This Weekend’s PiRate Ratings Spreads for Teams in Power Conferences
Saturday
| Home Team |
Visitor |
Spread |
| North Carolina |
Davidson |
6.2 |
| Notre Dame |
Coppin St. |
28.8 |
| Louisville |
Kentucky |
-3.4 |
| Wake Forest |
Gardner-Webb |
3.3 |
| Syracuse |
St. Bonaventure |
11.8 |
| Pittsburgh |
Colgate |
5.4 |
| Miami (Fla.) |
Campbell |
12.4 |
| Kansas |
Eastern Michigan |
17.1 |
| Oklahoma St. |
Texas A&M–C.C. |
18.9 |
| Baylor |
New Orleans |
14.5 |
| Kansas St. |
George Mason |
17.0 |
| Ohio St. |
High Point |
15.3 |
| Penn St. |
Md.-Baltimore Co. |
6.0 |
| Michigan St. |
Northern Illinois |
23.3 |
| Illinois |
Florida Atlantic |
11.9 |
| Rutgers |
Maine |
10.4 |
| Purdue |
Belmont |
9.7 |
| Western Kentucky |
Wisconsin |
-6.6 |
| Maryland |
Radford |
8.3 |
| Iowa |
Bryant |
26.6 |
| Utah |
Nevada |
-10.1 |
| Washington St. |
Santa Clara |
6.7 |
| Arizona St. |
Princeton |
14.7 |
| UCLA |
Liberty |
6.0 |
| Boise St. |
Oregon |
2.7 |
| California |
Seattle |
-0.2 |
| Oregon St. |
Central Connecticut |
16.5 |
| Stanford |
Long Beach St. |
9.9 |
| Mississippi St. |
BYU |
6.8 |
| Tennessee |
Tennessee Tech |
28.0 |
| Vanderbilt |
Tennessee St. |
15.9 |
| Missouri |
Morehead St. |
16.5 |
| Ole Miss |
Florida Gulf Coast |
5.6 |
| Texas A&M |
Texas Southern |
12.7 |
| Florida |
Butler |
3.4 |
| Auburn |
North Florida |
19.6 |
Sunday
| Home Team |
Visitor |
Spread |
| Michigan |
Binghamton |
23.1 |
| West Virginia |
Lehigh |
13.0 |
| Clemson |
Lipscomb |
9.9 |
| Minnesota |
Mount St. Mary’s |
15.2 |
| Northwestern |
Columbia |
13.9 |
| Georgia |
U Mass |
6.0 |
| USC |
UC-Davis |
12.3 |
Basketball Ratings Explanation
We are very happy to have your patronage here at the PiRate Ratings, and we know that since the end of last basketball season, we have seen more than one thousand new readers discover us through other sites. We really appreciate those of you that have sent us comments saying that you posted our site on sports forums. We need to explain how we calculate our basketball ratings, which are entirely different from how we calculate our football ratings.
First, our basketball ratings are 100% derived from the “Four Factors” and Schedule Strength. Thus, it takes a long time to input the ratings for each team, since all 353 teams’ statistics must be updated after every game played by every Division 1 team. We can only do this late Thursday Night in order to publish on Friday. You will only see us submit games involving Power Conference teams that are playing Division 1 opponents on Saturday or Sunday every week, until March. We will occasionally add top Mid-Majors like Gonzaga, Buffalo, and Nevada, as long as they are in the top 25 or close to it and look like at-large candidates for the NCAA Tournament if they don’t get the automatic bid.
What are the Four Factors?
Those of you that know us know that our PiRate Captain is a baseball sabermetrician and former Major League analyticist and scout. He likes to see the Four Factors as something similar to Weighted On-Base Average and WAR in baseball. Since baseball players’ stats can be calculated to figure out expected wins, he believes that similar basketball data can be calculated to determine the winner in college basketball games. He goes one step further, trying to find an algorithm that also estimates the pointspread. This is an ongoing experiment in its fifth year, with the algorithm being tweaked a little each year, much like the wOBA numbers adjust every year in baseball.
Here are the Four Factors for College Basketball as Used by the PiRate Captain. Because they apply to offense and defense, they are really like Eight Factors.
1.) Effective Field Goal PercentageÂ
This is a measure that combines two-point and three-point shooting percentages into one. Since a made three-point basket is the same as 1.5 made two-point baskets, the easy calculation for this stat is. (FG + 0.5*3pt))/FGA
where FG is all field goals made, 3 pt is three-pointers made, and FGA is all field goals attempted.
If your team makes 28 baskets in a game, with 8 of those being 3-pointers and attempts 60 shots in a game, their EFG% is: (28+(0.5*8)/60, which equals 53.3%
2.) Turnover %Â
This measures the percentage of possessions in which a team turns the ball over without a shot and conversely forces the opponent to turn the ball over without a shot. The PiRates add a little bit of a twist to how most analytics folks use this one. We will explain the R+T factor later, but for now consider that a steal is a more important turnover than all others, because many times a steal leads to easy points and possible fouls.
The TOV% is simply Turnovers per 100 possessions. So that if a team has 70 possessions in a game and turns the ball over 14 times, their TOV% would be (14/70*100) = 20.0%
College Basketball Possessions are now kept for all games, but if you don’t have access to these stats, you can estimate possessions per game by the following formula used only for college and not NBA (slightly different formula for the pros)
FGA + (0.465* FTA) – Off Rebounds + Turnovers
3.) Offensive Rebounding Percentage
This is actually both offensive and defensive rebounding margin, since opponents’ offensive rebounding margin is the other teams’ defensive rebounding margin.
