PiRate Ratings College Basketball — Friday, March 24, 2023

Home	Visitor	Spread
Alabama	San Diego St.	7.6
Houston	Miami (Fla)	7.7
Creighton	Princeton	10.6
Texas	Xavier	3.2

PiRate Ratings College Basketball — Saturday, March 18, 2023

Home	Visitor	Spread
Alabama	Maryland	7.7
Charlotte	Western Carolina	6.4
Hofstra	Cincinnati	-1.1
Houston	Auburn	6.3
Indiana St.	USC Upstate	10.7
Kansas	Arkansas	2.7
Missouri	Princeton	0.0
San Diego St.	Furman	6.5
San Jose St.	Southern Indiana	9.4
Southern Utah	North Alabama	8.9
Tennessee	Duke	3.8
Texas	Penn St.	6.8
UCLA	Northwestern	26.7
Vanderbilt	Michigan	0.1

PiRate Ratings College Basketball–Friday, February 17, 2023

Friday’s PiRate Ratings Spreads

Home	Visitor	Spread
Cleveland St.	Wright St.	1.0
Columbia	Harvard	-8.6
Cornell	Dartmouth	11.0
Grand Canyon	Abilene Christian	6.3
Iona	Manhattan	16.8
Kent St.	Eastern Michigan	18.9
Loyola (Chi)	Dayton	-9.1
Marist	Fairfield	-1.9
Mount St. Mary’s	Niagara	-0.4
Oakland	Detroit	-0.4
Penn	Yale	-3.4
Princeton	Brown	5.5
Purdue Ft. Wayne	Northern Kentucky	1.2
Rider	Canisius	7.9
San Jose St.	New Mexico	-1.7
Siena	Quinnipiac	1.9
Southern Utah	Utah Tech	7.7
Wyoming	Air Force	4.5

Friday’s PiRate Ratings

#	Team	PiRate	Conference
1	Alabama	120.5	Southeastern
2	Houston	120.1	American Athletic
3	Tennessee	119.1	Southeastern
4	UCLA	118.1	Pac-12
5	Connecticut	117.4	Big East
6	Kansas	116.9	Big 12
7	Arizona	116.7	Pac-12
8	Texas	116.6	Big 12
9	Gonzaga	116.6	West Coast
10	Purdue	116.4	Big Ten
11	Baylor	116.0	Big 12
12	Creighton	115.5	Big East
13	Marquette	115.0	Big East
14	Saint Mary’s	114.6	West Coast
15	Indiana	114.1	Big Ten
16	Xavier	113.9	Big East
17	Auburn	113.9	Southeastern
18	Arkansas	113.8	Southeastern
19	Iowa St.	113.8	Big 12
20	Maryland	113.6	Big Ten
21	Illinois	113.5	Big Ten
22	TCU	113.4	Big 12
23	Virginia	113.3	Atlantic Coast
24	Rutgers	113.2	Big Ten
25	Iowa	113.1	Big Ten
26	West Virginia	113.0	Big 12
27	San Diego St.	112.8	Mountain West
28	Kansas St.	112.8	Big 12
29	Oklahoma St.	112.4	Big 12
30	Miami (Fla)	112.2	Atlantic Coast
31	North Carolina	112.2	Atlantic Coast
32	Texas A&M	112.0	Southeastern
33	Michigan St.	111.9	Big Ten
34	Providence	111.8	Big East
35	Kentucky	111.6	Southeastern
36	Memphis	111.5	American Athletic
37	Boise St.	111.5	Mountain West
38	Duke	111.4	Atlantic Coast
39	North Carolina St.	111.1	Atlantic Coast
40	Florida	110.9	Southeastern
41	Utah St.	110.6	Mountain West
42	Oregon	110.5	Pac-12
43	Mississippi St.	110.4	Southeastern
44	Northwestern	110.2	Big Ten
45	USC	110.2	Pac-12
46	Texas Tech	110.0	Big 12
47	Florida Atlantic	110.0	Conference USA
48	Ohio St.	109.9	Big Ten
49	Michigan	109.8	Big Ten
50	Penn St.	109.7	Big Ten
51	Nevada	109.7	Mountain West
52	Colorado	109.6	Pac-12
53	Missouri	109.5	Southeastern
54	Utah	109.5	Pac-12
55	Seton Hall	109.3	Big East
56	Oklahoma	109.3	Big 12
57	Cincinnati	109.1	American Athletic
58	Pittsburgh	109.0	Atlantic Coast
59	UAB	109.0	Conference USA
60	Virginia Tech	108.9	Atlantic Coast
61	Central Florida	108.8	American Athletic
62	Villanova	108.7	Big East
63	Clemson	108.5	Atlantic Coast
64	Dayton	108.4	Atlantic 10
65	Liberty	108.3	Atlantic Sun
66	New Mexico	108.3	Mountain West
67	Arizona St.	108.3	Pac-12
68	Charleston	108.2	Colonial Athletic
69	Wisconsin	108.2	Big Ten
70	Washington St.	108.2	Pac-12
71	Oral Roberts	108.1	Summit
72	Wake Forest	108.0	Atlantic Coast
73	North Texas	107.7	Conference USA
74	Kent St.	107.5	Mid-American
75	Drake	107.4	Missouri Valley
76	Bradley	107.3	Missouri Valley
77	Yale	107.2	Ivy League
78	Marshall	107.1	Sun Belt
79	Sam Houston St.	107.0	Western Athletic
80	Tulane	107.0	American Athletic
81	Iona	107.0	Metro Atlantic
82	St. John’s	106.9	Big East
83	VCU	106.8	Atlantic 10
84	BYU	106.8	West Coast
85	Syracuse	106.6	Atlantic Coast
86	Furman	106.5	Southern
87	Vanderbilt	106.4	Southeastern
88	Stanford	106.3	Pac-12
89	UNLV	106.2	Mountain West
90	Utah Valley	105.9	Western Athletic
91	James Madison	105.7	Sun Belt
92	Santa Clara	105.7	West Coast
93	UC Irvine	105.6	Big West
94	Indiana St.	105.4	Missouri Valley
95	Saint Louis	105.3	Atlantic 10
96	Nebraska	105.3	Big Ten
97	Hofstra	105.3	Colonial Athletic
98	Toledo	105.0	Mid-American
99	Washington	104.6	Pac-12
100	Mississippi	104.5	Southeastern
101	Butler	104.5	Big East
102	San Francisco	104.5	West Coast
103	Akron	104.4	Mid-American
104	Duquesne	104.1	Atlantic 10
105	Southern Miss	104.0	Sun Belt
106	Loyola Marymount	103.9	West Coast
107	Louisiana	103.9	Sun Belt
108	Colorado St.	103.8	Mountain West
109	Georgia	103.7	Southeastern
110	Wichita St.	103.7	American Athletic
111	Southern Utah	103.7	Western Athletic
112	Colgate	103.6	Patriot League
113	San Jose St.	103.6	Mountain West
114	Youngstown St.	103.5	Horizon
115	UC Santa Barbara	103.5	Big West
116	Temple	103.5	American Athletic
117	UNC Greensboro	103.5	Southern
118	LSU	103.2	Southeastern
119	Belmont	103.1	Missouri Valley
120	Grand Canyon	103.1	Western Athletic
121	Vermont	102.9	America East
122	Cornell	102.9	Ivy League
123	Princeton	102.8	Ivy League
124	Montana St.	102.8	Big Sky
125	Stephen F. Austin	102.8	Western Athletic
126	Middle Tennessee	102.5	Conference USA
127	Eastern Washington	102.4	Big Sky
128	South Alabama	102.4	Sun Belt
129	Charlotte	102.4	Conference USA
130	Southern Illinois	102.2	Missouri Valley
131	South Florida	101.9	American Athletic
132	Fordham	101.8	Atlantic 10
133	DePaul	101.8	Big East
134	Louisiana Tech	101.8	Conference USA
135	Davidson	101.8	Atlantic 10
136	Towson	101.7	Colonial Athletic
137	Samford	101.7	Southern
138	UMass Lowell	101.6	America East
139	George Mason	101.6	Atlantic 10
140	Ohio	101.6	Mid-American
141	Troy	101.5	Sun Belt
142	Wyoming	101.5	Mountain West
143	Hawaii	101.5	Big West
144	Kennesaw St.	101.4	Atlantic Sun
145	Seattle	101.4	Western Athletic
146	Richmond	101.3	Atlantic 10
147	Penn	101.3	Ivy League
148	Ball St.	101.0	Mid-American
149	Notre Dame	101.0	Atlantic Coast
150	Fresno St.	101.0	Mountain West
151	Cal St. Fullerton	100.9	Big West
152	Cal Baptist	100.8	Western Athletic
153	UNC Wilmington	100.7	Colonial Athletic
154	Chattanooga	100.7	Southern
155	Missouri St.	100.7	Missouri Valley
156	Long Beach St.	100.5	Big West
157	UC Riverside	100.5	Big West
158	Longwood	100.4	Big South
159	Western Kentucky	100.4	Conference USA
160	Portland	100.4	West Coast
161	UC Davis	100.4	Big West
162	Georgia Tech	100.3	Atlantic Coast
163	UNC Asheville	100.1	Big South
164	Quinnipiac	100.1	Metro Atlantic
165	St. Bonaventure	100.0	Atlantic 10
166	Air Force	100.0	Mountain West
167	Gardner Webb	99.8	Big South
168	Radford	99.8	Big South
169	Florida St.	99.8	Atlantic Coast
170	Wright St.	99.8	Horizon
171	Brown	99.8	Ivy League
172	Old Dominion	99.7	Sun Belt
173	Boston College	99.7	Atlantic Coast
174	Appalachian St.	99.7	Sun Belt
175	Norfolk St.	99.6	Mideastern Athletic
176	South Dakota St.	99.6	Summit
177	Florida Gulf Coast	99.6	Atlantic Sun
178	Siena	99.5	Metro Atlantic
179	SMU	99.5	American Athletic
180	Tarleton St.	99.5	Western Athletic
181	Rice	99.4	Conference USA
182	Saint Joseph’s	99.4	Atlantic 10
183	Eastern Kentucky	99.4	Atlantic Sun
184	Abilene Christian	99.3	Western Athletic
185	Montana	99.3	Big Sky
186	Stetson	99.3	Atlantic Sun
187	Bryant	99.3	America East
188	New Mexico St.	99.2	Western Athletic
189	Rider	99.2	Metro Atlantic
190	Lipscomb	99.0	Atlantic Sun
191	Georgetown	99.0	Big East
192	Navy	99.0	Patriot League
193	Harvard	98.9	Ivy League
194	UTEP	98.9	Conference USA
195	Massachusetts	98.9	Atlantic 10
196	Buffalo	98.7	Mid-American
197	Pepperdine	98.6	West Coast
198	Drexel	98.5	Colonial Athletic
199	North Carolina Central	98.5	Mideastern Athletic
200	Oregon St.	98.5	Pac-12
201	Utah Tech	98.5	Western Athletic
202	Northern Iowa	98.5	Missouri Valley
203	Texas A&M CC	98.4	Southland
204	Northern Kentucky	98.3	Horizon
205	San Diego	98.3	West Coast
206	Cleveland St.	98.3	Horizon
207	East Carolina	98.1	American Athletic
208	Rhode Island	98.0	Atlantic 10
209	Northwestern St.	98.0	Southland
210	St. Thomas	98.0	Summit
211	La Salle	98.0	Atlantic 10
212	Georgia Southern	97.9	Sun Belt
213	Minnesota	97.8	Big Ten
214	Pacific	97.8	West Coast
215	Detroit Mercy	97.7	Horizon
216	Grambling	97.7	Southwestern Athletic
217	Wofford	97.4	Southern
218	Murray St.	97.4	Missouri Valley
219	Weber St.	97.3	Big Sky
220	Texas St.	97.2	Sun Belt
221	Florida Int’l	97.1	Conference USA
222	North Dakota St.	97.0	Summit
223	Purdue Fort Wayne	97.0	Horizon
224	South Carolina	97.0	Southeastern
225	Queens	96.9	Atlantic Sun
226	George Washington	96.8	Atlantic 10
227	Loyola (Chi.)	96.8	Atlantic 10
228	Jacksonville	96.7	Atlantic Sun
229	Milwaukee	96.5	Horizon
230	Mercer	96.5	Southern
231	Nicholls St.	96.5	Southland
232	Delaware	96.3	Colonial Athletic
233	Northern Colorado	96.2	Big Sky
234	UMBC	96.2	America East
235	Portland St.	96.2	Big Sky
236	Fairfield	96.0	Metro Atlantic
237	Niagara	96.0	Metro Atlantic
238	East Tennessee St.	95.9	Southern
239	SIU Edwardsville	95.9	Ohio Valley
240	Winthrop	95.9	Big South
241	North Florida	95.8	Atlantic Sun
242	Western Carolina	95.7	Southern
243	Campbell	95.7	Big South
244	Army	95.6	Patriot League
245	California	95.5	Pac-12
246	Sacramento St.	95.5	Big Sky
247	Howard	95.5	Mideastern Athletic
248	Southern	95.4	Southwestern Athletic
249	Northern Illinois	95.4	Mid-American
250	UT Arlington	95.4	Western Athletic
251	North Alabama	95.4	Atlantic Sun
252	Georgia St.	95.3	Sun Belt
253	Bellarmine	95.3	Atlantic Sun
254	Jacksonville St.	95.2	Atlantic Sun
255	Robert Morris	95.2	Horizon
256	Illinois St.	95.2	Missouri Valley
257	Morehead St.	95.2	Ohio Valley
258	Northern Arizona	94.8	Big Sky
259	Coastal Carolina	94.8	Sun Belt
260	American	94.8	Patriot League
261	UT-Martin	94.8	Ohio Valley
262	Oakland	94.8	Horizon
263	Louisiana Monroe	94.7	Sun Belt
264	Maryland Eastern Shore	94.7	Mideastern Athletic
265	USC Upstate	94.6	Big South
266	Louisville	94.5	Atlantic Coast
267	Lafayette	94.5	Patriot League
268	UT Rio Grande Valley	94.4	Western Athletic
269	Dartmouth	94.4	Ivy League
270	Alcorn St.	94.2	Southwestern Athletic
271	Southern Indiana	94.2	Ohio Valley
272	Idaho St.	94.2	Big Sky
273	Southeast Missouri St.	94.1	Ohio Valley
274	Valparaiso	94.1	Missouri Valley
275	UMKC	94.1	Summit
276	Canisius	93.8	Metro Atlantic
277	Maine	93.8	America East
278	Prairie View A&M	93.7	Southwestern Athletic
279	Boston University	93.7	Patriot League
280	Western Illinois	93.6	Summit
281	Bowling Green	93.5	Mid-American
282	Cal St. Bakersfield	93.5	Big West
283	Southeastern Louisiana	93.5	Southland
284	Idaho	93.4	Big Sky
285	New Hampshire	93.3	America East
286	Bucknell	93.3	Patriot League
287	Lehigh	93.2	Patriot League
288	Northeastern	93.2	Colonial Athletic
289	UC San Diego	93.1	Big West
290	Mount St. Mary’s	93.1	Metro Atlantic
291	Tulsa	93.1	American Athletic
292	Wagner	93.0	Northeast
293	Chicago St.	93.0	Independents
294	Illinois Chicago	92.9	Missouri Valley
295	North Dakota	92.9	Summit
296	Tennessee St.	92.7	Ohio Valley
297	Saint Peter’s	92.7	Metro Atlantic
298	Manhattan	92.7	Metro Atlantic
299	Binghamton	92.5	America East
300	Tennessee Tech	92.4	Ohio Valley
301	Miami (O)	92.4	Mid-American
302	South Dakota	92.4	Summit
303	Morgan St.	92.3	Mideastern Athletic
304	North Carolina A&T	92.2	Colonial Athletic
305	Charleston Southern	92.2	Big South
306	Cal Poly	92.0	Big West
307	Texas Southern	92.0	Southwestern Athletic
308	Arkansas St.	92.0	Sun Belt
309	Jackson St.	91.9	Southwestern Athletic
310	The Citadel	91.9	Southern
311	Denver	91.8	Summit
312	Texas A&M Commerce	91.6	Southland
313	Marist	91.6	Metro Atlantic
314	High Point	91.6	Big South
315	Cal St. Northridge	91.6	Big West
316	William & Mary	91.5	Colonial Athletic
317	Central Michigan	91.5	Mid-American
318	UTSA	91.5	Conference USA
319	Austin Peay	91.3	Atlantic Sun
320	Sacred Heart	91.3	Northeast
321	Western Michigan	91.2	Mid-American
322	Eastern Michigan	91.1	Mid-American
323	Omaha	91.1	Summit
324	Elon	90.9	Colonial Athletic
325	Merrimack	90.8	Northeast
326	Loyola (MD)	90.6	Patriot League
327	Stony Brook	90.6	Colonial Athletic
328	Fairleigh Dickinson	90.5	Northeast
329	Stonehill	90.4	Northeast
330	Alabama A&M	90.4	Southwestern Athletic
331	NJIT	90.4	America East
332	Central Connecticut	90.2	Northeast
333	Arkansas Pine Bluff	90.2	Southwestern Athletic
334	Presbyterian	89.9	Big South
335	Little Rock	89.8	Ohio Valley
336	St. Francis PA	89.7	Northeast
337	McNeese St.	89.7	Southland
338	Holy Cross	89.6	Patriot League
339	Central Arkansas	89.4	Atlantic Sun
340	Alabama St.	89.1	Southwestern Athletic
341	Lindenwood	88.7	Ohio Valley
342	Eastern Illinois	88.5	Ohio Valley
343	VMI	88.5	Southern
344	Evansville	88.3	Missouri Valley
345	Hampton	88.3	Colonial Athletic
346	Albany	88.0	America East
347	Incarnate Word	88.0	Southland
348	South Carolina St.	87.9	Mideastern Athletic
349	Columbia	87.8	Ivy League
350	Monmouth	87.6	Colonial Athletic
351	Coppin St.	87.4	Mideastern Athletic
352	Bethune Cookman	87.2	Southwestern Athletic
353	St. Francis NY	86.7	Northeast
354	Lamar	86.6	Southland
355	New Orleans	86.4	Southland
356	Houston Christian	86.1	Southland
357	Delaware St.	85.8	Mideastern Athletic
358	Mississippi Valley St.	85.4	Southwestern Athletic
359	Florida A&M	85.4	Southwestern Athletic
360	IUPUI	82.9	Horizon
361	Green Bay	82.8	Horizon
362	Hartford	81.9	Independents
363	Long Island	80.7	Northeast

