PiRate Ratings College Basketball–Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Home	Visitor	Spread
American	Bucknell	7.6
Auburn	Georgia	11.4
Boston U.	Holy Cross	7.8
Bradley	Southern Illinois	5.3
Bryant	Maine	7.1
Cal Baptist	Southern Utah	-0.4
Campbell	USC Upstate	4.4
Charleston Southern	Gardner-Webb	-3.2
Cincinnati	Tulsa	16.3
Drake	Northern Iowa	9.1
East Tennessee St.	Wofford	-0.6
Evansville	Indiana St.	-12.3
Florida	Tennessee	-7.0
Furman	Chattanooga	7.0
George Mason	Massachusetts	3.8
Georgetown	Creighton	-14.0
Illinois St.	Illinois Chicago	5.1
La Salle	George Washington	-0.3
Lafayette	Navy	0.5
Lehigh	Army	1.1
Louisville	Georgia Tech	-3.2
Marquette	Villanova	10.6
Missouri	LSU	10.0
Missouri St.	Valparaiso	10.0
Murray St.	Belmont	0.1
New Mexico St.	Stephen F. Austin	-1.2
NJIT	New Hampshire	-0.7
North Carolina	Pittsburgh	8.3
North Carolina St.	Florida St.	11.8
Oklahoma	Oklahoma St.	1.9
Presbyterian	Radford	-7.9
Purdue	Penn St.	9.6
Richmond	St. Bonaventure	5.0
Rutgers	Minnesota	17.2
Saint Joseph’s	Rhode Island	4.1
Seattle	Abilene Christian	8.0
South Florida	East Carolina	7.0
St. John’s	Seton Hall	0.8
Tulane	SMU	9.4
UMass Lowell	Albany	13.9
UMBC	Binghamton	8.8
UT Arlington	Tarleton St.	-2.9
UT-Rio Grande Valley	Sam Houston	-12.2
Utah St.	New Mexico	3.4
Western Carolina	Samford	-3.4
Winthrop	Longwood	-2.3
Xavier	Providence	4.9

PiRate Ratings Bracketology

Date	1/30/2023
Seed	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team
1	Purdue	Alabama	Tennessee	Houston
2	Kansas	Arizona	UCLA	Arizona
3	Baylor	Kansas St.	Virginia	Iowa St.
4	Marquette	Xavier	TCU	Gonzaga
5	Connecticut	Saint Mary’s	Rutgers	Indiana
6	San Diego St.	Illinois	Providence	Miami (Fla)
7	Auburn	New Mexico	Duke	North Carolina
8	Florida Atlantic	Creighton	Missouri	North Carolina St.
9	Boise St.	Northwestern	Iowa	Michigan St.
10	Memphis	West Virginia	Arkansas	Maryland
11	USC	Clemson	Charleston	Nevada	Penn St.
12	Kent St.	Oral Roberts	Liberty	Kentucky	Pittsburgh
13	Louisiana	Saint Louis	Drake	UCSB
14	Utah Valley	Cornell	Furman	Colgate
15	Siena	Eastern Washington	Youngstown St.	UNC Asheville
16	SE Louisiana	Vermont	UT-Martin	MD Eastern Shore	Southern	Fairleigh Dickinson

Last 4 Byes: Arkansas, Maryland, USC, and Clemson

Last 4 In: Nevada, Penn State, Kentucky, and Pittsburgh

First 4 Out: Texas A&M, Wisconsin, Arizona State, and Utah State

Next 4 Out: Oklahoma, Ohio State, Oklahoma State, and Virginia Tech

PiRate Ratings Bracketology

Date	1/23/2023
Seed	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team
1	Purdue	Alabama	Kansas	Houston
2	Tennessee	Texas	UCLA	Arizona
3	Kansas St.	Iowa St.	Virginia	Connecticut
4	Gonzaga	TCU	Xavier	Marquette
5	Baylor	Auburn	Rutgers	Miami (Fla)
6	Duke	Saint Mary’s	San Diego St.	Providence
7	North Carolina	Indiana	New Mexico	Illinois
8	North Carolina St.	Arkansas	Florida Atlantic	Michigan St.
9	Iowa	Boise St.	Clemson	Creighton
10	Ohio St.	Missouri	Wisconsin	Charleston
11	Memphis	Northwestern	Arizona St.	West Virginia	Maryland
12	Kent St.	VCU	Oral Roberts	Pittsburgh	Penn St.
13	Louisiana	Liberty	Seattle	Belmont
14	UC Santa Barbara	Siena	Princeton	Colgate
15	Samford	Northern Kentucky	UMass Lowell	Eastern Washington
16	UNC Asheville	UT-Martin	Southern	Nicholls St.	Md. Eastern Shore	St. Francis PA