You calculate this for both teams by this easy formula: (100* Off. Rebounds) / (Off. Rebounds + other team’s Def. Rebounds)
If your team has 15 offensive rebounds, and the other team has 25 defensive rebounds, your team’s Off. Reb % is (100*15)/(15+25) =37.5%
4.) Free Throw Rate
The “experts” disagree on how to calculate this rating. Some of the most famous people that release advanced metric cannot come to a consensus. There is a problem with free throws to begin with, because late in games, the trailing team deliberately fouls the leading team, thus giving the most likely winner more chances at going to the foul line than the actual game flow indicates. Earlier this year, a team we watched on TV had attempted 12 foul shots in the first 34 minutes of the game, and instead of being ahead by 20 points (which they should have been), they only led by 5 with 6 minutes to play. The underdog team tried to play pressure defense but could not force turnovers, so they began fouling and fouling and fouling. Meanwhile, they bricked a lot of 3-pointers at their end, and the final outcome was 17 points. The winning team with just 12 FTA in the first 34 minutes shot 13 more in the final 6 minutes.
This is the type of thing that gives this part of the rating too much weighting, and we tend to lower the importance of this rating for that purpose. Over the course of NCAA Basketball history, the top foul shooting teams have tended to underperform in the Big Dance, while the National Champions have tended to be a little below normal in free throw percentage but above normal in drawing fouls, again mostly because the other team is forced to foul in the final minutes.
This is the formula we use at the PiRate Ratings: FT Made per 100 possession.
We hope this explains a little about how we calculate our ratings. Obviously, to explain our algorithm would be like giving you the formula for Coca-Cola or Pepsi. Plus, it would be too difficult to explain how we back-tested numbers until we came up with the exact formula, which is tweaked a little every season.
Our Plan For 2019
We plan to issue two posts per week until the start of conference tournament play in late February. Our Monday or Tuesday publication will be our most popular feature of the entire site. We have a baker’s dozen of accurate bracketologists (some of whom have their own sites) that send us their weekly bracketology. We call these guys (and one gal) our Bracket Gurus. This will be the Gurus’ third year doing this for us. In 2017, they went 68 for 68 correctly picking every team chosen for the field. In 2018, they went 67 for 68, so in two years, they have picked 135 out of the 136 teams. The famous bracketologists on the big national sites average about 65 1/2 correct every year, so our Gurus are better than the leading brands.
We will issue a Friday afternoon publication like this one. The regular menu for Friday is to post the spreads of the power conference team games for the weekend, our PiRate Ratings rankings, and then something we hope you find of interest. In the past, we have spotlighted low and mid-major teams that might have a chance to create a little havoc in March; featured the up and coming assistant coaches that we believe will become successful head coaches; and written a little about something interesting in basketball history. Our captain has been watching college basketball since the 1963-64 season, and he can describe the UCLA-Duke championship game like he is watching live today. It didn’t hurt that he was a left-handed point guard who thought Gail Goodrich was an older version of him until Louie Dampier starred for Kentucky once Goodrich graduated.
This Week’s PiRate Ratings
| Rk |
Team |
PiRate Rating |
| 1 |
Duke |
122.9 |
| 2 |
Gonzaga |
118.5 |
| 3 |
Virginia |
117.8 |
| 4 |
Michigan St. |
116.3 |
| 5 |
Virginia Tech |
115.9 |
| 6 |
Texas Tech |
115.2 |
| 7 |
Nevada |
115.2 |
| 8 |
Tennessee |
115.0 |