Alphabetical

#	Team	PiRate	Conference
184	Abilene Christian	99.3	Western Athletic
166	Air Force	100.0	Mountain West
103	Akron	104.4	Mid-American
1	Alabama	120.5	Southeastern
330	Alabama A&M	90.4	Southwestern Athletic
340	Alabama St.	89.1	Southwestern Athletic
346	Albany	88.0	America East
270	Alcorn St.	94.2	Southwestern Athletic
260	American	94.8	Patriot League
174	Appalachian St.	99.7	Sun Belt
7	Arizona	116.7	Pac-12
67	Arizona St.	108.3	Pac-12
18	Arkansas	113.8	Southeastern
333	Arkansas Pine Bluff	90.2	Southwestern Athletic
308	Arkansas St.	92.0	Sun Belt
244	Army	95.6	Patriot League
17	Auburn	113.9	Southeastern
319	Austin Peay	91.3	Atlantic Sun
148	Ball St.	101.0	Mid-American
11	Baylor	116.0	Big 12
253	Bellarmine	95.3	Atlantic Sun
119	Belmont	103.1	Missouri Valley
352	Bethune Cookman	87.2	Southwestern Athletic
299	Binghamton	92.5	America East
37	Boise St.	111.5	Mountain West
173	Boston College	99.7	Atlantic Coast
279	Boston University	93.7	Patriot League
281	Bowling Green	93.5	Mid-American
76	Bradley	107.3	Missouri Valley
171	Brown	99.8	Ivy League
187	Bryant	99.3	America East
286	Bucknell	93.3	Patriot League
196	Buffalo	98.7	Mid-American
101	Butler	104.5	Big East
84	BYU	106.8	West Coast
152	Cal Baptist	100.8	Western Athletic
306	Cal Poly	92.0	Big West
282	Cal St. Bakersfield	93.5	Big West
151	Cal St. Fullerton	100.9	Big West
315	Cal St. Northridge	91.6	Big West
245	California	95.5	Pac-12
243	Campbell	95.7	Big South
276	Canisius	93.8	Metro Atlantic
339	Central Arkansas	89.4	Atlantic Sun
332	Central Connecticut	90.2	Northeast
61	Central Florida	108.8	American Athletic
317	Central Michigan	91.5	Mid-American
68	Charleston	108.2	Colonial Athletic
305	Charleston Southern	92.2	Big South
129	Charlotte	102.4	Conference USA
154	Chattanooga	100.7	Southern
293	Chicago St.	93.0	Independents
57	Cincinnati	109.1	American Athletic
63	Clemson	108.5	Atlantic Coast
206	Cleveland St.	98.3	Horizon
259	Coastal Carolina	94.8	Sun Belt
112	Colgate	103.6	Patriot League
52	Colorado	109.6	Pac-12
108	Colorado St.	103.8	Mountain West
349	Columbia	87.8	Ivy League
5	Connecticut	117.4	Big East
351	Coppin St.	87.4	Mideastern Athletic
122	Cornell	102.9	Ivy League
12	Creighton	115.5	Big East
269	Dartmouth	94.4	Ivy League
135	Davidson	101.8	Atlantic 10
64	Dayton	108.4	Atlantic 10
232	Delaware	96.3	Colonial Athletic
357	Delaware St.	85.8	Mideastern Athletic
311	Denver	91.8	Summit
133	DePaul	101.8	Big East
215	Detroit Mercy	97.7	Horizon
75	Drake	107.4	Missouri Valley
198	Drexel	98.5	Colonial Athletic
38	Duke	111.4	Atlantic Coast
104	Duquesne	104.1	Atlantic 10
207	East Carolina	98.1	American Athletic
238	East Tennessee St.	95.9	Southern
342	Eastern Illinois	88.5	Ohio Valley
183	Eastern Kentucky	99.4	Atlantic Sun
322	Eastern Michigan	91.1	Mid-American
127	Eastern Washington	102.4	Big Sky
324	Elon	90.9	Colonial Athletic
344	Evansville	88.3	Missouri Valley
236	Fairfield	96.0	Metro Atlantic
328	Fairleigh Dickinson	90.5	Northeast
40	Florida	110.9	Southeastern
359	Florida A&M	85.4	Southwestern Athletic
47	Florida Atlantic	110.0	Conference USA
177	Florida Gulf Coast	99.6	Atlantic Sun
221	Florida Int’l	97.1	Conference USA
169	Florida St.	99.8	Atlantic Coast
132	Fordham	101.8	Atlantic 10
150	Fresno St.	101.0	Mountain West
86	Furman	106.5	Southern
167	Gardner Webb	99.8	Big South
139	George Mason	101.6	Atlantic 10
226	George Washington	96.8	Atlantic 10
191	Georgetown	99.0	Big East
109	Georgia	103.7	Southeastern
212	Georgia Southern	97.9	Sun Belt
252	Georgia St.	95.3	Sun Belt
162	Georgia Tech	100.3	Atlantic Coast
9	Gonzaga	116.6	West Coast
216	Grambling	97.7	Southwestern Athletic
120	Grand Canyon	103.1	Western Athletic
361	Green Bay	82.8	Horizon
345	Hampton	88.3	Colonial Athletic
362	Hartford	81.9	Independents
193	Harvard	98.9	Ivy League
143	Hawaii	101.5	Big West
314	High Point	91.6	Big South
97	Hofstra	105.3	Colonial Athletic
338	Holy Cross	89.6	Patriot League
2	Houston	120.1	American Athletic
356	Houston Christian	86.1	Southland
247	Howard	95.5	Mideastern Athletic
284	Idaho	93.4	Big Sky
272	Idaho St.	94.2	Big Sky
21	Illinois	113.5	Big Ten
294	Illinois Chicago	92.9	Missouri Valley
256	Illinois St.	95.2	Missouri Valley
347	Incarnate Word	88.0	Southland
15	Indiana	114.1	Big Ten
94	Indiana St.	105.4	Missouri Valley
81	Iona	107.0	Metro Atlantic
25	Iowa	113.1	Big Ten
19	Iowa St.	113.8	Big 12
360	IUPUI	82.9	Horizon
309	Jackson St.	91.9	Southwestern Athletic
228	Jacksonville	96.7	Atlantic Sun
254	Jacksonville St.	95.2	Atlantic Sun
91	James Madison	105.7	Sun Belt
6	Kansas	116.9	Big 12
28	Kansas St.	112.8	Big 12
144	Kennesaw St.	101.4	Atlantic Sun
74	Kent St.	107.5	Mid-American
35	Kentucky	111.6	Southeastern
211	La Salle	98.0	Atlantic 10
267	Lafayette	94.5	Patriot League
354	Lamar	86.6	Southland
287	Lehigh	93.2	Patriot League
65	Liberty	108.3	Atlantic Sun
341	Lindenwood	88.7	Ohio Valley
190	Lipscomb	99.0	Atlantic Sun
335	Little Rock	89.8	Ohio Valley
156	Long Beach St.	100.5	Big West
363	Long Island	80.7	Northeast
158	Longwood	100.4	Big South
107	Louisiana	103.9	Sun Belt
263	Louisiana Monroe	94.7	Sun Belt
134	Louisiana Tech	101.8	Conference USA
266	Louisville	94.5	Atlantic Coast
227	Loyola (Chi.)	96.8	Atlantic 10
326	Loyola (MD)	90.6	Patriot League
106	Loyola Marymount	103.9	West Coast
118	LSU	103.2	Southeastern
277	Maine	93.8	America East
298	Manhattan	92.7	Metro Atlantic
313	Marist	91.6	Metro Atlantic
13	Marquette	115.0	Big East
78	Marshall	107.1	Sun Belt
20	Maryland	113.6	Big Ten
264	Maryland Eastern Shore	94.7	Mideastern Athletic
195	Massachusetts	98.9	Atlantic 10
337	McNeese St.	89.7	Southland
36	Memphis	111.5	American Athletic
230	Mercer	96.5	Southern
325	Merrimack	90.8	Northeast
30	Miami (Fla)	112.2	Atlantic Coast
301	Miami (O)	92.4	Mid-American
49	Michigan	109.8	Big Ten
33	Michigan St.	111.9	Big Ten
126	Middle Tennessee	102.5	Conference USA
229	Milwaukee	96.5	Horizon
213	Minnesota	97.8	Big Ten
100	Mississippi	104.5	Southeastern
43	Mississippi St.	110.4	Southeastern
358	Mississippi Valley St.	85.4	Southwestern Athletic
53	Missouri	109.5	Southeastern
155	Missouri St.	100.7	Missouri Valley
350	Monmouth	87.6	Colonial Athletic
185	Montana	99.3	Big Sky
124	Montana St.	102.8	Big Sky
257	Morehead St.	95.2	Ohio Valley
303	Morgan St.	92.3	Mideastern Athletic
290	Mount St. Mary’s	93.1	Metro Atlantic
218	Murray St.	97.4	Missouri Valley
192	Navy	99.0	Patriot League
96	Nebraska	105.3	Big Ten
51	Nevada	109.7	Mountain West
285	New Hampshire	93.3	America East
66	New Mexico	108.3	Mountain West
188	New Mexico St.	99.2	Western Athletic
355	New Orleans	86.4	Southland
237	Niagara	96.0	Metro Atlantic
231	Nicholls St.	96.5	Southland
331	NJIT	90.4	America East
175	Norfolk St.	99.6	Mideastern Athletic
251	North Alabama	95.4	Atlantic Sun
31	North Carolina	112.2	Atlantic Coast
304	North Carolina A&T	92.2	Colonial Athletic
199	North Carolina Central	98.5	Mideastern Athletic
39	North Carolina St.	111.1	Atlantic Coast
295	North Dakota	92.9	Summit
222	North Dakota St.	97.0	Summit
241	North Florida	95.8	Atlantic Sun
73	North Texas	107.7	Conference USA
288	Northeastern	93.2	Colonial Athletic
258	Northern Arizona	94.8	Big Sky
233	Northern Colorado	96.2	Big Sky
249	Northern Illinois	95.4	Mid-American
202	Northern Iowa	98.5	Missouri Valley
204	Northern Kentucky	98.3	Horizon
44	Northwestern	110.2	Big Ten
209	Northwestern St.	98.0	Southland
149	Notre Dame	101.0	Atlantic Coast
262	Oakland	94.8	Horizon
140	Ohio	101.6	Mid-American
48	Ohio St.	109.9	Big Ten
56	Oklahoma	109.3	Big 12
29	Oklahoma St.	112.4	Big 12
172	Old Dominion	99.7	Sun Belt
323	Omaha	91.1	Summit
71	Oral Roberts	108.1	Summit
42	Oregon	110.5	Pac-12
200	Oregon St.	98.5	Pac-12
214	Pacific	97.8	West Coast
147	Penn	101.3	Ivy League
50	Penn St.	109.7	Big Ten
197	Pepperdine	98.6	West Coast
58	Pittsburgh	109.0	Atlantic Coast
160	Portland	100.4	West Coast
235	Portland St.	96.2	Big Sky
278	Prairie View A&M	93.7	Southwestern Athletic
334	Presbyterian	89.9	Big South
123	Princeton	102.8	Ivy League
34	Providence	111.8	Big East
10	Purdue	116.4	Big Ten
223	Purdue Fort Wayne	97.0	Horizon
225	Queens	96.9	Atlantic Sun
164	Quinnipiac	100.1	Metro Atlantic
168	Radford	99.8	Big South
208	Rhode Island	98.0	Atlantic 10
181	Rice	99.4	Conference USA
146	Richmond	101.3	Atlantic 10
189	Rider	99.2	Metro Atlantic
255	Robert Morris	95.2	Horizon
24	Rutgers	113.2	Big Ten
246	Sacramento St.	95.5	Big Sky
320	Sacred Heart	91.3	Northeast
182	Saint Joseph’s	99.4	Atlantic 10
95	Saint Louis	105.3	Atlantic 10
14	Saint Mary’s	114.6	West Coast
297	Saint Peter’s	92.7	Metro Atlantic
79	Sam Houston St.	107.0	Western Athletic
137	Samford	101.7	Southern
205	San Diego	98.3	West Coast
27	San Diego St.	112.8	Mountain West
102	San Francisco	104.5	West Coast
113	San Jose St.	103.6	Mountain West
92	Santa Clara	105.7	West Coast
145	Seattle	101.4	Western Athletic
55	Seton Hall	109.3	Big East
178	Siena	99.5	Metro Atlantic
239	SIU Edwardsville	95.9	Ohio Valley
179	SMU	99.5	American Athletic
128	South Alabama	102.4	Sun Belt
224	South Carolina	97.0	Southeastern
348	South Carolina St.	87.9	Mideastern Athletic
302	South Dakota	92.4	Summit
176	South Dakota St.	99.6	Summit
131	South Florida	101.9	American Athletic
273	Southeast Missouri St.	94.1	Ohio Valley
283	Southeastern Louisiana	93.5	Southland
248	Southern	95.4	Southwestern Athletic
130	Southern Illinois	102.2	Missouri Valley
271	Southern Indiana	94.2	Ohio Valley
105	Southern Miss	104.0	Sun Belt
111	Southern Utah	103.7	Western Athletic
165	St. Bonaventure	100.0	Atlantic 10
353	St. Francis NY	86.7	Northeast
336	St. Francis PA	89.7	Northeast
82	St. John’s	106.9	Big East
210	St. Thomas	98.0	Summit
88	Stanford	106.3	Pac-12
125	Stephen F. Austin	102.8	Western Athletic
186	Stetson	99.3	Atlantic Sun
329	Stonehill	90.4	Northeast
327	Stony Brook	90.6	Colonial Athletic
85	Syracuse	106.6	Atlantic Coast
180	Tarleton St.	99.5	Western Athletic
22	TCU	113.4	Big 12
116	Temple	103.5	American Athletic
3	Tennessee	119.1	Southeastern
296	Tennessee St.	92.7	Ohio Valley
300	Tennessee Tech	92.4	Ohio Valley
8	Texas	116.6	Big 12
32	Texas A&M	112.0	Southeastern
203	Texas A&M CC	98.4	Southland
312	Texas A&M Commerce	91.6	Southland
307	Texas Southern	92.0	Southwestern Athletic
220	Texas St.	97.2	Sun Belt
46	Texas Tech	110.0	Big 12
310	The Citadel	91.9	Southern
98	Toledo	105.0	Mid-American
136	Towson	101.7	Colonial Athletic
141	Troy	101.5	Sun Belt
80	Tulane	107.0	American Athletic
291	Tulsa	93.1	American Athletic
59	UAB	109.0	Conference USA
161	UC Davis	100.4	Big West
93	UC Irvine	105.6	Big West
157	UC Riverside	100.5	Big West
289	UC San Diego	93.1	Big West
115	UC Santa Barbara	103.5	Big West
4	UCLA	118.1	Pac-12
138	UMass Lowell	101.6	America East
234	UMBC	96.2	America East
275	UMKC	94.1	Summit
163	UNC Asheville	100.1	Big South
117	UNC Greensboro	103.5	Southern
153	UNC Wilmington	100.7	Colonial Athletic
89	UNLV	106.2	Mountain West
45	USC	110.2	Pac-12
265	USC Upstate	94.6	Big South
250	UT Arlington	95.4	Western Athletic
268	UT Rio Grande Valley	94.4	Western Athletic
261	UT-Martin	94.8	Ohio Valley
54	Utah	109.5	Pac-12
41	Utah St.	110.6	Mountain West
201	Utah Tech	98.5	Western Athletic
90	Utah Valley	105.9	Western Athletic
194	UTEP	98.9	Conference USA
318	UTSA	91.5	Conference USA
274	Valparaiso	94.1	Missouri Valley
87	Vanderbilt	106.4	Southeastern
83	VCU	106.8	Atlantic 10
121	Vermont	102.9	America East
62	Villanova	108.7	Big East
23	Virginia	113.3	Atlantic Coast
60	Virginia Tech	108.9	Atlantic Coast
343	VMI	88.5	Southern
292	Wagner	93.0	Northeast
72	Wake Forest	108.0	Atlantic Coast
99	Washington	104.6	Pac-12
70	Washington St.	108.2	Pac-12
219	Weber St.	97.3	Big Sky
26	West Virginia	113.0	Big 12
242	Western Carolina	95.7	Southern
280	Western Illinois	93.6	Summit
159	Western Kentucky	100.4	Conference USA
321	Western Michigan	91.2	Mid-American
110	Wichita St.	103.7	American Athletic
316	William & Mary	91.5	Colonial Athletic
240	Winthrop	95.9	Big South
69	Wisconsin	108.2	Big Ten
217	Wofford	97.4	Southern
170	Wright St.	99.8	Horizon
142	Wyoming	101.5	Mountain West
16	Xavier	113.9	Big East
77	Yale	107.2	Ivy League
114	Youngstown St.	103.5	Horizon

PiRate Ratings By Conference

America East
Team	Rating
Vermont	102.9
UMass Lowell	101.6
Bryant	99.3
UMBC	96.2
Maine	93.8
New Hampshire	93.3
Binghamton	92.5
NJIT	90.4
Albany	88.0
American Athletic
Team	Rating
Houston	120.1
Memphis	111.5
Cincinnati	109.1
Central Florida	108.8
Tulane	107.0
Wichita St.	103.7
Temple	103.5
South Florida	101.9
SMU	99.5
East Carolina	98.1
Tulsa	93.1
Atlantic 10
Team	Rating
Dayton	108.4
VCU	106.8
Saint Louis	105.3
Duquesne	104.1
Fordham	101.8
Davidson	101.8
George Mason	101.6
Richmond	101.3
St. Bonaventure	100.0
Saint Joseph’s	99.4
Massachusetts	98.9
Rhode Island	98.0
La Salle	98.0
George Washington	96.8
Loyola (Chi.)	96.8
Atlantic Coast
Team	Rating
Virginia	113.3
Miami (Fla)	112.2
North Carolina	112.2
Duke	111.4
North Carolina St.	111.1
Pittsburgh	109.0
Virginia Tech	108.9
Clemson	108.5
Wake Forest	108.0
Syracuse	106.6
Notre Dame	101.0
Georgia Tech	100.3
Florida St.	99.8
Boston College	99.7
Louisville	94.5
Atlantic Sun
Team	Rating
Liberty	108.3
Kennesaw St.	101.4
Florida Gulf Coast	99.6
Eastern Kentucky	99.4
Stetson	99.3
Lipscomb	99.0
Queens	96.9
Jacksonville	96.7
North Florida	95.8
North Alabama	95.4
Bellarmine	95.3
Jacksonville St.	95.2
Austin Peay	91.3
Central Arkansas	89.4
Big 12
Team	Rating
Kansas	116.9
Texas	116.6
Baylor	116.0
Iowa St.	113.8
TCU	113.4
West Virginia	113.0
Kansas St.	112.8
Oklahoma St.	112.4
Texas Tech	110.0
Oklahoma	109.3
Big East
Team	Rating
Connecticut	117.4
Creighton	115.5
Marquette	115.0
Xavier	113.9
Providence	111.8
Seton Hall	109.3
Villanova	108.7
St. John’s	106.9
Butler	104.5
DePaul	101.8
Georgetown	99.0
Big Sky
Team	Rating
Montana St.	102.8
Eastern Washington	102.4
Montana	99.3
Weber St.	97.3
Northern Colorado	96.2
Portland St.	96.2
Sacramento St.	95.5
Northern Arizona	94.8
Idaho St.	94.2
Idaho	93.4
Big South
Team	Rating
Longwood	100.4
UNC Asheville	100.1
Gardner Webb	99.8
Radford	99.8
Winthrop	95.9
Campbell	95.7
USC Upstate	94.6
Charleston Southern	92.2
High Point	91.6
Presbyterian	89.9
Big Ten
Team	Rating
Purdue	116.4
Indiana	114.1
Maryland	113.6
Illinois	113.5
Rutgers	113.2
Iowa	113.1
Michigan St.	111.9
Northwestern	110.2
Ohio St.	109.9
Michigan	109.8
Penn St.	109.7
Wisconsin	108.2
Nebraska	105.3
Minnesota	97.8
Big West
Team	Rating
UC Irvine	105.6
UC Santa Barbara	103.5
Hawaii	101.5
Cal St. Fullerton	100.9
Long Beach St.	100.5
UC Riverside	100.5
UC Davis	100.4
Cal St. Bakersfield	93.5
UC San Diego	93.1
Cal Poly	92.0
Cal St. Northridge	91.6
Colonial Athletic
Team	Rating
Charleston	108.2
Hofstra	105.3
Towson	101.7
UNC Wilmington	100.7
Drexel	98.5
Delaware	96.3
Northeastern	93.2
North Carolina A&T	92.2
William & Mary	91.5
Elon	90.9
Stony Brook	90.6
Hampton	88.3
Monmouth	87.6
Conference USA
Team	Rating
Florida Atlantic	110.0
UAB	109.0
North Texas	107.7
Middle Tennessee	102.5
Charlotte	102.4
Louisiana Tech	101.8
Western Kentucky	100.4
Rice	99.4
UTEP	98.9
Florida Int’l	97.1
UTSA	91.5
Horizon
Team	Rating
Youngstown St.	103.5
Wright St.	99.8
Northern Kentucky	98.3
Cleveland St.	98.3
Detroit Mercy	97.7
Purdue Fort Wayne	97.0
Milwaukee	96.5
Robert Morris	95.2
Oakland	94.8
IUPUI	82.9
Green Bay	82.8
Independents
Team	Rating
Chicago St.	93.0
Hartford	81.9
Ivy League
Team	Rating
Yale	107.2
Cornell	102.9
Princeton	102.8
Penn	101.3
Brown	99.8
Harvard	98.9
Dartmouth	94.4
Columbia	87.8
Metro Atlantic
Team	Rating
Iona	107.0
Quinnipiac	100.1
Siena	99.5
Rider	99.2
Fairfield	96.0
Niagara	96.0
Canisius	93.8
Mount St. Mary’s	93.1
Saint Peter’s	92.7
Manhattan	92.7
Marist	91.6
Mid-American
Team	Rating
Kent St.	107.5
Toledo	105.0
Akron	104.4
Ohio	101.6
Ball St.	101.0
Buffalo	98.7
Northern Illinois	95.4
Bowling Green	93.5
Miami (O)	92.4
Central Michigan	91.5
Western Michigan	91.2
Eastern Michigan	91.1
Mideastern Athletic
Team	Rating
Norfolk St.	99.6
North Carolina Central	98.5
Howard	95.5
Maryland Eastern Shore	94.7
Morgan St.	92.3
South Carolina St.	87.9
Coppin St.	87.4
Delaware St.	85.8
Missouri Valley
Team	Rating
Drake	107.4
Bradley	107.3
Indiana St.	105.4
Belmont	103.1
Southern Illinois	102.2
Missouri St.	100.7
Northern Iowa	98.5
Murray St.	97.4
Illinois St.	95.2
Valparaiso	94.1
Illinois Chicago	92.9
Evansville	88.3
Mountain West
Team	Rating
San Diego St.	112.8
Boise St.	111.5
Utah St.	110.6
Nevada	109.7
New Mexico	108.3
UNLV	106.2
Colorado St.	103.8
San Jose St.	103.6
Wyoming	101.5
Fresno St.	101.0
Air Force	100.0
Northeast
Team	Rating
Wagner	93.0
Sacred Heart	91.3
Merrimack	90.8
Fairleigh Dickinson	90.5
Stonehill	90.4
Central Connecticut	90.2
St. Francis PA	89.7
St. Francis NY	86.7
Long Island	80.7
Ohio Valley
Team	Rating
SIU Edwardsville	95.9
Morehead St.	95.2
UT-Martin	94.8
Southern Indiana	94.2
Southeast Missouri St.	94.1
Tennessee St.	92.7
Tennessee Tech	92.4
Little Rock	89.8
Lindenwood	88.7
Eastern Illinois	88.5
Pac-12
Team	Rating
UCLA	118.1
Arizona	116.7
Oregon	110.5
USC	110.2
Colorado	109.6
Utah	109.5
Arizona St.	108.3
Washington St.	108.2
Stanford	106.3
Washington	104.6
Oregon St.	98.5
California	95.5
Patriot League
Team	Rating
Colgate	103.6
Navy	99.0
Army	95.6
American	94.8
Lafayette	94.5
Boston University	93.7
Bucknell	93.3
Lehigh	93.2
Loyola (MD)	90.6
Holy Cross	89.6
Southeastern
Team	Rating
Alabama	120.5
Tennessee	119.1
Auburn	113.9
Arkansas	113.8
Texas A&M	112.0
Kentucky	111.6
Florida	110.9
Mississippi St.	110.4
Missouri	109.5
Vanderbilt	106.4
Mississippi	104.5
Georgia	103.7
LSU	103.2
South Carolina	97.0
Southern
Team	Rating
Furman	106.5
UNC Greensboro	103.5
Samford	101.7
Chattanooga	100.7
Wofford	97.4
Mercer	96.5
East Tennessee St.	95.9
Western Carolina	95.7
The Citadel	91.9
VMI	88.5
Southland
Team	Rating
Texas A&M CC	98.4
Northwestern St.	98.0
Nicholls St.	96.5
Southeastern Louisiana	93.5
Texas A&M Commerce	91.6
McNeese St.	89.7
Incarnate Word	88.0
Lamar	86.6
New Orleans	86.4
Houston Christian	86.1
Southwestern Athletic
Team	Rating
Grambling	97.7
Southern	95.4
Alcorn St.	94.2
Prairie View A&M	93.7
Texas Southern	92.0
Jackson St.	91.9
Alabama A&M	90.4
Arkansas Pine Bluff	90.2
Alabama St.	89.1
Bethune Cookman	87.2
Mississippi Valley St.	85.4
Florida A&M	85.4
Summit
Team	Rating
Oral Roberts	108.1
South Dakota St.	99.6
St. Thomas	98.0
North Dakota St.	97.0
UMKC	94.1
Western Illinois	93.6
North Dakota	92.9
South Dakota	92.4
Denver	91.8
Omaha	91.1
Sun Belt
Team	Rating
Marshall	107.1
James Madison	105.7
Southern Miss	104.0
Louisiana	103.9
South Alabama	102.4
Troy	101.5
Old Dominion	99.7
Appalachian St.	99.7
Georgia Southern	97.9
Texas St.	97.2
Georgia St.	95.3
Coastal Carolina	94.8
Louisiana Monroe	94.7
Arkansas St.	92.0
West Coast
Team	Rating
Gonzaga	116.6
Saint Mary’s	114.6
BYU	106.8
Santa Clara	105.7
San Francisco	104.5
Loyola Marymount	103.9
Portland	100.4
Pepperdine	98.6
San Diego	98.3
Pacific	97.8
Western Athletic
Team	Rating
Sam Houston St.	107.0
Utah Valley	105.9
Southern Utah	103.7
Grand Canyon	103.1
Stephen F. Austin	102.8
Seattle	101.4
Cal Baptist	100.8
Tarleton St.	99.5
Abilene Christian	99.3
New Mexico St.	99.2
Utah Tech	98.5
UT Arlington	95.4
UT Rio Grande Valley	94.4