Last 4 Byes: Wisconsin, Memphis, Northwestern, Arizona St.

Last 4 In: West Virginia, Maryland, Pittsburgh, Penn St.

First 4 Out: USC, Nevada, Utah St., Oklahoma St.

Next 4 Out: Kentucky, Oklahoma, Wake Forest, Virginia Tech

PiRate Ratings College Basketball–Wednesday, January 18. 2023

Home	Visitor	Spread
American	Lafayette	5.1
Army	Bucknell	5.6
California	Oregon	-7.4
Campbell	Radford	-1.7
Central Arkansas	North Alabama	0.3
Charleston Southern	UNC Asheville	-2.3
Chattanooga	Furman	1.2
Colorado St.	San Diego St	-4.9
DePaul	Xavier	-9.1
Drake	Missouri St.	6.2
East Tennessee St.	Samford	-3.7
Grand Canyon	Utah Tech	10.9
High Point	Winthrop	1.3
Holy Cross	Colgate	-12.4
Indiana St.	Bradley	0.1
Longwood	Gardner Webb	5.1
Louisville	Pittsburgh	-10.7
Loyola (Chi)	Saint Louis	-7.3
LSU	Auburn	-5.1
Marquette	Providence	5.7
Missouri	Arkansas	-1.0
Morgan St.	Hartford	15.6
Navy	Boston U.	2.8
Nebraska	Ohio St.	-5.5
Northern Iowa	Illinois St.	6.5
Oklahoma St.	Oklahoma	2.7
Seton Hall	Connecticut	-4.8
South Florida	Cincinnati	-3.9
St. Bonaventure	Duquesne	-0.4
Temple	East Carolina	7.7
Texas A&M	Florida	2.0
Tulsa	SMU	-1.4
UMass Lowell	UMBC	5.9
USC Upstate	Presbyterian	5.5
Utah Valley	Abilene Christian	9.1
Virginia	Virginia Tech	6.4
West Virginia	TCU	1.8
Western Carolina	Wofford	-0.7

PiRate Ratings Bracketology

Date	1/16/2023
Seed	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team
1	Kansas	Purdue	Houston	Alabama
2	UCLA	Tennessee	Texas	Connecticut
3	Gonzaga	Xavier	Arizona	Kansas St.
4	Virginia	Iowa St.	TCU	Miami (Fla)
5	Marquette	Baylor	Rutgers	Auburn
6	Arkansas	Duke	San Diego St.	Providence
7	Saint Mary’s	Illinois	North Carolina St.	North Carolina
8	New Mexico	Clemson	Missouri	Michigan St.
9	Florida Atlantic	Iowa	Ohio St.	Arizona St.
10	Wisconsin	Charleston	Indiana	Creighton
11	Memphis	Maryland	Pittsburgh	Boise St.	Penn St.
12	Kent St.	Dayton	Oral Roberts	Northwestern	West Virginia
13	Seattle	Marshall	Iona	Belmont
14	Liberty	UC-Irvine	Princeton	Colgate
15	Youngstown St.	Eastern Washington	Samford	SIU Edwardsville
16	Longwood	UMBC	Southern	Texas A&M-CC	Morgan St.	Fairleigh Dickinson

Last 4 Byes: Creighton, Memphis, Maryland, Pittsburgh

Last 4 In: Boise St., Penn St., Northwestern, West Virginia

First 4 Out: Nevada, Mississippi St., Oklahoma, Virginia Tech

Next 4 Out: Utah St., Wake Forest, Kentucky, USC

Note: The predictions made in PiRate Ratings Bracketology are our opinions on what we believe the NCAA Selection Committee will choose based on the criteria they have at their disposal.

