PiRate Ratings Bracketology

Date	2/7/2022
Seed	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team
1	Gonzaga	Auburn	Purdue	Kentucky
2	Kansas	Arizona	Baylor	Duke
3	Texas Tech	Houston	Illinois	Providence
4	Michigan St.	Wisconsin	UCLA	Villanova
5	Marquette	Tennessee	Texas	Ohio St.
6	Xavier	LSU	Connecticut	Alabama
7	USC	Indiana	Saint Mary’s	Iowa St.
8	Arkansas	TCU	Iowa	Boise St.
9	Wake Forest	Murray St.	San Francisco	Wyoming
10	Loyola (Chi.)	BYU	Davidson	Seton Hall
11	Colorado St.	Oregon	Miami (Fla.)	North Carolina
12	Iona	North Texas	Notre Dame	Creighton	Florida	Belmont
13	Ohio	Chattanooga	Vermont	South Dakota St.
14	New Mexico St.	Wagner	Weber St.	Cal St. Fullerton
15	Longwood	Jacksonville St.	Cleveland St.	Yale
16	Colgate	UNC Wilmington	Norfolk St.	Appalachian St.	New Orleans	Southern

Best of the Rest

69	San Diego St.
70	Saint Louis
71	Mississippi State
72	SMU
73	Washington St.
74	Michigan
75	Florida State
76	Oklahoma

PiRate Ratings Bracketology

Date	2/4/2022
Seed	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team
1	Gonzaga	Auburn	Purdue	Baylor
2	Kansas	Arizona	Kentucky	UCLA
3	Duke	Texas Tech	Houston	Villanova
4	Michigan St.	Wisconsin	Illinois	Providence
5	Xavier	Marquette	Ohio St.	LSU
6	Tennessee	Alabama	Texas	Connecticut
7	Iowa St.	USC	Indiana	Iowa
8	Saint Mary’s	TCU	Arkansas	San Francisco
9	Loyola (Chi.)	Wake Forest	Murray St.	Wyoming
10	Boise St.	BYU	Seton Hall	Davidson
11	Oregon	Colorado St.	Oklahoma	San Diego St.
12	Iona	North Texas	Creighton	Miami (Fla.)	North Carolina	Florida
13	Toledo	Furman	Vermont	South Dakota St.
14	New Mexico St.	Wagner	Towson	Liberty
15	Oakland	Weber St.	Longwood	Cal St. Fullerton
16	Yale	Colgate	Norfolk St.	Troy	New Orleans	Florida A&M

Best of the Rest

69	Notre Dame
70	Michigan
71	Florida State
72	Mississippi State
73	SMU
74	Belmont
75	Drake
76	Washington St.

PiRate Ratings College Basketball–Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Home	Visitors	Spread
Virginia	Boston College	7.9
Connecticut	Creighton	10.2
Iowa St.	Kansas	-3.7
Maryland	Michigan St.	-4.2
Tennessee	Texas A&M	11.5
Siena	Canisius	3.3
Duquesne	Richmond	-6.8
St. Bonaventure	Davidson	1.5
Western Michigan	Northern Illinois	0.3
Ohio	Ball St.	12.6
Eastern Michigan	Toledo	-11.6
Central Michigan	Bowling Green	-6.4
Miami (O)	Kent St.	0.8
Mississippi St.	South Carolina	7.7
Northwestern	Rutgers	6.5
Louisville	North Carolina	-3.9
Georgetown	Seton Hall	-8.3
Auburn	Alabama	7.1
Texas Tech	Texas	4.6
St. John’s	Providence	0.8
LSU	Mississippi	15.0
Wichita St.	Tulsa	8.4
Utah St.	Air Force	16.5
Michigan	Nebraska	15.0
Stanford	California	5.6
UC Riverside	UC Davis	7.0
UNLV	Nevada	4.2
San Jose St.	Fresno St.	-12.0