Coming Later Today: Updated Bracketology

PiRate Ratings College–Friday, February 3, 2023

Friday’s PiRate Ratings Spreads

Home	Visitor	Spread
Akron	Kent St.	-0.7
Ball St.	Eastern Michigan	12.1
Dartmouth	Brown	-1.1
Harvard	Yale	-3.6
Iona	Mount St. Mary’s	15.0
Manhattan	Siena	-5.9
Nevada	Air Force	12.0
Niagara	Canisius	4.6
Penn	Columbia	15.6
Princeton	Cornell	1.7
Quinnipiac	Fairfield	7.9
Rider	Saint Peter’s	7.4
Saint Louis	VCU	2.5
San Diego St.	Boise St.	3.1
UNLV	Fresno St.	10.2

Friday’s PiRate Ratings

#	Team	PiRate	Conference
1	Tennessee	120.2	Southeastern
2	Alabama	119.9	Southeastern
3	Houston	119.7	American Athletic
4	UCLA	117.7	Pac-12
5	Connecticut	117.6	Big East
6	Purdue	117.5	Big Ten
7	Kansas	116.4	Big 12
8	Texas	116.3	Big 12
9	Arizona	116.2	Pac-12
10	Gonzaga	115.7	West Coast
11	Marquette	115.7	Big East
12	Creighton	115.4	Big East
13	TCU	115.0	Big 12
14	Baylor	114.9	Big 12
15	Saint Mary’s	114.7	West Coast
16	Rutgers	114.4	Big Ten
17	Arkansas	114.1	Southeastern
18	Indiana	113.9	Big Ten
19	Virginia	113.9	Atlantic Coast
20	Xavier	113.8	Big East
21	Illinois	113.6	Big Ten
22	Iowa St.	113.5	Big 12
23	West Virginia	113.2	Big 12
24	Auburn	113.2	Southeastern
25	Iowa	113.1	Big Ten
26	Kansas St.	112.9	Big 12
27	Duke	112.7	Atlantic Coast
28	North Carolina	112.6	Atlantic Coast
29	Maryland	112.4	Big Ten
30	Kentucky	112.4	Southeastern
31	Ohio St.	112.3	Big Ten
32	Oklahoma St.	112.3	Big 12
33	San Diego St.	112.2	Mountain West
34	Providence	112.1	Big East
35	Boise St.	112.1	Mountain West
36	Florida	112.0	Southeastern
37	Memphis	111.6	American Athletic
38	Miami (Fla)	111.5	Atlantic Coast
39	North Carolina St.	111.0	Atlantic Coast
40	Texas A&M	110.9	Southeastern
41	Michigan St.	110.9	Big Ten
42	USC	110.7	Pac-12
43	Utah St.	110.5	Mountain West
44	Missouri	110.5	Southeastern
45	Seton Hall	110.5	Big East
46	Oklahoma	110.3	Big 12
47	Penn St.	110.1	Big Ten
48	Virginia Tech	110.1	Atlantic Coast
49	Florida Atlantic	109.9	Conference USA
50	Mississippi St.	109.8	Southeastern
51	Texas Tech	109.8	Big 12
52	Oregon	109.8	Pac-12
53	New Mexico	109.7	Mountain West
54	Utah	109.7	Pac-12
55	Cincinnati	109.3	American Athletic
56	Northwestern	109.2	Big Ten
57	Michigan	109.2	Big Ten
58	Nevada	109.0	Mountain West
59	Liberty	108.9	Atlantic Sun
60	Colorado	108.7	Pac-12
61	Dayton	108.7	Atlantic 10
62	Arizona St.	108.6	Pac-12
63	UAB	108.6	Conference USA
64	Washington St.	108.5	Pac-12
65	Wisconsin	108.4	Big Ten
66	Clemson	108.4	Atlantic Coast
67	Oral Roberts	108.3	Summit
68	Villanova	108.1	Big East
69	Pittsburgh	108.0	Atlantic Coast
70	Central Florida	107.9	American Athletic
71	Wake Forest	107.8	Atlantic Coast
72	BYU	107.5	West Coast
73	Sam Houston St.	107.5	Western Athletic
74	Marshall	107.3	Sun Belt
75	St. John’s	107.2	Big East
76	Kent St.	107.1	Mid-American
77	UNLV	106.9	Mountain West
78	VCU	106.8	Atlantic 10
79	Tulane	106.6	American Athletic
80	Drake	106.4	Missouri Valley
81	North Texas	106.4	Conference USA
82	Stanford	106.4	Pac-12
83	Charleston	106.4	Colonial Athletic
84	Saint Louis	106.3	Atlantic 10
85	Syracuse	106.3	Atlantic Coast
86	Bradley	106.1	Missouri Valley
87	Yale	106.0	Ivy League
88	James Madison	105.9	Sun Belt
89	Furman	105.9	Southern
90	Iona	105.7	Metro Atlantic
91	UC Irvine	105.3	Big West
92	Utah Valley	105.3	Western Athletic
93	Mississippi	105.1	Southeastern
94	Vanderbilt	105.1	Southeastern
95	San Francisco	105.0	West Coast
96	Santa Clara	104.7	West Coast
97	Loyola Marymount	104.7	West Coast
98	Southern Miss	104.4	Sun Belt
99	Nebraska	104.3	Big Ten
100	Temple	104.3	American Athletic
101	Toledo	104.3	Mid-American
102	Butler	104.2	Big East
103	Georgia	104.1	Southeastern
104	Washington	104.1	Pac-12
105	Louisiana	104.1	Sun Belt
106	UC Santa Barbara	104.0	Big West
107	Hofstra	104.0	Colonial Athletic
108	Southern Utah	103.9	Western Athletic
109	Akron	103.9	Mid-American
110	Cornell	103.9	Ivy League
111	LSU	103.5	Southeastern
112	Grand Canyon	103.5	Western Athletic
113	Charlotte	103.4	Conference USA
114	Wichita St.	103.3	American Athletic
115	Indiana St.	103.1	Missouri Valley
116	Colgate	103.1	Patriot League
117	Colorado St.	103.1	Mountain West
118	Princeton	103.1	Ivy League
119	UNC Greensboro	103.0	Southern
120	Southern Illinois	102.9	Missouri Valley
121	Montana St.	102.8	Big Sky
122	Middle Tennessee	102.5	Conference USA
123	Stephen F. Austin	102.5	Western Athletic
124	George Mason	102.4	Atlantic 10
125	Belmont	102.4	Missouri Valley
126	Duquesne	102.4	Atlantic 10
127	Youngstown St.	102.3	Horizon
128	Towson	102.1	Colonial Athletic
129	Seattle	102.0	Western Athletic
130	DePaul	102.0	Big East
131	Louisiana Tech	102.0	Conference USA
132	South Florida	101.9	American Athletic
133	Richmond	101.9	Atlantic 10
134	San Jose St.	101.8	Mountain West
135	Davidson	101.7	Atlantic 10
136	Quinnipiac	101.7	Metro Atlantic
137	Eastern Washington	101.6	Big Sky
138	Missouri St.	101.6	Missouri Valley
139	Notre Dame	101.6	Atlantic Coast
140	Vermont	101.5	America East
141	Wyoming	101.5	Mountain West
142	Hawaii	101.5	Big West
143	Fordham	101.4	Atlantic 10
144	Samford	101.4	Southern
145	Kennesaw St.	101.2	Atlantic Sun
146	UNC Wilmington	101.1	Colonial Athletic
147	Penn	101.1	Ivy League
148	Florida St.	101.1	Atlantic Coast
149	Cal Baptist	100.9	Western Athletic
150	Troy	100.9	Sun Belt
151	Massachusetts	100.7	Atlantic 10
152	UMass Lowell	100.6	America East
153	Siena	100.6	Metro Atlantic
154	Radford	100.6	Big South
155	UC Davis	100.6	Big West
156	Boston College	100.5	Atlantic Coast
157	St. Bonaventure	100.5	Atlantic 10
158	Chattanooga	100.5	Southern
159	Cal St. Fullerton	100.4	Big West
160	Ball St.	100.4	Mid-American
161	Ohio	100.4	Mid-American
162	South Alabama	100.3	Sun Belt
163	Portland	100.3	West Coast
164	Long Beach St.	100.3	Big West
165	Longwood	100.1	Big South
166	Northern Iowa	100.1	Missouri Valley
167	Western Kentucky	100.1	Conference USA
168	UC Riverside	100.0	Big West
169	Gardner Webb	100.0	Big South
170	Air Force	100.0	Mountain West
171	UNC Asheville	100.0	Big South
172	Appalachian St.	100.0	Sun Belt
173	Murray St.	100.0	Missouri Valley
174	Harvard	99.9	Ivy League
175	Rice	99.8	Conference USA
176	Fresno St.	99.7	Mountain West
177	Saint Joseph’s	99.6	Atlantic 10
178	South Dakota St.	99.6	Summit
179	Old Dominion	99.4	Sun Belt
180	Buffalo	99.4	Mid-American
181	SMU	99.4	American Athletic
182	Florida Gulf Coast	99.4	Atlantic Sun
183	Tarleton St.	99.3	Western Athletic
184	UTEP	99.2	Conference USA
185	Georgia Tech	99.2	Atlantic Coast
186	Minnesota	99.1	Big Ten
187	Lipscomb	99.1	Atlantic Sun
188	New Mexico St.	99.0	Western Athletic
189	Stetson	99.0	Atlantic Sun
190	Eastern Kentucky	98.9	Atlantic Sun
191	Purdue Fort Wayne	98.9	Horizon
192	Norfolk St.	98.8	Mideastern Athletic
193	Rider	98.7	Metro Atlantic
194	Bryant	98.7	America East
195	Drexel	98.6	Colonial Athletic
196	Oregon St.	98.6	Pac-12
197	Montana	98.6	Big Sky
198	Abilene Christian	98.6	Western Athletic
199	George Washington	98.6	Atlantic 10
200	Northern Kentucky	98.6	Horizon
201	Georgetown	98.5	Big East
202	Cleveland St.	98.5	Horizon
203	Wright St.	98.3	Horizon
204	Brown	98.3	Ivy League
205	Navy	98.1	Patriot League
206	Northwestern St.	97.9	Southland
207	Utah Tech	97.9	Western Athletic
208	Queens	97.8	Atlantic Sun
209	Wofford	97.8	Southern
210	UMBC	97.8	America East
211	Milwaukee	97.8	Horizon
212	Rhode Island	97.8	Atlantic 10
213	Pepperdine	97.7	West Coast
214	Weber St.	97.6	Big Sky
215	Pacific	97.6	West Coast
216	Jacksonville	97.6	Atlantic Sun
217	North Carolina Central	97.5	Mideastern Athletic
218	Texas A&M CC	97.5	Southland
219	Delaware	97.4	Colonial Athletic
220	East Carolina	97.3	American Athletic
221	Southern	97.3	Southwestern Athletic
222	San Diego	97.3	West Coast
223	Texas St.	97.3	Sun Belt
224	Sacramento St.	97.2	Big Sky
225	Detroit Mercy	97.2	Horizon
226	SIU Edwardsville	97.1	Ohio Valley
227	Loyola (Chi.)	97.0	Atlantic 10
228	Grambling	96.9	Southwestern Athletic
229	Georgia Southern	96.9	Sun Belt
230	East Tennessee St.	96.8	Southern
231	St. Thomas	96.8	Summit
232	Florida Int’l	96.6	Conference USA
233	American	96.5	Patriot League
234	Army	96.5	Patriot League
235	Mercer	96.4	Southern
236	La Salle	96.3	Atlantic 10
237	Fairfield	96.3	Metro Atlantic
238	California	96.2	Pac-12
239	Portland St.	96.1	Big Sky
240	Illinois St.	96.0	Missouri Valley
241	South Carolina	95.8	Southeastern
242	Nicholls St.	95.8	Southland
243	Niagara	95.7	Metro Atlantic
244	Georgia St.	95.7	Sun Belt
245	Bellarmine	95.7	Atlantic Sun
246	North Dakota St.	95.6	Summit
247	Winthrop	95.6	Big South
248	Coastal Carolina	95.6	Sun Belt
249	Howard	95.5	Mideastern Athletic
250	Campbell	95.4	Big South
251	UMKC	95.3	Summit
252	Tulsa	95.3	American Athletic
253	Maryland Eastern Shore	95.2	Mideastern Athletic
254	Southern Indiana	95.2	Ohio Valley
255	Western Carolina	95.2	Southern
256	Southeast Missouri St.	95.1	Ohio Valley
257	Robert Morris	95.1	Horizon
258	Louisiana Monroe	95.1	Sun Belt
259	Bowling Green	95.0	Mid-American
260	Lehigh	94.9	Patriot League
261	Oakland	94.9	Horizon
262	New Hampshire	94.8	America East
263	Jacksonville St.	94.8	Atlantic Sun
264	Dartmouth	94.7	Ivy League
265	UT-Martin	94.7	Ohio Valley
266	Lafayette	94.6	Patriot League
267	Alcorn St.	94.6	Southwestern Athletic
268	North Florida	94.5	Atlantic Sun
269	Northeastern	94.5	Colonial Athletic
270	Morehead St.	94.5	Ohio Valley
271	Northern Colorado	94.3	Big Sky
272	Louisville	94.3	Atlantic Coast
273	Southeastern Louisiana	94.3	Southland
274	Northern Illinois	94.2	Mid-American
275	Northern Arizona	94.2	Big Sky
276	Valparaiso	94.1	Missouri Valley
277	Idaho St.	94.1	Big Sky
278	Charleston Southern	94.0	Big South
279	Western Illinois	94.0	Summit
280	Boston University	93.9	Patriot League
281	UT Arlington	93.9	Western Athletic
282	Saint Peter’s	93.8	Metro Atlantic
283	UT Rio Grande Valley	93.6	Western Athletic
284	Morgan St.	93.6	Mideastern Athletic
285	Canisius	93.6	Metro Atlantic
286	Prairie View A&M	93.6	Southwestern Athletic
287	Illinois Chicago	93.4	Missouri Valley
288	North Alabama	93.3	Atlantic Sun
289	North Carolina A&T	93.3	Colonial Athletic
290	Chicago St.	93.3	Independents
291	Maine	93.3	America East
292	Mount St. Mary’s	93.2	Metro Atlantic
293	UC San Diego	93.2	Big West
294	Wagner	93.2	Northeast
295	South Dakota	93.1	Summit
296	Denver	93.0	Summit
297	USC Upstate	92.8	Big South
298	Bucknell	92.8	Patriot League
299	Western Michigan	92.7	Mid-American
300	Miami (O)	92.6	Mid-American
301	Idaho	92.4	Big Sky
302	Texas Southern	92.4	Southwestern Athletic
303	Cal St. Bakersfield	92.4	Big West
304	Cal Poly	92.3	Big West
305	Texas A&M Commerce	92.3	Southland
306	Tennessee Tech	92.2	Ohio Valley
307	Manhattan	92.2	Metro Atlantic
308	Austin Peay	92.0	Atlantic Sun
309	William & Mary	91.9	Colonial Athletic
310	The Citadel	91.8	Southern
311	Tennessee St.	91.8	Ohio Valley
312	Fairleigh Dickinson	91.6	Northeast
313	Marist	91.6	Metro Atlantic
314	High Point	91.5	Big South
315	UTSA	91.4	Conference USA
316	Omaha	91.4	Summit
317	Central Michigan	91.3	Mid-American
318	Binghamton	91.3	America East
319	Arkansas St.	91.2	Sun Belt
320	Jackson St.	91.1	Southwestern Athletic
321	Stony Brook	91.0	Colonial Athletic
322	Sacred Heart	91.0	Northeast
323	NJIT	91.0	America East
324	North Dakota	90.8	Summit
325	Eastern Michigan	90.8	Mid-American
326	Elon	90.7	Colonial Athletic
327	Cal St. Northridge	90.7	Big West
328	Stonehill	90.4	Northeast
329	Central Connecticut	90.4	Northeast
330	St. Francis PA	90.3	Northeast
331	Arkansas Pine Bluff	90.3	Southwestern Athletic
332	Holy Cross	90.2	Patriot League
333	Presbyterian	90.1	Big South
334	Little Rock	90.1	Ohio Valley
335	Loyola (MD)	90.1	Patriot League
336	Merrimack	90.0	Northeast
337	VMI	89.9	Southern
338	Central Arkansas	89.7	Atlantic Sun
339	McNeese St.	89.2	Southland
340	Albany	89.1	America East
341	Alabama A&M	88.8	Southwestern Athletic
342	Lindenwood	88.5	Ohio Valley
343	Coppin St.	88.5	Mideastern Athletic
344	Alabama St.	88.4	Southwestern Athletic
345	Hampton	88.3	Colonial Athletic
346	Incarnate Word	88.2	Southland
347	Columbia	88.0	Ivy League
348	Evansville	87.9	Missouri Valley
349	Bethune Cookman	87.7	Southwestern Athletic
350	Eastern Illinois	87.7	Ohio Valley
351	St. Francis NY	87.6	Northeast
352	Monmouth	86.9	Colonial Athletic
353	New Orleans	86.9	Southland
354	South Carolina St.	86.7	Mideastern Athletic
355	Houston Christian	86.3	Southland
356	Delaware St.	86.0	Mideastern Athletic
357	Florida A&M	85.5	Southwestern Athletic
358	Lamar	84.8	Southland
359	Mississippi Valley St.	84.2	Southwestern Athletic
360	Hartford	83.3	Independents
361	IUPUI	83.2	Horizon
362	Green Bay	82.4	Horizon
363	Long Island	80.8	Northeast