PiRate Ratings Bracketology

Date	1/9/2023
Seed	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team
1	Kansas	Houston	Purdue	Tennessee
2	Connecticut	Alabama	UCLA	Arizona
3	Texas	Gonzaga	Arkansas	Virginia
4	Kansas St.	Xavier	Ohio St.	Miami (Fla)
5	Duke	Iowa St.	Baylor	San Diego St.
6	Indiana	Marquette	TCU	West Virginia
7	Missouri	North Carolina	Rutgers	Providence
8	Wisconsin	Saint Mary’s	Auburn	Illinois
9	Virginia Tech	Michigan St.	Florida Atlantic	Memphis
10	New Mexico	Mississippi St.	Maryland	Kentucky
11	Utah St.	North Carolina St.	Utah	Arizona St.	Pittsburgh	Northwestern
12	Charleston	Kent St.	Dayton	Utah Valley
13	Southern Miss.	Iona	Indiana St.	Oral Roberts
14	Liberty	UC-Irvine	Princeton	UMass Lowell
15	Colgate	UNC Greensboro	Longwood	Eastern Washington
16	SIU Edwardsville	Youngstown St.	Southern	Texas A&M-CC	Norfolk St.	Fairleigh Dickinson

Last 4 Byes: Maryland, Kentucky, Utah St., Arizona St.

Last 4 In: Utah, Arizona St., Pittsburgh, Northwestern

First 4 Out: Creighton, Clemson, Oklahoma, Penn St.

Next 4 Out: Boise St., Oklahoma St., Wake Forest, Iowa

Teams With National Champion Resumes: Kansas, Connecticut, Houston, UCLA, Alabama

Top Pretender Resumes: Tennessee, Saint Mary’s, Texas, Arkansas, Arizona, Ohio St.

Top Dark Horse Final Four Quality: Florida Atlantic, Iona, Charleston, Nevada

PiRate Ratings College Basketball–Wednesday, January 4, 2023

Home	Visitor	Spread
Alabama A&M	Mississippi Valley St.	9.3
Alabama St.	Arkansas Pine Bluff	3.6
Arkansas	Missouri	8.0
Baylor	TCU	4.9
Butler	DePaul	8.8
Campbell	Gardner Webb	-3.7
Charleston Southern	Longwood	-8.0
Davidson	Loyola (Chi.)	4.6
Dayton	Saint Joseph’s	14.9
Duquesne	VCU	1.4
East Carolina	Central Florida	-7.0
East Tennessee St.	W. Carolina	5.1
Elon	UNC Wilmington	-11.6
Florida	Texas A&M	6.8
Furman	The Citadel	12.0
Georgetown	Villanova	-7.6
Georgia	Auburn	-6.8
Georgia Tech	Miami (Fla.)	-5.4
High Point	UNC Asheville	1.3
Illinois Chicago	Belmont	-5.1
Illinois St.	Indiana St.	-5.4
Little Rock	Lindenwood	3.6
Massachusetts	Saint Louis	-2.4
Mercer	Wofford	1.4
Michigan	Penn St.	2.8
Missouri St.	Evansville	15.2
Murray St.	Bradley	-4.7
Nevada	Colorado St.	5.5
North Carolina	Wake Forest	10.4
North Carolina A&T	Charleston	-9.3
North Carolina St.	Duke	-2.2
Northwestern	Illinois	-1.0
Oklahoma	Iowa St.	2.6
Prairie View	Southern	0.6
Providence	Connecticut	-6.6
Radford	USC Upstate	9.2
Rhode Island	Fordham	2.0
Richmond	George Washington	8.9
Samford	VMI	12.2
South Florida	Temple	0.4
Southern Illinois	Drake	1.4
St. Bonaventure	George Mason	0.1
Stephen F. Austin	New Mexico St.	0.7
Texas A&M-CC	Incarnate Word	12.7
Texas Southern	Grambling	1.1
Tulane	Tulsa	12.4
UNC Greensboro	Chattanooga	1.1
Valparaiso	Northern Iowa	-4.1
Virginia Tech	Clemson	5.6
Winthrop	Presbyterian	6.6