| 9 |
Auburn |
114.7 |
| 10 |
Wisconsin |
114.5 |
| 11 |
Iowa St. |
113.7 |
| 12 |
Florida St. |
113.4 |
| 13 |
Kansas St. |
113.2 |
| 14 |
Villanova |
113.0 |
| 15 |
Purdue |
113.0 |
| 16 |
Oklahoma |
112.6 |
| 17 |
Indiana |
112.6 |
| 18 |
Cincinnati |
112.0 |
| 19 |
TCU |
111.9 |
| 20 |
Buffalo |
111.6 |
| 21 |
Florida |
111.5 |
| 22 |
Butler |
111.1 |
| 23 |
Iowa |
111.0 |
| 24 |
Kansas |
110.8 |
| 25 |
Creighton |
110.4 |
| 26 |
Houston |
110.3 |
| 27 |
Mississippi St. |
110.2 |
| 28 |
Clemson |
110.1 |
| 29 |
Syracuse |
110.0 |
| 30 |
Arizona St. |
109.8 |
| 31 |
Texas |
109.6 |
| 32 |
Michigan |
109.6 |
| 33 |
UCF |
109.5 |
| 34 |
Kentucky |
109.4 |
| 35 |
San Francisco |
109.1 |
| 36 |
Saint Mary’s |
109.1 |
| 37 |
St. John’s |
109.0 |
| 38 |
Utah St. |
109.0 |
| 39 |
West Virginia |
108.7 |
| 40 |
Fresno St. |
108.3 |
| 41 |
Notre Dame |
108.3 |
| 42 |
Arizona |
108.0 |
| 43 |
Seton Hall |
107.9 |
| 44 |
Oklahoma St. |
107.9 |
| 45 |
North Carolina |
107.8 |
| 46 |
Wofford |
107.8 |
| 47 |
Nebraska |
107.8 |
| 48 |
Northwestern |
107.8 |
| 49 |
Washington |
107.7 |
| 50 |
Ohio St. |
107.6 |
| 51 |
Alabama |
107.4 |
| 52 |
Maryland |
107.3 |
| 53 |
Vanderbilt |
107.3 |
| 54 |
Baylor |
107.2 |
| 55 |
Providence |
107.1 |
| 56 |
Toledo |
107.1 |
| 57 |
Missouri |
107.0 |
| 58 |
Temple |
107.0 |
| 59 |
Oregon St. |
106.8 |
| 60 |
Belmont |
106.8 |
| 61 |
UCLA |
106.7 |
| 62 |
Northern Colorado |
106.7 |
| 63 |
North Carolina St. |
106.6 |
| 64 |
Texas A&M |
106.6 |
| 65 |
BYU |
106.4 |
| 66 |
VCU |
106.4 |
| 67 |
Xavier |
106.3 |
| 68 |
San Diego St. |
106.3 |
| 69 |
Dayton |
106.2 |
| 70 |
Colorado |
106.2 |
| 71 |
Marshall |
106.0 |
| 72 |
Louisiana |
106.0 |
| 73 |
Penn |
105.9 |
| 74 |
Loyola Marymount |
105.8 |
| 75 |
Connecticut |
105.7 |
| 76 |
Old Dominion |
105.7 |
| 77 |
Marquette |
105.6 |
| 78 |
Ball St. |
105.6 |
| 79 |
Davidson |
105.6 |
| 80 |
USC |
105.6 |
| 81 |
San Diego |
105.5 |
| 82 |
SMU |
105.5 |
| 83 |
South Dakota St. |
105.4 |
| 84 |
Yale |
105.3 |
| 85 |
New Mexico |
105.3 |
| 86 |
Miami FL |
105.0 |
| 87 |
Furman |
104.9 |
| 88 |
Boston College |
104.9 |
| 89 |
UC Irvine |
104.9 |
| 90 |
Hofstra |
104.8 |
| 91 |
Georgia |
104.8 |
| 92 |
Georgia Tech |
104.7 |
| 93 |
Rutgers |
104.6 |
| 94 |
Penn St. |
104.5 |
| 95 |
Illinois |
104.5 |
| 96 |
Rhode Island |
104.4 |
| 97 |
Western Kentucky |
104.4 |
| 98 |
East Tennessee St. |
104.3 |
| 99 |
Harvard |
104.3 |
| 100 |
New Mexico St. |
104.3 |
| 101 |
Lipscomb |
104.2 |
| 102 |
Saint Joseph’s |
104.1 |
| 103 |
Georgia St. |
104.1 |
| 104 |
Saint Louis |
104.1 |
| 105 |
Georgetown |
104.1 |
| 106 |
DePaul |
104.1 |
| 107 |
Miami OH |
104.1 |
| 108 |
Akron |
104.0 |
| 109 |
Vermont |
104.0 |
| 110 |
Charleston |
104.0 |
| 111 |
Northeastern |
103.8 |
| 112 |
Loyola Chicago |
103.7 |
| 113 |
Liberty |
103.7 |
| 114 |
Louisville |
103.5 |
| 115 |
Wichita St. |
103.5 |
| 116 |
Stanford |
103.4 |
| 117 |
LSU |
103.2 |
| 118 |
South Carolina |
103.2 |
| 119 |
Tulsa |
103.0 |
| 120 |
Grand Canyon |
102.8 |
| 121 |
Texas St. |
102.8 |
| 122 |
Middle Tennessee |
102.6 |
| 123 |
Minnesota |
102.6 |
| 124 |
Oregon |
102.6 |
| 125 |
Southern Illinois |
102.6 |
| 126 |
Radford |
102.5 |
| 127 |
Georgia Southern |
102.4 |
| 128 |
Boise St. |
102.3 |
| 129 |
Austin Peay |
102.2 |
| 130 |
Drake |
102.2 |
| 131 |
Pittsburgh |
101.9 |
| 132 |
Massachusetts |
101.8 |
| 133 |
Utah Valley |
101.7 |
| 134 |
Wright St. |
101.7 |
| 135 |
Southern Miss |
101.7 |
| 136 |
UCSB |
101.6 |
| 137 |
Bucknell |
101.6 |
| 138 |
Utah |
101.6 |
| 139 |
UNLV |
101.5 |
| 140 |
Pacific |
101.5 |
| 141 |
UMBC |
101.5 |
| 142 |
Rider |
101.4 |
| 143 |
Northern Kentucky |
101.3 |
| 144 |
St. Bonaventure |
101.2 |
| 145 |
Mercer |
101.1 |
| 146 |
Wake Forest |
101.1 |
| 147 |
Indiana St. |
101.0 |
| 148 |
Louisiana Monroe |
100.9 |
| 149 |
Gardner Webb |
100.8 |
| 150 |
Missouri St. |
100.7 |
| 151 |
Brown |
100.7 |
| 152 |
Pepperdine |