Alphabetical

#	Team	PiRate	Conference
198	Abilene Christian	98.6	Western Athletic
170	Air Force	100.0	Mountain West
109	Akron	103.9	Mid-American
2	Alabama	119.9	Southeastern
341	Alabama A&M	88.8	Southwestern Athletic
344	Alabama St.	88.4	Southwestern Athletic
340	Albany	89.1	America East
267	Alcorn St.	94.6	Southwestern Athletic
233	American	96.5	Patriot League
172	Appalachian St.	100.0	Sun Belt
9	Arizona	116.2	Pac-12
62	Arizona St.	108.6	Pac-12
17	Arkansas	114.1	Southeastern
331	Arkansas Pine Bluff	90.3	Southwestern Athletic
319	Arkansas St.	91.2	Sun Belt
234	Army	96.5	Patriot League
24	Auburn	113.2	Southeastern
308	Austin Peay	92.0	Atlantic Sun
160	Ball St.	100.4	Mid-American
14	Baylor	114.9	Big 12
245	Bellarmine	95.7	Atlantic Sun
125	Belmont	102.4	Missouri Valley
349	Bethune Cookman	87.7	Southwestern Athletic
318	Binghamton	91.3	America East
35	Boise St.	112.1	Mountain West
156	Boston College	100.5	Atlantic Coast
280	Boston University	93.9	Patriot League
259	Bowling Green	95.0	Mid-American
86	Bradley	106.1	Missouri Valley
204	Brown	98.3	Ivy League
194	Bryant	98.7	America East
298	Bucknell	92.8	Patriot League
180	Buffalo	99.4	Mid-American
102	Butler	104.2	Big East
72	BYU	107.5	West Coast
149	Cal Baptist	100.9	Western Athletic
304	Cal Poly	92.3	Big West
303	Cal St. Bakersfield	92.4	Big West
159	Cal St. Fullerton	100.4	Big West
327	Cal St. Northridge	90.7	Big West
238	California	96.2	Pac-12
250	Campbell	95.4	Big South
285	Canisius	93.6	Metro Atlantic
338	Central Arkansas	89.7	Atlantic Sun
329	Central Connecticut	90.4	Northeast
70	Central Florida	107.9	American Athletic
317	Central Michigan	91.3	Mid-American
83	Charleston	106.4	Colonial Athletic
278	Charleston Southern	94.0	Big South
113	Charlotte	103.4	Conference USA
158	Chattanooga	100.5	Southern
290	Chicago St.	93.3	Independents
55	Cincinnati	109.3	American Athletic
66	Clemson	108.4	Atlantic Coast
202	Cleveland St.	98.5	Horizon
248	Coastal Carolina	95.6	Sun Belt
116	Colgate	103.1	Patriot League
60	Colorado	108.7	Pac-12
117	Colorado St.	103.1	Mountain West
347	Columbia	88.0	Ivy League
5	Connecticut	117.6	Big East
343	Coppin St.	88.5	Mideastern Athletic
110	Cornell	103.9	Ivy League
12	Creighton	115.4	Big East
264	Dartmouth	94.7	Ivy League
135	Davidson	101.7	Atlantic 10
61	Dayton	108.7	Atlantic 10
219	Delaware	97.4	Colonial Athletic
356	Delaware St.	86.0	Mideastern Athletic
296	Denver	93.0	Summit
130	DePaul	102.0	Big East
225	Detroit Mercy	97.2	Horizon
80	Drake	106.4	Missouri Valley
195	Drexel	98.6	Colonial Athletic
27	Duke	112.7	Atlantic Coast
126	Duquesne	102.4	Atlantic 10
220	East Carolina	97.3	American Athletic
230	East Tennessee St.	96.8	Southern
350	Eastern Illinois	87.7	Ohio Valley
190	Eastern Kentucky	98.9	Atlantic Sun
325	Eastern Michigan	90.8	Mid-American
137	Eastern Washington	101.6	Big Sky
326	Elon	90.7	Colonial Athletic
348	Evansville	87.9	Missouri Valley
237	Fairfield	96.3	Metro Atlantic
312	Fairleigh Dickinson	91.6	Northeast
36	Florida	112.0	Southeastern
357	Florida A&M	85.5	Southwestern Athletic
49	Florida Atlantic	109.9	Conference USA
182	Florida Gulf Coast	99.4	Atlantic Sun
232	Florida Int’l	96.6	Conference USA
148	Florida St.	101.1	Atlantic Coast
143	Fordham	101.4	Atlantic 10
176	Fresno St.	99.7	Mountain West
89	Furman	105.9	Southern
169	Gardner Webb	100.0	Big South
124	George Mason	102.4	Atlantic 10
199	George Washington	98.6	Atlantic 10
201	Georgetown	98.5	Big East
103	Georgia	104.1	Southeastern
229	Georgia Southern	96.9	Sun Belt
244	Georgia St.	95.7	Sun Belt
185	Georgia Tech	99.2	Atlantic Coast
10	Gonzaga	115.7	West Coast
228	Grambling	96.9	Southwestern Athletic
112	Grand Canyon	103.5	Western Athletic
362	Green Bay	82.4	Horizon
345	Hampton	88.3	Colonial Athletic
360	Hartford	83.3	Independents
174	Harvard	99.9	Ivy League
142	Hawaii	101.5	Big West
314	High Point	91.5	Big South
107	Hofstra	104.0	Colonial Athletic
332	Holy Cross	90.2	Patriot League
3	Houston	119.7	American Athletic
355	Houston Christian	86.3	Southland
249	Howard	95.5	Mideastern Athletic
301	Idaho	92.4	Big Sky
277	Idaho St.	94.1	Big Sky
21	Illinois	113.6	Big Ten
287	Illinois Chicago	93.4	Missouri Valley
240	Illinois St.	96.0	Missouri Valley
346	Incarnate Word	88.2	Southland
18	Indiana	113.9	Big Ten
115	Indiana St.	103.1	Missouri Valley
90	Iona	105.7	Metro Atlantic
25	Iowa	113.1	Big Ten
22	Iowa St.	113.5	Big 12
361	IUPUI	83.2	Horizon
320	Jackson St.	91.1	Southwestern Athletic
216	Jacksonville	97.6	Atlantic Sun
263	Jacksonville St.	94.8	Atlantic Sun
88	James Madison	105.9	Sun Belt
7	Kansas	116.4	Big 12
26	Kansas St.	112.9	Big 12
145	Kennesaw St.	101.2	Atlantic Sun
76	Kent St.	107.1	Mid-American
30	Kentucky	112.4	Southeastern
236	La Salle	96.3	Atlantic 10
266	Lafayette	94.6	Patriot League
358	Lamar	84.8	Southland
260	Lehigh	94.9	Patriot League
59	Liberty	108.9	Atlantic Sun
342	Lindenwood	88.5	Ohio Valley
187	Lipscomb	99.1	Atlantic Sun
334	Little Rock	90.1	Ohio Valley
164	Long Beach St.	100.3	Big West
363	Long Island	80.8	Northeast
165	Longwood	100.1	Big South
105	Louisiana	104.1	Sun Belt
258	Louisiana Monroe	95.1	Sun Belt
131	Louisiana Tech	102.0	Conference USA
272	Louisville	94.3	Atlantic Coast
227	Loyola (Chi.)	97.0	Atlantic 10
335	Loyola (MD)	90.1	Patriot League
97	Loyola Marymount	104.7	West Coast
111	LSU	103.5	Southeastern
291	Maine	93.3	America East
307	Manhattan	92.2	Metro Atlantic
313	Marist	91.6	Metro Atlantic
11	Marquette	115.7	Big East
74	Marshall	107.3	Sun Belt
29	Maryland	112.4	Big Ten
253	Maryland Eastern Shore	95.2	Mideastern Athletic
151	Massachusetts	100.7	Atlantic 10
339	McNeese St.	89.2	Southland
37	Memphis	111.6	American Athletic
235	Mercer	96.4	Southern
336	Merrimack	90.0	Northeast
38	Miami (Fla)	111.5	Atlantic Coast
300	Miami (O)	92.6	Mid-American
57	Michigan	109.2	Big Ten
41	Michigan St.	110.9	Big Ten
122	Middle Tennessee	102.5	Conference USA
211	Milwaukee	97.8	Horizon
186	Minnesota	99.1	Big Ten
93	Mississippi	105.1	Southeastern
50	Mississippi St.	109.8	Southeastern
359	Mississippi Valley St.	84.2	Southwestern Athletic
44	Missouri	110.5	Southeastern
138	Missouri St.	101.6	Missouri Valley
352	Monmouth	86.9	Colonial Athletic
197	Montana	98.6	Big Sky
121	Montana St.	102.8	Big Sky
270	Morehead St.	94.5	Ohio Valley
284	Morgan St.	93.6	Mideastern Athletic
292	Mount St. Mary’s	93.2	Metro Atlantic
173	Murray St.	100.0	Missouri Valley
205	Navy	98.1	Patriot League
99	Nebraska	104.3	Big Ten
58	Nevada	109.0	Mountain West
262	New Hampshire	94.8	America East
53	New Mexico	109.7	Mountain West
188	New Mexico St.	99.0	Western Athletic
353	New Orleans	86.9	Southland
243	Niagara	95.7	Metro Atlantic
242	Nicholls St.	95.8	Southland
323	NJIT	91.0	America East
192	Norfolk St.	98.8	Mideastern Athletic
288	North Alabama	93.3	Atlantic Sun
28	North Carolina	112.6	Atlantic Coast
289	North Carolina A&T	93.3	Colonial Athletic
217	North Carolina Central	97.5	Mideastern Athletic
39	North Carolina St.	111.0	Atlantic Coast
324	North Dakota	90.8	Summit
246	North Dakota St.	95.6	Summit
268	North Florida	94.5	Atlantic Sun
81	North Texas	106.4	Conference USA
269	Northeastern	94.5	Colonial Athletic
275	Northern Arizona	94.2	Big Sky
271	Northern Colorado	94.3	Big Sky
274	Northern Illinois	94.2	Mid-American
166	Northern Iowa	100.1	Missouri Valley
200	Northern Kentucky	98.6	Horizon
56	Northwestern	109.2	Big Ten
206	Northwestern St.	97.9	Southland
139	Notre Dame	101.6	Atlantic Coast
261	Oakland	94.9	Horizon
161	Ohio	100.4	Mid-American
31	Ohio St.	112.3	Big Ten
46	Oklahoma	110.3	Big 12
32	Oklahoma St.	112.3	Big 12
179	Old Dominion	99.4	Sun Belt
316	Omaha	91.4	Summit
67	Oral Roberts	108.3	Summit
52	Oregon	109.8	Pac-12
196	Oregon St.	98.6	Pac-12
215	Pacific	97.6	West Coast
147	Penn	101.1	Ivy League
47	Penn St.	110.1	Big Ten
213	Pepperdine	97.7	West Coast
69	Pittsburgh	108.0	Atlantic Coast
163	Portland	100.3	West Coast
239	Portland St.	96.1	Big Sky
286	Prairie View A&M	93.6	Southwestern Athletic
333	Presbyterian	90.1	Big South
118	Princeton	103.1	Ivy League
34	Providence	112.1	Big East
6	Purdue	117.5	Big Ten
191	Purdue Fort Wayne	98.9	Horizon
208	Queens	97.8	Atlantic Sun
136	Quinnipiac	101.7	Metro Atlantic
154	Radford	100.6	Big South
212	Rhode Island	97.8	Atlantic 10
175	Rice	99.8	Conference USA
133	Richmond	101.9	Atlantic 10
193	Rider	98.7	Metro Atlantic
257	Robert Morris	95.1	Horizon
16	Rutgers	114.4	Big Ten
224	Sacramento St.	97.2	Big Sky
322	Sacred Heart	91.0	Northeast
177	Saint Joseph’s	99.6	Atlantic 10
84	Saint Louis	106.3	Atlantic 10
15	Saint Mary’s	114.7	West Coast
282	Saint Peter’s	93.8	Metro Atlantic
73	Sam Houston St.	107.5	Western Athletic
144	Samford	101.4	Southern
222	San Diego	97.3	West Coast
33	San Diego St.	112.2	Mountain West
95	San Francisco	105.0	West Coast
134	San Jose St.	101.8	Mountain West
96	Santa Clara	104.7	West Coast
129	Seattle	102.0	Western Athletic
45	Seton Hall	110.5	Big East
153	Siena	100.6	Metro Atlantic
226	SIU Edwardsville	97.1	Ohio Valley
181	SMU	99.4	American Athletic
162	South Alabama	100.3	Sun Belt
241	South Carolina	95.8	Southeastern
354	South Carolina St.	86.7	Mideastern Athletic
295	South Dakota	93.1	Summit
178	South Dakota St.	99.6	Summit
132	South Florida	101.9	American Athletic
256	Southeast Missouri St.	95.1	Ohio Valley
273	Southeastern Louisiana	94.3	Southland
221	Southern	97.3	Southwestern Athletic
120	Southern Illinois	102.9	Missouri Valley
254	Southern Indiana	95.2	Ohio Valley
98	Southern Miss	104.4	Sun Belt
108	Southern Utah	103.9	Western Athletic
157	St. Bonaventure	100.5	Atlantic 10
351	St. Francis NY	87.6	Northeast
330	St. Francis PA	90.3	Northeast
75	St. John’s	107.2	Big East
231	St. Thomas	96.8	Summit
82	Stanford	106.4	Pac-12
123	Stephen F. Austin	102.5	Western Athletic
189	Stetson	99.0	Atlantic Sun
328	Stonehill	90.4	Northeast
321	Stony Brook	91.0	Colonial Athletic
85	Syracuse	106.3	Atlantic Coast
183	Tarleton St.	99.3	Western Athletic
13	TCU	115.0	Big 12
100	Temple	104.3	American Athletic
1	Tennessee	120.2	Southeastern
311	Tennessee St.	91.8	Ohio Valley
306	Tennessee Tech	92.2	Ohio Valley
8	Texas	116.3	Big 12
40	Texas A&M	110.9	Southeastern
218	Texas A&M CC	97.5	Southland
305	Texas A&M Commerce	92.3	Southland
302	Texas Southern	92.4	Southwestern Athletic
223	Texas St.	97.3	Sun Belt
51	Texas Tech	109.8	Big 12
310	The Citadel	91.8	Southern
101	Toledo	104.3	Mid-American
128	Towson	102.1	Colonial Athletic
150	Troy	100.9	Sun Belt
79	Tulane	106.6	American Athletic
252	Tulsa	95.3	American Athletic
63	UAB	108.6	Conference USA
155	UC Davis	100.6	Big West
91	UC Irvine	105.3	Big West
168	UC Riverside	100.0	Big West
293	UC San Diego	93.2	Big West
106	UC Santa Barbara	104.0	Big West
4	UCLA	117.7	Pac-12
152	UMass Lowell	100.6	America East
210	UMBC	97.8	America East
251	UMKC	95.3	Summit
171	UNC Asheville	100.0	Big South
119	UNC Greensboro	103.0	Southern
146	UNC Wilmington	101.1	Colonial Athletic
77	UNLV	106.9	Mountain West
42	USC	110.7	Pac-12
297	USC Upstate	92.8	Big South
281	UT Arlington	93.9	Western Athletic
283	UT Rio Grande Valley	93.6	Western Athletic
265	UT-Martin	94.7	Ohio Valley
54	Utah	109.7	Pac-12
43	Utah St.	110.5	Mountain West
207	Utah Tech	97.9	Western Athletic
92	Utah Valley	105.3	Western Athletic
184	UTEP	99.2	Conference USA
315	UTSA	91.4	Conference USA
276	Valparaiso	94.1	Missouri Valley
94	Vanderbilt	105.1	Southeastern
78	VCU	106.8	Atlantic 10
140	Vermont	101.5	America East
68	Villanova	108.1	Big East
19	Virginia	113.9	Atlantic Coast
48	Virginia Tech	110.1	Atlantic Coast
337	VMI	89.9	Southern
294	Wagner	93.2	Northeast
71	Wake Forest	107.8	Atlantic Coast
104	Washington	104.1	Pac-12
64	Washington St.	108.5	Pac-12
214	Weber St.	97.6	Big Sky
23	West Virginia	113.2	Big 12
255	Western Carolina	95.2	Southern
279	Western Illinois	94.0	Summit
167	Western Kentucky	100.1	Conference USA
299	Western Michigan	92.7	Mid-American
114	Wichita St.	103.3	American Athletic
309	William & Mary	91.9	Colonial Athletic
247	Winthrop	95.6	Big South
65	Wisconsin	108.4	Big Ten
209	Wofford	97.8	Southern
203	Wright St.	98.3	Horizon
141	Wyoming	101.5	Mountain West
20	Xavier	113.8	Big East
87	Yale	106.0	Ivy League
127	Youngstown St.	102.3	Horizon

PiRate Ratings By Conference

America East
Team	Rating
Vermont	101.5
UMass Lowell	100.6
Bryant	98.7
UMBC	97.8
New Hampshire	94.8
Maine	93.3
Binghamton	91.3
NJIT	91.0
Albany	89.1
American Athletic
Team	Rating
Houston	119.7
Memphis	111.6
Cincinnati	109.3
Central Florida	107.9
Tulane	106.6
Temple	104.3
Wichita St.	103.3
South Florida	101.9
SMU	99.4
East Carolina	97.3
Tulsa	95.3
Atlantic 10
Team	Rating
Dayton	108.7
VCU	106.8
Saint Louis	106.3
George Mason	102.4
Duquesne	102.4
Richmond	101.9
Davidson	101.7
Fordham	101.4
Massachusetts	100.7
St. Bonaventure	100.5
Saint Joseph’s	99.6
George Washington	98.6
Rhode Island	97.8
Loyola (Chi.)	97.0
La Salle	96.3
Atlantic Coast
Team	Rating
Virginia	113.9
Duke	112.7
North Carolina	112.6
Miami (Fla)	111.5
North Carolina St.	111.0
Virginia Tech	110.1
Clemson	108.4
Pittsburgh	108.0
Wake Forest	107.8
Syracuse	106.3
Notre Dame	101.6
Florida St.	101.1
Boston College	100.5
Georgia Tech	99.2
Louisville	94.3
Atlantic Sun
Team	Rating
Liberty	108.9
Kennesaw St.	101.2
Florida Gulf Coast	99.4
Lipscomb	99.1
Stetson	99.0
Eastern Kentucky	98.9
Queens	97.8
Jacksonville	97.6
Bellarmine	95.7
Jacksonville St.	94.8
North Florida	94.5
North Alabama	93.3
Austin Peay	92.0
Central Arkansas	89.7
Big 12
Team	Rating
Kansas	116.4
Texas	116.3
TCU	115.0
Baylor	114.9
Iowa St.	113.5
West Virginia	113.2
Kansas St.	112.9
Oklahoma St.	112.3
Oklahoma	110.3
Texas Tech	109.8
Big East
Team	Rating
Connecticut	117.6
Marquette	115.7
Creighton	115.4
Xavier	113.8
Providence	112.1
Seton Hall	110.5
Villanova	108.1
St. John’s	107.2
Butler	104.2
DePaul	102.0
Georgetown	98.5
Big Sky
Team	Rating
Montana St.	102.8
Eastern Washington	101.6
Montana	98.6
Weber St.	97.6
Sacramento St.	97.2
Portland St.	96.1
Northern Colorado	94.3
Northern Arizona	94.2
Idaho St.	94.1
Idaho	92.4
Big South
Team	Rating
Radford	100.6
Longwood	100.1
Gardner Webb	100.0
UNC Asheville	100.0
Winthrop	95.6
Campbell	95.4
Charleston Southern	94.0
USC Upstate	92.8
High Point	91.5
Presbyterian	90.1
Big Ten
Team	Rating
Purdue	117.5
Rutgers	114.4
Indiana	113.9
Illinois	113.6
Iowa	113.1
Maryland	112.4
Ohio St.	112.3
Michigan St.	110.9
Penn St.	110.1
Northwestern	109.2
Michigan	109.2
Wisconsin	108.4
Nebraska	104.3
Minnesota	99.1
Big West
Team	Rating
UC Irvine	105.3
UC Santa Barbara	104.0
Hawaii	101.5
UC Davis	100.6
Cal St. Fullerton	100.4
Long Beach St.	100.3
UC Riverside	100.0
UC San Diego	93.2
Cal St. Bakersfield	92.4
Cal Poly	92.3
Cal St. Northridge	90.7
Colonial Athletic
Team	Rating
Charleston	106.4
Hofstra	104.0
Towson	102.1
UNC Wilmington	101.1
Drexel	98.6
Delaware	97.4
Northeastern	94.5
North Carolina A&T	93.3
William & Mary	91.9
Stony Brook	91.0
Elon	90.7
Hampton	88.3
Monmouth	86.9
Conference USA
Team	Rating
Florida Atlantic	109.9
UAB	108.6
North Texas	106.4
Charlotte	103.4
Middle Tennessee	102.5
Louisiana Tech	102.0
Western Kentucky	100.1
Rice	99.8
UTEP	99.2
Florida Int’l	96.6
UTSA	91.4
Horizon
Team	Rating
Youngstown St.	102.3
Purdue Fort Wayne	98.9
Northern Kentucky	98.6
Cleveland St.	98.5
Wright St.	98.3
Milwaukee	97.8
Detroit Mercy	97.2
Robert Morris	95.1
Oakland	94.9
IUPUI	83.2
Green Bay	82.4
Independents
Team	Rating
Chicago St.	93.3
Hartford	83.3
Ivy League
Team	Rating
Yale	106.0
Cornell	103.9
Princeton	103.1
Penn	101.1
Harvard	99.9
Brown	98.3
Dartmouth	94.7
Columbia	88.0
Metro Atlantic
Team	Rating
Iona	105.7
Quinnipiac	101.7
Siena	100.6
Rider	98.7
Fairfield	96.3
Niagara	95.7
Saint Peter’s	93.8
Canisius	93.6
Mount St. Mary’s	93.2
Manhattan	92.2
Marist	91.6
Mid-American
Team	Rating
Kent St.	107.1
Toledo	104.3
Akron	103.9
Ball St.	100.4
Ohio	100.4
Buffalo	99.4
Bowling Green	95.0
Northern Illinois	94.2
Western Michigan	92.7
Miami (O)	92.6
Central Michigan	91.3
Eastern Michigan	90.8
Mideastern Athletic
Team	Rating
Norfolk St.	98.8
North Carolina Central	97.5
Howard	95.5
Maryland Eastern Shore	95.2
Morgan St.	93.6
Coppin St.	88.5
South Carolina St.	86.7
Delaware St.	86.0
Missouri Valley
Team	Rating
Drake	106.4
Bradley	106.1
Indiana St.	103.1
Southern Illinois	102.9
Belmont	102.4
Missouri St.	101.6
Northern Iowa	100.1
Murray St.	100.0
Illinois St.	96.0
Valparaiso	94.1
Illinois Chicago	93.4
Evansville	87.9
Mountain West
Team	Rating
San Diego St.	112.2
Boise St.	112.1
Utah St.	110.5
New Mexico	109.7
Nevada	109.0
UNLV	106.9
Colorado St.	103.1
San Jose St.	101.8
Wyoming	101.5
Air Force	100.0
Fresno St.	99.7
Northeast
Team	Rating
Wagner	93.2
Fairleigh Dickinson	91.6
Sacred Heart	91.0
Stonehill	90.4
Central Connecticut	90.4
St. Francis PA	90.3
Merrimack	90.0
St. Francis NY	87.6
Long Island	80.8
Ohio Valley
Team	Rating
SIU Edwardsville	97.1
Southern Indiana	95.2
Southeast Missouri St.	95.1
UT-Martin	94.7
Morehead St.	94.5
Tennessee Tech	92.2
Tennessee St.	91.8
Little Rock	90.1
Lindenwood	88.5
Eastern Illinois	87.7
Pac-12
Team	Rating
UCLA	117.7
Arizona	116.2
USC	110.7
Oregon	109.8
Utah	109.7
Colorado	108.7
Arizona St.	108.6
Washington St.	108.5
Stanford	106.4
Washington	104.1
Oregon St.	98.6
California	96.2
Patriot League
Team	Rating
Colgate	103.1
Navy	98.1
American	96.5
Army	96.5
Lehigh	94.9
Lafayette	94.6
Boston University	93.9
Bucknell	92.8
Holy Cross	90.2
Loyola (MD)	90.1
Southeastern
Team	Rating
Tennessee	120.2
Alabama	119.9
Arkansas	114.1
Auburn	113.2
Kentucky	112.4
Florida	112.0
Texas A&M	110.9
Missouri	110.5
Mississippi St.	109.8
Mississippi	105.1
Vanderbilt	105.1
Georgia	104.1
LSU	103.5
South Carolina	95.8
Southern
Team	Rating
Furman	105.9
UNC Greensboro	103.0
Samford	101.4
Chattanooga	100.5
Wofford	97.8
East Tennessee St.	96.8
Mercer	96.4
Western Carolina	95.2
The Citadel	91.8
VMI	89.9
Southland
Team	Rating
Northwestern St.	97.9
Texas A&M CC	97.5
Nicholls St.	95.8
Southeastern Louisiana	94.3
Texas A&M Commerce	92.3
McNeese St.	89.2
Incarnate Word	88.2
New Orleans	86.9
Houston Christian	86.3
Lamar	84.8
Southwestern Athletic
Team	Rating
Southern	97.3
Grambling	96.9
Alcorn St.	94.6
Prairie View A&M	93.6
Texas Southern	92.4
Jackson St.	91.1
Arkansas Pine Bluff	90.3
Alabama A&M	88.8
Alabama St.	88.4
Bethune Cookman	87.7
Florida A&M	85.5
Mississippi Valley St.	84.2
Summit
Team	Rating
Oral Roberts	108.3
South Dakota St.	99.6
St. Thomas	96.8
North Dakota St.	95.6
UMKC	95.3
Western Illinois	94.0
South Dakota	93.1
Denver	93.0
Omaha	91.4
North Dakota	90.8
Sun Belt
Team	Rating
Marshall	107.3
James Madison	105.9
Southern Miss	104.4
Louisiana	104.1
Troy	100.9
South Alabama	100.3
Appalachian St.	100.0
Old Dominion	99.4
Texas St.	97.3
Georgia Southern	96.9
Georgia St.	95.7
Coastal Carolina	95.6
Louisiana Monroe	95.1
Arkansas St.	91.2
West Coast
Team	Rating
Gonzaga	115.7
Saint Mary’s	114.7
BYU	107.5
San Francisco	105.0
Santa Clara	104.7
Loyola Marymount	104.7
Portland	100.3
Pepperdine	97.7
Pacific	97.6
San Diego	97.3
Western Athletic
Team	Rating
Sam Houston St.	107.5
Utah Valley	105.3
Southern Utah	103.9
Grand Canyon	103.5
Stephen F. Austin	102.5
Seattle	102.0
Cal Baptist	100.9
Tarleton St.	99.3
New Mexico St.	99.0
Abilene Christian	98.6
Utah Tech	97.9
UT Arlington	93.9
UT Rio Grande Valley	93.6

Coming Later Today: Updated Bracketology

PiRate Ratings College Basketball–Sunday, March 13, 2022

Sunday’s Conference Tournaments
American Athletic Conference–CHAMPIONSHIP
Fort Worth, TX
Higher Seed	Lower Seed	Spread
Houston	Memphis	4.8
Atlantic 10 Conference–CHAMPIONSHIP
Washington, D.C.
Higher Seed	Lower Seed	Spread
Davidson	Richmond	2.5
Big Ten Conference–CHAMPIONSHIP
Indianapolis
Higher Seed	Lower Seed	Spread
Iowa	Purdue	-0.2
Ivy League–CHAMPIONSHIP
Boston
Higher Seed	Lower Seed	Spread
Princeton	Yale	2.5
Southeastern Conference–CHAMPIONSHIP
Tampa
Higher Seed	Lower Seed	Spread
Tennessee	Texas A&M	7.8

Final Bracketology coming this afternoon after SEC Championship Game Concludes

After last night’s late games on the West Coast concluded, our Bracketology hopefuls shrunk to 70 teams. We still have to eliminate two teams from our field of 68 and then do a final seeding after the conclusion of the Southeastern Conference Tournament. The outcome of that game will most definitely affect the field, possibly changing who plays an opening round “play-in” game in Dayton.