PiRate Ratings Bracketology

Date	1/2/2023
Seed	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team
1	Purdue	Houston	Connecticut	Kansas
2	Tennessee	Arizona	Alabama	UCLA
3	Texas	Virginia	Gonzaga	Arkansas
4	Duke	Baylor	Indiana	West Virginia
5	Ohio St.	Miami (Fla.)	Xavier	Wisconsin
6	Auburn	Kentucky	North Carolina	Iowa St.
7	San Diego St.	Virginia Tech	Illinois	Mississippi St.
8	Maryland	Marquette	Saint Mary’s	Missouri
9	New Mexico	Memphis	TCU	Kansas St.
10	Creighton	Texas Tech	Utah	Florida Atlantic
11	Penn St.	Utah St.	Oklahoma	Michigan St.	Rutgers	Arizona St.
12	Charleston	Kent St.	Iona	Dayton
13	James Madison	Indiana St.	UC-Irvine	Oral Roberts
14	UMass Lowell	Liberty	Princeton	Colgate
15	Utah Valley	UNC Greensboro	Northern Kentucky	Eastern Washington
16	Longwood	SIU Edwardsville	Grambling	Texas A&M CC	Norfolk St.	St. Francis PA

Last Four Byes: Texas Tech, Utah, Penn St., Utah St.

Last Four In: Oklahoma, Michigan St., Rutgers, Arizona St.

First Four Out: Oklahoma St., Iowa, UAB, North Carolina St.

Next Four Out: Providence, Wake Forest, Northwestern, LSU

PiRate Ratings College Basketball–Saturday, December 31, 2022

Saturday, December 31, 2022
Home	Visitor	Spread
Abilene Christian	Tarleton St.	2.1
Air Force	Nevada	-3.6
Albany	New Hampshire	1.2
Arizona St.	Arizona	-5.2
Arkansas St.	Louisiana Monroe	4.4
Bradley	Illinois Chicago	13.8
Bryant	Binghamton	13.7
BYU	Portland	8.2
Cal St. Bakersfield	UC Irvine	-9.6
Cal St. Fullerton	Cal St. Northridge	7.1
California	Colorado	-10.8
Campbell	Longwood	-3.0
Canisius	Rider	-1.3
Central Connecticut St.	St. Francis (NY)	1.4
Charleston Southern	USC Upstate	1.9
Charlotte	Louisiana Tech	6.1
Coastal Carolina	Georgia Southern	4.0
Colorado St.	San Jose St.	7.9
Columbia	Yale	-17.1
Davidson	Dayton	-3.6
Delaware	Elon	11.0
Denver	Oral Roberts	-9.3
Detroit	Milwaukee	5.3
Drexel	William & Mary	8.3
Duke	Florida St.	15.9
Duquesne	Rhode Island	7.3
Eastern Illinois	Southern Indiana	-5.0
Eastern Kentucky	Queens	-0.8
Florida Gulf Coast	Jacksonville	5.0
George Mason	Richmond	1.4
Georgia St.	South Alabama	-1.4
Georgia Tech	Virginia	-7.4
Gonzaga	Pepperdine	19.5
Hawaii	Cal Poly	10.7
High Point	Gardner Webb	-0.5
Hofstra	North Carolina A&T	11.5
Houston	Central Florida	16.0
Idaho St.	Northern Colorado	-0.2
Illinois St.	Northern Iowa	-0.7
Iowa St.	Baylor	-1.6
IUPUI	Northern Kentucky	-13.1
Kansas	Oklahoma St.	8.9
Kansas St.	West Virginia	-0.5
Kennesaw St.	Central Arkansas	10.7
Kentucky	Louisville	22.5
Lamar	McNeese St.	-1.7
Lindenwood	Tennessee Tech	-0.6
Long Beach St.	UC Riverside	0.9
Long Island	Sacred Heart	-3.2
Loyola (Chi)	George Washington	7.1
Marshall	James Madison	1.4
Mercer	Chattanooga	0.8
Middle Tennessee	Western Kentucky	3.8
Montana	Idaho	8.3
Montana St.	Eastern Washington	5.0
New Mexico St.	Sam Houston	-1.1
Niagara	Mount St. Mary’s	1.8
NJIT	UMass Lowell	-11.1
North Florida	Austin Peay	3.3
North Texas	Florida Int’l.	16.7
Northeastern	Stony Brook	7.2
Northwestern St.	Texas A&M-CC	1.3
Oakland	Green Bay	11.4
Oklahoma	Texas	-3.5
Old Dominion	Louisiana	1.3
Omaha	UMKC	1.1
Oregon	Oregon St.	15.9
Pacific	Loyola Marymount	-6.8
Princeton	Harvard	6.5
Radford	Presbyterian	8.7
Robert Morris	Cleveland St,	2.4
Sacramento St.	Portland St.	1.7
Saint Joseph’s	Saint Louis	-6.4
San Francisco	San Diego	9.4
Santa Clara	Saint Mary’s	-5.6
Seattle	Cal Baptist	4.2
Seton Hall	St. John’s	2.0
South Dakota	Western Illinois	2.5
South Dakota St.	St. Thomas	3.3
Southeast Missouri St.	SIU Edwardsville	-2.0
Southern Miss.	Appalachian St.	7.2
Southern Utah	UT Rio Grande Valley	13.7
St. Bonaventure	Massachusetts	0.4
St. Francis PA	Stonehill	1.8
Stanford	Utah	0.8
Syracuse	Boston College	8.7
TCU	Texas Tech	2.2
Tennessee St.	Little Rock	3.6
Texas A&M-Commerce	Incarnate Word	8.3
Texas St.	Troy	-2.7
The Citadel	Samford	-3.4
Towson	Charleston	-1.6
UAB	UTSA	22.6
UC Santa Barbara	UC San Diego	12.0
UNC Wilmington	Hampton	17.2
UNLV	San Diego St	-2.6
UT Arlington	Stephen F. Austin	-3.2
UT Martin	Morehead St.	1.9
Utah St.	Fresno St.	13.1
Utah Valley	Utah Tech	8.4
UTEP	Rice	2.0
VCU	La Salle	11.1
Villanova	Marquette	-0.5
VMI	East Tennessee St.	-2.0
Wagner	Merrimack	9.0
Wake Forest	Virginia Tech	-2.3
Weber St.	Northern Arizona	6.0
Western Carolina	Furman	-9.7
Wichita St.	East Carolina	9.7
Winthrop	UNC Asheville	0.2
Wofford	UNC Greensboro	1.3
Wyoming	New Mexico	-4.3
Xavier	Connecticut	-4.2
Youngstown St.	Purdue Ft. Wayne	3.3

