87.7
Avg	Metro Atlantic	94.9
#	Mid-American	PiRate
1	Akron	106.3
2	Kent St.	105.2
3	Ball St.	104.6
4	Toledo	104.5
5	Buffalo	100.9
6	Bowling Green	99.9
7	Northern Illinois	99.9
8	Central Michigan	99.0
9	Ohio	97.7
10	Miami (O)	97.6
11	Eastern Michigan	96.5
12	Western Michigan	94.7
Avg	Mid-American	100.6
#	Mideastern Athletic	PiRate
1	Norfolk St.	93.8
2	Bethune Cookman	93.5
3	Morgan St.	91.6
4	North Carolina Central	90.9
5	Florida A&M	89.8
6	North Carolina A&T	89.5
7	Coppin St.	88.6
8	South Carolina St.	88.3
9	Howard	81.8
10	MD Eastern Shore	81.8
11	Delaware St.	80.7
Avg	Mideastern Athletic	88.2
#	Missouri Valley	PiRate
1	Northern Iowa	106.5
2	Bradley	104.5
3	Loyola (Chi.)	103.7
4	Indiana St.	102.5
5	Missouri St.	101.8
6	Drake	101.3
7	Valparaiso	99.5
8	Southern Illinois	99.1
9	Illinois St.	97.3
10	Evansville	96.6
Avg	Missouri Valley	101.3
#	Mountain West	PiRate
1	San Diego St.	113.6
2	Utah St.	108.9
3	New Mexico	105.6
4	Nevada	105.4
5	Boise St.	104.6
6	Fresno St.	102.3
7	Colorado St.	101.7
8	UNLV	101.6
9	Air Force	99.9
10	Wyoming	92.1
11	San Jose St.	92.0
Avg	Mountain West	102.5
#	Northeast	PiRate
1	St. Francis (PA)	99.7
2	Sacred Heart	97.9
3	Bryant	97.2
4	Robert Morris	95.2
5	Long Island	94.6
6	Merrimack	92.9
7	Mount St. Mary’s	92.7
8	Fairleigh Dickinson	91.6
9	Wagner	91.2
10	St. Francis (NY)	89.9
11	Central Connecticut	81.3
Avg	Northeast	93.1
#	Ohio Valley	PiRate
1	Belmont	107.4
2	Murray St.	102.5
3	Austin Peay	98.5
4	Eastern Illinois	96.7
5	Jacksonville St.	95.9
6	Tennessee St.	95.2
7	Morehead St.	93.8
8	UT-Martin	91.4
9	SE Missouri	90.0
10	Eastern Kentucky	89.6
11	Tennessee Tech	87.6
12	SIU Edwardsville	87.6
Avg	Ohio Valley	94.7
#	Pac-12	PiRate
1	Arizona	117.0
2	Oregon	114.6
3	Colorado	111.6
4	Washington	110.8
5	Stanford	109.6
6	Oregon St.	107.7
7	Arizona St.	107.2
8	USC	107.1
9	Utah	105.6
10	UCLA	104.0
11	Washington St.	102.1
12	California	99.4
Avg	Pac-12	108.1
#	Patriot	PiRate
1	Colgate	102.2
2	Lafayette	97.7
3	Boston U	97.2
4	American	96.8
5	Navy	96.3
6	Bucknell	95.8
7	Loyola (MD)	95.6
8	Lehigh	94.4
9	Army	91.8
10	Holy Cross	88.2
Avg	Patriot	95.6
#	Southeastern	PiRate
1	Auburn	114.8
2	Kentucky	114.7
3	Florida	112.9
4	LSU	112.9
5	Arkansas	112.1
6	Alabama	110.6
7	Tennessee	110.0
8	Missouri	109.0
9	Georgia	108.3
10	Mississippi St.	108.3
11	Mississippi	105.1
12	South Carolina	103.9
13	Vanderbilt	103.2
14	Texas A&M	100.9
Avg	Southeastern	109.1
#	Southern	PiRate
1	East Tennessee St.	108.6
2	Furman	107.9
3	UNC Greensboro	106.2
4	Wofford	102.7
5	Western Carolina	100.8
6	Chattanooga	98.0
7	Samford	96.5
8	Mercer	94.2
9	VMI	92.5
10	Citadel	92.4
Avg	Southern	100.0
#	Southland	PiRate
1	Stephen F. Austin	102.4
2	UT Arlington	102.2
3	Sam Houston St.	99.8
4	Nicholls St.	98.4
5	Abilene Christian	96.4
6	Lamar	93.9
7	McNeese St.	93.8
8	Texas A&M CC	92.3
9	New Orleans	91.5
10	Central Arkansas	89.3
11	SE Louisiana	89.2
12	Northwestern St.	88.3
13	Houston Baptist	86.5
14	Incarnate Word	83.2
Avg	Southland	93.4
#	Southwestern Athletic	PiRate
1	Prairie View A&M	96.1
2	Texas Southern	93.4
3	Grambling	92.3
4	Alcorn St.	90.0
5	Southern	89.4
6	Jackson St.	88.7
7	Alabama A&M	87.8
8	Alabama St.	87.1
9	Arkansas Pine Bluff	85.0
10	Mississippi Valley St.	77.0
Avg	Southwestern Athletic	88.7
#	Summit	PiRate
1	South Dakota St.	101.3
2	North Dakota St.	101.2
3	Oral Roberts	101.0
4	Omaha	98.7
5	South Dakota	97.1
6	North Dakota	97.1
7	Purdue Fort Wayne	95.7
8	Western Illinois	89.4
9	Denver	89.3
Avg	Summit	96.8
#	Sun Belt	PiRate
1	Georgia St.	104.7
2	Texas St.	101.5
3	Georgia Southern	100.8
4	Coastal Carolina	100.8
5	Little Rock	100.2
6	Appalachian St.	99.9
7	South Alabama	99.1
8	Arkansas St.	95.3
9	Louisiana	95.2
10	Louisiana Monroe	95.1
11	Troy	94.4
Avg	Sun Belt	98.8
#	West Coast	PiRate
1	Gonzaga	117.6
2	BYU	112.7
3	Saint Mary’s	111.4
4	San Francisco	104.9
5	Santa Clara	101.2
6	Pacific	100.5
7	Pepperdine	100.2
8	San Diego	97.5
9	Loyola Marymount	97.2
10	Portland	95.1
Avg	West Coast	103.8
#	Western Athletic	PiRate
1	New Mexico St.	105.8
2	California Baptist	99.4
3	Grand Canyon	96.0
4	Missouri-KC	95.9
5	Seattle	95.7
6	Cal St. Bakersfield	95.6
7	UT Rio Grande Valley	95.0
8	Utah Valley	94.8
9	Chicago St.	77.8
Avg	Western Athletic	95.1

 

Conference Ratings

 

#	Conference	PiRate
1	Big Ten	112.3
2	Big 12	111.6
3	Big East	111.2
4	Atlantic Coast	109.4
5	Southeastern	109.1
6	Pac-12	108.1
7	American Athletic	105.7
8	West Coast	103.8
9	Atlantic 10	103.4
10	Mountain West	102.5
11	Missouri Valley	101.3
12	Mid-American	100.6
13	Southern	100.0
14	Conference USA	99.8
15	Ivy	99.6
16	Sun Belt	98.8
17	Colonial Athletic	97.6
18	Big Sky	96.9
19	Summit	96.8
20	Horizon	96.1
21	Big West	96.1
22	Patriot	95.6
23	Western Athletic	95.1
24	American East	94.9
25	Metro Atlantic	94.9
26	Ohio Valley	94.7
27	Atlantic Sun	94.4
28	Southland	93.4
29	Northeast	93.1
30	Big South	93.0
31	Southwestern Athletic	88.7
32	Mideastern Athletic	88.2

 

What Stats Best Correlate To Winning in 2020?

 

To the love of all mathematics professors, the 21st Century has been the dawning of the age of analytics.  What was once considered a fancy of eccentric mathematics geniuses, maybe more properly suited for discussion at meetings of the Prometheus Society, now advanced sports metrics are not just accepted, they are leading front and center when game strategy is determined.

In the present time, prospective coaches and managers are frequently given tests to gauge their proficiency in analytics.  One baseball manager endured a six-hour long interview that required him to look at spreadsheets full of analytics data and asked to show the general manager what data was crucial.

Obviously, professional sports teams are leaving no analytical stone unturned and sparing no expense to discover how to maximize team efficiency.  It has now moved to the collegiate level as well, as nearly each of the 353 Division 1 College Basketball teams has at least one person in charge of analyzing advanced metrics.

A large number of fans follow along in this mathematical calculation.  There are numerous sites online that compute many of the same metrics that are used to determine how a team should be playing.  The result–most college teams today know exactly how to strategize their rosters for what they hope is maximum efficiency.  Of course, the human element still greatly affects these decisions, because players are not robots with computer chips.  John Q. Jumpshot will not connect on 41.7% of his three-point attempts in every game.  Joe Powers cannot grab 11.1% of all the available rebounds in every game.  Andy Assistman cannot get an assist on exactly one out of every nine possessions every night.

In baseball, it has become known over time that certain statistics tend to correlate to winning more than others.  For instance batting average is a very poor indicator of winning percentage in Major League Baseball.  On-Base Average and Slugging Percentage are better statistics that have better correlations.  Weighted On-Base Average (a stat created by the incredible Tom Tango) is an even better indicator.  Fielding Independent Pitching, once thought to be the most ideal pitching metric, has slowly been given less “oomph” as data has shown that some pitchers can cause batters to consistently not hit balls on the meat part of the bat.  Knuckleball pitchers may not strike out a lot of batters, but then unless their pitch spins twice on its way to the plate, very few batters will get clean wood on the pitch.

Basketball also has certain statistics that correlate better with winning games than other statistics.  Obviously scoring margin is an excellent stat, but what we are looking for are the stats that lead to better scoring margin and thus winning percentage.  How does regular field goal percentage rate at finding winning teams, and can a coach simply go with his five best shooters and hope to maximize wins?

What about the exact opposite?  What if a coach plays the five players that best limit opponents’ shooting percentage?  Will this lead to more victories than playing the five best shooters?

What about rebounding, the ability to block shots, or the ability to steal the ball?  Or, what about having the five best players at protecting the ball and limiting turnovers?

Let’s take a look at some of the more popular statistics and see how they correlate to the current NCAA basketball season.  We will look at each stat and then compare it to won-loss record.  We will use the stats as provided by Sports-Reference.com and the NCAA itself.

 

Offensive Field Goal Percentage

Rk	Team	FG%	Won	Lost
1	Dayton	52.5	13	2
2	McNeese State	51.9	6	9
3	Kansas	51.0	12	2
4	Gonzaga	50.1	17	1
5	Loyola (IL)	50.1	10	6
6	Stephen F. Austin	49.7	13	3
7	New Mexico	49.4	14	3
8	Louisiana State	49.2	10	4
9	Arizona	48.8	11	4
10	Brigham Young	48.8	12	5
11	Duke	48.6	14	1
12	Saint Mary’s (CA)	48.5	15	3
13	Oregon	48.4	13	3
14	Air Force	48.3	8	8
15	Furman	48.3	14	3
16	Tennessee State	48.3	10	6
17	Michigan	48.2	11	4
18	Murray State	48.2	10	5
19	Santa Clara	48.2	14	3
20	Belmont	48.1	11	5

 

There is an obvious correlation here, as the object of the game is to put the ball through the hoop to score points and to score more points than the other team.  However, the correlation is not terrific.  McNeese State is the second best shooting team in the nation with this plain, old-fashioned statistic, and they are 6-9 this year.

In past seasons, the field goal percentage correlation has been rather consistently similar to this season.  It is a wonderful thing to be able to shoot the ball in the basket better than other teams, but on the whole, there are other statistics with better correlations.

Defensive Field Goal Percentage

 

Rk	Team	dFG%	Won	Lost
1	Virginia	34.7	11	3
2	Memphis	35.0	12	3
3	West Virginia	35.7	12	2
4	San Diego State	36.3	16	0
5	Ohio State	36.3	11	4
6	Sacramento State	36.4	9	4
7	Louisville	36.5	12	3
8	Liberty	36.5	17	1
9	Yale	36.6	10	4
10	Washington	37.0	11	5
11	Michigan State	37.0	13	3
12	Vermont	37.1	10	6
13	Kansas	37.1	12	2
14	Butler	37.2	14	1
15	Arizona	37.2	11	4
16	Rutgers	37.3	12	3
17	Maryland	37.3	13	2
18	Missouri	37.6	8	6
19	UC-Irvine	37.7	8	8
20	Baylor	37.8	12	1

 

On the surface, this looks like it has a higher correlation with winning than offensive field goal percentage, and as a former basketball coach, I will confirm that a team that can prevent the opponent from getting good shots will win more consistently than a team that can shoot a high percentage of shots.  A great shooting team will have a few off nights, but a great defensive team will be more consistent.