100.6 |
| 153 |
Murray St. |
100.6 |
| 154 |
Seattle |
100.6 |
| 155 |
Winthrop |
100.5 |
| 156 |
LIU Brooklyn |
100.4 |
| 157 |
Arkansas |
100.1 |
| 158 |
Duquesne |
100.1 |
| 159 |
The Citadel |
100.0 |
| 160 |
Colgate |
100.0 |
| 161 |
Richmond |
100.0 |
| 162 |
North Texas |
100.0 |
| 163 |
Holy Cross |
99.9 |
| 164 |
Louisiana Tech |
99.9 |
| 165 |
Bradley |
99.8 |
| 166 |
Washington St. |
99.8 |
| 167 |
Weber St. |
99.8 |
| 168 |
Memphis |
99.7 |
| 169 |
Troy |
99.7 |
| 170 |
Lehigh |
99.7 |
| 171 |
George Mason |
99.7 |
| 172 |
UNC Wilmington |
99.6 |
| 173 |
Stony Brook |
99.6 |
| 174 |
South Florida |
99.6 |
| 175 |
Central Michigan |
99.6 |
| 176 |
Valparaiso |
99.6 |
| 177 |
Samford |
99.5 |
| 178 |
Green Bay |
99.4 |
| 179 |
Illinois St. |
99.4 |
| 180 |
Jacksonville St. |
99.3 |
| 181 |
Montana |
99.3 |
| 182 |
Cal St. Fullerton |
99.2 |
| 183 |
UAB |
99.1 |
| 184 |
Abilene Christian |
99.1 |
| 185 |
Appalachian St. |
99.0 |
| 186 |
Coastal Carolina |
98.9 |
| 187 |
North Dakota St. |
98.7 |
| 188 |
Ohio |
98.6 |
| 189 |
Mississippi |
98.6 |
| 190 |
Princeton |
98.6 |
| 191 |
UNC Greensboro |
98.5 |
| 192 |
Little Rock |
98.4 |
| 193 |
South Dakota |
98.4 |
| 194 |
Fordham |
98.3 |
| 195 |
Bowling Green |
98.3 |
| 196 |
IUPUI |
98.3 |
| 197 |
Stephen F. Austin |
98.2 |
| 198 |
Northern Iowa |
98.1 |
| 199 |
Evansville |
98.1 |
| 200 |
Hawaii |
98.1 |
| 201 |
Purdue Fort Wayne |
98.1 |
| 202 |
North Florida |
98.1 |
| 203 |
Loyola MD |
98.1 |
| 204 |
Omaha |
98.0 |
| 205 |
American |
98.0 |
| 206 |
South Alabama |
97.8 |
| 207 |
NJIT |
97.7 |
| 208 |
Portland |
97.7 |
| 209 |
Eastern Michigan |
97.7 |
| 210 |
William & Mary |
97.6 |
| 211 |
Iona |
97.5 |
| 212 |
Dartmouth |
97.5 |
| 213 |
Western Michigan |
97.5 |
| 214 |
Boston University |
97.5 |
| 215 |
California |
97.4 |
| 216 |
La Salle |
97.3 |
| 217 |
Northern Arizona |
97.2 |
| 218 |
Maine |
97.2 |
| 219 |
Navy |
97.2 |
| 220 |
Hartford |
97.0 |
| 221 |
Illinois Chicago |
97.0 |
| 222 |
UTSA |
97.0 |
| 223 |
Canisius |
97.0 |
| 224 |
Oral Roberts |
97.0 |
| 225 |
St. Francis PA |
97.0 |
| 226 |
Columbia |
96.9 |
| 227 |
Kent St. |
96.8 |
| 228 |
FIU |
96.8 |
| 229 |
Arkansas Pine Bluff |
96.7 |
| 230 |
UNC Asheville |
96.6 |
| 231 |
Cal Baptist |
96.5 |
| 232 |
Sacramento St. |
96.5 |
| 233 |
Montana St. |
96.5 |
| 234 |
Northern Illinois |
96.5 |
| 235 |
Long Beach St. |
96.5 |
| 236 |
Hampton |
96.4 |
| 237 |
Texas Southern |
96.4 |
| 238 |
Delaware |
96.4 |
| 239 |
Kennesaw St. |
96.4 |
| 240 |
UC Davis |
96.3 |
| 241 |
Santa Clara |
96.1 |
| 242 |
Florida Atlantic |
96.1 |
| 243 |
Colorado St. |
96.1 |
| 244 |
UTEP |
96.1 |
| 245 |
Florida Gulf Coast |
96.0 |
| 246 |
Lafayette |
95.9 |
| 247 |
High Point |
95.8 |
| 248 |
Fairfield |
95.7 |
| 249 |
New Orleans |
95.7 |
| 250 |
Charleston Southern |
95.7 |
| 251 |
Cornell |
95.7 |
| 252 |
Campbell |
95.6 |
| 253 |
Wagner |
95.5 |
| 254 |
Cleveland St. |
95.5 |
| 255 |
Cal St. Bakersfield |
95.5 |
| 256 |
Southern Utah |
95.5 |
| 257 |
Norfolk St. |
95.5 |
| 258 |
Milwaukee |
95.4 |
| 259 |
Fairleigh Dickinson |
95.4 |
| 260 |
Western Illinois |
95.3 |
| 261 |
UMKC |
95.3 |
| 262 |
Quinnipiac |
95.1 |
| 263 |
Wyoming |
95.0 |
| 264 |
Towson |
95.0 |
| 265 |
Presbyterian |
95.0 |
| 266 |
Idaho St. |
94.9 |
| 267 |
UT Arlington |
94.8 |
| 268 |
Tulane |
94.7 |
| 269 |
Lamar |
94.7 |
| 270 |
Eastern Kentucky |
94.7 |
| 271 |
Niagara |
94.7 |
| 272 |
Army |
94.7 |
| 273 |
Drexel |
94.6 |
| 274 |
Sam Houston St. |
94.6 |
| 275 |
Monmouth |
94.6 |
| 276 |
Mississippi Valley St. |
94.5 |
| 277 |
Nicholls St. |
94.4 |
| 278 |
James Madison |
94.4 |
| 279 |
Prairie View A&M |
94.4 |
| 280 |
Marist |
94.4 |
| 281 |
Air Force |
94.3 |
| 282 |
Eastern Washington |
94.3 |
| 283 |
UT Rio Grande Valley |
94.2 |
| 284 |
Northwestern St. |
94.2 |
| 285 |
East Carolina |
94.2 |
| 286 |
St. Francis NY |
94.2 |
| 287 |
Siena |
94.2 |
| 288 |
Cal St. Northridge |
94.1 |