PiRate Ratings College Basketball For January 31, 2020

Friday’s Games

 

Home	Visitor	Spread
Brown	Cornell	6.6
Buffalo	Bowling Green	4.0
Canisius	Quinnipiac	4.1
Detroit	Oakland	1.4
Green Bay	Northern Kentucky	-3.1
Iona	Siena	-0.9
Kent St.	Akron	0.4
Milwaukee	Wright St.	-7.0
Niagara	Marist	6.9
Pennsylvania	Harvard	-0.8
Princeton	Dartmouth	3.5
Rhode Island	VCU	1.2
Rider	Fairfield	6.2
Saint Peter’s	Manhattan	4.0
Yale	Columbia	17.3

 

Friday Night’s Best TV Games

 

Time (EST)	Network	Home	Visitor
6:30 PM	CBSSN	Kent St.	Akron
7:00 PM	ESPNU	Buffalo	Bowling Green
7:00 PM	ESPN2	Rhode Island	VCU
7:00 PM	ESPN+	Yale	Columbia
8:00 PM	ESPN3	Milwaukee	Wright St.
9:00 PM	ESPNU	Green Bay	Northern Kentucky

 

Today’s PiRate Ratings

 

#	Team	PiRate	Conference
1	Kansas	121.4	Big 12
2	Duke	121.4	Atlantic Coast
3	Gonzaga	120.0	West Coast
4	Michigan St.	118.8	Big Ten
5	Baylor	117.8	Big 12
6	West Virginia	117.3	Big 12
7	Dayton	117.2	Atlantic 10
8	Arizona	116.6	Pac-12
9	Louisville	116.2	Atlantic Coast
10	Maryland	116.1	Big Ten
11	San Diego St.	115.8	Mountain West
12	Seton Hall	115.5	Big East
13	Ohio St.	115.4	Big Ten
14	Iowa	114.4	Big Ten
15	Butler	114.2	Big East
16	Villanova	114.1	Big East
17	Penn St.	113.9	Big Ten
18	Florida St.	113.9	Atlantic Coast
19	Oregon	113.8	Pac-12
20	BYU	113.5	West Coast
21	Texas Tech	113.1	Big 12
22	Kentucky	113.1	Southeastern
23	Illinois	113.0	Big Ten
24	Marquette	113.0	Big East
25	LSU	112.9	Southeastern
26	Colorado	112.9	Pac-12
27	Michigan	112.7	Big Ten
28	Purdue	112.5	Big Ten
29	Houston	112.5	American Athletic
30	Rutgers	112.5	Big Ten
31	Auburn	112.5	Southeastern
32	Arkansas	112.5	Southeastern
33	Creighton	112.2	Big East
34	Florida	111.9	Southeastern
35	Wisconsin	111.7	Big Ten
36	Wichita St.	111.4	American Athletic
37	Indiana	111.4	Big Ten
38	Alabama	111.3	Southeastern
39	Mississippi St.	111.2	Southeastern
40	Minnesota	111.2	Big Ten
41	Saint Mary’s	111.1	West Coast
42	VCU	111.1	Atlantic 10
43	Cincinnati	110.9	American Athletic
44	Utah St.	110.5	Mountain West
45	Stanford	110.1	Pac-12
46	Washington	110.1	Pac-12
47	Oklahoma	109.9	Big 12
48	Memphis	109.9	American Athletic
49	Georgetown	109.6	Big East
50	USC	109.4	Pac-12
51	Northern Iowa	109.4	Missouri Valley
52	North Carolina St.	109.4	Atlantic Coast
53	Virginia	109.3	Atlantic Coast
54	Syracuse	109.3	Atlantic Coast
55	Rhode Island	109.3	Atlantic 10
56	Notre Dame	109.1	Atlantic Coast
57	Tennessee	108.9	Southeastern
58	Xavier	108.8	Big East
59	Yale	108.7	Ivy
60	Iowa St.	108.4	Big 12
61	Louisiana Tech	108.2	Conference USA
62	North Carolina	108.1	Atlantic Coast
63	Arizona St.	108.0	Pac-12
64	UNC Greensboro	107.9	Southern
65	TCU	107.8	Big 12
66	Texas	107.8	Big 12
67	Providence	107.7	Big East
68	Virginia Tech	107.7	Atlantic Coast
69	Richmond	107.5	Atlantic 10
70	St. John’s	107.5	Big East
71	East Tennessee St.	107.5	Southern
72	Vermont	107.4	America East
73	Oklahoma St.	107.4	Big 12
74	Connecticut	107.3	American Athletic
75	Akron	107.3	Mid-American
76	DePaul	107.2	Big East
77	Georgia Tech	107.1	Atlantic Coast
78	Pittsburgh	107.0	Atlantic Coast
79	Clemson	107.0	Atlantic Coast
80	Liberty	106.8	Atlantic Sun
81	SMU	106.8	American Athletic
82	Tulsa	106.8	American Athletic
83	South Carolina	106.7	Southeastern
84	Kansas St.	106.6	Big 12
85	Furman	106.5	Southern
86	North Texas	106.5	Conference USA
87	Missouri	106.5	Southeastern
88	Oregon St.	106.5	Pac-12
89	Boise St.	106.4	Mountain West
90	San Francisco	106.2	West Coast
91	Nevada	106.2	Mountain West
92	Georgia	106.0	Southeastern
93	Loyola (Chi.)	105.7	Missouri Valley
94	Davidson	105.6	Atlantic 10
95	Duquesne	105.6	Atlantic 10
96	Belmont	105.5	Ohio Valley
97	Temple	105.4	American Athletic
98	Saint Louis	105.3	Atlantic 10
99	Harvard	105.2	Ivy
100	Georgia St.	105.1	Sun Belt
101	Bradley	104.9	Missouri Valley
102	New Mexico St.	104.7	Western Athletic
103	Kent St.	104.7	Mid-American
104	Colorado St.	104.6	Mountain West
105	Utah	104.6	Pac-12
106	Mississippi	104.5	Southeastern
107	Miami (Fla.)	104.5	Atlantic Coast
108	Wright St.	104.4	Horizon
109	Western Kentucky	104.3	Conference USA
110	Wake Forest	104.3	Atlantic Coast
111	Ball St.	104.1	Mid-American
112	Central Florida	103.9	American Athletic
113	Northern Colorado	103.9	Big Sky
114	UCLA	103.8	Pac-12
115	Northwestern	103.5	Big Ten
116	UC Irvine	103.4	Big West
117	Stephen F. Austin	103.3	Southland
118	UT Arlington	103.2	Sun Belt
119	Winthrop	103.2	Big South
120	Texas St.	103.1	Sun Belt
121	Nebraska	103.1	Big Ten
122	Toledo	103.0	Mid-American
123	South Dakota St.	102.9	Summit
124	Washington St.	102.8	Pac-12
125	St. Bonaventure	102.8	Atlantic 10
126	South Florida	102.8	American Athletic
127	UNLV	102.8	Mountain West
128	Indiana St.	102.6	Missouri Valley
129	Murray St.	102.5	Ohio Valley
130	Colgate	102.4	Patriot
131	Northern Kentucky	102.3	Horizon
132	Little Rock	102.3	Sun Belt
133	Northeastern	102.3	Colonial Athletic
134	New Mexico	102.2	Mountain West
135	Stony Brook	102.1	America East
136	Hofstra	101.9	Colonial Athletic
137	Buffalo	101.9	Mid-American
138	Wofford	101.9	Southern
139	Charleston	101.8	Colonial Athletic
140	Oral Roberts	101.8	Summit
141	Georgia Southern	101.8	Sun Belt
142	Texas A&M	101.7	Southeastern
143	North Dakota St.	101.7	Summit
144	Santa Clara	101.7	West Coast
145	Southern Utah	101.5	Big Sky
146	Fresno St.	101.4	Mountain West
147	Penn	101.4	Ivy
148	Drake	101.3	Missouri Valley
149	Austin Peay	101.2	Ohio Valley
150	Marshall	101.0	Conference USA
151	Pacific	101.0	West Coast
152	Bowling Green	100.9	Mid-American
153	Pepperdine	100.8	West Coast
154	Charlotte	100.8	Conference USA
155	Towson	100.6	Colonial Athletic
156	Missouri St.	100.4	Missouri Valley
157	Boston College	100.4	Atlantic Coast
158	Eastern Washington	100.4	Big Sky
159	Chattanooga	100.2	Southern
160	Sam Houston St.	100.2	Southland
161	UTEP	100.2	Conference USA
162	William & Mary	100.2	Colonial Athletic
163	Southern Illinois	100.2	Missouri Valley
164	George Mason	100.0	Atlantic 10
165	Radford	100.0	Big South
166	Western Carolina	100.0	Southern
167	Valparaiso	99.9	Missouri Valley
168	Old Dominion	99.9	Conference USA
169	California	99.9	Pac-12
170	Appalachian St.	99.8	Sun Belt
171	Vanderbilt	99.8	Southeastern
172	Boston U	99.5	Patriot
173	South Dakota	99.5	Summit
174	South Alabama	99.5	Sun Belt
175	La Salle	99.4	Atlantic 10
176	Hawaii	99.3	Big West
177	Central Michigan	99.3	Mid-American
178	North Florida	99.3	Atlantic Sun
179	California Baptist	99.2	Western Athletic
180	Northern Illinois	99.2	Mid-American
181	Montana	99.2	Big Sky
182	Tulane	99.1	American Athletic
183	Florida Int’l.	99.0	Conference USA
184	UC Santa Barbara	98.9	Big West
185	UAB	98.7	Conference USA
186	Air Force	98.6	Mountain West
187	Coastal Carolina	98.6	Sun Belt
188	Massachusetts	98.6	Atlantic 10
189	Delaware	98.6	Colonial Athletic
190	Northern Arizona	98.4	Big Sky
191	Princeton	98.3	Ivy
192	Rider	98.2	Metro Atlantic
193	Lafayette	98.2	Patriot
194	UTSA	98.2	Conference USA
195	Florida Atlantic	98.2	Conference USA
196	Nicholls St.	98.1	Southland
197	Sacramento St.	98.0	Big Sky
198	George Washington	98.0	Atlantic 10
199	Dartmouth	97.8	Ivy
200	Siena	97.8	Metro Atlantic
201	Abilene Christian	97.7	Southland
202	Portland St.	97.6	Big Sky
203	Ohio	97.6	Mid-American
204	Sacred Heart	97.6	Northeast
205	Prairie View A&M	97.5	Southwestern Athl.
206	Seattle	97.4	Western Athletic
207	UC Riverside	97.3	Big West
208	Omaha	97.3	Summit
209	Mercer	97.2	Southern
210	Arkansas St.	97.2	Sun Belt
211	Monmouth	97.2	Metro Atlantic
212	Montana St.	97.0	Big Sky
213	Loyola Marymount	97.0	West Coast
214	Miami (O)	96.9	Mid-American
215	Brown	96.9	Ivy
216	St. Francis (PA)	96.9	Northeast
217	Illinois St.	96.9	Missouri Valley
218	Robert Morris	96.5	Northeast
219	San Diego	96.5	West Coast
220	Eastern Illinois	96.4	Ohio Valley
221	Missouri-KC	96.4	Western Athletic
222	American	96.4	Patriot
223	Cal St. Bakersfield	96.4	Western Athletic
224	Eastern Michigan	96.4	Mid-American
225	Navy	96.4	Patriot
226	Bryant	96.3	Northeast
227	McNeese St.	96.2	Southland
228	Green Bay	96.2	Horizon
229	Illinois Chicago	96.1	Horizon
230	Canisius	96.1	Metro Atlantic
231	Drexel	96.1	Colonial Athletic
232	Bucknell	96.1	Patriot
233	East Carolina	96.1	American Athletic
234	North Dakota	95.9	Summit
235	Albany	95.9	America East
236	Saint Peter’s	95.7	Metro Atlantic
237	Grand Canyon	95.7	Western Athletic
238	UC Davis	95.5	Big West
239	Long Island	95.5	Northeast
240	Western Michigan	95.4	Mid-American
241	Tennessee St.	95.3	Ohio Valley
242	Merrimack	95.3	Northeast
243	Gardner-Webb	95.2	Big South
244	Oakland	95.2	Horizon
245	Louisiana	95.2	Sun Belt
246	Jacksonville	95.2	Atlantic Sun
247	Rice	95.1	Conference USA
248	Youngstown St.	95.1	Horizon
249	Quinnipiac	95.0	Metro Atlantic
250	Fairfield	95.0	Metro Atlantic
251	Jacksonville St.	94.9	Ohio Valley
252	Norfolk St.	94.9	Mideastern Athletic
253	Texas Southern	94.9	Southwestern Athl.
254	Cal St. Northridge	94.7	Big West
255	Manhattan	94.7	Metro Atlantic
256	Weber St.	94.6	Big Sky
257	Saint Joseph’s	94.5	Atlantic 10
258	Columbia	94.4	Ivy
259	Milwaukee	94.4	Horizon
260	Mount St. Mary’s	94.4	Northeast
261	Cal St. Fullerton	94.3	Big West
262	Lipscomb	94.2	Atlantic Sun
263	Portland	94.2	West Coast
264	Fordham	94.1	Atlantic 10
265	Purdue Fort Wayne	94.0	Summit
266	Southern Miss.	94.0	Conference USA
267	Army	94.0	Patriot
268	Utah Valley	94.0	Western Athletic
269	UT Rio Grande Valley	93.9	Western Athletic
270	Iona	93.9	Metro Atlantic
271	Lamar	93.7	Southland
272	Hartford	93.6	America East
273	North Alabama	93.6	Atlantic Sun
274	Detroit	93.6	Horizon
275	VMI	93.5	Southern
276	New Hampshire	93.4	America East
277	Evansville	93.3	Missouri Valley
278	NJIT	93.3	Atlantic Sun
279	Cornell	93.3	Ivy
280	Campbell	93.2	Big South
281	Louisiana Monroe	93.2	Sun Belt
282	Troy	93.0	Sun Belt
283	UMass Lowell	93.0	America East
284	Middle Tennessee	93.0	Conference USA
285	UNC Asheville	92.8	Big South
286	Samford	92.8	Southern
287	Loyola (MD)	92.6	Patriot
288	Wyoming	92.5	Mountain West
289	James Madison	92.4	Colonial Athletic
290	Texas A&M CC	92.4	Southland
291	Bethune Cookman	92.3	Mideastern Athletic
292	Niagara	92.2	Metro Atlantic
293	North Carolina Central	92.2	Mideastern Athletic
294	Alcorn St.	92.2	Southwestern Athl.
295	Long Beach St.	92.1	Big West
296	San Jose St.	92.0	Mountain West
297	North Carolina A&T	91.9	Mideastern Athletic
298	Charleston Southern	91.9	Big South
299	UM Baltimore Co.	91.9	America East
300	Morehead St.	91.8	Ohio Valley
301	Idaho St.	91.8	Big Sky
302	Lehigh	91.6	Patriot
303	St. Francis (NY)	91.6	Northeast
304	Central Arkansas	91.5	Southland
305	Stetson	91.5	Atlantic Sun
306	UNC Wilmington	91.4	Colonial Athletic
307	Cleveland St.	91.2	Horizon
308	Eastern Kentucky	91.1	Ohio Valley
309	Fairleigh Dickinson	91.0	Northeast
310	Florida Gulf Coast	91.0	Atlantic Sun
311	Southern	90.8	Southwestern Athl.
312	Denver	90.4	Summit
313	Elon	90.4	Colonial Athletic
314	UT-Martin	90.4	Ohio Valley
315	Hampton	90.3	Big South
316	Morgan St.	90.3	Mideastern Athletic
317	Cal Poly	90.2	Big West
318	Idaho	90.1	Big Sky
319	Florida A&M	90.1	Mideastern Athletic
320	Citadel	90.1	Southern
321	USC Upstate	90.0	Big South
322	Grambling	89.9	Southwestern Athl.
323	Northwestern St.	89.8	Southland
324	New Orleans	89.8	Southland
325	Longwood	89.6	Big South
326	Jackson St.	89.3	Southwestern Athl.
327	IUPUI	89.3	Horizon
328	Wagner	89.0	Northeast
329	South Carolina St.	89.0	Mideastern Athletic
330	Western Illinois	88.9	Summit
331	Maine	88.9	America East
332	Coppin St.	88.7	Mideastern Athletic
333	Marist	88.3	Metro Atlantic
334	Presbyterian	88.2	Big South
335	Binghamton	88.1	America East
336	SE Missouri	88.1	Ohio Valley
337	SE Louisiana	87.8	Southland
338	Tennessee Tech	87.6	Ohio Valley
339	SIU Edwardsville	87.2	Ohio Valley
340	Alabama St.	86.9	Southwestern Athl.
341	Holy Cross	86.9	Patriot
342	Alabama A&M	86.6	Southwestern Athl.
343	High Point	86.1	Big South
344	Houston Baptist	84.4	Southland
345	Arkansas Pine Bluff	83.6	Southwestern Athl.
346	Incarnate Word	82.8	Southland
347	Howard	82.1	Mideastern Athletic
348	Kennesaw St.	81.8	Atlantic Sun
349	Central Connecticut	81.1	Northeast
350	MD Eastern Shore	80.5	Mideastern Athletic
351	Delaware St.	79.8	Mideastern Athletic
352	Mississippi Valley St.	78.6	Southwestern Athl.
353	Chicago St.	76.7	Western Athletic

 

Alphabetical

 