There are still a couple of teams in this metric that are not world-beaters.  Sacramento State isn’t a team that you will see in the Sweet 16 in 11 weeks.  But, on the other hand, it is highly conceivable that 19 of these 20 teams will make the Big Dance.  So, we must conclude that dFG% is more predictive of overall success than offensive FG%, but there are still better indicators.

 

3-point Field Goal Percentage 

 

Rk	Team	3pt%	Won	Lost
1	McNeese State	42.1	6	9
2	Saint Mary’s	42.1	15	3
3	Air Force	41.5	8	8
4	Indiana State	40.9	8	6
5	Marquette	40.5	11	4
6	Northeastern	40.3	9	8
7	Brigham Young	39.5	12	5
8	South Dakota	39.3	10	7
9	Vanderbilt	39.3	8	6
10	Oregon	39.2	13	3
11	Lafayette	39.1	9	5
12	Georgia State	39.0	11	6
13	Alcorn State	38.9	5	8
14	Nevada	38.7	10	6
15	North Florida	38.7	10	8
16	Portland	38.7	9	8
17	Gonzaga	38.6	17	1
18	Saint Peter’s	38.6	6	7
19	Wofford	38.6	10	6
20	Stanford	38.5	13	2

 

This is obviously a much  weaker correlation than the prior statistics.  Once again, McNeese State throws a monkey wrench into this metric.  The Cowboys have a couple players shooting over 50% from behind the arc, but look at their 6-9 record.  Additionally, a majority of the teams in this list will not be hearing their names called on Selection Sunday.  To be honest, some of these teams are going to start Spring Break after just one conference tournament game in March.

 

Defensive 3-point Field Goal Percentage 

 

Rk	Team	d3pt%	Won	Lost
1	Arkansas	22.7	12	2
2	West Virginia	23.5	12	2
3	Sacramento State	25.1	9	4
4	Nicholls State	25.6	10	6
5	Nevada	26.1	10	6
6	Georgia State	26.1	11	6
7	San Diego State	26.2	16	0
8	Butler	26.4	14	1
9	Virginia	26.5	11	3
10	Northern Kentucky	26.9	10	6
11	Akron	26.9	12	3
12	Florida International	27.0	11	5
13	East Tennessee State	27.2	14	3
14	Yale	27.3	10	4
15	Oklahoma State	27.5	9	5
16	Jacksonville	27.5	8	9
17	Idaho State	27.5	5	8
18	Missouri	27.6	8	6
19	George Washington	27.6	6	9
20	Liberty	27.7	17	1

 

Just like the regular field goal percentages, three-point field goal defense has a better correlation to winning than offensive three-point percentage.  It’s not the best metric, but the correlation is higher than the offensive counterpart, and it has a bit weaker correlation than regular dFG%.

 

Rebounding Margin

 

Rk	Team	Reb Marg	Won	Lost
1	Houston	11.8	12	3
2	Murray St.	10.9	10	5
3	Illinois	10.8	11	5
4	Michigan St.	10.5	13	3
5	Pacific	10.4	14	4
6	UC Irvine	10.2	8	8
7	Rutgers	10.1	12	3
8	North Carolina	9.7	8	7
9	Indiana	9.7	12	3
10	Duke	9.2	14	1
11	UCLA	8.6	8	7
12	CSU Bakersfield	8.6	7	10
13	SFA	8.5	13	3
14	New Hampshire	8.4	8	7
15	SMU	8.4	12	2
16	Southern Utah	8.4	10	5
17	Maryland	8.2	13	2
18	Gonzaga	8.1	17	1
19	Utah St.	7.9	13	5
20	West Virginia	7.9	12	2

 

Here we have an interesting correlation.  North Carolina is the only anomaly in the top 10 in this stat, and the Tar Heels have suffered four major injuries to their roster.  In that time, their rebounding margin has come down.

It is obvious that if one team gets additional chances to score and limits the opponent from getting additional chances to score, then weaker shooting accuracy can beat better shooting accuracy.

This statistic tends to be more consistent than other conventional statistics.  The coaches that produce big rebounding advantages throughout their careers tend to place their teams in the top 20 of this stat year after year.  Tom Izzo teams always finish high up in this stat.  Mick Cronin’s teams have routinely been in the top 20 while at Murray State, Cincinnati, and now UCLA.

There are some outliers here.  Cal St. Bakersfield and New Hampshire are not likely to be playing in the NCAA Tournament, but as a whole, this stat has a decent correlation for a straight counting stat.

Let’s now get into some advanced metrics with rate stats over counting stats.

True Shooting Percentage

College True Shooting percentage is:   Points*100/ 2*(FGA+{.475*FTA})

Rk	Team	TS%	Won	Lost
1	McNeese State	62.3	6	9
2	Dayton	62.2	13	2
3	Air Force	61.0	8	8
4	Saint Mary’s	59.4	15	3
5	Northeastern	59.3	9	8
6	Lafayette	59.1	9	5
7	Brigham Young	59.0	12	5
8	Kansas	58.9	12	2
9	Western Carolina	58.9	11	3
10	California Baptist	58.8	11	5
11	Furman	58.7	14	3
12	Santa Clara	58.7	14	3
13	Gonzaga	58.5	17	1
14	Northern Iowa	58.5	13	2
15	Liberty	58.5	17	1
16	Utah	58.4	10	4
17	New Mexico	58.4	14	3
18	Wofford	58.3	10	6
19	Arizona	58.2	11	4
20	Southern Methodist	58.1	12	2

 

Once again, we have McNeese State making a metric to be less positively correlative.  The Cowboys will obviously win some games this year just by shooting the other team out of the gym, but don’t look for McNeese to be making the field of 68.

 

Defensive True Shooting Percentage

Rk	Team	TS%	Won	Lost
1	Virginia	43.8	11	3
2	Memphis	44.5	12	3
3	Sacramento State	44.6	9	4
4	West Virginia	45.2	12	2
5	Liberty	45.2	17	1
6	Butler	45.2	14	1
7	Ohio State	45.4	11	4
8	Yale	45.5	10	4
9	Michigan State	45.6	13	3
10	Washington	45.9	11	5
11	Maryland	45.9	13	2
12	Louisville	46.0	12	3
13	Stanford	46.1	13	2
14	San Diego State	46.2	16	0
15	Baylor	46.2	12	1
16	Akron	46.2	12	3
17	Arkansas	46.3	12	2
18	Rutgers	46.5	12	3
19	Kansas	46.6	12	2
20	Temple	47.1	9	5

 

Now, we’re getting somewhere.  This rate stat returns 20 teams with winning records.  Sacramento State rates rather high here, but their 9-4 record is actually proof that this metric has a lot of value.  This metric has a nice correlation with points allowed per possession.  If a team rates in the top 20 here, and they have just average rebounding and turnover rates, they are going to win a majority of their games.

 

Let’s take a look at pace.  How have the teams with the fastest pace fared as opposed to the teams with the slowest pace?  Can we find anything here?

 

Fastest Pace

Rk	Team	Pace	Won	Lost
1	Houston Baptist	80.4	1	11
2	Mississippi Valley State	80.3	0	13
3	Alabama	78.1	8	6
4	Eastern Kentucky	78.1	5	11
5	Citadel	77.9	6	8
6	Central Arkansas	77.9	4	12
7	Eastern Washington	77.7	9	6
8	Florida International	77.5	11	5
9	Central Michigan	77.1	9	6
10	Long Island University	76.4	6	9
11	Stephen F. Austin	76.4	13	3
12	Delaware State	76.3	1	14
13	Marshall	76.2	8	8
14	Green Bay	76.2	7	10
15	Memphis	76.0	12	3
16	Texas Southern	75.7	4	11
17	St. John’s	75.6	11	5
18	Sam Houston State	75.5	11	5
19	Buffalo	75.5	9	6
20	Texas-San Antonio	75.5	7	9

 

Ugh!  We have two of the weakest teams in D1 basketball at the top of this list!  This is a negative correlation if we’ve ever seen one.  Is this something that has been consistent throughout the years in college basketball?  It hasn’t always been this way.  The great UCLA, UNLV, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Duke teams from the past were some of the most up-tempo teams in basketball.

What we have here are poor teams where the coaches run up-tempo to keep fans in the seats and to try to attract better recruits, promising them that they can lead the nation in scoring.  Fans will turn out to see their team lose 110-100.  If they lose 50-45, they will stay home and watch reruns of Barney Miller or look at Messi the Puma on Youtube.

Slowest Pace

Rk	Team	Pace	Won	Lost
1	Virginia	60.2	11	3
2	Navy	61.3	8	6
3	Liberty	62.3	17	1
4	Marist	64.4	2	11
5	Southern Illinois	64.4	8	8
6	Fairfield	64.5	5	9
7	Wisconsin	64.5	9	6
8	Butler	64.5	14	1
9	Sacramento State	64.8	9	4
10	Nevada-Las Vegas	65.0	8	9
11	Radford	65.1	7	7
12	Pacific	65.1	14	4
13	Purdue	65.2	9	7
14	UC-Santa Barbara	65.3	12	4
15	Merrimack	65.3	8	8
16	Saint Mary’s	65.3	15	3
17	Fresno State	65.4	5	11
18	Wofford	65.5	10	6
19	Maine	65.6	4	12
20	UC-Riverside	65.7	11	6

 

Once again, this isn’t the best correlation.  Rik Smits isn’t walking through the door at Marist.  Walt Frazier isn’t going to lead Southern Illinois to riches this year.  As a whole, this metric is only marginally better than the opposite.  And, in past years, teams that led in slowest pace were teams that played deliberate offenses trying to steal victories with less talent than the opponent.  However, with the 30-second shot clock, teams with the slowest pace in their games are more likely to be the ones that play smothering defenses that prevent opponents from getting cheap open shots.

 

Advanced Analytics

Up to now, we have shown you easy calculations.  You can find these numbers online with ease.  What about more advanced stats?  What if we start to combine multiple stats in a linear method?  How about we handicap each stat based on formula set out in the works of other metric experts?  Is their a better correlation to be found in a metric similar to Tom Tango’s wOBA?

We at the PiRate Ratings follow the Four Factors of basketball created by Dean Oliver two decades ago.  The Four Factors are reall eight factors, because they are applied to both offense and defense.  They are:

1. Effective Field Goal Percentage

2. Turnover Rate

3. Rebound Rate

4. Free Throw Rate

There are differing opinions on how to calculate FT rate.  The original formula was FTA/FGA or the ratio of free throw attempts to field goal attempts.  Oliver believed that getting to the foul line was more important than free throw percentage.

Others altered this to FT Made/FGA, believing that adding FT% into the ability to get to the foul line was a better way to gauge success.  However, this stat can be a little misleading.  The team that is ahead in the final minutes frequently holds the ball to the end of the shot clock forcing the other team to foul.  Additionally, this means the leading team does not try to shoot a field goal, and thus this rate is artificially inflated.  And, since the leading team almost always wins, the correlation is stronger than it should be.

In 2011, on the Harvard Sports Analysis Blog, author John Ezekowitz offered an alternative that smoothed out the artificial inflation by removing the pace.  He believed that free throws made per 100 possessions was a better metric, and we concurred with his hypothesis.  Testing proved it to be a better indicator in the shot clock era.

 

Our PiRate Ratings uses an algorithm that combines The Four Factors Data with schedule strength to come up with a rating, so in essence our PiRate Rating for each team is a linear statistic similar to wOBA in baseball.  The one difference is that it takes wOBA and applies is to both offense and defense.  In essence, it is like combining offense, pitching, and fielding in baseball into one total cumulative stat.

 

Obviously, we are not going to reveal our algorithm to the public, but we can reveal the handicapped weightings that  have been accepted through the years by the analytics community.  To which, they are:

1. Effective Field Goal Percentage 40%

2. Turnover Rate 25%

3. Rebound Rate 20%

4. Free Throw Rate 15%

What if we calculated the Four Factors for every team and then applied this weighting above to find the top 20 teams in this linear formula?  Might it be more positively correlating than the other stats?

Here is the top 20 teams ranked by a combination of weighted Offensive Four Factors minus their weighted Defensive Four Factors.

 

Rk	Team	w 4F	Won	Lost
1	Houston	2.963	12	3
2	Pacific	2.886	14	4
3	UC-Irvine	2.885	8	8
4	North Carolina	2.851	8	7
5	Alabama-Birmingham	2.735	10	6
6	Illinois	2.677	11	5
7	Cal State Bakersfield	2.620	7	10
8	UCLA	2.610	8	7
9	Indiana	2.559	12	3
10	UC-Riverside	2.520	11	6
11	Missouri State	2.501	8	8
12	Tennessee State	2.500	10	6
13	Saint Peter’s	2.473	6	7
14	Nevada-Las Vegas	2.442	8	9
15	New Hampshire	2.316	8	7
16	Brown	2.271	7	6
17	Michigan State	2.262	13	3
18	Southern Methodist	2.204	12	2
19	Murray State	2.177	10	5
20	Navy	2.081	8	6

 

Are you a little bit surprised?  Did you expect this to end up with a perfect correlation, where the top 20 teams by won-loss record lined up perfectly one to 20?