PiRate Ratings Bracketology–January 7, 2022

Date	1/7/2022
Seed	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team
1	Baylor	Gonzaga	Houston	Arizona
2	Kansas	Villanova	Auburn	LSU
3	Duke	Purdue	Texas	Tennessee
4	Illinois	Michigan St.	USC	Kentucky
5	Alabama	UCLA	Connecticut	Iowa St.
6	Wisconsin	Xavier	Ohio St.	Texas Tech
7	Loyola (Chi.)	Seton Hall	BYU	Indiana
8	Iowa	Colorado St.	W. Virginia	N. Carolina
9	Oklahoma	Va.Tech	San Francisco	Mississippi St.
10	Providence	TCU	Florida	Wake Forest
11	Saint Mary’s	Michigan	San Diego St.	Memphis	Texas A&M	Clemson
12	Chattanooga	Belmont	Davidson	UAB
13	Iona	Ohio	Vermont	Towson
14	Wagner	South Dakota St.	Navy	Oakland
15	Grand Canyon	UC-Irvine	Liberty	Princeton
16	Louisiana	Weber St.	Nicholls St.	Gardner-Webb	Texas Southern	Howard

First Four Out

Creighton

Louisville

Florida St.

Cincinnati

Next Four Out

Minnesota

Wyoming

Boise St.

Washington St.

Process: The PiRate Ratings use a combination of NET Rankings, Computer Rankings, Strength of Schedule, Strength of Wins, The Eye-Test, and unfortunately Politics to attempt to mimic what the NCAA Selection Committee does leading up to Selection Sunday.

PiRate Ratings College Basketball Spreads

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Home	Visitor	Spread
Davidson	St. Bonaventure	-1.0
George Mason	George Washington	6.5
Saint Joseph’s	Dayton	-8.8
La Salle	Duquesne	-4.3
South Florida	Temple	3.8
Memphis	Tulane	11.7
Tulsa	Cincinnati	1.2
Wake Forest	Clemson	-6.0
Virginia	NC St.	8.7
Miami (Fla.)	Florida St.	-12.5
North Carolina	Marquette	8.9
Butler	Seton Hall	-6.7
Creighton	DePaul	13.6
Providence	Xavier	-0.8
Southern Utah	Northern Arizona	11.8
Longwood	Hampton	8.8
Rutgers	Indiana	3.1
Ball St.	Kent St.	-4.6
UNC Central	North Carolina A&T	2.8
Norfolk St	Delaware St.	14.2
Air Force	New Mexico	0.1
UNLV	Fresno St.	5.8
Boston University	Holy Cross	5.4
Loyola (MD)	American	3.6
Mississippi St.	South Carolina	3.5
Arkansas	Alabama	-2.0
Vanderbilt	Tennessee	-6.8
Furman	The Citadel	12.8
Mercer	Chattanooga	2.5
UNCG	Western Carolina	11.9
Northwestern St.	Stephen F. Austin	-7.4
SE Louisiana	McNeese	4.2
Texas A&M-CC	New Orleans	-0.4
Nicholls	Houston Baptist	10.5
Incarnate Word	Lamar	4.5
Abilene Christian	Sam Houston St.	8.1
Southern	Alabama A&M	6.4
Alcorn St.	Alabama St.	5.7

PiRate Ratings College Basketball For March 4, 2020

Wednesday’s Games

 

Home	Visitor	Spread
Arkansas	LSU	2.8
Auburn	Texas A&M	12.7
Butler	St. John’s	7.6
Central Florida	SMU	-0.2
Charlotte	North Texas	-3.9
Colorado St.	Wyoming	14.3
Creighton	Georgetown	8.9
Eastern Illinois	Jacksonville St.	4.8
Fresno St.	Air Force	4.0
George Mason	Saint Louis	-2.8
George Washington	Fordham	5.7
Georgia	Florida	-2.2
Georgia Tech	Pittsburgh	6.7
Incarnate Word	Houston Baptist	2.8
Indiana	Minnesota	2.9
Iona	Quinnipiac	5.5
Kansas	TCU	18.2
La Salle	Massachusetts	3.3
Long Island	Fairleigh Dickinson	4.8
Louisiana Tech	Florida Intl.	9.2
Marist	Canisius	0.2
Marshall	Florida Atlantic	5.6
Miami (Fla.)	Virginia	-1.4
Middle Tennessee	UTEP	-2.4
Monmouth	Fairfield	8.0
New Mexico	San Jose St.	10.5
Nicholls	McNeese	5.9
Northwestern St.	New Orleans	3.4
Notre Dame	Florida St.	-2.7
Oklahoma St.	Kansas St.	6.2
Old Dominion	UTSA	4.6
Ole Miss	Missouri	4.3
Providence	Xavier	3.1
Rhode Island	Dayton	-4.1
Rider	Manhattan	7.6
Robert Morris	St. Francis (NY)	8.6
Sacred Heart	Mount St. Mary’s	8.6
Seton Hall	Villanova	4.3
Siena	Niagara	10.7
Southeast Louisiana	Central Arkansas	-3.4
Southern Miss	Rice	-0.5
St. Bonaventure	Saint Joseph’s	11.8
St. Francis (PA)	Bryant	6.5
Temple	Tulsa	2.0
Tennessee St.	Morehead St.	6.1
Texas A&M-CC	Sam Houston St.	-2.8
UC Irvine	Cal St. Northridge	12.8
Virginia Tech	Clemson	0.9
Wisconsin	Northwestern	13.5