#	Team	PiRate	Conf.
1	Abilene Christian	97.7	Southland
2	Air Force	98.6	Mountain West
3	Akron	107.3	Mid-American
4	Alabama	111.3	Southeastern
5	Alabama A&M	86.6	Southwestern Athl.
6	Alabama St.	86.9	Southwestern Athl.
7	Albany	95.9	America East
8	Alcorn St.	92.2	Southwestern Athl.
9	American	96.4	Patriot
10	Appalachian St.	99.8	Sun Belt
11	Arizona	116.6	Pac-12
12	Arizona St.	108.0	Pac-12
13	Arkansas	112.5	Southeastern
14	Arkansas Pine Bluff	83.6	Southwestern Athl.
15	Arkansas St.	97.2	Sun Belt
16	Army	94.0	Patriot
17	Auburn	112.5	Southeastern
18	Austin Peay	101.2	Ohio Valley
19	Ball St.	104.1	Mid-American
20	Baylor	117.8	Big 12
21	Belmont	105.5	Ohio Valley
22	Bethune Cookman	92.3	Mideastern Athletic
23	Binghamton	88.1	America East
24	Boise St.	106.4	Mountain West
25	Boston College	100.4	Atlantic Coast
26	Boston U	99.5	Patriot
27	Bowling Green	100.9	Mid-American
28	Bradley	104.9	Missouri Valley
29	Brown	96.9	Ivy
30	Bryant	96.3	Northeast
31	Bucknell	96.1	Patriot
32	Buffalo	101.9	Mid-American
33	Butler	114.2	Big East
34	BYU	113.5	West Coast
35	Cal Poly	90.2	Big West
36	Cal St. Bakersfield	96.4	Western Athletic
37	Cal St. Fullerton	94.3	Big West
38	Cal St. Northridge	94.7	Big West
39	California	99.9	Pac-12
40	California Baptist	99.2	Western Athletic
41	Campbell	93.2	Big South
42	Canisius	96.1	Metro Atlantic
43	Central Arkansas	91.5	Southland
44	Central Connecticut	81.1	Northeast
45	Central Florida	103.9	American Athletic
46	Central Michigan	99.3	Mid-American
47	Charleston	101.8	Colonial Athletic
48	Charleston Southern	91.9	Big South
49	Charlotte	100.8	Conference USA
50	Chattanooga	100.2	Southern
51	Chicago St.	76.7	Western Athletic
52	Cincinnati	110.9	American Athletic
53	Citadel	90.1	Southern
54	Clemson	107.0	Atlantic Coast
55	Cleveland St.	91.2	Horizon
56	Coastal Carolina	98.6	Sun Belt
57	Colgate	102.4	Patriot
58	Colorado	112.9	Pac-12
59	Colorado St.	104.6	Mountain West
60	Columbia	94.4	Ivy
61	Connecticut	107.3	American Athletic
62	Coppin St.	88.7	Mideastern Athletic
63	Cornell	93.3	Ivy
64	Creighton	112.2	Big East
65	Dartmouth	97.8	Ivy
66	Davidson	105.6	Atlantic 10
67	Dayton	117.2	Atlantic 10
68	Delaware	98.6	Colonial Athletic
69	Delaware St.	79.8	Mideastern Athletic
70	Denver	90.4	Summit
71	DePaul	107.2	Big East
72	Detroit	93.6	Horizon
73	Drake	101.3	Missouri Valley
74	Drexel	96.1	Colonial Athletic
75	Duke	121.4	Atlantic Coast
76	Duquesne	105.6	Atlantic 10
77	East Carolina	96.1	American Athletic
78	East Tennessee St.	107.5	Southern
79	Eastern Illinois	96.4	Ohio Valley
80	Eastern Kentucky	91.1	Ohio Valley
81	Eastern Michigan	96.4	Mid-American
82	Eastern Washington	100.4	Big Sky
83	Elon	90.4	Colonial Athletic
84	Evansville	93.3	Missouri Valley
85	Fairfield	95.0	Metro Atlantic
86	Fairleigh Dickinson	91.0	Northeast
87	Florida	111.9	Southeastern
88	Florida A&M	90.1	Mideastern Athletic
89	Florida Atlantic	98.2	Conference USA
90	Florida Gulf Coast	91.0	Atlantic Sun
91	Florida Int’l.	99.0	Conference USA
92	Florida St.	113.9	Atlantic Coast
93	Fordham	94.1	Atlantic 10
94	Fresno St.	101.4	Mountain West
95	Furman	106.5	Southern
96	Gardner-Webb	95.2	Big South
97	George Mason	100.0	Atlantic 10
98	George Washington	98.0	Atlantic 10
99	Georgetown	109.6	Big East
100	Georgia	106.0	Southeastern
101	Georgia Southern	101.8	Sun Belt
102	Georgia St.	105.1	Sun Belt
103	Georgia Tech	107.1	Atlantic Coast
104	Gonzaga	120.0	West Coast
105	Grambling	89.9	Southwestern Athl.
106	Grand Canyon	95.7	Western Athletic
107	Green Bay	96.2	Horizon
108	Hampton	90.3	Big South
109	Hartford	93.6	America East
110	Harvard	105.2	Ivy
111	Hawaii	99.3	Big West
112	High Point	86.1	Big South
113	Hofstra	101.9	Colonial Athletic
114	Holy Cross	86.9	Patriot
115	Houston	112.5	American Athletic
116	Houston Baptist	84.4	Southland
117	Howard	82.1	Mideastern Athletic
118	Idaho	90.1	Big Sky
119	Idaho St.	91.8	Big Sky
120	Illinois	113.0	Big Ten
121	Illinois Chicago	96.1	Horizon
122	Illinois St.	96.9	Missouri Valley
123	Incarnate Word	82.8	Southland
124	Indiana	111.4	Big Ten
125	Indiana St.	102.6	Missouri Valley
126	Iona	93.9	Metro Atlantic
127	Iowa	114.4	Big Ten
128	Iowa St.	108.4	Big 12
129	IUPUI	89.3	Horizon
130	Jackson St.	89.3	Southwestern Athl.
131	Jacksonville	95.2	Atlantic Sun
132	Jacksonville St.	94.9	Ohio Valley
133	James Madison	92.4	Colonial Athletic
134	Kansas	121.4	Big 12
135	Kansas St.	106.6	Big 12
136	Kennesaw St.	81.8	Atlantic Sun
137	Kent St.	104.7	Mid-American
138	Kentucky	113.1	Southeastern
139	La Salle	99.4	Atlantic 10
140	Lafayette	98.2	Patriot
141	Lamar	93.7	Southland
142	Lehigh	91.6	Patriot
143	Liberty	106.8	Atlantic Sun
144	Lipscomb	94.2	Atlantic Sun
145	Little Rock	102.3	Sun Belt
146	Long Beach St.	92.1	Big West
147	Long Island	95.5	Northeast
148	Longwood	89.6	Big South
149	Louisiana	95.2	Sun Belt
150	Louisiana Monroe	93.2	Sun Belt
151	Louisiana Tech	108.2	Conference USA
152	Louisville	116.2	Atlantic Coast
153	Loyola (Chi.)	105.7	Missouri Valley
154	Loyola Marymount	97.0	West Coast
155	Loyola (MD)	92.6	Patriot
156	LSU	112.9	Southeastern
157	Maine	88.9	America East
158	Manhattan	94.7	Metro Atlantic
159	Marist	88.3	Metro Atlantic
160	Marquette	113.0	Big East
161	Marshall	101.0	Conference USA
162	Maryland	116.1	Big Ten
163	Massachusetts	98.6	Atlantic 10
164	McNeese St.	96.2	Southland
165	MD Eastern Shore	80.5	Mideastern Athletic
166	Memphis	109.9	American Athletic
167	Mercer	97.2	Southern
168	Merrimack	95.3	Northeast
169	Miami (Fla.)	104.5	Atlantic Coast
170	Miami (O)	96.9	Mid-American
171	Michigan	112.7	Big Ten
172	Michigan St.	118.8	Big Ten
173	Middle Tennessee	93.0	Conference USA
174	Milwaukee	94.4	Horizon
175	Minnesota	111.2	Big Ten
176	Mississippi	104.5	Southeastern
177	Mississippi St.	111.2	Southeastern
178	Mississippi Valley St.	78.6	Southwestern Athl.
179	Missouri	106.5	Southeastern
180	Missouri-KC	96.4	Western Athletic
181	Missouri St.	100.4	Missouri Valley
182	Monmouth	97.2	Metro Atlantic
183	Montana	99.2	Big Sky
184	Montana St.	97.0	Big Sky
185	Morehead St.	91.8	Ohio Valley
186	Morgan St.	90.3	Mideastern Athletic
187	Mount St. Mary’s	94.4	Northeast
188	Murray St.	102.5	Ohio Valley
189	Navy	96.4	Patriot
190	Nebraska	103.1	Big Ten
191	Nevada	106.2	Mountain West
192	New Hampshire	93.4	America East
193	New Mexico	102.2	Mountain West
194	New Mexico St.	104.7	Western Athletic
195	New Orleans	89.8	Southland
196	Niagara	92.2	Metro Atlantic
197	Nicholls St.	98.1	Southland
198	NJIT	93.3	Atlantic Sun
199	Norfolk St.	94.9	Mideastern Athletic
200	North Alabama	93.6	Atlantic Sun
201	North Carolina	108.1	Atlantic Coast
202	North Carolina A&T	91.9	Mideastern Athletic
203	North Carolina Central	92.2	Mideastern Athletic
204	North Carolina St.	109.4	Atlantic Coast
205	North Dakota	95.9	Summit
206	North Dakota St.	101.7	Summit
207	North Florida	99.3	Atlantic Sun
208	North Texas	106.5	Conference USA
209	Northeastern	102.3	Colonial Athletic
210	Northern Arizona	98.4	Big Sky
211	Northern Colorado	103.9	Big Sky
212	Northern Illinois	99.2	Mid-American
213	Northern Iowa	109.4	Missouri Valley
214	Northern Kentucky	102.3	Horizon
215	Northwestern	103.5	Big Ten
216	Northwestern St.	89.8	Southland
217	Notre Dame	109.1	Atlantic Coast
218	Oakland	95.2	Horizon
219	Ohio	97.6	Mid-American
220	Ohio St.	115.4	Big Ten
221	Oklahoma	109.9	Big 12
222	Oklahoma St.	107.4	Big 12
223	Old Dominion	99.9	Conference USA
224	Omaha	97.3	Summit
225	Oral Roberts	101.8	Summit
226	Oregon	113.8	Pac-12
227	Oregon St.	106.5	Pac-12
228	Pacific	101.0	West Coast
229	Penn	101.4	Ivy
230	Penn St.	113.9	Big Ten
231	Pepperdine	100.8	West Coast
232	Pittsburgh	107.0	Atlantic Coast
233	Portland	94.2	West Coast
234	Portland St.	97.6	Big Sky
235	Prairie View A&M	97.5	Southwestern Athl.
236	Presbyterian	88.2	Big South
237	Princeton	98.3	Ivy
238	Providence	107.7	Big East
239	Purdue	112.5	Big Ten
240	Purdue Fort Wayne	94.0	Summit
241	Quinnipiac	95.0	Metro Atlantic
242	Radford	100.0	Big South
243	Rhode Island	109.3	Atlantic 10
244	Rice	95.1	Conference USA
245	Richmond	107.5	Atlantic 10
246	Rider	98.2	Metro Atlantic
247	Robert Morris	96.5	Northeast
248	Rutgers	112.5	Big Ten
249	Sacramento St.	98.0	Big Sky
250	Sacred Heart	97.6	Northeast
251	Saint Joseph’s	94.5	Atlantic 10
252	Saint Louis	105.3	Atlantic 10
253	Saint Mary’s	111.1	West Coast
254	Saint Peter’s	95.7	Metro Atlantic
255	Sam Houston St.	100.2	Southland
256	Samford	92.8	Southern
257	San Diego	96.5	West Coast
258	San Diego St.	115.8	Mountain West
259	San Francisco	106.2	West Coast
260	San Jose St.	92.0	Mountain West
261	Santa Clara	101.7	West Coast
262	SE Louisiana	87.8	Southland
263	SE Missouri	88.1	Ohio Valley
264	Seattle	97.4	Western Athletic
265	Seton Hall	115.5	Big East
266	Siena	97.8	Metro Atlantic
267	SIU Edwardsville	87.2	Ohio Valley
268	SMU	106.8	American Athletic
269	South Alabama	99.5	Sun Belt
270	South Carolina	106.7	Southeastern
271	South Carolina St.	89.0	Mideastern Athletic
272	South Dakota	99.5	Summit
273	South Dakota St.	102.9	Summit
274	South Florida	102.8	American Athletic
275	Southern	90.8	Southwestern Athl.
276	Southern Illinois	100.2	Missouri Valley
277	Southern Miss.	94.0	Conference USA
278	Southern Utah	101.5	Big Sky
279	St. Bonaventure	102.8	Atlantic 10
280	St. Francis (NY)	91.6	Northeast
281	St. Francis (PA)	96.9	Northeast
282	St. John’s	107.5	Big East
283	Stanford	110.1	Pac-12
284	Stephen F. Austin	103.3	Southland
285	Stetson	91.5	Atlantic Sun
286	Stony Brook	102.1	America East
287	Syracuse	109.3	Atlantic Coast
288	TCU	107.8	Big 12
289	Temple	105.4	American Athletic
290	Tennessee	108.9	Southeastern
291	Tennessee St.	95.3	Ohio Valley
292	Tennessee Tech	87.6	Ohio Valley
293	Texas	107.8	Big 12
294	Texas A&M	101.7	Southeastern
295	Texas A&M CC	92.4	Southland
296	Texas Southern	94.9	Southwestern Athl.
297	Texas St.	103.1	Sun Belt
298	Texas Tech	113.1	Big 12
299	Toledo	103.0	Mid-American
300	Towson	100.6	Colonial Athletic
301	Troy	93.0	Sun Belt
302	Tulane	99.1	American Athletic
303	Tulsa	106.8	American Athletic
304	UAB	98.7	Conference USA
305	UC Davis	95.5	Big West
306	UC Irvine	103.4	Big West
307	UC Riverside	97.3	Big West
308	UC Santa Barbara	98.9	Big West
309	UCLA	103.8	Pac-12
310	UM Baltimore Co.	91.9	America East
311	UMass Lowell	93.0	America East
312	UNC Asheville	92.8	Big South
313	UNC Greensboro	107.9	Southern
314	UNC Wilmington	91.4	Colonial Athletic
315	UNLV	102.8	Mountain West
316	USC	109.4	Pac-12
317	USC Upstate	90.0	Big South
318	UT Arlington	103.2	Sun Belt
319	UT Rio Grande Valley	93.9	Western Athletic
320	UT-Martin	90.4	Ohio Valley
321	Utah	104.6	Pac-12
322	Utah St.	110.5	Mountain West
323	Utah Valley	94.0	Western Athletic
324	UTEP	100.2	Conference USA
325	UTSA	98.2	Conference USA
326	Valparaiso	99.9	Missouri Valley
327	Vanderbilt	99.8	Southeastern
328	VCU	111.1	Atlantic 10
329	Vermont	107.4	America East
330	Villanova	114.1	Big East
331	Virginia	109.3	Atlantic Coast
332	Virginia Tech	107.7	Atlantic Coast
333	VMI	93.5	Southern
334	Wagner	89.0	Northeast
335	Wake Forest	104.3	Atlantic Coast
336	Washington	110.1	Pac-12
337	Washington St.	102.8	Pac-12
338	Weber St.	94.6	Big Sky
339	West Virginia	117.3	Big 12
340	Western Carolina	100.0	Southern
341	Western Illinois	88.9	Summit
342	Western Kentucky	104.3	Conference USA
343	Western Michigan	95.4	Mid-American
344	Wichita St.	111.4	American Athletic
345	William & Mary	100.2	Colonial Athletic
346	Winthrop	103.2	Big South
347	Wisconsin	111.7	Big Ten
348	Wofford	101.9	Southern
349	Wright St.	104.4	Horizon
350	Wyoming	92.5	Mountain West
351	Xavier	108.8	Big East
352	Yale	108.7	Ivy
353	Youngstown St.	95.1	Horizon

 

PiRate Ratings By Conference

 

#	America East	PiRate
1	Vermont	107.4
2	Stony Brook	102.1
3	Albany	95.9
4	Hartford	93.6
5	New Hampshire	93.4
6	UMass Lowell	93.0
7	UM Baltimore Co.	91.9
8	Maine	88.9
9	Binghamton	88.1
Avg	America East	94.9
#	American Athletic	PiRate
1	Houston	112.5
2	Wichita St.	111.4
3	Cincinnati	110.9
4	Memphis	109.9
5	Connecticut	107.3
6	SMU	106.8
7	Tulsa	106.8
8	Temple	105.4
9	Central Florida	103.9
10	South Florida	102.8
11	Tulane	99.1
12	East Carolina	96.1
Avg	American Athletic	106.1
#	Atlantic 10	PiRate
1	Dayton	117.2
2	VCU	111.1
3	Rhode Island	109.3
4	Richmond	107.5
5	Davidson	105.6
6	Duquesne	105.6
7	Saint Louis	105.3
8	St. Bonaventure	102.8
9	George Mason	100.0
10	La Salle	99.4
11	Massachusetts	98.6
12	George Washington	98.0
13	Saint Joseph’s	94.5
14	Fordham	94.1
Avg.	Atlantic 10	103.5
#	Atlantic Coast	PiRate
1	Duke	121.4
2	Louisville	116.2
3	Florida St.	113.9
4	North Carolina St.	109.4
5	Virginia	109.3
6	Syracuse	109.3
7	Notre Dame	109.1
8	North Carolina	108.1
9	Virginia Tech	107.7
10	Georgia Tech	107.1
11	Pittsburgh	107.0
12	Clemson	107.0
13	Miami (Fla.)	104.5
14	Wake Forest	104.3
15	Boston College	100.4
Avg	Atlantic Coast	109.0
#	Atlantic Sun	PiRate
1	Liberty	106.8
2	North Florida	99.3
3	Jacksonville	95.2
4	Lipscomb	94.2
5	North Alabama	93.6
6	NJIT	93.3
7	Stetson	91.5
8	Florida Gulf Coast	91.0
9	Kennesaw St.	81.8
Avg	Atlantic Sun	94.1
#	Big 12	PiRate
1	Kansas	121.4
2	Baylor	117.8
3	West Virginia	117.3
4	Texas Tech	113.1
5	Oklahoma	109.9
6	Iowa St.	108.4
7	TCU	107.8
8	Texas	107.8
9	Oklahoma St.	107.4
10	Kansas St.	106.6
Avg	Big 12	111.8
#	Big East	PiRate
1	Seton Hall	115.5
2	Butler	114.2
3	Villanova	114.1
4	Marquette	113.0
5	Creighton	112.2
6	Georgetown	109.6
7	Xavier	108.8
8	Providence	107.7
9	St. John’s	107.5
10	DePaul	107.2
Avg	Big East	111.0
#	Big Sky	PiRate
1	Northern Colorado	103.9
2	Southern Utah	101.5
3	Eastern Washington	100.4
4	Montana	99.2
5	Northern Arizona	98.4
6	Sacramento St.	98.0
7	Portland St.	97.6
8	Montana St.	97.0
9	Weber St.	94.6
10	Idaho St.	91.8
11	Idaho	90.1
#	Big Sky	97.5
#	Big South	PiRate
1	Winthrop	103.2
2	Radford	100.0
3	Gardner-Webb	95.2
4	Campbell	93.2
5	UNC Asheville	92.8
6	Charleston Southern	91.9
7	Hampton	90.3
8	USC Upstate	90.0
9	Longwood	89.6
10	Presbyterian	88.2
11	High Point	86.1
Avg	Big South	92.8
#	Big Ten	PiRate
1	Michigan St.	118.8
2	Maryland	116.1
3	Ohio St.	115.4
4	Iowa	114.4
5	Penn St.	113.9
6	Illinois	113.0
7	Michigan	112.7
8	Purdue	112.5
9	Rutgers	112.5
10	Wisconsin	111.7
11	Indiana	111.4
12	Minnesota	111.2
13	Northwestern	103.5
14	Nebraska	103.1
Avg	Big Ten	112.2
#	Big West	PiRate
1	UC Irvine	103.4
2	Hawaii	99.3
3	UC Santa Barbara	98.9
4	UC Riverside	97.3
5	UC Davis	95.5
6	Cal St. Northridge	94.7
7	Cal St. Fullerton	94.3
8	Long Beach St.	92.1
9	Cal Poly	90.2
Avg	Big West	96.2
#	Colonial Athletic	PiRate
1	Northeastern	102.3
2	Hofstra	101.9
3	Charleston	101.8
4	Towson	100.6
5	William & Mary	100.2
6	Delaware	98.6
7	Drexel	96.1
8	James Madison	92.4
9	UNC Wilmington	91.4
10	Elon	90.4
Avg	Colonial Athletic	97.6
#	Conference USA	PiRate
1	Louisiana Tech	108.2
2	North Texas	106.5
3	Western Kentucky	104.3
4	Marshall	101.0
5	Charlotte	100.8
6	UTEP	100.2
7	Old Dominion	99.9
8	Florida Int’l.	99.0
9	UAB	98.7
10	UTSA	98.2
11	Florida Atlantic	98.2
12	Rice	95.1
13	Southern Miss.	94.0
14	Middle Tennessee	93.0
Avg	Conference USA	99.8
#	Horizon	PiRate
1	Wright St.	104.4
2	Northern Kentucky	102.3
3	Green Bay	96.2
4	Illinois Chicago	96.1
5	Oakland	95.2
6	Youngstown St.	95.1
7	Milwaukee	94.4
8	Detroit	93.6
9	Cleveland St.	91.2
10	IUPUI	89.3
Avg	Horizon	95.8
#	Ivy	PiRate
1	Yale	108.7
2	Harvard	105.2
3	Penn	101.4
4	Princeton	98.3
5	Dartmouth	97.8
6	Brown	96.9
7	Columbia	94.4
8	Cornell	93.3
Avg	Ivy	99.5
#	Metro Atlantic	PiRate
1	Rider	98.2
2	Siena	97.8
3	Monmouth	97.2
4	Canisius	96.1
5	Saint Peter’s	95.7
6	Quinnipiac	95.0
7	Fairfield	95.0
8	Manhattan	94.7
9	Iona	93.9
10	Niagara	92.2
11	Marist	88.3
Avg	Metro Atlantic	94.9
#	Mid-American	PiRate
1	Akron	107.3
2	Kent St.	104.7
3	Ball St.	104.1
4	Toledo	103.0
5	Buffalo	101.9
6	Bowling Green	100.9
7	Central Michigan	99.3
8	Northern Illinois	99.2
9	Ohio	97.6
10	Miami (O)	96.9
11	Eastern Michigan	96.4
12	Western Michigan	95.4
Avg	Mid-American	100.6
#	Mideastern Athletic	PiRate
1	Norfolk St.	94.9
2	Bethune Cookman	92.3
3	North Carolina Central	92.2
4	North Carolina A&T	91.9
5	Morgan St.	90.3
6	Florida A&M	90.1
7	South Carolina St.	89.0
8	Coppin St.	88.7
9	Howard	82.1
10	MD Eastern Shore	80.5
11	Delaware St.	79.8
Avg	Mideastern Athletic	88.3
#	Missouri Valley	PiRate
1	Northern Iowa	109.4
2	Loyola (Chi.)	105.7
3	Bradley	104.9
4	Indiana St.	102.6
5	Drake	101.3
6	Missouri St.	100.4
7	Southern Illinois	100.2
8	Valparaiso	99.9
9	Illinois St.	96.9
10	Evansville	93.3
Avg	Missouri Valley	101.5
#	Mountain West	PiRate
1	San Diego St.	115.8
2	Utah St.	110.5
3	Boise St.	106.4
4	Nevada	106.2
5	Colorado St.	104.6
6	UNLV	102.8
7	New Mexico	102.2
8	Fresno St.	101.4
9	Air Force	98.6
10	Wyoming	92.5
11	San Jose St.	92.0
Avg	Mountain West	103.0
#	Northeast	PiRate
1	Sacred Heart	97.6
2	St. Francis (PA)	96.9
3	Robert Morris	96.5
4	Bryant	96.3
5	Long Island	95.5
6	Merrimack	95.3
7	Mount St. Mary’s	94.4
8	St. Francis (NY)	91.6
9	Fairleigh Dickinson	91.0
10	Wagner	89.0
11	Central Connecticut	81.1
Avg	Northeast	93.2
#	Ohio Valley	PiRate
1	Belmont	105.5
2	Murray St.	102.5
3	Austin Peay	101.2
4	Eastern Illinois	96.4
5	Tennessee St.	95.3
6	Jacksonville St.	94.9
7	Morehead St.	91.8
8	Eastern Kentucky	91.1
9	UT-Martin	90.4
10	SE Missouri	88.1
11	Tennessee Tech	87.6
12	SIU Edwardsville	87.2
Avg	Ohio Valley	94.3
#	Pac-12	PiRate
1	Arizona	116.6
2	Oregon	113.8
3	Colorado	112.9
4	Stanford	110.1
5	Washington	110.1
6	USC	109.4
7	Arizona St.	108.0
8	Oregon St.	106.5
9	Utah	104.6
10	UCLA	103.8
11	Washington St.	102.8
12	California	99.9
Avg	Pac-12	108.2
#	Patriot	PiRate
1	Colgate	102.4
2	Boston U	99.5
3	Lafayette	98.2
4	American	96.4
5	Navy	96.4
6	Bucknell	96.1
7	Army	94.0
8	Loyola (MD)	92.6
9	Lehigh	91.6
10	Holy Cross	86.9
Avg	Patriot	95.4
#	Southeastern	PiRate
1	Kentucky	113.1
2	LSU	112.9
3	Auburn	112.5
4	Arkansas	112.5
5	Florida	111.9
6	Alabama	111.3
7	Mississippi St.	111.2
8	Tennessee	108.9
9	South Carolina	106.7
10	Missouri	106.5
11	Georgia	106.0
12	Mississippi	104.5
13	Texas A&M	101.7
14	Vanderbilt	99.8
Avg	Southeastern	108.5
#	Southern	PiRate
1	UNC Greensboro	107.9
2	East Tennessee St.	107.5
3	Furman	106.5
4	Wofford	101.9
5	Chattanooga	100.2
6	Western Carolina	100.0
7	Mercer	97.2
8	VMI	93.5
9	Samford	92.8
10	Citadel	90.1
Avg	Southern	99.8
#	Southland	PiRate
1	Stephen F. Austin	103.3
2	Sam Houston St.	100.2
3	Nicholls St.	98.1
4	Abilene Christian	97.7
5	McNeese St.	96.2
6	Lamar	93.7
7	Texas A&M CC	92.4
8	Central Arkansas	91.5
9	Northwestern St.	89.8
10	New Orleans	89.8
11	SE Louisiana	87.8
12	Houston Baptist	84.4
13	Incarnate Word	82.8
Avg	Southland	92.9
#	Southwestern Athletic	PiRate
1	Prairie View A&M	97.5
2	Texas Southern	94.9
3	Alcorn St.	92.2
4	Southern	90.8
5	Grambling	89.9
6	Jackson St.	89.3
7	Alabama St.	86.9
8	Alabama A&M	86.6
9	Arkansas Pine Bluff	83.6
10	Mississippi Valley St.	78.6
Avg	Southwestern Athletic	89.0
#	Summit	PiRate
1	South Dakota St.	102.9
2	Oral Roberts	101.8
3	North Dakota St.	101.7
4	South Dakota	99.5
5	Omaha	97.3
6	North Dakota	95.9
7	Purdue Fort Wayne	94.0
8	Denver	90.4
9	Western Illinois	88.9
Avg	Summit	96.9
#	Sun Belt	PiRate
1	Georgia St.	105.1
2	UT Arlington	103.2
3	Texas St.	103.1
4	Little Rock	102.3
5	Georgia Southern	101.8
6	Appalachian St.	99.8
7	South Alabama	99.5
8	Coastal Carolina	98.6
9	Arkansas St.	97.2
10	Louisiana	95.2
11	Louisiana Monroe	93.2
12	Troy	93.0
Avg	Sun Belt	99.3
#	West Coast	PiRate
1	Gonzaga	120.0
2	BYU	113.5
3	Saint Mary’s	111.1
4	San Francisco	106.2
5	Santa Clara	101.7
6	Pacific	101.0
7	Pepperdine	100.8
8	Loyola Marymount	97.0
9	San Diego	96.5
10	Portland	94.2
Avg	West Coast	104.2
#	Western Athletic	PiRate
1	New Mexico St.	104.7
2	California Baptist	99.2
3	Seattle	97.4
4	Missouri-KC	96.4
5	Cal St. Bakersfield	96.4
6	Grand Canyon	95.7
7	Utah Valley	94.0
8	UT Rio Grande Valley	93.9
9	Chicago St.	76.7
Avg	Western Athletic	94.9