This isn’t even all that positive of a correlation!  Houston is a good team, but Elvin Hayes and Don Chaney aren’t suiting up for the Cougars.  Phi Slamma Jamma this isn’t.  To even get to a national title contender this year, you have to go all the way down to #17 Michigan State.

What gives?  Ah, there is one major very important statistic missing here.

Let’s take a look at an unnamed baseball player.  We will call him Harold Horsehide so you cannot see who this real life baseball player is.  He is real, and he played first base and third base.  Here are his stats for one season in which he was named the Player of the Year by The Sporting News.

Batting Average: .317

On-base Average: .387

Slugging Percentage: .670

Doubles: 36

Triples: 14

Home Runs: 40

RBI: 126

Now, let’s compare him to another player.  We’ll call him Mr. Michael Carl.

Batting Average: .301

On-base Average: .426

Slugging Percentage: .495

Doubles: 32

Triples: 2

Home Runs: 23

RBI: 74

On the face of it, Harold Horsehide is a much better player than Michael Carl.  His stats blow Carl’s stats out of the water.  Harold is like Pacific in the example above, as his stats are rarely bettered in a season.  Michael’s stats are nice, but you could find stats that good, actually better, on every Major League roster today.

Ah, but there’s a big catch.  Harold Horsehide is actually former Los Angeles Angel/Florida Marlin/Chicago White Sox utility corner infielder Dallas McPherson.  But, these are not stats from any season he played in the Big Leagues.  These are his stellar 2004 Minor League stats with the Arkansas Travelers of the AA Texas League and the Salt Lake City Stingers of the AAA Pacific Coast League.  Throughout baseball, in 2004, the ball was the object that was juiced.

And, who is Michael Carl?  He’s Carl Michael Yastrzemski, Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame legend, and those stats shown are his numbers from 1968, the top year of the pitcher in modern Major League baseball history.

Yaz’s stats were much better and against much stronger pitching, plus his numbers must be compared to the rest of the American League, which hit a combined .230 with an on-base average of just .297, and a slugging percentage of just .339.

In other words, one cannot look at the advanced metrics alone without factoring in the strength of the opponents played.  Maybe you don’t see Kansas at the top of that final metric, but the Jayhawks have played a schedule to date even more difficult than what an average National Champion must face during March Madness!  While Pacific fattened up on teams you probably have never heard of, like Cal State Stanislaus and Pacific Union, Kansas has faced Duke, West Virginia, Villanova, Colorado, Stanford, Iowa State, Dayton, and BYU.  Their easier games include NCAA Tournament contenders East Tennessee State and UNC Greensboro.  ETSU has a win at LSU.

 

Conclusion: If you want a really successful metric that predicts future success, look at the Four Factors but then look at schedule strength.  Basketball is very much like thoroughbred horse racing.  The $10,000 claimer and the Grade 1 Classic horse may both win a 1 1/8 race at different tracks in the same time.  Put that claimer in the Kentucky Derby against the G1 winner, and he’s going to be farther out at the finish than the 1962 New York Mets.   Likewise, the top team in the Northeast Conference is not going to beat the bottom team in the Big East.  St. John’s would beat Robert Morris 98% of the time.  Apply the right schedule strength adjustment, and you get this top 20.

#	Team	PiRate
1	Duke	122.6
2	Kansas	121.8
3	Michigan St.	120.3
4	Gonzaga	117.6
5	Ohio St.	117.5
6	Arizona	117.0
7	Maryland	116.8
8	Louisville	116.1
9	Dayton	116.0
10	Baylor	115.7
11	Butler	115.4
12	Florida St.	115.1
13	Seton Hall	115.0
14	West Virginia	114.9
15	Auburn	114.8
16	Kentucky	114.7
17	Oregon	114.6
18	Michigan	113.9
19	San Diego St.	113.6
20	Penn St.	112.9

PiRate Ratings Bracketology For January 6, 2020

 

Date	1/6/2020
Seed	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team
1	Duke	Kansas	Butler	Gonzaga
2	Auburn	San Diego St.	Baylor	Oregon
3	Ohio St.	Michigan St.	Maryland	West Virginia
4	Florida St.	Dayton	Louisville	Michigan
5	Penn St.	Villanova	Wichita St.	Arizona
6	Seton Hall	Memphis	Kentucky	Marquette
7	Creighton	Colorado	Iowa	Arkansas
8	Virginia	Texas Tech	BYU	Saint Mary’s
9	Wisconsin	Xavier	Florida	Stanford
10	Indiana	Houston	Oklahoma	Washington
11	VCU	LSU	Rutgers	Oklahoma St.	Purdue	N. Carolina St.
12	Liberty	Furman	S. F. Austin	Louisiana Tech
13	Yale	Kent St.	Vermont	Wright St.
14	Loyola (Chi.)	New Mexico St.	Charleston	UCSB
15	Murray St.	Little Rock	Colgate	Winthrop
16	Montana	Rider	N. Dakota St.	St. Francis (NY)	Grambling	Morgan St.
	First Four Out
	DePaul	Georgetown	USC	Minnesota
	Next Four Out
	Utah St.	St. John’s	Georgia	Texas

 

PiRate Ratings College Basketball For January 6, 2020

Power Conference & Top 25 Teams Playing Monday

 

Home	Visitor	Spread
Oklahoma St.	West Virginia	-0.7

 

Monday’s PiRate Ratings

 