| 289 |
Robert Morris |
94.1 |
| 290 |
George Washington |
94.1 |
| 291 |
SEMO |
94.0 |
| 292 |
Grambling St. |
94.0 |
| 293 |
Central Arkansas |
94.0 |
| 294 |
Sacred Heart |
94.0 |
| 295 |
Albany |
93.9 |
| 296 |
Central Connecticut |
93.8 |
| 297 |
Houston Baptist |
93.8 |
| 298 |
Saint Peter’s |
93.8 |
| 299 |
Portland St. |
93.8 |
| 300 |
Detroit |
93.7 |
| 301 |
Arkansas St. |
93.7 |
| 302 |
Longwood |
93.6 |
| 303 |
Morehead St. |
93.5 |
| 304 |
Denver |
93.4 |
| 305 |
McNeese St. |
93.1 |
| 306 |
Howard |
93.0 |
| 307 |
North Dakota |
93.0 |
| 308 |
Tennessee St. |
92.9 |
| 309 |
Chattanooga |
92.9 |
| 310 |
UC Riverside |
92.9 |
| 311 |
Eastern Illinois |
92.8 |
| 312 |
North Carolina Central |
92.7 |
| 313 |
UT-Martin |
92.6 |
| 314 |
Texas A&M Corpus Chris |
92.5 |
| 315 |
Oakland |
92.5 |
| 316 |
Morgan St. |
92.4 |
| 317 |
Cal Poly |
92.3 |
| 318 |
Jackson St. |
92.2 |
| 319 |
Jacksonville |
92.0 |
| 320 |
Idaho |
91.9 |
| 321 |
Charlotte |
91.9 |
| 322 |
Bethune Cookman |
91.9 |
| 323 |
Western Carolina |
91.9 |
| 324 |
New Hampshire |
91.7 |
| 325 |
Rice |
91.7 |
| 326 |
North Carolina A&T |
91.7 |
| 327 |
Elon |
91.5 |
| 328 |
Youngstown St. |
91.4 |
| 329 |
Southeastern Louisiana |
91.4 |
| 330 |
North Alabama |
91.3 |
| 331 |
UMass Lowell |
91.3 |
| 332 |
VMI |
90.7 |
| 333 |
Binghamton |
90.5 |
| 334 |
Mount St. Mary’s |
90.4 |
| 335 |
USC Upstate |
90.1 |
| 336 |
Manhattan |
90.1 |
| 337 |
San Jose St. |
90.0 |
| 338 |
Alabama St. |
90.0 |
| 339 |
SIU Edwardsville |
89.9 |
| 340 |
Tennessee Tech |
89.5 |
| 341 |
Maryland Eastern Shore |
89.2 |
| 342 |
Southern |
88.8 |
| 343 |
South Carolina St. |
88.6 |
| 344 |
Florida A&M |
88.5 |
| 345 |
Bryant |
87.9 |
| 346 |
Stetson |
87.4 |
| 347 |
Incarnate Word |
87.2 |
| 348 |
Alcorn St. |
86.5 |
| 349 |
Alabama A&M |
84.6 |
| 350 |
Savannah St. |
83.7 |
| 351 |
Coppin St. |
83.5 |
| 352 |
Delaware St. |
82.7 |
| 353 |
Chicago St. |
82.3 |
PiRate Ratings By Conference
| # |
Team |
PiRate Rating |
Conf |
1
|
VCU
|
106.4
|
A10
|
| 2 |
Dayton |
106.2 |
A10 |
| 3 |
Davidson |
105.6 |
A10 |
| 4 |
Rhode Island |
104.4 |
A10 |
| 5 |
Saint Joseph’s |
104.1 |
A10 |
| 6 |
Saint Louis |
104.1 |
A10 |
| 7 |
Massachusetts |
101.8 |
A10 |
| 8 |
St. Bonaventure |
101.2 |
A10 |
| 9 |
Duquesne |
100.1 |
A10 |
| 10 |
Richmond |
100.0 |
A10 |
| 11 |
George Mason |
99.7 |
A10 |
| 12 |
Fordham |
98.3 |
A10 |
| 13 |
La Salle |
97.3 |
A10 |
| 14 |
George Washington |
94.1 |
A10 |
1
|
Duke
|
122.9
|
ACC
|
| 2 |
Virginia |
117.8 |
ACC |
| 3 |
Virginia Tech |
115.9 |
ACC |
| 4 |
Florida St. |
113.4 |
ACC |
| 5 |
Clemson |
110.1 |
ACC |
| 6 |
Syracuse |
110.0 |
ACC |
| 7 |
Notre Dame |
108.3 |
ACC |
| 8 |
North Carolina |
107.8 |
ACC |
| 9 |
North Carolina St. |
106.6 |
ACC |
| 10 |
Miami FL |
105.0 |
ACC |
| 11 |
Boston College |
104.9 |
ACC |
| 12 |
Georgia Tech |
104.7 |
ACC |
| 13 |
Louisville |
103.5 |
ACC |
| 14 |
Pittsburgh |
101.9 |
ACC |
| 15 |
Wake Forest |
101.1 |
ACC |
1
|
Vermont
|
104.0
|
AmEst
|
| 2 |
UMBC |
101.5 |
AmEst |
| 3 |
Stony Brook |
99.6 |
AmEst |
| 4 |
Maine |
97.2 |
AmEst |
| 5 |
Hartford |
97.0 |
AmEst |
| 6 |
Albany |
93.9 |
AmEst |
| 7 |
New Hampshire |
91.7 |
AmEst |
| 8 |
UMass Lowell |
91.3 |
AmEst |
| 9 |
Binghamton |
90.5 |
AmEst |
1
|
Cincinnati
|
112.0
|
AAC
|
| 2 |
Houston |
110.3 |
AAC |
| 3 |
UCF |
109.5 |
AAC |
| 4 |
Temple |
107.0 |
AAC |
| 5 |
Connecticut |
105.7 |
AAC |
| 6 |
SMU |
105.5 |
AAC |
| 7 |
Wichita St. |
103.5 |
AAC |
| 8 |
Tulsa |
103.0 |
AAC |
| 9 |
Memphis |
99.7 |
AAC |
| 10 |
South Florida |
99.6 |
AAC |
| 11 |
Tulane |
94.7 |
AAC |
| 12 |
East Carolina |
94.2 |
AAC |
1
|
Lipscomb
|
104.2
|
ASun
|
| 2 |
Liberty |
103.7 |
ASun |
| 3 |
North Florida |
98.1 |
ASun |
| 4 |
NJIT |
97.7 |
ASun |
| 5 |
Kennesaw St. |
96.4 |
ASun |
| 6 |
Florida Gulf Coast |
96.0 |
ASun |
| 7 |
Jacksonville |
92.0 |
ASun |
| 8 |
North Alabama |
91.3 |
ASun |
| 9 |
Stetson |
87.4 |
ASun |
1
|
Michigan St.