 

Conference Ratings

 

#	Conference	PiRate
1	Big Ten	112.2
2	Big 12	111.8
3	Big East	111.0
4	Atlantic Coast	109.0
5	Southeastern	108.5
6	Pac-12	108.2
7	American Athletic	106.1
8	West Coast	104.2
9	Atlantic 10	103.5
10	Mountain West	103.0
11	Missouri Valley	101.5
12	Mid-American	100.6
13	Conference USA	99.8
14	Southern	99.8
15	Ivy	99.5
16	Sun Belt	99.3
17	Colonial Athletic	97.6
18	Big Sky	97.5
19	Summit	96.9
20	Big West	96.2
21	Horizon	95.8
22	Patriot	95.4
23	Western Athletic	94.9
24	Metro Atlantic	94.9
25	America East	94.9
26	Ohio Valley	94.3
27	Atlantic Sun	94.1
28	Northeast	93.2
29	Southland	92.9
30	Big South	92.8
31	Southwestern Athletic	89.0
32	Mideastern Athletic	88.3

 

Coming Later Today: Updated Bracketology

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PiRate College Football Ratings: November 3, 2019

This Week’s PiRate Ratings Spreads

Tuesday	November 5
Home	Visitors	PiRate	Mean	Bias
Toledo	Kent St.	2.8	3.2	3.2
Western Michigan	Ball St.	10.9	10.5	10.8
Wednesday	November 6
Home	Visitors	PiRate	Mean	Bias
Ohio U	Miami (O)	7.4	7.8	7.5
Thursday	November 7
Home	Visitors	PiRate	Mean	Bias
Coastal Carolina	Louisiana	-11.7	-10.7	-12.1
South Florida	Temple	-3.9	-1.8	-4.3
Friday	November 8
Home	Visitors	PiRate	Mean	Bias
Oregon St.	Washington	-11.6	-10.2	-12.9
Tulsa	Central Florida	-18.6	-17.1	-18.3
Saturday	November 9
Home	Visitors	PiRate	Mean	Bias
Alabama	LSU	9.2	8.4	9.9
Arizona St.	USC	2.9	1.8	3.1
Arkansas	Western Kentucky	5.8	5.1	3.9
Army	Massachusetts	38.5	36.9	39.1
Boise St.	Wyoming	9.9	7.7	9.6
Boston College	Florida St.	2.6	2.4	3.0
BYU	Liberty	17.2	15.9	17.4
California	Washington St.	-7.1	-6.7	-7.3
Cincinnati	Connecticut	38.8	34.5	40.2
Colorado	Stanford	-5.5	-5.1	-5.6
Duke	Notre Dame	-7.7	-6.5	-7.3
Florida	Vanderbilt	28.5	26.9	29.3
Florida Atlantic	Florida Int’l.	9.4	9.5	10.9
Fresno St.	Utah St.	-1.0	0.9	-1.2
Georgia	Missouri	18.1	18.6	18.6
Hawaii	San Jose St.	12.0	11.5	11.1
Kentucky	Tennessee	2.2	1.0	2.0
Louisiana Tech	North Texas	6.4	7.1	6.2
Miami (Fla.)	Louisville	10.7	10.4	11.8
Michigan St.	Illinois	14.0	12.1	13.9
Minnesota	Penn St.	-3.9	-3.1	-4.5
New Mexico	Air Force	-21.4	-20.3	-23.4
North Carolina St.	Clemson	-35.7	-33.8	-36.9
Northwestern	Purdue	1.5	0.5	0.7
Ohio St.	Maryland	42.4	42.6	44.9
Oklahoma	Iowa St.	11.8	10.3	11.2
Old Dominion	UTSA	0.7	-1.1	0.9
Ole Miss	New Mexico St.	33.0	30.0	32.9
San Diego St.	Nevada	14.7	14.9	15.2
SMU	East Carolina	26.3	24.6	27.0
South Carolina	Appalachian St.	8.1	7.4	8.1
Southern Miss.	UAB	7.0	4.0	6.5
TCU	Baylor	-4.1	-1.7	-3.2
Texas	Kansas St.	0.7	1.0	0.6
Texas St.	South Alabama	9.8	7.8	9.8
Troy	Georgia Southern	-2.9	-2.1	-3.5
UL-Monroe	Georgia St.	-4.1	-5.0	-4.3
UTEP	Charlotte	-15.1	-11.5	-14.9
Virginia	Georgia Tech	15.8	17.6	15.9
Virginia Tech	Wake Forest	-1.5	-1.0	-1.5
West Virginia	Texas Tech	1.2	0.7	1.6
Wisconsin	Iowa	4.3	5.7	4.3

 

Special Game–150th Anniversary of College Football

Dartmouth and Princeton will play Saturday at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx at 3:30 PM EST.  The game is available on ESPNU, and both teams sport perfect 7-0 records in the FCS Division.  It will mark the 150th anniversary of college football.  Princeton (known then as the College of New Jersey until 1896) and Rutgers met for the first college game in November 6, 1869, and Rutgers won that game 6 goals to 4.

This might be the most important Ivy League game since 8-0-0 Harvard and 8-0-0 Yale battled to an unbelievable 29-29 tie to conclude the 1968 season.  Yale led 29-13 with less than a minute to play, and Harvard scored twice with successful two-point conversions to tie the game and claim part of the Ivy League Championship.

Dartmouth and Princeton have been the top two programs in recent Ivy League history.  Both teams have enjoyed some incredible seasons in the distant past as well.  The 1970 Darmouth team was the best in Ivy League history, as they won the Lambert Trophy for best overall team from the East and finished ranked in the top 20 in the nation after  finishing 9-0.  That Dartmouth team surrendered just 42 points all season, but they didn’t give up a point in their final four games.

Princeton was one of the final teams in major college football to use the old Single Wing offense.  The Tigers went 9-0 and won the Ivy League in 1964, but their 1950 and 1951 teams that went undefeated finished number six in the AP Poll, and star back Dick Kazmaier won the 1951 Heisman Trophy.

The Ivy League isn’t Division 1 any more, and the champion doesn’t even get to go to the FCS Playoffs, but this is still an incredible game worth watching if you have a second monitor to watch in addition to that other 3:30 PM game in Tuscaloosa, AL.

The PiRate Ratings do not rate FCS teams the same way as we rate FBS teams.  We can estimate a power rating based on a former PiRate Formula, which we used from 1980 to 1996.

The estimate for this game is: 

Dartmouth 19

Princeton 16

 

 

This Week’s PiRate Ratings

#	Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
1	Ohio St.	139.0	138.1	140.1	139.1
2	Clemson	135.3	133.0	136.3	134.9
3	Alabama	135.6	132.5	136.3	134.8
4	L S U	129.4	127.1	129.3	128.6
5	Georgia	126.7	124.8	126.7	126.1
6	Penn St.	124.9	124.1	125.2	124.8
7	Utah	123.7	122.6	124.5	123.6
8	Oklahoma	123.5	122.7	123.2	123.1
9	Michigan	123.0	121.6	123.3	122.6
10	Auburn	122.5	120.8	122.3	121.9
11	Oregon	121.2	121.3	122.5	121.7
12	Florida	122.8	119.9	122.3	121.6
13	Wisconsin	120.4	120.0	120.3	120.2
14	Iowa	119.1	117.3	119.0	118.4
15	Minnesota	118.1	117.9	117.8	117.9
16	Notre Dame	116.4	114.7	116.0	115.7
17	Texas A&M	116.2	114.6	115.1	115.3
18	Iowa St.	114.8	115.4	115.0	115.1
19	Washington	114.3	114.0	115.3	114.5
20	Central Florida	113.5	112.8	114.2	113.5
21	Baylor	113.5	113.5	112.8	113.3
22	Washington St.	113.0	112.2	113.5	112.9
23	Kansas St.	112.3	112.2	112.3	112.3
24	Michigan St.	112.7	111.8	112.2	112.2
25	Mississippi St.	110.8	107.5	114.7	111.0
26	South Carolina	111.7	110.0	111.1	110.9
27	Missouri	111.6	109.2	111.1	110.6
28	Indiana	110.6	109.6	110.3	110.2
29	Oklahoma St.	110.0	110.7	109.7	110.1
30	Texas	109.9	110.2	109.9	110.0
31	Tennessee	109.5	109.3	108.6	109.1
32	T C U	107.3	109.8	107.6	108.2
33	Kentucky	108.7	107.3	107.6	107.9
34	Virginia	107.7	107.8	107.9	107.8
35	U S C	107.3	107.8	107.6	107.6
36	Miami (Fla.)	107.2	106.8	108.3	107.4
37	Arizona St.	107.2	106.5	107.7	107.2
38	Cincinnati	107.0	106.0	107.4	106.8
39	Wake Forest	106.5	106.0	107.0	106.5
40	SMU	106.2	105.9	107.1	106.4
41	Memphis	105.9	105.9	106.7	106.2
42	Appalachian St.	106.6	105.6	106.0	106.1
43	Ole Miss	106.4	105.4	106.3	106.0
44	Boise St.	106.0	105.9	106.1	106.0
45	Pittsburgh	105.7	105.3	106.0	105.7
46	North Carolina	105.4	105.2	106.1	105.6
47	Duke	105.7	105.1	105.6	105.5
48	Air Force	103.7	105.0	104.5	104.4
49	Texas Tech	104.4	104.6	103.5	104.2
50	Stanford	104.0	103.3	103.7	103.7
51	Florida St.	103.6	103.5	103.6	103.6
52	Purdue	103.6	103.4	102.9	103.3
53	BYU	103.2	103.2	103.4	103.3
54	Boston College	103.2	102.9	103.6	103.2
55	Nebraska	103.1	103.6	102.3	103.0
56	California	102.8	102.4	103.3	102.8
57	West Virginia	102.7	102.3	102.1	102.3
58	Virginia Tech	102.0	102.0	102.5	102.2
59	Illinois	101.7	102.6	101.3	101.9
60	Northwestern	102.5	101.4	101.2	101.7
61	U C L A	101.7	101.6	101.5	101.6
62	Louisiana	101.3	101.6	101.4	101.4
63	Tulane	99.7	100.5	100.2	100.1
64	Oregon St.	99.8	100.8	99.5	100.0
65	Wyoming	99.0	101.2	99.6	99.9
66	Louisville	99.6	99.4	99.5	99.5
67	Navy	97.9	100.5	98.9	99.1
68	Utah St.	99.2	98.4	99.8	99.1
69	Maryland	99.6	98.5	98.2	98.8
70	Western Michigan	98.8	97.9	98.7	98.5
71	San Diego St.	97.9	99.6	97.7	98.4
72	Temple	98.3	97.5	99.1	98.3
73	Syracuse	98.5	97.7	97.8	98.0
74	Houston	97.0	97.9	99.1	98.0
75	Georgia Southern	96.9	96.7	96.4	96.7
76	Arizona	96.7	96.5	96.2	96.5
77	North Carolina St.	96.6	96.2	96.5	96.4
78	Vanderbilt	97.3	96.0	96.0	96.4
79	Florida Atlantic	95.6	95.5	96.9	96.0
80	Kansas	95.5	96.5	95.4	95.8
81	Fresno St.	95.2	96.2	95.6	95.7
82	Hawaii	95.2	96.6	94.3	95.4
83	Colorado	95.5	95.2	95.1	95.2
84	Georgia Tech	94.8	93.2	95.0	94.3
85	Ohio	94.4	93.5	94.9	94.3
86	Southern Miss.	94.6	93.3	94.8	94.2
87	Louisiana Tech	94.0	94.4	94.3	94.2
88	Army	94.1	94.2	93.4	93.9
89	Buffalo	92.9	93.6	94.4	93.6
90	Georgia St.	92.5	93.8	92.2	92.8
91	Tulsa	91.8	92.7	92.9	92.5
92	Arkansas	92.2	92.2	91.6	92.0
93	South Florida	91.4	92.6	91.8	91.9
94	Troy	91.6	92.1	90.5	91.4
95	Arkansas St.	91.3	91.6	91.2	91.4
96	Marshall	90.8	90.4	91.6	90.9
97	U A B	90.1	91.8	90.7	90.9
98	North Texas	90.6	90.2	91.1	90.6
99	Ball St.	90.4	89.9	90.4	90.2
100	Western Kentucky	89.4	90.2	90.8	90.1
101	Liberty	89.5	90.8	89.6	89.9
102	Middle Tennessee	89.8	89.0	89.9	89.6
103	Northern Illinois	89.5	88.7	89.6	89.3
104	Miami (Ohio)	89.5	88.2	89.9	89.2
105	Toledo	88.4	88.7	89.1	88.7
106	Central Michigan	88.2	88.8	89.1	88.7
107	Colorado St.	87.1	90.7	87.7	88.5
108	San Jose St.	87.7	89.5	87.7	88.3
109	Kent St.	87.6	87.4	87.9	87.6
110	Florida Int’l.	87.7	87.5	87.5	87.6
111	Coastal Carolina	87.2	88.4	86.8	87.5
112	Nevada	86.2	87.7	85.5	86.5
113	Charlotte	86.1	86.4	86.5	86.3
114	Louisiana-Monroe	85.8	86.4	85.4	85.9
115	Eastern Michigan	84.2	84.3	84.5	84.4
116	Rutgers	84.1	83.8	82.9	83.6
117	U N L V	83.1	84.7	82.7	83.5
118	East Carolina	82.9	84.3	83.1	83.4
119	Texas St.	81.8	82.3	81.0	81.7
120	New Mexico	79.8	82.2	78.5	80.2
121	Rice	79.5	80.4	78.7	79.6
122	New Mexico St.	76.4	78.5	76.4	77.1
123	Texas-San Antonio	75.6	77.7	75.5	76.2
124	South Alabama	74.5	77.0	73.7	75.1
125	Bowling Green	74.1	73.9	74.1	74.1
126	Old Dominion	73.8	74.0	73.9	73.9
127	Connecticut	71.2	74.5	70.2	72.0
128	U T E P	68.5	72.5	69.1	70.0
129	Akron	66.9	66.7	65.6	66.4
130	Massachusetts	58.6	60.3	57.3	58.7

 