#	Team	PiRate	Conference
1	Duke	122.5	Atlantic Coast
2	Kansas	120.6	Big 12
3	Michigan St.	120.1	Big Ten
4	Ohio St.	118.1	Big Ten
5	Gonzaga	116.8	West Coast
6	Arizona	116.8	Pac-12
7	Maryland	116.3	Big Ten
8	Louisville	115.9	Atlantic Coast
9	Dayton	115.8	Atlantic 10
10	Butler	115.5	Big East
11	Auburn	115.5	Southeastern
12	Baylor	115.3	Big 12
13	Florida St.	114.8	Atlantic Coast
14	Oregon	114.5	Pac-12
15	Kentucky	114.4	Southeastern
16	Seton Hall	114.3	Big East
17	Michigan	114.0	Big Ten
18	West Virginia	113.9	Big 12
19	San Diego St.	113.7	Mountain West
20	Iowa	113.6	Big Ten
21	Penn St.	113.5	Big Ten
22	Texas Tech	113.2	Big 12
23	LSU	113.0	Southeastern
24	Memphis	112.9	American Athletic
25	Marquette	112.8	Big East
26	BYU	112.6	West Coast
27	Florida	112.5	Southeastern
28	Villanova	112.5	Big East
29	Purdue	112.4	Big Ten
30	Wisconsin	112.3	Big Ten
31	Houston	112.2	American Athletic
32	Arkansas	112.0	Southeastern
33	Illinois	112.0	Big Ten
34	Wichita St.	111.9	Big East
35	Colorado	111.6	Pac-12
36	Xavier	111.5	Big East
37	Minnesota	111.5	Big Ten
38	Saint Mary’s	111.4	West Coast
39	Indiana	111.2	Big Ten
40	VCU	111.2	Atlantic 10
41	Creighton	111.2	Big East
42	Rutgers	111.1	Big Ten
43	Virginia	111.1	Atlantic Coast
44	Washington	110.9	Pac-12
45	North Carolina St.	110.9	Atlantic Coast
46	Utah St.	110.0	Mountain West
47	Georgetown	110.0	Big East
48	Iowa St.	109.9	Big 12
49	Missouri	109.8	Southeastern
50	Oklahoma	109.8	Big 12
51	Alabama	109.7	Southeastern
52	Oklahoma St.	109.7	Big 12
53	North Carolina	109.4	Atlantic Coast
54	Mississippi St.	109.3	Southeastern
55	Tennessee	109.2	Southeastern
56	TCU	109.1	Big 12
57	Stanford	109.1	Pac-12
58	Louisiana Tech	108.9	Conference USA
59	Notre Dame	108.9	Atlantic Coast
60	Cincinnati	108.7	American Athletic
61	Georgia	108.6	Southeastern
62	Liberty	108.2	Atlantic Sun
63	Yale	108.2	Ivy
64	Temple	108.1	American Athletic
65	Richmond	108.0	Atlantic 10
66	St. John’s	108.0	Big East
67	Oregon St.	108.0	Pac-12
68	Syracuse	108.0	Atlantic Coast
69	East Tennessee St.	107.9	Southern
70	Furman	107.8	Southern
71	Virginia Tech	107.8	Atlantic Coast
72	Texas	107.7	Big 12
73	Providence	107.7	Big East
74	USC	107.4	Pac-12
75	Connecticut	107.2	American Athletic
76	DePaul	107.1	Big East
77	Duquesne	107.1	Atlantic 10
78	SMU	107.0	American Athletic
79	Belmont	107.0	Ohio Valley
80	Davidson	107.0	Atlantic 10
81	Vermont	107.0	American East
82	Arizona St.	106.8	Pac-12
83	UNC Greensboro	106.7	Southern
84	Rhode Island	106.5	Atlantic 10
85	Georgia Tech	106.4	Atlantic Coast
86	Pittsburgh	106.4	Atlantic Coast
87	Northern Iowa	106.3	Missouri Valley
88	Nevada	106.1	Mountain West
89	Akron	106.1	Mid-American
90	Clemson	106.1	Atlantic Coast
91	Kansas St.	106.0	Big 12
92	Mississippi	105.9	Southeastern
93	Miami (Fla.)	105.9	Atlantic Coast
94	New Mexico St.	105.6	Western Athletic
95	Utah	105.5	Pac-12
96	Wake Forest	105.4	Atlantic Coast
97	Harvard	105.3	Ivy
98	New Mexico	105.1	Mountain West
99	Kent St.	105.0	Mid-American
100	Western Kentucky	104.7	Conference USA
101	Toledo	104.6	Mid-American
102	Boise St.	104.6	Mountain West
103	Saint Louis	104.3	Atlantic 10
104	South Carolina	104.2	Southeastern
105	San Francisco	104.2	West Coast
106	Wright St.	104.2	Horizon
107	Tulsa	104.2	American Athletic
108	Georgia St.	104.1	Sun Belt
109	Ball St.	104.0	Mid-American
110	UCLA	104.0	Pac-12
111	Central Florida	103.9	American Athletic
112	Loyola (Chi.)	103.9	Missouri Valley
113	Northwestern	103.6	Big Ten
114	South Florida	103.5	American Athletic
115	Bradley	103.5	Missouri Valley
116	Stephen F. Austin	103.1	Southland
117	UT Arlington	103.0	Southland
118	UC Irvine	103.0	Big West
119	Charleston	102.9	Colonial Athletic
120	North Texas	102.7	Conference USA
121	Wofford	102.7	Southern
122	Fresno St.	102.7	Mountain West
123	Vanderbilt	102.6	Southeastern
124	Washington St.	102.5	Pac-12
125	Murray St.	102.4	Ohio Valley
126	Indiana St.	102.4	Missouri Valley
127	Northern Colorado	102.3	Big Sky
128	Penn	102.3	Ivy
129	St. Bonaventure	102.1	Atlantic 10
130	Santa Clara	102.0	West Coast
131	Radford	101.9	Big South
132	Northeastern	101.9	Colonial Athletic
133	Texas St.	101.9	Sun Belt
134	Nebraska	101.8	Big Ten
135	Missouri St.	101.8	Missouri Valley
136	Colorado St.	101.8	Mountain West
137	Colgate	101.7	Patriot
138	Stony Brook	101.6	American East
139	UNLV	101.6	Mountain West
140	Buffalo	101.5	Mid-American
141	Boston College	101.5	Atlantic Coast
142	Hofstra	101.5	Colonial Athletic
143	UTEP	101.4	Conference USA
144	Marshall	101.4	Conference USA
145	George Mason	101.3	Atlantic 10
146	North Dakota St.	101.2	Summit
147	Winthrop	101.1	Big South
148	Northern Kentucky	101.1	Horizon
149	South Dakota St.	101.1	Summit
150	Drake	100.9	Missouri Valley
151	Georgia Southern	100.9	Sun Belt
152	Eastern Washington	100.9	Big Sky
153	Oral Roberts	100.9	Summit
154	UC Santa Barbara	100.9	Big West
155	Appalachian St.	100.8	Sun Belt
156	William & Mary	100.8	Colonial Athletic
157	Rider	100.5	Metro Atlantic
158	Pacific	100.4	West Coast
159	Little Rock	100.4	Sun Belt
160	Texas A&M	100.4	Southeastern
161	Sam Houston St.	100.3	Southland
162	La Salle	100.3	Atlantic 10
163	Western Carolina	100.3	Southern
164	Valparaiso	100.2	Missouri Valley
165	Pepperdine	100.2	West Coast
166	North Florida	100.1	Atlantic Sun
167	Southern Utah	100.0	Big Sky
168	Hawaii	100.0	Big West
169	Coastal Carolina	100.0	Sun Belt
170	Bowling Green	99.9	Mid-American
171	Florida Int’l.	99.8	Conference USA
172	Northern Illinois	99.8	Mid-American
173	Charlotte	99.8	Conference USA
174	Tulane	99.7	American Athletic
175	UAB	99.4	Conference USA
176	Massachusetts	99.3	Atlantic 10
177	Old Dominion	99.3	Conference USA
178	St. Francis (PA)	99.3	Northeast
179	Central Michigan	99.1	Mid-American
180	California	99.0	Pac-12
181	Towson	98.9	Colonial Athletic
182	California Baptist	98.9	Western Athletic
183	Delaware	98.8	Colonial Athletic
184	Air Force	98.8	Mountain West
185	Florida Atlantic	98.7	Conference USA
186	San Diego	98.5	West Coast
187	Southern Illinois	98.4	Missouri Valley
188	Sacramento St.	98.3	Big Sky
189	Omaha	98.3	Summit
190	Siena	98.2	Metro Atlantic
191	Austin Peay	98.1	Ohio Valley
192	Princeton	98.0	Ivy
193	Montana	97.9	Big Sky
194	Sacred Heart	97.8	Northeast
195	Nicholls St.	97.7	Southland
196	Green Bay	97.7	Horizon
197	Chattanooga	97.6	Southern
198	Ohio	97.5	Mid-American
199	South Alabama	97.5	Sun Belt
200	Evansville	97.4	Missouri Valley
201	North Dakota	97.3	Summit
202	Lafayette	97.3	Patriot
203	Illinois St.	97.3	Missouri Valley
204	Portland St.	97.3	Big Sky
205	Dartmouth	97.2	Ivy
206	South Dakota	97.2	Summit
207	Miami (O)	97.2	Mid-American
208	Loyola Marymount	97.2	West Coast
209	Brown	97.0	Ivy
210	Eastern Illinois	97.0	Ohio Valley
211	Abilene Christian	97.0	Southland
212	UTSA	96.9	Conference USA
213	Bryant	96.9	Northeast
214	Oakland	96.8	Horizon
215	Rice	96.7	Conference USA
216	Eastern Michigan	96.6	Mid-American
217	Boston U	96.6	Patriot
218	Montana St.	96.5	Big Sky
219	Samford	96.5	Southern
220	Monmouth	96.5	Metro Atlantic
221	Albany	96.5	American East
222	Bucknell	96.5	Patriot
223	Youngstown St.	96.4	Horizon
224	Missouri-KC	96.4	Western Athletic
225	Loyola (MD)	96.4	Patriot
226	Lipscomb	96.4	Atlantic Sun
227	UC Riverside	96.3	Big West
228	American	96.3	Patriot
229	Fairfield	96.2	Metro Atlantic
230	Cal St. Bakersfield	96.1	Western Athletic
231	Grand Canyon	96.0	Western Athletic
232	Louisiana Monroe	96.0	Sun Belt
233	Seattle	96.0	Western Athletic
234	Tennessee St.	95.9	Ohio Valley
235	Northern Arizona	95.9	Big Sky
236	Navy	95.8	Patriot
237	UC Davis	95.8	Big West
238	Jacksonville St.	95.8	Ohio Valley
239	Prairie View A&M	95.7	Southwestern Athl.
240	Canisius	95.6	Metro Atlantic
241	Purdue Fort Wayne	95.5	Summit
242	East Carolina	95.5	American Athletic
243	Campbell	95.5	Big South
244	Arkansas St.	95.5	Sun Belt
245	UMass Lowell	95.5	American East
246	Columbia	95.4	Ivy
247	Drexel	95.4	Colonial Athletic
248	Iona	95.2	Metro Atlantic
249	George Washington	95.1	Atlantic 10
250	Lehigh	95.0	Patriot
251	Louisiana	95.0	Sun Belt
252	Long Island	95.0	Northeast
253	Gardner-Webb	95.0	Big South
254	Portland	95.0	West Coast
255	Jacksonville	94.9	Atlantic Sun
256	Milwaukee	94.9	Horizon
257	Utah Valley	94.9	Western Athletic
258	Manhattan	94.8	Metro Atlantic
259	Illinois Chicago	94.8	Horizon
260	UNC Asheville	94.7	Big South
261	Quinnipiac	94.7	Metro Atlantic
262	Western Michigan	94.7	Mid-American
263	Saint Joseph’s	94.7	Atlantic 10
264	Fordham	94.6	Atlantic 10
265	Texas Southern	94.6	Southwestern Athl.
266	James Madison	94.6	Colonial Athletic
267	Lamar	94.3	Southland
268	Robert Morris	94.2	Northeast
269	Saint Peter’s	94.2	Metro Atlantic
270	Mercer	94.2	Southern
271	Cal St. Fullerton	94.2	Big West
272	UT Rio Grande Valley	94.1	Western Athletic
273	Morehead St.	94.0	Ohio Valley
274	Cal St. Northridge	93.8	Big West
275	Southern Miss.	93.7	Conference USA
276	Weber St.	93.6	Big Sky
277	New Hampshire	93.5	American East
278	McNeese St.	93.2	Southland
279	Middle Tennessee	93.1	Conference USA
280	Mount St. Mary’s	92.8	Northeast
281	Detroit	92.7	Horizon
282	Cornell	92.7	Ivy
283	VMI	92.7	Southern
284	Troy	92.7	Sun Belt
285	Merrimack	92.6	Northeast
286	UM Baltimore Co.	92.6	American East
287	NJIT	92.6	Atlantic Sun
288	Grambling	92.4	Southwestern Athl.
289	Norfolk St.	92.2	Mideastern Athletic
290	Bethune Cookman	92.2	Mideastern Athletic
291	North Alabama	92.1	Atlantic Sun
292	Wyoming	92.1	Mountain West
293	Idaho St.	92.0	Big Sky
294	Citadel	92.0	Southern
295	Army	92.0	Patriot
296	Fairleigh Dickinson	91.5	Northeast
297	Wagner	91.5	Northeast
298	New Orleans	91.5	Southland
299	IUPUI	91.4	Horizon
300	Long Beach St.	91.3	Big West
301	Texas A&M CC	91.2	Southland
302	San Jose St.	91.2	Mountain West
303	Hartford	91.1	American East
304	Morgan St.	91.1	Mideastern Athletic
305	Niagara	91.0	Metro Atlantic
306	Charleston Southern	90.9	Big South
307	St. Francis (NY)	90.9	Northeast
308	UNC Wilmington	90.9	Colonial Athletic
309	North Carolina Central	90.8	Mideastern Athletic
310	Cleveland St.	90.8	Horizon
311	SE Missouri	90.5	Ohio Valley
312	UT-Martin	90.4	Ohio Valley
313	Elon	90.3	Colonial Athletic
314	Idaho	90.2	Big Sky
315	Florida Gulf Coast	90.2	Atlantic Sun
316	Hampton	90.2	Big South
317	Stetson	90.1	Atlantic Sun
318	Florida A&M	90.0	Mideastern Athletic
319	Western Illinois	89.8	Summit
320	Coppin St.	89.7	Mideastern Athletic
321	Cal Poly	89.7	Big West
322	Denver	89.5	Summit
323	Binghamton	89.5	American East
324	Jackson St.	89.4	Southwestern Athl.
325	Central Arkansas	89.4	Southland
326	Eastern Kentucky	89.3	Ohio Valley
327	USC Upstate	89.2	Big South
328	North Carolina A&T	89.2	Mideastern Athletic
329	Southern	89.2	Southwestern Athl.
330	Longwood	89.1	Big South
331	South Carolina St.	88.8	Mideastern Athletic
332	SE Louisiana	88.7	Southland
333	Holy Cross	88.6	Patriot
334	Alcorn St.	88.4	Southwestern Athl.
335	Tennessee Tech	88.1	Ohio Valley
336	Northwestern St.	88.0	Southland
337	Presbyterian	87.6	Big South
338	SIU Edwardsville	87.4	Ohio Valley
339	Alabama St.	86.8	Southwestern Athl.
340	Houston Baptist	86.7	Southland
341	High Point	86.6	Big South
342	Maine	86.5	American East
343	Alabama A&M	86.4	Southwestern Athl.
344	Marist	86.2	Metro Atlantic
345	Arkansas Pine Bluff	85.0	Southwestern Athl.
346	Kennesaw St.	84.6	Atlantic Sun
347	Incarnate Word	83.5	Southland
348	Howard	82.9	Mideastern Athletic
349	MD Eastern Shore	81.7	Mideastern Athletic
350	Central Connecticut	80.9	Northeast
351	Delaware St.	80.8	Mideastern Athletic
352	Chicago St.	78.1	Western Athletic
353	Mississippi Valley St.	77.4	Southwestern Athl.

 

Alphabetical

 