 

Key TV Games on Wednesday

 

Time (EST)	Network	Home	Visitor
6:30 PM	FS1	Providence	Xavier
7:00 PM	SECN	Arkansas	LSU
8:00 PM	ESPN+	Kansas	TCU
8:30 PM	FS1	Seton Hall	Villanova
9:00 PM	CBSSN	Rhode Island	Dayton

 

Conference Tournament Section

 

Tuesday’s Results

 

Atlantic Sun Tournament
Quarterfinals
Winner	Score	Loser	Score
Liberty	55	NJIT	49
Stetson	82	North Alabama	72
Lipscomb	68	Florida Gulf Coast	63
North Florida	91	Jacksonville	88

 

Semifinals	March 5	at Higher Seed’s Home Court
Home	Visitor	Time (ET)	TV
1 Liberty (28-4)	4 Stetson (16-16)	7:00 PM	ESPN+
2 North Florida (21-11)	3 Lipscomb (15-15)	7:00 PM	ESPN+

 

 

Big South Tournament
1st Round
Winner	Score	Loser	Score
USC Upstate	69	High Point	59
UNC-Asheville	72	Campbell	68
Charleston Southern	81	Presbyterian	64

 

Quarterfinals	March 5	at #1 Seed Radford
Team	Team	Time (ET)	TV
2 Winthrop (21-10)	7 USC Upstate (13-19)	12:00 PM	ESPN3
3 Gardner-Webb (15-15)	6 UNC-Asheville (15-15)	2:00 PM	ESPN3
1 Radford (20-10)	8 Charleston Southern (14-17)	6:00 PM	ESPN3
4 Longwood (14-17)	5 Hampton (13-18)	8:00 PM	ESPN3

 

 

Horizon League Tournament
1st Round
Winner	Score	Loser	Score
Illinois Chicago	93	IUPUI	59
Youngstown St.	63	Milwaukee	57
Oakland	80	Cleveland St.	59

 

Quarterfinals	March 5	at Higher Seed’s Home Court
Home	Visitor	Time (ET)	TV
3 Green Bay (16-15)	6 Oakland (14-18)	8:00 PM	ESPN+
4 Illinois Chicago (15-17)	5 Youngstown (18-14)	8:00 PM	ESPN+

 

Patriot League Tournament
1st Round
Winner	Score	Loser	Score
Bucknell	65	Holy Cross	62
Lehigh	78	Loyola (MD)	75

 

Quarterfinals	March 5	at Higher Seed’s Home Court
Home	Visitor	Time (ET)	TV
2 American (16-13)	7 Bucknell (13-19)	7:00 PM	Pat League Network
3 Boston U (18-13)	6 Navy (14-15)	7:00 PM	Pat League Network
4 Army (15-14)	5 Lafayette (18-11)	7:00 PM	Pat League Network
1 Colgate (23-8)	8 Lehigh (11-20)	7:00 PM	Pat League Network

 

 

Tournaments Beginning Wednesday

 

Mountain West Tournament
1st Round	March 4	Las Vegas (Thomas & Mack Center)
Team	Team	Time (ET)	TV
8 Fresno St. (11-18)	9 Air Force (11-19)	3:00 PM	Mountain West Net.
7 New Mexico (18-13)	10 San Jose St. (7-23)	5:30 PM	Mountain West Net.
6 Colorado St. (20-11)	11 Wyoming (7-23)	8:00 PM	Mountain West Net.