PiRate Ratings Bracketology–Friday, December 30, 2022

Date	12/30/2022
Seed	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team
1	Connecticut	Purdue	Houston	Tennessee
2	Kansas	Arizona	UCLA	Alabama
3	Baylor	Gonzaga	Virginia	Texas
4	West Virginia	Duke	Wisconsin	Indiana
5	Arkansas	Miami (Fla.)	Ohio St.	Xavier
6	Maryland	Auburn	Virginia Tech	Marquette
7	North Carolina	San Diego St.	MIssouri	Illinois
8	New Mexico	Mississippi St.	Kentucky	TCU
9	Memphis	Texas Tech	North Carolina St.	Kansas St.
10	Creighton	Penn St.	Arizona St.	Iowa St.
11	Michigan St.	UAB	Oklahoma	Florida Atlantic	Saint Mary’s	Rutgers
12	Charleston	Kent St.	Iona	Dayton
13	Indiana St.	Yale	UC-Irvine	Oral Roberts
14	James Madison	UMass Lowell	Liberty	Furman
15	Grand Canyon	Youngstown St.	Montana St.	Colgate
16	Northwestern St.	Longwood	Grambling	SIU-Edwardsville	Norfolk St.	Wagner

Last 4 Byes: Penn St., Arizona St., Iowa St., Michigan St.,

Last 4 In: Oklahoma, Florida Atlantic, Saint Mary’s, Rutgers

#16-Seeds in First Four: Grambling, SIUE, Norfolk St., Wagner

Top Dozen Waiting In The Wings (alphabetically)

Boise St.

Colorado

LSU

Northwestern

Oklahoma St.

Pittsburgh

Providence

St. John’s

UNLV

USC

Utah

Utah St.