Team	PiRate	Conf.
Abilene Christian	97.0	Southland
Air Force	98.8	Mountain West
Akron	106.1	Mid-American
Alabama	109.7	Southeastern
Alabama A&M	86.4	Southwestern Athl.
Alabama St.	86.8	Southwestern Athl.
Albany	96.5	American East
Alcorn St.	88.4	Southwestern Athl.
American	96.3	Patriot
Appalachian St.	100.8	Sun Belt
Arizona	116.8	Pac-12
Arizona St.	106.8	Pac-12
Arkansas	112.0	Southeastern
Arkansas Pine Bluff	85.0	Southwestern Athl.
Arkansas St.	95.5	Sun Belt
Army	92.0	Patriot
Auburn	115.5	Southeastern
Austin Peay	98.1	Ohio Valley
Ball St.	104.0	Mid-American
Baylor	115.3	Big 12
Belmont	107.0	Ohio Valley
Bethune Cookman	92.2	Mideastern Athletic
Binghamton	89.5	American East
Boise St.	104.6	Mountain West
Boston College	101.5	Atlantic Coast
Boston U	96.6	Patriot
Bowling Green	99.9	Mid-American
Bradley	103.5	Missouri Valley
Brown	97.0	Ivy
Bryant	96.9	Northeast
Bucknell	96.5	Patriot
Buffalo	101.5	Mid-American
Butler	115.5	Big East
BYU	112.6	West Coast
Cal Poly	89.7	Big West
Cal St. Bakersfield	96.1	Western Athletic
Cal St. Fullerton	94.2	Big West
Cal St. Northridge	93.8	Big West
California	99.0	Pac-12
California Baptist	98.9	Western Athletic
Campbell	95.5	Big South
Canisius	95.6	Metro Atlantic
Central Arkansas	89.4	Southland
Central Connecticut	80.9	Northeast
Central Florida	103.9	American Athletic
Central Michigan	99.1	Mid-American
Charleston	102.9	Colonial Athletic
Charleston Southern	90.9	Big South
Charlotte	99.8	Conference USA
Chattanooga	97.6	Southern
Chicago St.	78.1	Western Athletic
Cincinnati	108.7	American Athletic
Citadel	92.0	Southern
Clemson	106.1	Atlantic Coast
Cleveland St.	90.8	Horizon
Coastal Carolina	100.0	Sun Belt
Colgate	101.7	Patriot
Colorado	111.6	Pac-12
Colorado St.	101.8	Mountain West
Columbia	95.4	Ivy
Connecticut	107.2	American Athletic
Coppin St.	89.7	Mideastern Athletic
Cornell	92.7	Ivy
Creighton	111.2	Big East
Dartmouth	97.2	Ivy
Davidson	107.0	Atlantic 10
Dayton	115.8	Atlantic 10
Delaware	98.8	Colonial Athletic
Delaware St.	80.8	Mideastern Athletic
Denver	89.5	Summit
DePaul	107.1	Big East
Detroit	92.7	Horizon
Drake	100.9	Missouri Valley
Drexel	95.4	Colonial Athletic
Duke	122.5	Atlantic Coast
Duquesne	107.1	Atlantic 10
East Carolina	95.5	American Athletic
East Tennessee St.	107.9	Southern
Eastern Illinois	97.0	Ohio Valley
Eastern Kentucky	89.3	Ohio Valley
Eastern Michigan	96.6	Mid-American
Eastern Washington	100.9	Big Sky
Elon	90.3	Colonial Athletic
Evansville	97.4	Missouri Valley
Fairfield	96.2	Metro Atlantic
Fairleigh Dickinson	91.5	Northeast
Florida	112.5	Southeastern
Florida A&M	90.0	Mideastern Athletic
Florida Atlantic	98.7	Conference USA
Florida Gulf Coast	90.2	Atlantic Sun
Florida Int’l.	99.8	Conference USA
Florida St.	114.8	Atlantic Coast
Fordham	94.6	Atlantic 10
Fresno St.	102.7	Mountain West
Furman	107.8	Southern
Gardner-Webb	95.0	Big South
George Mason	101.3	Atlantic 10
George Washington	95.1	Atlantic 10
Georgetown	110.0	Big East
Georgia	108.6	Southeastern
Georgia Southern	100.9	Sun Belt
Georgia St.	104.1	Sun Belt
Georgia Tech	106.4	Atlantic Coast
Gonzaga	116.8	West Coast
Grambling	92.4	Southwestern Athl.
Grand Canyon	96.0	Western Athletic
Green Bay	97.7	Horizon
Hampton	90.2	Big South
Hartford	91.1	American East
Harvard	105.3	Ivy
Hawaii	100.0	Big West
High Point	86.6	Big South
Hofstra	101.5	Colonial Athletic
Holy Cross	88.6	Patriot
Houston	112.2	American Athletic
Houston Baptist	86.7	Southland
Howard	82.9	Mideastern Athletic
Idaho	90.2	Big Sky
Idaho St.	92.0	Big Sky
Illinois	112.0	Big Ten
Illinois Chicago	94.8	Horizon
Illinois St.	97.3	Missouri Valley
Incarnate Word	83.5	Southland
Indiana	111.2	Big Ten
Indiana St.	102.4	Missouri Valley
Iona	95.2	Metro Atlantic
Iowa	113.6	Big Ten
Iowa St.	109.9	Big 12
IUPUI	91.4	Horizon
Jackson St.	89.4	Southwestern Athl.
Jacksonville	94.9	Atlantic Sun
Jacksonville St.	95.8	Ohio Valley
James Madison	94.6	Colonial Athletic
Kansas	120.6	Big 12
Kansas St.	106.0	Big 12
Kennesaw St.	84.6	Atlantic Sun
Kent St.	105.0	Mid-American
Kentucky	114.4	Southeastern
La Salle	100.3	Atlantic 10
Lafayette	97.3	Patriot
Lamar	94.3	Southland
Lehigh	95.0	Patriot
Liberty	108.2	Atlantic Sun
Lipscomb	96.4	Atlantic Sun
Little Rock	100.4	Sun Belt
Long Beach St.	91.3	Big West
Long Island	95.0	Northeast
Longwood	89.1	Big South
Louisiana	95.0	Sun Belt
Louisiana Monroe	96.0	Sun Belt
Louisiana Tech	108.9	Conference USA
Louisville	115.9	Atlantic Coast
Loyola (Chi.)	103.9	Missouri Valley
Loyola Marymount	97.2	West Coast
Loyola (MD)	96.4	Patriot
LSU	113.0	Southeastern
Maine	86.5	American East
Manhattan	94.8	Metro Atlantic
Marist	86.2	Metro Atlantic
Marquette	112.8	Big East
Marshall	101.4	Conference USA
Maryland	116.3	Big Ten
Massachusetts	99.3	Atlantic 10
McNeese St.	93.2	Southland
MD Eastern Shore	81.7	Mideastern Athletic
Memphis	112.9	American Athletic
Mercer	94.2	Southern
Merrimack	92.6	Northeast
Miami (Fla.)	105.9	Atlantic Coast
Miami (O)	97.2	Mid-American
Michigan	114.0	Big Ten
Michigan St.	120.1	Big Ten
Middle Tennessee	93.1	Conference USA
Milwaukee	94.9	Horizon
Minnesota	111.5	Big Ten
Mississippi	105.9	Southeastern
Mississippi St.	109.3	Southeastern
Mississippi Valley St.	77.4	Southwestern Athl.
Missouri	109.8	Southeastern
Missouri-KC	96.4	Western Athletic
Missouri St.	101.8	Missouri Valley
Monmouth	96.5	Metro Atlantic
Montana	97.9	Big Sky
Montana St.	96.5	Big Sky
Morehead St.	94.0	Ohio Valley
Morgan St.	91.1	Mideastern Athletic
Mount St. Mary’s	92.8	Northeast
Murray St.	102.4	Ohio Valley
Navy	95.8	Patriot
Nebraska	101.8	Big Ten
Nevada	106.1	Mountain West
New Hampshire	93.5	American East
New Mexico	105.1	Mountain West
New Mexico St.	105.6	Western Athletic
New Orleans	91.5	Southland
Niagara	91.0	Metro Atlantic
Nicholls St.	97.7	Southland
NJIT	92.6	Atlantic Sun
Norfolk St.	92.2	Mideastern Athletic
North Alabama	92.1	Atlantic Sun
North Carolina	109.4	Atlantic Coast
North Carolina A&T	89.2	Mideastern Athletic
North Carolina Central	90.8	Mideastern Athletic
North Carolina St.	110.9	Atlantic Coast
North Dakota	97.3	Summit
North Dakota St.	101.2	Summit
North Florida	100.1	Atlantic Sun
North Texas	102.7	Conference USA
Northeastern	101.9	Colonial Athletic
Northern Arizona	95.9	Big Sky
Northern Colorado	102.3	Big Sky
Northern Illinois	99.8	Mid-American
Northern Iowa	106.3	Missouri Valley
Northern Kentucky	101.1	Horizon
Northwestern	103.6	Big Ten
Northwestern St.	88.0	Southland
Notre Dame	108.9	Atlantic Coast
Oakland	96.8	Horizon
Ohio	97.5	Mid-American
Ohio St.	118.1	Big Ten
Oklahoma	109.8	Big 12
Oklahoma St.	109.7	Big 12
Old Dominion	99.3	Conference USA
Omaha	98.3	Summit
Oral Roberts	100.9	Summit
Oregon	114.5	Pac-12
Oregon St.	108.0	Pac-12
Pacific	100.4	West Coast
Penn	102.3	Ivy
Penn St.	113.5	Big Ten
Pepperdine	100.2	West Coast
Pittsburgh	106.4	Atlantic Coast
Portland	95.0	West Coast
Portland St.	97.3	Big Sky
Prairie View A&M	95.7	Southwestern Athl.
Presbyterian	87.6	Big South
Princeton	98.0	Ivy
Providence	107.7	Big East
Purdue	112.4	Big Ten
Purdue Fort Wayne	95.5	Summit
Quinnipiac	94.7	Metro Atlantic
Radford	101.9	Big South
Rhode Island	106.5	Atlantic 10
Rice	96.7	Conference USA
Richmond	108.0	Atlantic 10
Rider	100.5	Metro Atlantic
Robert Morris	94.2	Northeast
Rutgers	111.1	Big Ten
Sacramento St.	98.3	Big Sky
Sacred Heart	97.8	Northeast
Saint Joseph’s	94.7	Atlantic 10
Saint Louis	104.3	Atlantic 10
Saint Mary’s	111.4	West Coast
Saint Peter’s	94.2	Metro Atlantic
Sam Houston St.	100.3	Southland
Samford	96.5	Southern
San Diego	98.5	West Coast
San Diego St.	113.7	Mountain West
San Francisco	104.2	West Coast
San Jose St.	91.2	Mountain West
Santa Clara	102.0	West Coast
SE Louisiana	88.7	Southland
SE Missouri	90.5	Ohio Valley
Seattle	96.0	Western Athletic
Seton Hall	114.3	Big East
Siena	98.2	Metro Atlantic
SIU Edwardsville	87.4	Ohio Valley
SMU	107.0	American Athletic
South Alabama	97.5	Sun Belt
South Carolina	104.2	Southeastern
South Carolina St.	88.8	Mideastern Athletic
South Dakota	97.2	Summit
South Dakota St.	101.1	Summit
South Florida	103.5	American Athletic
Southern	89.2	Southwestern Athl.
Southern Illinois	98.4	Missouri Valley
Southern Miss.	93.7	Conference USA
Southern Utah	100.0	Big Sky
St. Bonaventure	102.1	Atlantic 10
St. Francis (NY)	90.9	Northeast
St. Francis (PA)	99.3	Northeast
St. John’s	108.0	Big East
Stanford	109.1	Pac-12
Stephen F. Austin	103.1	Southland
Stetson	90.1	Atlantic Sun
Stony Brook	101.6	American East
Syracuse	108.0	Atlantic Coast
TCU	109.1	Big 12
Temple	108.1	American Athletic
Tennessee	109.2	Southeastern
Tennessee St.	95.9	Ohio Valley
Tennessee Tech	88.1	Ohio Valley
Texas	107.7	Big 12
Texas A&M	100.4	Southeastern
Texas A&M CC	91.2	Southland
Texas Southern	94.6	Southwestern Athl.
Texas St.	101.9	Sun Belt
Texas Tech	113.2	Big 12
Toledo	104.6	Mid-American
Towson	98.9	Colonial Athletic
Troy	92.7	Sun Belt
Tulane	99.7	American Athletic
Tulsa	104.2	American Athletic
UAB	99.4	Conference USA
UC Davis	95.8	Big West
UC Irvine	103.0	Big West
UC Riverside	96.3	Big West
UC Santa Barbara	100.9	Big West
UCLA	104.0	Pac-12
UM Baltimore Co.	92.6	American East
UMass Lowell	95.5	American East
UNC Asheville	94.7	Big South
UNC Greensboro	106.7	Southern
UNC Wilmington	90.9	Colonial Athletic
UNLV	101.6	Mountain West
USC	107.4	Pac-12
USC Upstate	89.2	Big South
UT Arlington	103.0	Southland
UT Rio Grande Valley	94.1	Western Athletic
UT-Martin	90.4	Ohio Valley
Utah	105.5	Pac-12
Utah St.	110.0	Mountain West
Utah Valley	94.9	Western Athletic
UTEP	101.4	Conference USA
UTSA	96.9	Conference USA
Valparaiso	100.2	Missouri Valley
Vanderbilt	102.6	Southeastern
VCU	111.2	Atlantic 10
Vermont	107.0	American East
Villanova	112.5	Big East
Virginia	111.1	Atlantic Coast
Virginia Tech	107.8	Atlantic Coast
VMI	92.7	Southern
Wagner	91.5	Northeast
Wake Forest	105.4	Atlantic Coast
Washington	110.9	Pac-12
Washington St.	102.5	Pac-12
Weber St.	93.6	Big Sky
West Virginia	113.9	Big 12
Western Carolina	100.3	Southern
Western Illinois	89.8	Summit
Western Kentucky	104.7	Conference USA
Western Michigan	94.7	Mid-American
Wichita St.	111.9	Big East
William & Mary	100.8	Colonial Athletic
Winthrop	101.1	Big South
Wisconsin	112.3	Big Ten
Wofford	102.7	Southern
Wright St.	104.2	Horizon
Wyoming	92.1	Mountain West
Xavier	111.5	Big East
Yale	108.2	Ivy
Youngstown St.	96.4	Horizon

 

By Conference

 