|
116.3
|
BTEN
|
| 2 |
Wisconsin |
114.5 |
BTEN |
| 3 |
Purdue |
113.0 |
BTEN |
| 4 |
Indiana |
112.6 |
BTEN |
| 5 |
Iowa |
111.0 |
BTEN |
| 6 |
Michigan |
109.6 |
BTEN |
| 7 |
Nebraska |
107.8 |
BTEN |
| 8 |
Northwestern |
107.8 |
BTEN |
| 9 |
Ohio St. |
107.6 |
BTEN |
| 10 |
Maryland |
107.3 |
BTEN |
| 11 |
Rutgers |
104.6 |
BTEN |
| 12 |
Penn St. |
104.5 |
BTEN |
| 13 |
Illinois |
104.5 |
BTEN |
| 14 |
Minnesota |
102.6 |
BTEN |
1
|
Texas Tech
|
115.2
|
B12
|
| 2 |
Iowa St. |
113.7 |
B12 |
| 3 |
Kansas St. |
113.2 |
B12 |
| 4 |
Oklahoma |
112.6 |
B12 |
| 5 |
TCU |
111.9 |
B12 |
| 6 |
Kansas |
110.8 |
B12 |
| 7 |
Texas |
109.6 |
B12 |
| 8 |
West Virginia |
108.7 |
B12 |
| 9 |
Oklahoma St. |
107.9 |
B12 |
| 10 |
Baylor |
107.2 |
B12 |
1
|
Villanova
|
113.0
|
BEast
|
| 2 |
Butler |
111.1 |
BEast |
| 3 |
Creighton |
110.4 |
BEast |
| 4 |
St. John’s |
109.0 |
BEast |
| 5 |
Seton Hall |
107.9 |
BEast |
| 6 |
Providence |
107.1 |
BEast |
| 7 |
Xavier |
106.3 |
BEast |
| 8 |
Marquette |
105.6 |
BEast |
| 9 |
Georgetown |
104.1 |
BEast |
| 10 |
DePaul |
104.1 |
BEast |
1
|
Northern Colorado
|
106.7
|
BSky
|
| 2 |
Weber St. |
99.8 |
BSky |
| 3 |
Montana |
99.3 |
BSky |
| 4 |
Northern Arizona |
97.2 |
BSky |
| 5 |
Sacramento St. |
96.5 |
BSky |
| 6 |
Montana St. |
96.5 |
BSky |
| 7 |
Southern Utah |
95.5 |
BSky |
| 8 |
Idaho St. |
94.9 |
BSky |
| 9 |
Eastern Washington |
94.3 |
BSky |
| 10 |
Portland St. |
93.8 |
BSky |
| 11 |
Idaho |
91.9 |
BSky |
1
|
Radford
|
102.5
|
BSou
|
| 2 |
Gardner Webb |
100.8 |
BSou |
| 3 |
Winthrop |
100.5 |
BSou |
| 4 |
UNC Asheville |
96.6 |
BSou |
| 5 |
Hampton |
96.4 |
BSou |
| 6 |
High Point |
95.8 |
BSou |
| 7 |
Charleston Southern |
95.7 |
BSou |
| 8 |
Campbell |
95.6 |
BSou |
| 9 |
Presbyterian |
95.0 |
BSou |
| 10 |
Longwood |
93.6 |
BSou |
| 11 |
USC Upstate |
90.1 |
BSou |
1
|
UC Irvine
|
104.9
|
BWest
|
| 2 |
UCSB |
101.6 |
BWest |
| 3 |
Cal St. Fullerton |
99.2 |
BWest |
| 4 |
Hawaii |
98.1 |
BWest |
| 5 |
Long Beach St. |
96.5 |
BWest |
| 6 |
UC Davis |
96.3 |
BWest |
| 7 |
Cal St. Northridge |
94.1 |
BWest |
| 8 |
UC Riverside |
92.9 |
BWest |
| 9 |
Cal Poly |
92.3 |
BWest |
1
|
Hofstra
|
104.8
|
CAA
|
| 2 |
Charleston |
104.0 |
CAA |
| 3 |
Northeastern |
103.8 |
CAA |
| 4 |
UNC Wilmington |
99.6 |
CAA |
| 5 |
William & Mary |
97.6 |
CAA |
| 6 |
Delaware |
96.4 |
CAA |
| 7 |
Towson |
95.0 |
CAA |
| 8 |
Drexel |
94.6 |
CAA |
| 9 |
James Madison |
94.4 |
CAA |
| 10 |
Elon |
91.5 |
CAA |
1
|
Marshall
|
106.0
|
CUSA
|
| 2 |
Old Dominion |
105.7 |
CUSA |
| 3 |
Western Kentucky |
104.4 |
CUSA |
| 4 |
Middle Tennessee |
102.6 |
CUSA |
| 5 |
Southern Miss |
101.7 |
CUSA |
| 6 |
North Texas |
100.0 |
CUSA |
| 7 |
Louisiana Tech |
99.9 |
CUSA |
| 8 |
UAB |
99.1 |
CUSA |
| 9 |
UTSA |
97.0 |
CUSA |
| 10 |
FIU |
96.8 |
CUSA |
| 11 |
Florida Atlantic |
96.1 |
CUSA |
| 12 |
UTEP |
96.1 |
CUSA |
| 13 |
Charlotte |
91.9 |
CUSA |
| 14 |
Rice |
91.7 |
CUSA |
1
|
Wright St.