 

 

Northeast Tournament
Quarterfinals	March 4	at Higher Seed’s Home Court
Home	Visitor	Time (ET)	TV
1 Robert Morris (17-14)	8 St. Francis (NY) (13-17)	7:00 PM	http://necfrontrow.com/
2 St. Francis (PA) (20-9)	7 Bryant (15-16)	7:00 PM	http://necfrontrow.com/
3 Sacred Heart (19-12)	6 Mount St. Mary’s (11-20)	7:00 PM	http://necfrontrow.com/
4 Long Island (14-17)	5 Fairleigh-Dickinson (11-18)	7:00 PM	http://necfrontrow.com/

 

 

Ohio Valley Tournament
1st Round	March 4	Evansville, IN (Ford Center)
Team	Team	Time (ET)	TV
5 Tennessee St. (17-14)	8 Morehead St. (13-18)	7:30 PM	ESPN+
6 Eastern Illinois (16-14)	7 Jacksonville St. (13-18)	9:30 PM	ESPN+

 

 

 

PiRate Ratings College Basketball For February 23, 2020

Sunday’s Games

 

Home	Visitor	Spread
Boise St.	New Mexico	7.8
Boston University	American	6.9
Bryant	Sacred Heart	0.1
Cincinnati	Wichita St.	2.8
Colgate	Holy Cross	19.5
Connecticut	South Florida	8.0
Creighton	Butler	5.4
Detroit	Milwaukee	0.8
East Carolina	Temple	-4.5
Evansville	Indiana St.	-6.6
Fairfield	Siena	-3.3
Fairleigh Dickinson	Robert Morris	-1.3
Indiana	Penn St.	-0.4
Lafayette	Loyola (MD)	14.5
Lehigh	Bucknell	-1.1
Manhattan	Canisius	3.4
Marist	Niagara	1.8
Monmouth	Quinnipiac	6.4
Mount St. Mary’s	Merrimack	-0.5
Northern Iowa	Southern Illinois	11.6
Northwestern	Minnesota	-4.8
Notre Dame	Miami (Fla.)	6.9
Oakland	Green Bay	2.7
Ohio St.	Maryland	2.9
Saint Peter’s	Rider	1.7
Seton Hall	St. John’s	10.2
South Dakota St.	South Dakota	6.4
St. Francis (NY)	Wagner	6.7
St. Francis (PA)	Long Island	7.9
Utah	USC	-2.1
Washington St.	Stanford	-4.1
Wisconsin	Rutgers	3.7

 

Sunday’s Key TV Games

 

Time (EST)	Network	Home	Visitor
12:00 PM	FS1	Indiana	Penn St.
1:00 PM	ESPN	Cincinnati	Wichita St.
1:00 PM	BTN	Wisconsin	Rutgers
2:00 PM	ESPN3	Saint Peter’s	Rider
2:00 PM	ESPNU	Northern Iowa	Southern Illinois
3:00 PM	ESPN+	South Dakota St.	South Dakota
4:00 PM	CBS	Ohio St.	Maryland
4:00 PM	FS1	Creighton	Butler

 

 

 

 

PiRate Ratings Bracketology For January 26, 2020

Date	1/26/2020
Seed	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team
1	Baylor	Gonzaga	Kansas	San Diego St.
2	Florida St.	Duke	Seton Hall	West Virginia
3	Louisville	Michigan St.	Dayton	Butler
4	Villanova	Oregon	Maryland	Iowa
5	Kentucky	Auburn	Colorado	LSU
6	Creighton	Penn St.	Arizona	Rutgers
7	Marquette	Illinois	Wichita St.	Arkansas
8	Ohio St.	Stanford	Indiana	Wisconsin
9	Houston	Florida	Saint Mary’s	Oklahoma
10	Memphis	Texas Tech	BYU	USC
11	Michigan	North Carolina St.	East Tennessee St.	Virginia Tech	VCU
12	Akron	North Texas	Liberty	Minnesota	Xavier
13	Stephen F. Austin	New Mexico St.	Vermont	Harvard
14	Loyola (Chi.)	Colgate	William & Mary	Wright St.
15	Little Rock	UC-Irvine	Murray St.	South Dakota St.
16	Montana	Winthrop	Monmouth	Norfolk St.	Robert Morris	Prairie View
	First Four Out
	Georgetown	Purdue	Alabama	Tennessee
	Next Four Out
	Richmond	Rhode Island	DePaul	Northern Iowa

Another Bracketology Will Publish Tomorrow Afternoon.  Many NCAA Tournament Team Contenders Are Playing Sunday.