#	American Athletic	PiRate
1	Memphis	112.9
2	Houston	112.2
3	Cincinnati	108.7
4	Temple	108.1
5	Connecticut	107.2
6	SMU	107.0
7	Tulsa	104.2
8	Central Florida	103.9
9	South Florida	103.5
10	Tulane	99.7
11	East Carolina	95.5
Avg	American Athletic	105.7
#	American East	PiRate
1	Vermont	107.0
2	Stony Brook	101.6
3	Albany	96.5
4	UMass Lowell	95.5
5	New Hampshire	93.5
6	UM Baltimore Co.	92.6
7	Hartford	91.1
8	Binghamton	89.5
9	Maine	86.5
Avg	American East	94.8
#	Atlantic 10	PiRate
1	Dayton	115.8
2	VCU	111.2
3	Richmond	108.0
4	Duquesne	107.1
5	Davidson	107.0
6	Rhode Island	106.5
7	Saint Louis	104.3
8	St. Bonaventure	102.1
9	George Mason	101.3
10	La Salle	100.3
11	Massachusetts	99.3
12	George Washington	95.1
13	Saint Joseph’s	94.7
14	Fordham	94.6
Avg.	Atlantic 10	103.4
#	Atlantic Coast	PiRate
1	Duke	122.5
2	Louisville	115.9
3	Florida St.	114.8
4	Virginia	111.1
5	North Carolina St.	110.9
6	North Carolina	109.4
7	Notre Dame	108.9
8	Syracuse	108.0
9	Virginia Tech	107.8
10	Georgia Tech	106.4
11	Pittsburgh	106.4
12	Clemson	106.1
13	Miami (Fla.)	105.9
14	Wake Forest	105.4
15	Boston College	101.5
Avg	Atlantic Coast	109.4
#	Atlantic Sun	PiRate
1	Liberty	108.2
2	North Florida	100.1
3	Lipscomb	96.4
4	Jacksonville	94.9
5	NJIT	92.6
6	North Alabama	92.1
7	Florida Gulf Coast	90.2
8	Stetson	90.1
9	Kennesaw St.	84.6
Avg	Atlantic Sun	94.3
#	Big 12	PiRate
1	Kansas	120.6
2	Baylor	115.3
3	West Virginia	113.9
4	Texas Tech	113.2
5	Iowa St.	109.9
6	Oklahoma	109.8
7	Oklahoma St.	109.7
8	TCU	109.1
9	Texas	107.7
10	Kansas St.	106.0
Avg	Big 12	111.5
#	Big East	PiRate
1	Butler	115.5
2	Seton Hall	114.3
3	Marquette	112.8
4	Villanova	112.5
5	Wichita St.	111.9
6	Xavier	111.5
7	Creighton	111.2
8	Georgetown	110.0
9	St. John’s	108.0
10	Providence	107.7
11	DePaul	107.1
Avg	Big East	111.1
#	Big Sky	PiRate
1	Northern Colorado	102.3
2	Eastern Washington	100.9
3	Southern Utah	100.0
4	Sacramento St.	98.3
5	Montana	97.9
6	Portland St.	97.3
7	Montana St.	96.5
8	Northern Arizona	95.9
9	Weber St.	93.6
10	Idaho St.	92.0
11	Idaho	90.2
#	Big Sky	96.8
#	Big South	PiRate
1	Radford	101.9
2	Winthrop	101.1
3	Campbell	95.5
4	Gardner-Webb	95.0
5	UNC Asheville	94.7
6	Charleston Southern	90.9
7	Hampton	90.2
8	USC Upstate	89.2
9	Longwood	89.1
10	Presbyterian	87.6
11	High Point	86.6
Avg	Big South	92.9
#	Big Ten	PiRate
1	Michigan St.	120.1
2	Ohio St.	118.1
3	Maryland	116.3
4	Michigan	114.0
5	Iowa	113.6
6	Penn St.	113.5
7	Purdue	112.4
8	Wisconsin	112.3
9	Illinois	112.0
10	Minnesota	111.5
11	Indiana	111.2
12	Rutgers	111.1
13	Northwestern	103.6
14	Nebraska	101.8
Avg	Big Ten	112.2
#	Big West	PiRate
1	UC Irvine	103.0
2	UC Santa Barbara	100.9
3	Hawaii	100.0
4	UC Riverside	96.3
5	UC Davis	95.8
6	Cal St. Fullerton	94.2
7	Cal St. Northridge	93.8
8	Long Beach St.	91.3
9	Cal Poly	89.7
Avg	Big West	96.1
#	Colonial Athletic	PiRate
1	Charleston	102.9
2	Northeastern	101.9
3	Hofstra	101.5
4	William & Mary	100.8
5	Towson	98.9
6	Delaware	98.8
7	Drexel	95.4
8	James Madison	94.6
9	UNC Wilmington	90.9
10	Elon	90.3
Avg	Colonial Athletic	97.6
#	Conference USA	PiRate
1	Louisiana Tech	108.9
2	Western Kentucky	104.7
3	North Texas	102.7
4	UTEP	101.4
5	Marshall	101.4
6	Florida Int’l.	99.8
7	Charlotte	99.8
8	UAB	99.4
9	Old Dominion	99.3
10	Florida Atlantic	98.7
11	UTSA	96.9
12	Rice	96.7
13	Southern Miss.	93.7
14	Middle Tennessee	93.1
Avg	Conference USA	99.8
#	Horizon	PiRate
1	Wright St.	104.2
2	Northern Kentucky	101.1
3	Green Bay	97.7
4	Oakland	96.8
5	Youngstown St.	96.4
6	Milwaukee	94.9
7	Illinois Chicago	94.8
8	Detroit	92.7
9	IUPUI	91.4
10	Cleveland St.	90.8
Avg	Horizon	96.1
#	Ivy	PiRate
1	Yale	108.2
2	Harvard	105.3
3	Penn	102.3
4	Princeton	98.0
5	Dartmouth	97.2
6	Brown	97.0
7	Columbia	95.4
8	Cornell	92.7
Avg	Ivy	99.5
#	Metro Atlantic	PiRate
1	Rider	100.5
2	Siena	98.2
3	Monmouth	96.5
4	Fairfield	96.2
5	Canisius	95.6
6	Iona	95.2
7	Manhattan	94.8
8	Quinnipiac	94.7
9	Saint Peter’s	94.2
10	Niagara	91.0
11	Marist	86.2
Avg	Metro Atlantic	94.8
#	Mid-American	PiRate
1	Akron	106.1
2	Kent St.	105.0
3	Toledo	104.6
4	Ball St.	104.0
5	Buffalo	101.5
6	Bowling Green	99.9
7	Northern Illinois	99.8
8	Central Michigan	99.1
9	Ohio	97.5
10	Miami (O)	97.2
11	Eastern Michigan	96.6
12	Western Michigan	94.7
Avg	Mid-American	100.5
#	Mideastern Athletic	PiRate
1	Norfolk St.	92.2
2	Bethune Cookman	92.2
3	Morgan St.	91.1
4	North Carolina Central	90.8
5	Florida A&M	90.0
6	Coppin St.	89.7
7	North Carolina A&T	89.2
8	South Carolina St.	88.8
9	Howard	82.9
10	MD Eastern Shore	81.7
11	Delaware St.	80.8
Avg	Mideastern Athletic	88.1
#	Missouri Valley	PiRate
1	Northern Iowa	106.3
2	Loyola (Chi.)	103.9
3	Bradley	103.5
4	Indiana St.	102.4
5	Missouri St.	101.8
6	Drake	100.9
7	Valparaiso	100.2
8	Southern Illinois	98.4
9	Evansville	97.4
10	Illinois St.	97.3
Avg	Missouri Valley	101.2
#	Mountain West	PiRate
1	San Diego St.	113.7
2	Utah St.	110.0
3	Nevada	106.1
4	New Mexico	105.1
5	Boise St.	104.6
6	Fresno St.	102.7
7	Colorado St.	101.8
8	UNLV	101.6
9	Air Force	98.8
10	Wyoming	92.1
11	San Jose St.	91.2
Avg	Mountain West	102.5
#	Northeast	PiRate
1	St. Francis (PA)	99.3
2	Sacred Heart	97.8
3	Bryant	96.9
4	Long Island	95.0
5	Robert Morris	94.2
6	Mount St. Mary’s	92.8
7	Merrimack	92.6
8	Fairleigh Dickinson	91.5
9	Wagner	91.5
10	St. Francis (NY)	90.9
11	Central Connecticut	80.9
Avg	Northeast	93.1
#	Ohio Valley	PiRate
1	Belmont	107.0
2	Murray St.	102.4
3	Austin Peay	98.1
4	Eastern Illinois	97.0
5	Tennessee St.	95.9
6	Jacksonville St.	95.8
7	Morehead St.	94.0
8	SE Missouri	90.5
9	UT-Martin	90.4
10	Eastern Kentucky	89.3
11	Tennessee Tech	88.1
12	SIU Edwardsville	87.4
Avg	Ohio Valley	94.7
#	Pac-12	PiRate
1	Arizona	116.8
2	Oregon	114.5
3	Colorado	111.6
4	Washington	110.9
5	Stanford	109.1
6	Oregon St.	108.0
7	USC	107.4
8	Arizona St.	106.8
9	Utah	105.5
10	UCLA	104.0
11	Washington St.	102.5
12	California	99.0
Avg	Pac-12	108.0
#	Patriot	PiRate
1	Colgate	101.7
2	Lafayette	97.3
3	Boston U	96.6
4	Bucknell	96.5
5	Loyola (MD)	96.4
6	American	96.3
7	Navy	95.8
8	Lehigh	95.0
9	Army	92.0
10	Holy Cross	88.6
Avg	Patriot	95.6
#	Southeastern	PiRate
1	Auburn	115.5
2	Kentucky	114.4
3	LSU	113.0
4	Florida	112.5
5	Arkansas	112.0
6	Missouri	109.8
7	Alabama	109.7
8	Mississippi St.	109.3
9	Tennessee	109.2
10	Georgia	108.6
11	Mississippi	105.9
12	South Carolina	104.2
13	Vanderbilt	102.6
14	Texas A&M	100.4
Avg	Southeastern	109.1
#	Southern	PiRate
1	East Tennessee St.	107.9
2	Furman	107.8
3	UNC Greensboro	106.7
4	Wofford	102.7
5	Western Carolina	100.3
6	Chattanooga	97.6
7	Samford	96.5
8	Mercer	94.2
9	VMI	92.7
10	Citadel	92.0
Avg	Southern	99.9
#	Southland	PiRate
1	Stephen F. Austin	103.1
2	UT Arlington	103.0
3	Sam Houston St.	100.3
4	Nicholls St.	97.7
5	Abilene Christian	97.0
6	Lamar	94.3
7	McNeese St.	93.2
8	New Orleans	91.5
9	Texas A&M CC	91.2
10	Central Arkansas	89.4
11	SE Louisiana	88.7
12	Northwestern St.	88.0
13	Houston Baptist	86.7
14	Incarnate Word	83.5
Avg	Southland	93.4
#	Southwestern Athletic	PiRate
1	Prairie View A&M	95.7
2	Texas Southern	94.6
3	Grambling	92.4
4	Jackson St.	89.4
5	Southern	89.2
6	Alcorn St.	88.4
7	Alabama St.	86.8
8	Alabama A&M	86.4
9	Arkansas Pine Bluff	85.0
10	Mississippi Valley St.	77.4
Avg	Southwestern Athletic	88.5
#	Summit	PiRate
1	North Dakota St.	101.2
2	South Dakota St.	101.1
3	Oral Roberts	100.9
4	Omaha	98.3
5	North Dakota	97.3
6	South Dakota	97.2
7	Purdue Fort Wayne	95.5
8	Western Illinois	89.8
9	Denver	89.5
Avg	Summit	96.8
#	Sun Belt	PiRate
1	Georgia St.	104.1
2	Texas St.	101.9
3	Georgia Southern	100.9
4	Appalachian St.	100.8
5	Little Rock	100.4
6	Coastal Carolina	100.0
7	South Alabama	97.5
8	Louisiana Monroe	96.0
9	Arkansas St.	95.5
10	Louisiana	95.0
11	Troy	92.7
Avg	Sun Belt	98.6
#	West Coast	PiRate
1	Gonzaga	116.8
2	BYU	112.6
3	Saint Mary’s	111.4
4	San Francisco	104.2
5	Santa Clara	102.0
6	Pacific	100.4
7	Pepperdine	100.2
8	San Diego	98.5
9	Loyola Marymount	97.2
10	Portland	95.0
Avg	West Coast	103.8
#	Western Athletic	PiRate
1	New Mexico St.	105.6
2	California Baptist	98.9
3	Missouri-KC	96.4
4	Cal St. Bakersfield	96.1
5	Grand Canyon	96.0
6	Seattle	96.0
7	Utah Valley	94.9
8	UT Rio Grande Valley	94.1
9	Chicago St.	78.1
Avg	Western Athletic	95.1

 

Conference Ratings

 

#	Conference	PiRate
1	Big Ten	112.2
2	Big 12	111.5
3	Big East	111.1
4	Atlantic Coast	109.4
5	Southeastern	109.1
6	Pac-12	108.0
7	American Athletic	105.7
8	West Coast	103.8
9	Atlantic 10	103.4
10	Mountain West	102.5
11	Missouri Valley	101.2
12	Mid-American	100.5
13	Southern	99.9
14	Conference USA	99.8
15	Ivy	99.5
16	Sun Belt	98.6
17	Colonial Athletic	97.6
18	Big Sky	96.8
19	Summit	96.8
20	Big West	96.1
21	Horizon	96.1
22	Patriot	95.6
23	Western Athletic	95.1
24	American East	94.8
25	Metro Atlantic	94.8
26	Ohio Valley	94.7
27	Atlantic Sun	94.3
28	Southland	93.4
29	Northeast	93.1
30	Big South	92.9
31	Southwestern Athletic	88.5
32	Mideastern Athletic	88.1

 

Coming Later Today–Updated Bracketology

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PiRate Ratings College Basketball For Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Today’s PiRate Ratings Spreads