|
101.7
|
Horiz
|
| 2 |
Northern Kentucky |
101.3 |
Horiz |
| 3 |
Green Bay |
99.4 |
Horiz |
| 4 |
IUPUI |
98.3 |
Horiz |
| 5 |
Illinois Chicago |
97.0 |
Horiz |
| 6 |
Cleveland St. |
95.5 |
Horiz |
| 7 |
Milwaukee |
95.4 |
Horiz |
| 8 |
Detroit |
93.7 |
Horiz |
| 9 |
Oakland |
92.5 |
Horiz |
| 10 |
Youngstown St. |
91.4 |
Horiz |
1
|
Penn
|
105.9
|
Ivy
|
| 2 |
Yale |
105.3 |
Ivy |
| 3 |
Harvard |
104.3 |
Ivy |
| 4 |
Brown |
100.7 |
Ivy |
| 5 |
Princeton |
98.6 |
Ivy |
| 6 |
Dartmouth |
97.5 |
Ivy |
| 7 |
Columbia |
96.9 |
Ivy |
| 8 |
Cornell |
95.7 |
Ivy |
1
|
Rider
|
101.4
|
MAAC
|
| 2 |
Iona |
97.5 |
MAAC |
| 3 |
Canisius |
97.0 |
MAAC |
| 4 |
Fairfield |
95.7 |
MAAC |
| 5 |
Quinnipiac |
95.1 |
MAAC |
| 6 |
Niagara |
94.7 |
MAAC |
| 7 |
Monmouth |
94.6 |
MAAC |
| 8 |
Marist |
94.4 |
MAAC |
| 9 |
Siena |
94.2 |
MAAC |
| 10 |
Saint Peter’s |
93.8 |
MAAC |
| 11 |
Manhattan |
90.1 |
MAAC |
1
|
Buffalo
|
111.6
|
MAC
|
| 2 |
Toledo |
107.1 |
MAC |
| 3 |
Ball St. |
105.6 |
MAC |
| 4 |
Miami OH |
104.1 |
MAC |
| 5 |
Akron |
104.0 |
MAC |
| 6 |
Central Michigan |
99.6 |
MAC |
| 7 |
Ohio |
98.6 |
MAC |
| 8 |
Bowling Green |
98.3 |
MAC |
| 9 |
Eastern Michigan |
97.7 |
MAC |
| 10 |
Western Michigan |
97.5 |
MAC |
| 11 |
Kent St. |
96.8 |
MAC |
| 12 |
Northern Illinois |
96.5 |
MAC |
1
|
Norfolk St.
|
95.5
|
MEAC
|
| 2 |
Howard |
93.0 |
MEAC |
| 3 |
North Carolina Central |
92.7 |
MEAC |
| 4 |
Morgan St. |
92.4 |
MEAC |
| 5 |
Bethune Cookman |
91.9 |
MEAC |
| 6 |
North Carolina A&T |
91.7 |
MEAC |
| 7 |
Maryland Eastern Shore |
89.2 |
MEAC |
| 8 |
South Carolina St. |
88.6 |
MEAC |
| 9 |
Florida A&M |
88.5 |
MEAC |
| 10 |
Savannah St. |
83.7 |
MEAC |
| 11 |
Coppin St. |
83.5 |
MEAC |
| 12 |
Delaware St. |
82.7 |
MEAC |
1
|
Loyola Chicago
|
103.7
|
MVC
|
| 2 |
Southern Illinois |
102.6 |
MVC |
| 3 |
Drake |
102.2 |
MVC |
| 4 |
Indiana St. |
101.0 |
MVC |
| 5 |
Missouri St. |
100.7 |
MVC |
| 6 |
Bradley |
99.8 |
MVC |
| 7 |
Valparaiso |
99.6 |
MVC |
| 8 |
Illinois St. |
99.4 |
MVC |
| 9 |
Northern Iowa |
98.1 |
MVC |
| 10 |
Evansville |
98.1 |
MVC |
1
|
Nevada
|
115.2
|
MWC
|
| 2 |
Utah St. |
109.0 |
MWC |
| 3 |
Fresno St. |
108.3 |
MWC |
| 4 |
San Diego St. |
106.3 |
MWC |
| 5 |
New Mexico |
105.3 |
MWC |
| 6 |
Boise St. |
102.3 |
MWC |
| 7 |
UNLV |
101.5 |
MWC |
| 8 |
Colorado St. |
96.1 |
MWC |
| 9 |
Wyoming |
95.0 |
MWC |
| 10 |
Air Force |
94.3 |
MWC |
| 11 |
San Jose St. |
90.0 |
MWC |
1
|
LIU Brooklyn
|
100.4
|
NEC
|
| 2 |
St. Francis PA |
97.0 |
NEC |
| 3 |
Wagner |
95.5 |
NEC |
| 4 |
Fairleigh Dickinson |
95.4 |
NEC |
| 5 |
St. Francis NY |
94.2 |
NEC |
| 6 |
Robert Morris |
94.1 |
NEC |
| 7 |
Sacred Heart |
94.0 |
NEC |
| 8 |
Central Connecticut |
93.8 |
NEC |
| 9 |
Mount St. Mary’s |
90.4 |
NEC |
| 10 |
Bryant |
87.9 |
NEC |
1
|
Belmont
|
106.8
|
OVC
|
| 2 |
Austin Peay |
102.2 |
OVC |
| 3 |
Murray St. |
100.6 |
OVC |
| 4 |
Jacksonville St. |
99.3 |
OVC |
| 5 |
Eastern Kentucky |
94.7 |
OVC |
| 6 |
SEMO |
94.0 |
OVC |
| 7 |
Morehead St. |
93.5 |
OVC |
| 8 |
Tennessee St. |
92.9 |
OVC |
| 9 |
Eastern Illinois |
92.8 |
OVC |
| 10 |
UT-Martin |
92.6 |
OVC |
| 11 |
SIU Edwardsville |
89.9 |
OVC |
| 12 |
Tennessee Tech |
89.5 |
OVC |
1
|
Arizona St.