 

PiRate Ratings Bracketology For Wednesday, March 13, 2019

March 13, 2019
Seed	Team	Team	Team	Team
1	Virginia	Gonzaga	Kentucky	North Carolina
2	Duke	Michigan St.	Tennessee	LSU
3	Michigan	Texas Tech	Houston	Purdue
4	Florida St.	Wisconsin	Kansas	Kansas St.
5	Virginia Tech	Maryland	Mississippi St.	Nevada
6	Buffalo	Villanova	Marquette	Auburn
7	Wofford	Cincinnati	Louisville	Iowa St.
8	Baylor	VCU	Iowa	Ole Miss
9	Syracuse	Washington	Central Florida	Oklahoma
10	Minnesota	Seton Hall	Utah St.	TCU
11	Temple	Arizona St.	North Carolina St.	Ohio St./St. John’s
12	Florida/Clemson	Saint Mary’s	Murray St.	New Mexico St.
13	Liberty	Vermont	Old Dominion	UC-Irvine
14	Montana	Northeastern	Northern Kentucky	Georgia St.
15	Yale	Bradley	Bucknell	Gardner-Webb
16	Sam Houston St.	Prairie View	Iona/Fairleigh-Dickinson	North Dakota St./Norfolk St.

 

Last 4 Byes

TCU

Temple

Arizona St.

North Carolina St.

 

Last 4 In

Ohio St.

St. John’s

Clemson

Florida

 

First 4 Out

Creighton

Indiana

Georgetown

Texas

Next 4 Out

Alabama

Belmont

Nebraska

UNC Greensboro

 

Bids By Conference

Conference	Bids
ACC	9
Big Ten	8
Big 12	7
SEC	7
Big East	4
AAC	4
MWC	2
Pac-12	2
West Coast	2
One-Bid Leagues	23

 

Automatic Bids To Date

Team	Conf	W-L
Liberty	Atlantic Sun	28-6
Gardner-Webb	Big South	23-11
Murray St.	Ohio Valley	27-4
Bradley	Missouri Valley	20-14
Wofford	Southern	29-4
Iona	Metro Atlantic	17-15
Fairleigh-Dickinson	Northeast	20-13
Northern Kentucky	Horizon	26-8
Northeastern	Colonial	23-10
Saint Mary’s	West Coast	22-11
North Dakota St.	Summit	18-15

 

 

 

 

PiRate Ratings Bracketology For Sunday, March 10, 2019

March 10, 2019
Seed	Team	Team	Team	Team
1	Gonzaga	Virginia	Kentucky	North Carolina
2	Duke	Michigan St.	Tennessee	LSU
3	Purdue	Houston	Texas Tech	Michigan
4	Florida St.	Kansas	Kansas St.	Wisconsin
5	Virginia Tech	Maryland	Mississippi St.	Nevada
6	Buffalo	Cincinnati	Villanova	Marquestte
7	Wofford	Auburn	Louisville	Iowa
8	Baylor	Virginia Commonwealth	Iowa St.	Ole Miss
9	Syracuse	Washington	Central Florida	Oklahoma
10	Minnesota	Seton Hall	Utah St.	TCU
11	Ohio St.	Temple	Arizona St.	North Carolina St.
12	St. John’s/Clemson	Florida/Creighton	Lipscomb	Murray St.
13	New Mexico St.	Vermont	Hofstra	Old Dominion
14	UC-irvine	Montana	Yale	Georgia St.
15	Bradley	Bucknell	Radford	Wright St.
16	Omaha	Sam Houston St.	Norfolk St./St. Francis (PA)	Iona/Prairie View

Teams In Red Have Won Automatic Bids

 

Last 4 Byes

Ohio St.

Temple

Arizona St.

North Carolina St.

 

Last 4 In–Headed to First Four in Dayton

St. John’s

Florida

Clemson

Creighton

 

First Four Out

Georgetown

Furman

Indiana

Belmont

 

Next Four Out

UNC Greensboro

Texas

Nebraska

Saint Mary’s

 

Bids By Conference	Bids
ACC	9
Big Ten	8
Big 12	7
SEC	7
Big East	5
AAC	4
MWC	2
Pac-12	2
One-Bid Leagues	24