Home	Rating	HCA	Visitor	Rating	Spread
Butler	107.5	3.0	Xavier	106.2	4.3
Duke	124.7	2.5	Wake Forest	98.6	28.6
Michigan St.	120.5	3.0	Nebraska	109.7	13.8
Florida St.	114.4	3.0	Virginia Tech	115.7	1.7
Ohio	98.6	2.5	Buffalo	115.1	-14.0
Akron	103.2	2.0	Bowling Green	104.7	0.5
Eastern Michigan	100.9	2.5	Ball St.	103.1	0.3
Binghamton	89.3	2.0	Albany	93.0	-1.7
Hartford	99.0	2.5	Stony Brook	100.0	1.5
New Hampshire	84.8	2.5	Maine	88.4	-1.1
Texas A&M	105.8	3.0	South Carolina	105.4	3.4
Central Michigan	103.2	3.0	Northern Illinois	101.1	5.1
Toledo	108.5	3.0	Western Michigan	94.8	16.7
Saint Joseph’s	98.6	3.0	Rhode Island	100.9	0.7
Miami (O)	102.6	2.5	Kent St.	101.7	3.4
Hampton	98.6	2.5	Longwood	93.0	8.1
Charleston Southern	99.5	2.0	USC Upstate	87.5	14.0
Presbyterian	98.3	2.0	UNC Asheville	85.7	14.6
Lafayette	92.5	2.5	Holy Cross	95.6	-0.6
Boston U	96.1	2.5	Loyola (MD)	94.2	4.4
George Mason	101.4	3.0	Virginia Commonwealth	110.4	-6.0
Boston College	104.7	3.0	North Carolina	121.2	-13.5
Vermont	105.2	3.0	UMass Lowell	94.9	13.3
Minnesota	109.6	3.0	Purdue	117.6	-5.0
Abilene Christian	100.7	3.0	Stephen F Austin	91.6	12.1
Green Bay	97.4	3.0	Illinois Chicago	97.8	2.6
Wright St.	102.7	3.0	IUPUI	98.3	7.4
Miami (Fla)	106.3	3.0	Pittsburgh	104.8	4.5
Tennessee	118.7	3.0	Mississippi St.	113.6	8.1
Ole Miss	110.3	3.0	Kentucky	117.9	-4.6
Oklahoma	110.9	3.0	Kansas	115.1	-1.2
Alabama	108.3	3.0	Auburn	114.7	-3.4
Wichita St.	104.6	3.0	East Carolina	94.0	13.6
Colorado St.	99.5	3.0	Utah St.	110.9	-8.4
Air Force	95.9	2.5	Nevada	113.8	-15.4

 

Conference Tournament Updates

Atlantic Sun 

Quarterfinal Results

1 Lipscomb	86	8 Kennesaw St.	71
2 Liberty	72	7 Jacksonville	58
3 North Florida	76	6 North Alabama	66
5 NJIT	83	4 Florida GC	78

 

Semifinals–Thursday, March 7
Seed	Home	Seed	Visitor
1	Lipscomb (24-6)	5	NJIT (21-11)
2	Liberty (26-6)	3	North Florida (16-16)

 

Big South

First Round–Tuesday, March 5 (at Higher Seeded Teams)
Seed	Home Team	Seed	Visitors
7	Presbyterian (17-14)	10	UNC-Asheville (4-26)
6	Charleston Southern (15-14)	11	USC Upstate (6-25)
8	Hampton (14-15)	9	Longwood (15-16)

 

Horizon League (Motor City Madness)

Quarterfinals–Tuesday, March 5 & Wednesday, March 6 (at Higher Seed)
Seed	Home Team	Seed	Visitors
1 (Tue)	Wright St. (19-12)	8	IUPUI (16-15)
4 (Tue)	Green Bay (16-15)	5	Illinois-Chicago (16-15)
3 (Wed)	Oakland (15-16)	6	Youngstown St. (12-19)
2 (Wed)	Northern Kentucky (23-8)	7	Detroit (11-19)

 

Patriot League

First Round–Tuesday, March 5
Seed	Home		Visitors
8	Boston U (14-17)	9	Loyola (MD) (11-20)
7	Lafayette (10-19)	10	Holy Cross (15-16)

Coming Later Today: Updated Bracketology

PiRate Ratings Bracketology For Monday, February 18, 2019

February 18, 2019

Seed	School	Conf.
1	Gonzaga	West Coast
1	Duke	ACC
1	Virginia	ACC
1	Tennessee	SEC
2	Kentucky	SEC
2	Michigan St.	Big Ten
2	Michigan	Big Ten
2	North Carolina	ACC
3	Purdue	Big Ten
3	Houston	American Athletic
3	Kansas	Big 12
3	Nevada	Mountain West
4	LSU	SEC
4	Marquette	Big East
4	Iowa St.	Big 12
4	Virginia Tech	ACC
5	Louisville	ACC
5	Iowa	Big Ten
5	Texas Tech	Big 12
5	Wisconsin	Big Ten
6	Villanova	Big East
6	Maryland	Big Ten
6	Florida St.	ACC
6	Kansas St.	Big 12
7	Cincinnati	American Athletic
7	Buffalo	Mid-American
7	Auburn	SEC
7	Mississippi St.	SEC
8	Wofford	Southern
8	Washington	Pac-12
8	Baylor	Big 12
8	Ole Miss	SEC
9	TCU	Big 12
9	Texas	Big 12
9	North Carolina St.	ACC
9	Utah St.	Mountain West
10	St. John’s	Big East
10	Syracuse	ACC
10	Minnesota	Big Ten
10	Central Florida	American Athletic
11	Temple	American Athletic
11	Oklahoma	Big 12
11	Clemson	ACC
11	Ohio St.	Big Ten
11	Seton Hall	Big East
12	Alabama	SEC
12	Butler	Big East
12	Hofstra	Colonial
12	Lipscomb	Atlantic Sun
12	Virginia Commonwealth	Atlantic 10
13	New Mexico St.	WAC
13	Belmont	Ohio Valley
13	Vermont	America East
13	Yale	Ivy League
14	Old Dominion	CUSA
14	South Dakota St.	Summit
14	UC Irvine	Big West
14	Northern Kentucky	Horizon
15	Texas St.	Sun Belt
15	Montana	Big Sky
15	Missouri St.	Missouri Valley
15	Radford	Big South
16	Bucknell	Patriot
16	Sam Houston St.	Southland
16	Rider	Metro Atlantic
16	Texas Southern	SWAC
16	St. Francis (PA)	Northeast
16	Norfolk St.	MEAC

 

First Four OUT

Indiana

Florida

Arizona St.

Furman

 

Next Four Out

Nebraska

Creighton

Davidson

Murray St.

 

Last Four IN

Ohio St.

Seton Hall

Alabama

Butler

 

Last Four BYES

Central Florida

Temple

Oklahoma

Clemson

 

First Four

For the first time this year, we have staggered the seed lines for the First Four games involving the final four at-large bids.  We have one game pitting 11-seeds and another game pitting 12-seeds.  This could change before Selection Sunday.

For your information, the First Four games have mostly  been with 11-seeds, but there have been 12-seeds, and even 13-seeds and 14-seeds earlier in this decade.

Because of the rule that no teams from the same conference can face off in the First Four games, we had to move two teams in the seed line to prevent a conference matchup in Dayton.

11-Seed Line: Ohio State vs. Seton Hall

12-Seed Line: Alabama vs. Butler

16-Seed Line: Rider vs. Norfolk St.

16-Seed Line: Texas Southern vs. Fairleigh Dickinson

 

There are four teams that if they lose in their conference tournament, they will still be an at-large entry, and their conference will improve from one to two bids.

Gonzaga in the West Coast Conference

Washington in the Pac-12 Conference

Wofford in the Southern Conference

Buffalo in the Mid-American Conference

 

There are four other Mid-Major teams that need to be in the discussion by the Selection Committee (in addition to the Mid-Majors already on our Bubble above).

Murray State (or Belmont) in the Ohio Valley Conference

Liberty (or Lipscomb) in the Atlantic Sun Conference

Saint Mary’s in the West Coast Conference

Toledo in the Mid-American Conference

 

 

 

Red, White, and Blue Ratings for Saturday’s NCAA Tournament Games

Saturday, March 18, 2017 NCAA Tournament Games

Team	Team	Red	White	Blue
West Virginia	Notre Dame	6	4	1
Villanova	Wisconsin	8	6	6
Gonzaga	Northwestern	17	10	8
Florida St.	Xavier	8	5	4
Butler	Middle Tennessee	5	4	7
Arizona	Saint Mary’s	-2	-1	1
Florida	Virginia	1	1	1
Purdue	Iowa St.	1	2	1

 

Saturday’s TV Schedule

Time (EDT)	Network	Team	vs.	Team
12:10 PM	CBS	West Virginia	vs.	Notre Dame
2:40 PM	CBS	Villanova	vs.	Wisconsin
5:15 PM	CBS	Gonzaga	vs.	Northwestern
6:10 PM	TNT	Florida St.	vs.	Xavier
7:10 PM	TBS	Butler	vs.	Middle Tennessee
7:45 PM	CBS	Arizona	vs.	Saint Mary’s
8:40 PM	TNT	Florida	vs.	Virginia
9:40 PM	TBS	Purdue	vs.	Iowa St.

 

 

PiRate Ratings College Basketball Preview For February 20-21, 2016

They are in the stretch.  In less than two weeks, the first conference tournaments will begin, and three weeks from Sunday, we will know which 68 teams will play meaningful games into the third week of March.

Before we look at this weekend’s Red, White, and Blue ratings’ selections, let’s take a closer look at “The Bubble.”

As of today, we estimate that 24 teams are currently part of “The Bubble.”  Of those 24 teams, 14 of them are currently listed as “in the Dance,” and 10 are listed as NIT-Bound.

There is a catch here.  The good side of The Bubble tends to shrink as conference tournament play continues.  Whereas some teams play their way onto The Bubble and into the discussion, the number of available places for Bubble teams shrinks when a team not in the discussion gets hot and wins an automatic bid, reducing the number of spots for teams in the gray area.

As a for instance, let’s say that North Carolina State upsets three teams and wins the ACC Tournament this year.  The Wolf Pack would obviously receive an automatic bid, while the other big ACC teams already considered in the field but not as a Bubble team also receive bids.  This causes one Bubble team that is listed as in to be bumped to see their bubble burst.

Here is a look at our 24 Bubblers, showing which 14 would be drinking at the Dance bubbler today.

If you don’t know what a bubbler is, ask somebody from Wisconsin.

Team	Conf.	Overall	RPI	Vs. T50	Vs.T100	Rd RPI	L12	Seed	Weekend
Connnecticut	9-4	19-7	36	3-3	7-7	21	9-3	7	at Cincinnati
Providence	7-7	19-8	37	2-5	8-5	13	5-7	7	OFF
Syracuse	8-6	18-9	39	5-6	7-8	43	8-4	8	vs. Pitt.
Colorado	8-6	19-8	33	3-7	7-8	38	7-5	8	at UCLA
Pittsburgh	7-6	18-7	41	2-5	5-7	5	6-6	9	at Syracuse
Wisconsin	8-5	16-10	48	4-5	8-6	24	8-4	9	vs. Illinois
Seton Hall	8-5	18-7	44	1-4	7-7	41	7-5	10	at St. John’s
Michigan	9-5	19-8	54	1-3	8-8	42	7-5	10	at Maryland
Oregon St.	6-7	15-9	32	6-5	8-9	60	5-7	10	at Oregon
Texas Tech	6-7	16-9	28	5-7	7-8	61	5-7	11	at Okla. St.
Cincinnati	9-5	19-8	60	3-4	5-7	34	8-4	12	Vs. U Conn
Temple	10-3	16-9	66	4-5	6-7	96	9-3	12	at Houston
Butler	7-7	18-8	58	2-6	6-7	28	7-5	12	at Villanova
Alabama	7-6	16-9	30	4-5	7-8	35	7-5	12	vs. Miss. St.
Tulsa	9-5	17-9	45	2-4	6-8	55	9-3	1st out	at Cent. Fla.
Clemson	9-5	16-10	89	5-5	7-7	99	8-4	2nd out	vs. N. C. St.
Saint Mary’s	12-3	21-4	67	0-1	4-2	97	9-3	3rd out	at Gonzaga
Florida St.	6-8	16-10	61	2-7	7-10	68	6-6	4th out	at Va. Tech
LSU	9-4	16-10	81	3-5	6-7	50	7-5	5th out	at Tennessee
Vanderbilt	7-6	15-11	62	3-7	4-9	75	7-5	6th out	vs. Georgia
St. Bonaventure	9-4	17-7	49	2-2	4-5	71	8-4	7th out	at Dayton
Geo. Washington	8-5	19-7	46	2-3	4-4	76	7-5	8th out	at U Mass
Creighton	8-6	17-10	83	2-6	4-9	77	7-5	9th out	OFF
Washington	7-7	15-11	73	5-5	10-12	53	5-7	10thout	vs. Stanford

 