|
109.8
|
Pac12
|
| 2 |
Arizona |
108.0 |
Pac12 |
| 3 |
Washington |
107.7 |
Pac12 |
| 4 |
Oregon St. |
106.8 |
Pac12 |
| 5 |
UCLA |
106.7 |
Pac12 |
| 6 |
Colorado |
106.2 |
Pac12 |
| 7 |
USC |
105.6 |
Pac12 |
| 8 |
Stanford |
103.4 |
Pac12 |
| 9 |
Oregon |
102.6 |
Pac12 |
| 10 |
Utah |
101.6 |
Pac12 |
| 11 |
Washington St. |
99.8 |
Pac12 |
| 12 |
California |
97.4 |
Pac12 |
1
|
Bucknell
|
101.6
|
Pat
|
| 2 |
Colgate |
100.0 |
Pat |
| 3 |
Holy Cross |
99.9 |
Pat |
| 4 |
Lehigh |
99.7 |
Pat |
| 5 |
Loyola MD |
98.1 |
Pat |
| 6 |
American |
98.0 |
Pat |
| 7 |
Boston University |
97.5 |
Pat |
| 8 |
Navy |
97.2 |
Pat |
| 9 |
Lafayette |
95.9 |
Pat |
| 10 |
Army |
94.7 |
Pat |
1
|
Louisiana
|
106.0
|
SBC
|
| 2 |
Georgia St. |
104.1 |
SBC |
| 3 |
Texas St. |
102.8 |
SBC |
| 4 |
Georgia Southern |
102.4 |
SBC |
| 5 |
Louisiana Monroe |
100.9 |
SBC |
| 6 |
Troy |
99.7 |
SBC |
| 7 |
Appalachian St. |
99.0 |
SBC |
| 8 |
Coastal Carolina |
98.9 |
SBC |
| 9 |
Little Rock |
98.4 |
SBC |
| 10 |
South Alabama |
97.8 |
SBC |
| 11 |
UT Arlington |
94.8 |
SBC |
| 12 |
Arkansas St. |
93.7 |
SBC |
1
|
Wofford
|
107.8
|
Socon
|
| 2 |
Furman |
104.9 |
Socon |
| 3 |
East Tennessee St. |
104.3 |
Socon |
| 4 |
Mercer |
101.1 |
Socon |
| 5 |
The Citadel |
100.0 |
Socon |
| 6 |
Samford |
99.5 |
Socon |
| 7 |
UNC Greensboro |
98.5 |
Socon |
| 8 |
Chattanooga |
92.9 |
Socon |
| 9 |
Western Carolina |
91.9 |
Socon |
| 10 |
VMI |
90.7 |
Socon |
1
|
Tennessee
|
115.0
|
SEC
|
| 2 |
Auburn |
114.7 |
SEC |
| 3 |
Florida |
111.5 |
SEC |
| 4 |
Mississippi St. |
110.2 |
SEC |
| 5 |
Kentucky |
109.4 |
SEC |
| 6 |
Alabama |
107.4 |
SEC |
| 7 |
Vanderbilt |
107.3 |
SEC |
| 8 |
Missouri |
107.0 |
SEC |
| 9 |
Texas A&M |
106.6 |
SEC |
| 10 |
Georgia |
104.8 |
SEC |
| 11 |
LSU |
103.2 |
SEC |
| 12 |
South Carolina |
103.2 |
SEC |
| 13 |
Arkansas |
100.1 |
SEC |
| 14 |
Mississippi |
98.6 |
SEC |
1
|
Abilene Christian
|
99.1
|
Southl
|
| 2 |
Stephen F. Austin |
98.2 |
Southl |
| 3 |
New Orleans |
95.7 |
Southl |
| 4 |
Lamar |
94.7 |
Southl |
| 5 |
Sam Houston St. |
94.6 |
Southl |
| 6 |
Nicholls St. |
94.4 |
Southl |
| 7 |
Northwestern St. |
94.2 |
Southl |
| 8 |
Central Arkansas |
94.0 |
Southl |
| 9 |
Houston Baptist |
93.8 |
Southl |
| 10 |
McNeese St. |
93.1 |
Southl |
| 11 |
Texas A&M Corpus Chris |
92.5 |
Southl |
| 12 |
Southeastern Louisiana |
91.4 |
Southl |
| 13 |
Incarnate Word |
87.2 |
Southl |
1
|
South Dakota St.
|
105.4
|
Sum
|
| 2 |
North Dakota St. |
98.7 |
Sum |
| 3 |
South Dakota |
98.4 |
Sum |
| 4 |
Purdue Fort Wayne |
98.1 |
Sum |
| 5 |
Omaha |
98.0 |
Sum |
| 6 |
Oral Roberts |
97.0 |
Sum |
| 7 |
Western Illinois |
95.3 |
Sum |
| 8 |
Denver |
93.4 |
Sum |
| 9 |
North Dakota |
93.0 |
Sum |
1
|
Arkansas Pine Bluff
|
96.7
|
SWAC
|
| 2 |
Texas Southern |
96.4 |
SWAC |
| 3 |
Mississippi Valley St. |
94.5 |
SWAC |
| 4 |
Prairie View A&M |
94.4 |
SWAC |
| 5 |
Grambling St. |
94.0 |
SWAC |
| 6 |
Jackson St. |
92.2 |
SWAC |
| 7 |
Alabama St. |
90.0 |
SWAC |
| 8 |
Southern |
88.8 |
SWAC |
| 9 |
Alcorn St. |
86.5 |
SWAC |
| 10 |
Alabama A&M |
84.6 |
SWAC |
1
|
New Mexico St.
|
104.3
|
WAC
|
| 2 |
Grand Canyon |
102.8 |
WAC |
| 3 |
Utah Valley |
101.7 |
WAC |
| 4 |
Seattle |
100.6 |
WAC |
| 5 |
Cal Baptist |
96.5 |
WAC |
| 6 |
Cal St. Bakersfield |
95.5 |
WAC |
| 7 |
UMKC |
95.3 |
WAC |
| 8 |
UT Rio Grande Valley |
94.2 |
WAC |
| 9 |
Chicago St. |
82.3 |
WAC |
1
|
Gonzaga
|
118.5
|
WCC
|
| 2 |
San Francisco |
109.1 |
WCC |
| 3 |
Saint Mary’s |
109.1 |
WCC |
| 4 |
BYU |
106.4 |
WCC |
| 5 |
Loyola Marymount |
105.8 |
WCC |
| 6 |
San Diego |
105.5 |
WCC |
| 7 |
Pacific |
101.5 |
WCC |
| 8 |
Pepperdine |
100.6 |
WCC |
| 9 |
Portland |
97.7 |
WCC |
| 10 |
Santa Clara |
96.1 |
WCC |