Games Scheduled for:	Saturday, February 20, 2016
Home	Visitor	Red	White	Blue
Louisville	Duke	3	4	6
North Carolina	Miami (Fla.)	6	6	3
Syracuse	Pittsburgh	6	5	7
Virginia Tech	Florida St.	-3	-3	-5
Clemson	North Carolina St.	4	5	2
Georgia Tech	Notre Dame	-2	-1	-4
Texas	Baylor	5	6	5
West Virginia	Oklahoma	4	4	6
Kansas St.	Kansas	-5	-2	-7
Iowa St.	TCU	17	18	15
Oklahoma St.	Texas Tech	-1	-2	-2
Georgetown	Xavier	-4	-3	-8
DePaul	Marquette	-2	-5	-3
Villanova	Butler	11	10	12
Rutgers	Penn St.	-6	-7	-4
Nebraska	Ohio St.	3	1	2
Indiana	Purdue	5	3	6
Washington	Stanford	7	7	8
Oregon	Oregon St.	10	8	11
UCLA	Colorado	5	3	2
South Carolina	Florida	2	2	3
Vanderbilt	Georgia	8	6	3
Alabama	Mississippi St.	6	6	7
Auburn	Ole Miss	-4	-5	-3
Tennessee	LSU	1	1	3
Texas A&M	Kentucky	1	3	-3
Arkansas	Missouri	10	10	8
Gonzaga	Saint Mary’s	6	6	6

 

Games Scheduled for:	Sunday, February 21, 2016
Home	Visitor	Red	White	Blue
Wake Forest	Boston College	9	10	8
St. John’s	Seton Hall	-12	-14	-15
Maryland	Michigan	3	8	9
Wisconsin	Illinois	11	11	10
USC	Utah	6	6	5
Washington St.	California	-9	-10	-6

Bracketnomics 2013: NCAA Tournament: Saturday, March 23, Third Round

 2013 NCAA Tournament— Round Three Schedule For Saturday, March 23, 2013

All times Eastern Daylight

Time	Network			Region				Higher Seed						Lower Seed
12:15 PM	CBS			South				#4 Michigan (27-7)						#5 Virginia Commonwealth (27-8)
2:45 PM	CBS			Midwest				#3 Michigan St. (26-8)						#6 Memphis (31-4)
5:15 PM	CBS			Midwest				#1 Louisville (30-5)						#8 Colorado St. (26-8)
6:10 PM	TNT			West				#6 Arizona (26-7)						#14 Harvard (20-9)
7:10 PM	TBS			Midwest				#4 St. Louis (28-6)						#12 Oregon (27-8)
7:45 PM	CBS			East				#3 Marquette (24-8)						#6 Butler (27-8)
8:40 PM	TNT			West				#1 Gonzaga (32-2)						#9 Wichita St. (27-8)
9:40 PM	TBS			East				#4 Syracuse (27-9)						#12 California (21-11)
Team		PPG	Opp		Diff	FG%	Def FG%		Diff	Reb	Opp	Diff	TO		Opp TO	Diff	Stl	R+T	SOS	Rd  W-L
Michigan		75.2	62.9		12.3	.484	.419		6.5	35.1	32.2	2.9	9.2		12.1	2.9	6.0	7.58	56.00	60.0
V C U		77.3	64.8		12.5	.449	.444		0.5	34.8	34.8	0.0	11.8		19.9	8.1	11.8	12.08	55.72	64.7
Michigan St.		68.2	59.3		8.9	.460	.394		6.6	37.3	30.5	6.8	13.4		12.8	-0.6	8.1	7.70	59.69	53.3
Memphis		75.9	65.1		10.8	.479	.405		7.4	37.8	32.9	4.9	14.6		15.5	0.9	9.0	7.78	54.81	81.3
Louisville		73.6	58.0		15.6	.445	.388		5.7	37.5	33.9	3.6	12.7		18.7	6.0	10.7	12.94	59.42	77.8
Colorado St.		73.1	62.9		10.2	.448	.409		3.9	40.4	28.4	12.0	10.8		11.1	0.3	4.9	13.34	56.44	56.3
Arizona		73.3	63.7		9.6	.450	.415		3.5	36.2	30.3	5.9	13.1		13.8	0.7	6.9	8.12	57.27	68.8
Harvard		68.9	63.9		5.0	.482	.440		4.2	29.4	30.4	-1.0	13.5		13.8	0.3	7.4	0.84	48.79	42.9
St. Louis		68.7	58.1		10.6	.448	.412		3.6	32.8	32.5	0.3	11.5		15.2	3.7	7.5	6.24	55.73	69.2
Oregon		72.5	62.9		9.6	.451	.406		4.5	37.9	30.9	7.0	15.1		15.7	0.6	8.8	9.48	53.29	60.0
Marquette		69.0	62.7		6.3	.467	.405		6.2	35.0	30.6	4.4	13.6		12.9	-0.7	6.7	4.90	58.24	46.7
Butler		69.7	63.7		6.0	.455	.417		3.8	36.6	28.9	7.7	13.2		11.2	-2.0	5.7	6.44	56.61	70.6
Gonzaga		78.0	59.7		18.3	.503	.382		12.1	37.4	30.0	7.4	11.3		13.9	2.6	8.0	12.12	54.72	93.8
Wichita St.		69.4	60.7		8.7	.443	.400		4.3	38.4	30.0	8.4	12.8		13.2	0.4	7.5	10.38	53.84	64.7
Syracuse		71.3	60.1		11.2	.440	.377		6.3	38.7	34.6	4.1	12.6		15.5	2.9	8.9	9.36	59.30	56.3
California		67.5	64.4		3.1	.446	.396		5.0	37.2	34.0	3.2	12.5		11.1	-1.4	5.8	2.68	56.35	60.0

 

Thursday’s Pick Record: 12 – 4.

 

Game Previews

Michigan vs. Virginia Commonwealth

Michigan has a decided shooting edge in this game, and the Wolverines should win the rebound battle, but the key here will be how much they control the boards.  VCU’s pressing defense is called “Havoc” for a reason.  The Rams can get 10 steals on just about any team in this tournament, because players do not have the fundamentals mastered in this era.  If Michigan cannot win the rebounding battle by at least five and maybe as much as eight, VCU will create enough turnovers and score enough in transition to erase Michigan’s shooting advantage.  The Maize and Blue may be the best team VCU’s press has tried to upset this year, and Trey Burke and Tim Hardaway, Jr. are much better than the average pair of ball-handlers.

 

Like most of Saturday’s games, this one will be an excellent game to watch, and it should be nip and tuck all the way.  We grade these teams three ways to come up with our PiRate Number.  Michigan has a slight edge in one rating, while VCU has an equally slim edge in the second rating.  VCU qualifies in four of our rating criteria categories, while Michigan qualifies in three.  However, Michigan qualifies in the all-important strength of schedule, while the Rams do not.

 

VCU fails to qualify on SOS by the thinnest of hairs, and when we compare the two teams’ SOS side-by-side, they are separated by less than a point per game.

 

PiRate Pick: Virginia Commonwealth 74  Michigan 70

 

Michigan St. vs. Memphis

This is another game where the teams match up well with enough strengths with which to exploit the other and enough liabilities that can be exploited.  MichiganState is a tad slow in transition, while Memphis is considerably quicker.  The Spartans are stronger in the paint, while their guards are better outside shooters than the Tigers’ guards.

 

We think the difference in this game will come in shot selection.  In the second half, we expect MichiganState to take the smarter shots, while Memphis throws up some ill-advised shots.  It will be the difference down the stretch as Sparty pulls away at the end.

 

PiRate Pick: Michigan State 68  Memphis 61

 

Louisville vs. Colorado St.

The Rams might have a decent shot at ousting any of the other three number one seeds, but they unfortunately draw the one number one seed that they do not match up well against.  Louisville is a much better version of New Mexico, and CSU could not handle New Mexico.

 

The Cardinals have the best defensive backcourt in the tournament, even better than VCU’s Havoc Defense.  Not only can UL steal the ball 10 times a game, they also can stop teams in the paint and on the perimeter in the halfcourt.  Coach Rick Pitino may have his best team since his 1996 Kentucky Wildcats, and “The Ville,” looks to be unstoppable at this point.

 

ColoradoState may keep it close for one or two TV timeouts, but the Cardinals will pull away and have a double-digit lead before halftime.  CSU is not the best come-from-behind team, and things will only get worse until Pitino removes his starters.

 

PiRate Pick: Louisville 77  Colorado St. 54

 

Arizona vs. Harvard

If you read our previous post, you know we selected the 6-seeded Wildcats to emerge as the surprise winner of the West Region.  We’ve been given a gift in this round, as Sean Miller’s squad almost gets a walkover to advance to the Sweet 16.

 

Harvard is the first team that failed to qualify in any of our criteria categories to advance to the Round of 32 in six seasons.  We do not expect the Crimson to put up much of a fight in this game.

 

Arizona will get about 10-12 more chances to score points in this game, and the Wildcats should match or exceed Harvard in shooting percentage.  UA’s quickness should prevent the Crimson from getting many open looks from behind the arc, which is the only area where Harvard has a chance to stay in the game.

 

PiRate Pick: Arizona 71  Harvard 52

 

St. Louis vs. Oregon

We think this will be a dandy of a game to watch.  Aside from being just plain solid, SLU is playing for their deceased head coach, Rick Majerus.  While this emotional boost of octane does not figure in our PiRate Criteria, we do keep this knowledge in the back of our heads.

 

OU has an axe to grind that equalizes the Billikens’ extra emotion.  The Ducks felt as if they were seeded about five spots lower than they deserved to be seeded.  So these factors cancel each other out.

 

Let’s look at the Criteria numbers for this game.  Oregon should end up with a better shooting percentage, and the Ducks should win the battle of the boards, but not by a large number.  The SLU players are a better ball-control team, but they won’t remind anybody of conference rival VCU.

 

Oregon has a small R+T advantage, while SLU has played a slightly more difficult schedule and has performed better away from home.  The fact that this game is in San Jose does not help the Ducks as much as it would if this were the previous round, but SLU will have been on the coast for four days and will have adjusted by the time this game tips off.

 

Both teams have exceptional depth and balance, and this game should have a fluidity that others do not.  It would not surprise us if neither team ever enjoys a lead of more than eight points.  It would also not surprise us if 40 minutes is not enough to determine the winner.

 

PiRate Pick: Oregon 72  St. Louis 70

 

Marquette vs. Butler

This game could have just as easily been Davidson versus Bucknell.  Marquette survived an advanced because Davidson panicked at the end.  Bucknell had Butler on the ropes, but the Bulldogs showed poise when it counted.  The more experienced teams emerged victorious.

 

Now, in this round, we need to closely examine the numbers, because both teams are solid with savvy.  Marquette is a slightly better shooting team than Butler, and the Golden Eagles are also a little better affecting shots by the opponent.   Butler is considerably better on the glass, while neither team is much of a ball-hawking power.  Butler will get three to five more chances to score, but Marquette will shoot a higher percentage.

 

Looking at the other criteria, Marquette compiled their stats against competition that was a little less than two points per game better than Butler’s opponents, but Butler performed much better away from Indianapolis than MU did away from Milwaukee.  This stat is the deciding factor for us, and we believe Coach Brad Stevens will have his squad a little better prepared on less than 48 hours notice.

 

PiRate Pick: Butler 59  Marquette 55

 

Gonzaga vs. Wichita St.

The number one seed and regular final season number one team almost fell to a 16-seed.  The last time the overall number one team and top seed in a region lost their first game was way back in 1981, when #1-seed DePaul lost to #9-seed St. Joseph’s (40-team tournament in 1981).

 

WichitaState looked like a Sweet 16 team in their win over Pittsburgh.  The Shockers have their best team since the great 1981 team that advanced to the Elite 8.  That team had three future NBA players in Cliff Levengston, Antoine Carr, and Xavier McDaniel.

 

Of course, this is Gonzaga’s best team, and the Bulldogs have been toughened by their narrow escape.  We do not see Coach Mark Few’s team stubbing its toe and coming out flat in this game.  GU has something to prove.

 

The Zags are a better shooting team and a better defending team in the half-court.  The two teams are fairly even on the boards, while Gonzaga enjoys a slight advantage in turnover margin.  The two teams’ strengths of schedule differ minutely, but Gonzaga enjoys a considerably better record away from Spokane than WSU has away from Wichita.

 

PiRate Pick: Gonzaga 78  Wichita State 69

 

Syracuse vs. California

The Golden Bears get a little bit of home court advantage, as Berkeley is only 45 miles north of San Jose.  Still, the ‘Cuse is clearly the better team.

 

A lot of teams have trouble with Coach Jim Boeheim’s 2-3 matchup zone the first time they face it.  We believe the Bears will shoot under 40% in this game and fail to pick up enough offensive rebounds to keep the game within reach at the end.

 

Syracuse enjoys small, but significant advantages in field goal percentage margin and rebound margin.  The difference is more significant in turnover margin, and this leads to SU enjoying an R+T rating that is worth 6 ½ more possessions.  To top it off, The Orangemen’s strength of schedule is about three points per game better than Cal’s.  This adds up to a solid win for Boeheim’s bunch.

 

PiRate Pick: Syracuse 69  California 57

 

Coming Saturday night, we will preview Sunday’s games.