PiRate Ratings For Conference

American Athletic Conference
East Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average	AAC	Overall
Central Florida	113.5	112.8	114.2	113.5	4-1	7-2
Cincinnati	107.0	106.0	107.4	106.8	4-0	7-1
Temple	98.3	97.5	99.1	98.3	2-2	5-3
South Florida	91.4	92.6	91.8	91.9	2-2	4-4
East Carolina	82.9	84.3	83.1	83.4	0-5	3-6
Connecticut	71.2	74.5	70.2	72.0	0-5	2-7
West Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average	AAC	Overall
SMU	106.2	105.9	107.1	106.4	4-1	8-1
Memphis	105.9	105.9	106.7	106.2	4-1	8-1
Tulane	99.7	100.5	100.2	100.1	3-2	6-3
Navy	97.9	100.5	98.9	99.1	5-1	7-1
Houston	97.0	97.9	99.1	98.0	1-4	3-6
Tulsa	91.8	92.7	92.9	92.5	0-5	2-7
AAC Averages	96.9	97.6	97.6	97.3
Atlantic Coast Conference
Atlantic Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average	ACC	Overall
Clemson	135.3	133.0	136.3	134.9	6-0	9-0
Wake Forest	106.5	106.0	107.0	106.5	3-1	7-1
Florida St.	103.6	103.5	103.6	103.6	3-4	4-5
Boston College	103.2	102.9	103.6	103.2	3-3	5-4
Louisville	99.6	99.4	99.5	99.5	3-2	5-3
Syracuse	98.5	97.7	97.8	98.0	0-5	3-6
North Carolina St.	96.6	96.2	96.5	96.4	1-3	4-4
Coastal Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average	ACC	Overall
Virginia	107.7	107.8	107.9	107.8	4-2	6-3
Miami (Fla.)	107.2	106.8	108.3	107.4	3-3	5-4
Pittsburgh	105.7	105.3	106.0	105.7	3-2	6-3
North Carolina	105.4	105.2	106.1	105.6	3-3	4-5
Duke	105.7	105.1	105.6	105.5	2-3	4-4
Virginia Tech	102.0	102.0	102.5	102.2	3-2	5-3
Georgia Tech	94.8	93.2	95.0	94.3	1-4	2-6
ACC Averages	105.1	104.6	105.4	105.0
Big 12 Conference
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average	B12	Overall
Oklahoma	123.5	122.7	123.2	123.1	4-1	7-1
Iowa St.	114.8	115.4	115.0	115.1	3-2	5-3
Baylor	113.5	113.5	112.8	113.3	5-0	8-0
Kansas St.	112.3	112.2	112.3	112.3	3-2	6-2
Oklahoma St.	110.0	110.7	109.7	110.1	3-3	6-3
Texas	109.9	110.2	109.9	110.0	3-2	5-3
T C U	107.3	109.8	107.6	108.2	2-3	4-4
Texas Tech	104.4	104.6	103.5	104.2	1-4	3-5
West Virginia	102.7	102.3	102.1	102.3	1-4	3-5
Kansas	95.5	96.5	95.4	95.8	1-5	3-6
Big 12 Averages	109.4	109.8	109.1	109.4
Big Ten Conference
East Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average	BTen	Overall
Ohio St.	139.0	138.1	140.1	139.1	5-0	8-0
Penn St.	124.9	124.1	125.2	124.8	5-0	8-0
Michigan	123.0	121.6	123.3	122.6	4-2	7-2
Michigan St.	112.7	111.8	112.2	112.2	2-3	4-4
Indiana	110.6	109.6	110.3	110.2	4-2	7-2
Maryland	99.6	98.5	98.2	98.8	1-5	3-6
Rutgers	84.1	83.8	82.9	83.6	0-6	2-7
West Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average	BTen	Overall
Wisconsin	120.4	120.0	120.3	120.2	3-2	6-2
Iowa	119.1	117.3	119.0	118.4	3-2	6-2
Minnesota	118.1	117.9	117.8	117.9	5-0	8-0
Purdue	103.6	103.4	102.9	103.3	2-4	3-6
Nebraska	103.1	103.6	102.3	103.0	2-4	4-5
Illinois	101.7	102.6	101.3	101.9	3-3	5-4
Northwestern	102.5	101.4	101.2	101.7	0-6	1-7
Big Ten Averages	111.6	111.0	111.2	111.3
Conference USA
East Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average	CUSA	Overall
Florida Atlantic	95.6	95.5	96.9	96.0	4-1	6-3
Marshall	90.8	90.4	91.6	90.9	4-1	6-3
Western Kentucky	89.4	90.2	90.8	90.1	4-2	5-4
Middle Tennessee	89.8	89.0	89.9	89.6	2-3	3-6
Florida Int’l.	87.7	87.5	87.5	87.6	3-3	5-4
Charlotte	86.1	86.4	86.5	86.3	2-3	4-5
Old Dominion	73.8	74.0	73.9	73.9	0-5	1-8
West Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average	CUSA	Overall
Southern Miss.	94.6	93.3	94.8	94.2	3-1	5-3
Louisiana Tech	94.0	94.4	94.3	94.2	4-0	7-1
U A B	90.1	91.8	90.7	90.9	3-1	6-2
North Texas	90.6	90.2	91.1	90.6	3-2	4-5
Rice	79.5	80.4	78.7	79.6	0-5	0-9
Texas-San Antonio	75.6	77.7	75.5	76.2	2-2	3-5
U T E P	68.5	72.5	69.1	70.0	0-5	1-7
CUSA Averages	86.1	86.7	86.5	86.4
FBS Independents
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average	Conf.	Overall
Notre Dame	116.4	114.7	116.0	115.7	x	6-2
BYU	103.2	103.2	103.4	103.3	x	4-4
Army	94.1	94.2	93.4	93.9	x	3-6
Liberty	89.5	90.8	89.6	89.9	x	6-3
New Mexico St.	76.4	78.5	76.4	77.1	x	0-8
Massachusetts	58.6	60.3	57.3	58.7	x	1-8
Indep. Averages	89.7	90.3	89.3	89.8
Mid-American Conference
East Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average	MAC	Overall
Ohio	94.4	93.5	94.9	94.3	3-1	4-4
Buffalo	92.9	93.6	94.4	93.6	3-2	5-4
Miami (Ohio)	89.5	88.2	89.9	89.2	3-1	4-4
Kent St.	87.6	87.4	87.9	87.6	2-2	3-5
Bowling Green	74.1	73.9	74.1	74.1	2-3	3-6
Akron	66.9	66.7	65.6	66.4	0-5	0-9
West Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average	MAC	Overall
Western Michigan	98.8	97.9	98.7	98.5	3-2	5-4
Ball St.	90.4	89.9	90.4	90.2	3-1	4-4
Northern Illinois	89.5	88.7	89.6	89.3	2-3	3-6
Toledo	88.4	88.7	89.1	88.7	2-2	5-3
Central Michigan	88.2	88.8	89.1	88.7	4-2	6-4
Eastern Michigan	84.2	84.3	84.5	84.4	1-4	4-5
MAC Averages	87.1	86.8	87.4	87.1
Mountain West Conference
Mountain Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average	MWC	Overall
Boise St.	106.0	105.9	106.1	106.0	4-0	7-1
Air Force	103.7	105.0	104.5	104.4	4-1	7-2
Wyoming	99.0	101.2	99.6	99.9	3-1	6-2
Utah St.	99.2	98.4	99.8	99.1	3-1	4-4
Colorado St.	87.1	90.7	87.7	88.5	3-2	4-5
New Mexico	79.8	82.2	78.5	80.2	0-5	2-7
West Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average	MWC	Overall
San Diego St.	97.9	99.6	97.7	98.4	4-1	7-1
Fresno St.	95.2	96.2	95.6	95.7	2-2	4-4
Hawaii	95.2	96.6	94.3	95.4	2-3	5-4
San Jose St.	87.7	89.5	87.7	88.3	1-4	4-5
Nevada	86.2	87.7	85.5	86.5	2-3	5-4
U N L V	83.1	84.7	82.7	83.5	1-5	2-7
MWC Averages	93.3	94.8	93.3	93.8
Pac-12 Conference
North Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average	P12	Overall
Oregon	121.2	121.3	122.5	121.7	6-0	8-1
Washington	114.3	114.0	115.3	114.5	2-4	5-4
Washington St.	113.0	112.2	113.5	112.9	1-4	4-4
Stanford	104.0	103.3	103.7	103.7	3-3	4-4
California	102.8	102.4	103.3	102.8	1-4	4-4
Oregon St.	99.8	100.8	99.5	100.0	3-2	4-4
South Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average	P12	Overall
Utah	123.7	122.6	124.5	123.6	5-1	8-1
U S C	107.3	107.8	107.6	107.6	4-2	5-4
Arizona St.	107.2	106.5	107.7	107.2	2-3	5-3
U C L A	101.7	101.6	101.5	101.6	4-2	4-5
Arizona	96.7	96.5	96.2	96.5	2-4	4-5
Colorado	95.5	95.2	95.1	95.2	1-5	3-6
Pac-12 Averages	107.3	107.0	107.5	107.3
Southeastern Conference
East Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average	SEC	Overall
Georgia	126.7	124.8	126.7	126.1	4-1	7-1
Florida	122.8	119.9	122.3	121.6	5-2	7-2
South Carolina	111.7	110.0	111.1	110.9	3-4	4-5
Missouri	111.6	109.2	111.1	110.6	2-2	5-3
Tennessee	109.5	109.3	108.6	109.1	2-3	4-5
Kentucky	108.7	107.3	107.6	107.9	2-4	4-4
Vanderbilt	97.3	96.0	96.0	96.4	1-4	2-6
West Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average	SEC	Overall
Alabama	135.6	132.5	136.3	134.8	5-0	8-0
L S U	129.4	127.1	129.3	128.6	4-0	8-0
Auburn	122.5	120.8	122.3	121.9	4-2	7-2
Texas A&M	116.2	114.6	115.1	115.3	3-2	6-3
Mississippi St.	110.8	107.5	114.7	111.0	2-4	4-5
Ole Miss	106.4	105.4	106.3	106.0	2-4	3-6
Arkansas	92.2	92.2	91.6	92.0	0-6	2-7
SEC Averages	114.4	112.6	114.2	113.7
Sunbelt Conference
East Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average	SBC	Overall
Appalachian St.	106.6	105.6	106.0	106.1	4-1	7-1
Georgia Southern	96.9	96.7	96.4	96.7	3-1	5-3
Georgia St.	92.5	93.8	92.2	92.8	3-1	6-2
Troy	91.6	92.1	90.5	91.4	1-3	3-5
Coastal Carolina	87.2	88.4	86.8	87.5	1-3	4-4
West Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average	SBC	Overall
Louisiana	101.3	101.6	101.4	101.4	3-1	6-2
Arkansas St.	91.3	91.6	91.2	91.4	3-2	5-4
Louisiana-Monroe	85.8	86.4	85.4	85.9	2-2	3-5
Texas St.	81.8	82.3	81.0	81.7	1-3	2-6
South Alabama	74.5	77.0	73.7	75.1	0-4	1-7
SBC Averages	91.0	91.6	90.5	91.0

 

Rating The Conferences

#	League	Average
1	Southeastern	113.7
2	Big Ten	111.3
3	Big 12	109.4
4	Pac-12	107.3
5	Atlantic Coast	105.0
6	American	97.3
7	Mountain West	93.8
8	Sun Belt	91.0
9	Independents	89.8
10	Mid-American	87.1
11	Conference USA	86.4

 

PiRate Rating Guess On Initial Top 4

Prediction on Selection Committee Choices on Tuesday
1	LSU
2	Ohio St.
3	Alabama
4	Penn St.

 

 

Top 5 Group of 5
1	Memphis
2	Cincinnati
3	Boise St.
4	Navy
5	SMU

Playoffs and Bowl Projections

 

Bowl	Conf	Conf	Team	Team
Bahamas	MAC	CUSA	Buffalo	Marshall
Frisco	AAC	At-large	SMU	[Boise St.]
Cure	AAC	SBC	[Liberty]	Arkansas St.
New Mexico	CUSA	MWC	UAB	Hawaii
Boca Raton	AAC	MAC	Tulane	Ohio
Camellia	MAC	SBC	Central Michigan	Georgia St.
Las Vegas	MWC #1	Pac-12	San Diego St.	Oregon St.
New Orleans	CUSA	SBC #1	Louisiana Tech	Louisiana
Gasparilla	AAC	CUSA	Cincinnati	Florida Atlantic
Hawaii	BYU/MWC	AAC	BYU	Navy
Independence	ACC	SEC	Miami (Fla.)	[Southern Miss.]
Quick Lane	ACC	Big Ten	North Carolina	Michigan St.
Military	ACC	AAC	Boston College	Temple
Pinstripe	ACC	Big Ten	Virginia	Michigan
Texas	Big 12	SEC	Texas	Texas A&M
Holiday	Pac-12	Big Ten	USC	Iowa
Cheez-It	Big 12	Pac-12	Iowa St.	Arizona St.
Camping World	ACC	Big 12	Notre Dame	Oklahoma St.
Cotton	At-large	At-large	Memphis	Baylor
First Responder	CUSA	Big 12	Western Kentucky	[Fresno St.]
Redbox	Pac-12	Big Ten	Washington	Illinois
Music City	SEC	ACC	[Ball St.]	Pittsburgh
Orange	ACC	BTen/SEC	Wake Forest	Florida
Belk	ACC	SEC	Virginia Tech	Mississippi St.
Sun	ACC	Pac-12	Louisville	Washington St.
Liberty	Big 12	SEC	TCU	[Stanford]
Arizona	SBC	MWC	Appalachian St.	Air Force
Alamo	Big 12	Pac-12	Kansas St.	Utah
Citrus	SEC	BTen/ACC	Auburn	Wisconsin
Outback	Big Ten	SEC	Penn St.	Tennessee
Rose	Big Ten	Pac-12	Minnesota	Oregon
Sugar	Big 12	SEC	Oklahoma	Georgia
Birmingham	AAC	SEC	Central Florida	[Duke]
Taxslayer/Gator	SEC	Big Ten	Kentucky	Indiana
Idaho Potato	MAC	MWC	Toledo	Utah St.
Armed Forces	Big Ten	MWC	Nebraska	Wyoming
Dollar General	MAC	SBC	Western Michigan	Georgia Southern
FBS PLAYOFFS
Fiesta	Top 4	Top 4	Ohio St.	Clemson
Peach	Top 4	Top 4	Alabama	LSU
Championship	Fiesta	Peach	Ohio St.	Alabama
Teams in [Brackets] are at-large selections

 

 

This Is The Weekend

We don’t really need to say anything.  If you are reading this publication, you already know how incredible this weekend will be in college football.  On a typical November 9 in prior years, the incredible Princeton-Dartmouth game at Yankee Stadium might be the marquee game of the weekend.  Unfortunately, it starts at the same time as the biggie at Bryant-Denny.  Let’s take a brief look at the games that may make you want to stay home on Saturday, throw some logs on the fireplace, enjoy your favorite snacks and beverages, and watch two to three games at the same time.

 

12 Noon EST

 

 

Penn St. (8-0) at Minnesota (8-0)–ABC

The winner stays in the hunt for a Playoff spot, while the loser probably falls out of the Rose Bowl race.  Minnesota hasn’t played in a November game that had this type of importance since they played at Purdue in November of 1967 with a Rose Bowl bid on the line.  Purdue clobbered the Gophers that day, and even though Minnesota beat undefeated Indiana the following week, when the season ended in a three-way tie for first, Indiana received the Rose Bowl bid because Minnesota and Purdue had been in the Rose Bowl more recently (It was the Hoosiers’ only Rose Bowl invitation).

Penn State has been in the Rose Bowl more recently, but the Nittany Lions would consider a trip to Pasadena this year to be a failure.  James Franklin has his team in line for the Playoffs if they could upset Ohio State on the November 23 and then win the Big Ten Championship.  Of course, the same holds true for the Gophers.  Wins over Penn State, Iowa, Wisconsin, and then Ohio State would definitely put Minnesota in the Playoffs.  Consider this game the equivalent of a Sweet 16 game in the NCAA Basketball Tournament.

 

Baylor (8-0) at TCU (4-4)–FS1

This is a 100% definite trap game for the undefeated Bears.  Baylor hosts Oklahoma on November 16, and no matter how hard Coach Matt Rhule tries to convince his squad that TCU is good enough to beat them, the players are already counting down the days until the Sooners come to Waco.

TCU is on the verge of having to worry about where two more victories will come, so bowl eligibility is not yet a given in Forth Worth.  The Horned Frogs have to win two of their final four and have games at Texas Tech and Oklahoma, as well as a home finale with West Virginia.  They will be underdogs in three of their final four and must upset somebody to get to a bowl.

 

 

3:30 PM EST

 

LSU (8-0) at Alabama (8-0)–CBS

The knock against LSU in recent years was that the Tigers were too conservative on the offensive attack, and defense and running couldn’t beat Alabama and other behemoths.  This year, LSU’s offense can light it up against anybody, including Alabama’s defense.

The rub is that with the increased offensive efficiency and quick scoring passing attack, the Tigers’ defense has been forced to play up to 20 additional snaps per game, and opponents are finding ways to move the ball on the former tough defense.

All that’s changed is that LSU wins games 42-27 instead of 27-12.  A 15-point victory is a 15-point victory.  In the SEC, talent at each of the two-deep offenses and defenses just mean more than whether a team can pass the ball for 300 yards and score 30 points or hold the opponents to 250 total yards and 14 points.

Alabama still has the superior overall talent in the two-deeps on both sides of the ball.  In the past, Alabama might have won this game 24-14.  We believe they will continue to dominate this series and win it 45-35.  A 10-point superior team is still 10 points better than the other team.

 

Dartmouth (7-0) vs. Princeton (7-0) @ Yankee Stadium in the Bronx–ESPNU

This is the 150th Anniversary of College Football, so it is worth tuning in to watch when and if the big game is not as exciting.  It isn’t the original Yankee Stadium, but Yankee Stadium has been the site of many great college football games including the incredible Army-Notre Dame game of 1946, which ended 0-0.

 

Kansas St. (6-2) at Texas (5-3)–ESPN

Both teams are 3-2 in the Big 12, and they are still mathematically in the race for the number two spot in the Conference Championship Game.  Kansas State holds the tiebreaker over Oklahoma, so if the Wildcats can win out, and Oklahoma loses to Baylor or Oklahoma State, the Wildcats will play for a chance to go to the Sugar Bowl.

This has been a down year for Texas, and the Longhorns could be falling far enough to be placed in a bowl game in Houston against those Aggies.  The Texas Bowl would love that, but the Longhorns wouldn’t.

 

Illinois (5-4) at Michigan St. (4-4)–FS1

Why do we consider this game so important?  Illinois was given up for dead in early October, as the Illini appeared to be headed to a 6th or 7th place finish in the Big Ten West, and Coach Lovie Smith was probably on the way out.  Illinois had defeated Akron and Connecticut, two of the bottom 10 teams in the nation, and they had lost to Eastern Michigan.  At 2-4, Illinois then upset Wisconsin and followed that up with an impressive win at Purdue and a four-touchdown trouncing of Rutgers.  The Illini need one more victory to go bowling.  They are likely to get it against Northwestern to close out the season, but if Illinois can win at Michigan State, they will move up a couple of places in the bowl pecking order.

Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio is going to have to learn how to change or else he could be on his way toward retirement.  Dantonio is one of the lone holdovers to horse and buggy football.  Michigan State plays like it is still 1975, and the team that rushes for 200 yards and holds the other to less than 100 yards is going to win with relative ease.  That’s not how teams win these days.  If Sparty loses this game, there is a better than 50-50 chance that they will not get six wins or go to a bowl.  Even if they win this game, they may only be able to garner the lowly Quick Lane Bowl in Detroit.

 

Louisville (5-3) at Miami (Fla.) (5-4)–FS1

Louisville coach Scott Satterfield should receive some votes for ACC Coach of the Year, as the Cardinals were picked to finish last in the Atlantic Division, and they are most likely going to be bowl eligible.

Miami still has a small chance to win the Coastal Division, but a lot of things have to happen to make that a reality.  First and foremost is that the Hurricanes win their last three games.

The winner of this game becomes bowl eligible, and you should get the best from both teams, which will make this exciting enough to put an auxiliary monitor on this game.

 

4:00 PM EST

 

 

Iowa (6-2) at Wisconsin (6-2)–Fox

Minnesota has not clinched the West Division in the Big Ten, so the winner of this game remains in contention for the flag, since both must still play the Gophers.  If Penn State wins the 12:00 game, then whoever wins this one will get a chance to play Minnesota for first place later in November.

Expect a hard-fought, defensive struggle in this one, and the weather is expected to be cold and windy.  If you like the old blood and guts games of the 1950’s (yes, we know we have some gray-haired readers), then this is the game for you.  It could be one of those 12-10 games.

 

 

7:30 PM EST

 

 

Tennessee (4-5) at Kentucky (4-4)–SEC Network

How about a career saving resurrection?  Tennessee head coach Jeremy Pruitt was one step out the door in Knoxville a month ago.  At 1-4 with losses at home to Georgia State and BYU, the Vols looked like a potentially 2-10 or possible 1-11 team.

Tennessee was reborn after a blowout loss to Georgia.  Wins over Mississippi State, South Carolina, and UAB, and a loss to Alabama that was still in doubt into the fourth quarter has the Vols on the verge of becoming bowl eligible.

Kentucky began the season strong enough to contend for a New Year’s 6 Bowl.  Losing quarterback Terry Wilson probably cost the Wildcats two, possibly three wins to date, and Kentucky’s defense is not strong enough to hold Tennessee below 20 points in Lexington.  Can the Wildcats find some offense that they have not been able to find without Wilson under center?  A loss here will put the K-Cats under .500, but with Vanderbilt and UT-Martin following this game, the blue and white can still get to 6-6.

 

8:00 PM EST

 

 

Iowa State (5-3) at Oklahoma (7-1)–Fox

The last time Iowa State came to Norman, the Cyclones pulled off a major upset.  If they want to make the Big 12 Championship Game, they will have to do it again.  Of course, Oklahoma is coming off a bye week following their upset loss to Kansas State, so the Sooners are likely to play their best game of the season.

The question is, can Oklahoma’s defense stop Iowa State’s offense, and can the Sooners score at least 38 points in this game?

There’s another little issue in this game.  Oklahoma has a date at Baylor next week.  Even coming off a loss and a bye week, some of the Sooners may have a hard time thinking about Iowa State with the undefeated Bears coming up next week.  This should be an exciting game, especially under the lights at Owen Field.

 

 

10:15 PM EST

 

 

Wyoming (6-2) at Boise St. (7-1)–ESPN

Boise State has been a bit off in October and November.  The Broncos are not likely to earn the Group of 5 bid to a NY6 bowl, and they are now playing for their lives in the Mountain Division of the Mountain West.

Wyoming is a no-nonsense hard-hitting team that can wear teams down in the second half.  The Cowboys have enough talent to go to the Field of Blue and move into first place in the division.  If you are a night owl and stay up late on Saturday night watching games from the Rockies and West Coast, this is definitely one you should plan to watch.  Wyoming is coming into this game looking like they are sitting on their best production in the next few weeks.  We have this sneaky suspicion that the Cowboys will be in the lead in the fourth quarter in this game.

 

 

10:30 PM EST

 

 

Nevada (5-4) at San Diego St. (7-1)–ESPN2

San Diego State is in first place in the West Division of the Mountain West, but the Aztecs must play Nevada, Fresno State, and Hawaii in successive weeks, so even though Nevada is just 2-3 in conference play, the Wolf Pack are still alive in the division race.  This should be a relatively close game, and it could be decided on a late turnover or big play.  If you can stay up until 1:45 on the East Coast, you may be rewarded with some excitement to end your college football fix.

Conference Tournament Update–Sunday, March 5, 2017

First Ticket Punched

Welcome Jacksonville State to the giant Dance Studio of March.  The Gamecocks have been a small football factory at the FCS level, noted for upsetting Ole Miss and almost knocking off Auburn in recent years.  As a basketball member of Division 1, JSU has never been a contender for the NCAA Tournament.  In fact, in a score of seasons at the D1 level, the school has produced just four overall winning records with no conference championships.

Last year, the Gamecocks finished just 8-23 and parted ways with Coach James Green.  Enter Coach Ray Harper, who had just resigned from Western Kentucky following a WKU School suspension of three key players.  Harper came to JSU with two Division II national titles, two NAIA national titles, and two D1 NCAA appearances while with the Hilltoppers.

Even with such a stellar resume, not even Coach K himself could have made the so-called media experts select the Gamecocks to finish first in the Ohio Valley Conference this year, nor even make the upper half of the standings.  JSU was a consensus 12th-place pick out of 12 teams in the league.

Not only did Harper guide the Gamecocks well above last place, he took JSU to a winning record in the league and winning record overall.  Then, he upset top-seed Belmont to make it to the OVC Championship Game, where the Gamecocks looked like they were definitely the best team in the league at this point of the season.

Jacksonville State thus becomes team number one in the NCAA Tournament with an overall record of 20-14.  They are likely to be a #16 seed and at best a #15, but they will not lay down and allow a #1 seed to walk all over them.  Expect a tough fight from these Gamecocks.

 

Three More Tickets Issued Today

By the end of the day, there will be a quartet of teams in the Field of 68.  Surprise 7th-seed Campbell (17-16) faces a challenging task, as the Camels must go to top-seed Winthrop (25-6) to decide the Big South Championship.  That game will air on ESPN at 1:00PM Eastern Time.  If Campbell wins, the Camels are virtually assured of knowing they will have to go to Dayton for a First Four game.  If Winthrop wins, the Eagles just might move up to a 13-seed and should be no worse than a 14-seed, and a formidable one at that.

 

An hour later, the finale of Arch Madness (Missouri Valley Conference) tips off on CBS, and the top two seeds have made it to the championship round for their rubber game grudge match.  Top-seed Illinois State (27-5) is actually an underdog to second-seed Wichita State (29-4) and for good reason.  The Shockers look as strong at this point of the season as they did when they advanced to the Final Four a few years back.  Coach Greg Marshall’s WSU team has won 14 games in a row, including an incredible 41-point win over ISU four weeks ago.  Some bracketologists believe that the loser of this game could move outside of the good part of the bubble, but most of our Bracketology Gurus have the Valley sending both teams to the Dance.

 

At 3:00 PM Eastern today, the Atlantic Sun Title Game will tip off in a game between rivals from the Sunshine State.  3-seed North Florida (15-18) visits perennial league champion and top-seed Florida Gulf Coast (25-7).  The two teams played in Fort Myers at the end of January, and FGCU pulled away in the second half to win by 15 thanks to a hot night from guard Brandon Goodwin.  In a semifinal win at 2-seed Lipscomb, you might have been confused and thought that the names on the back of the UNF jerseys read, “Curry,” “Harden,” and “Korver,” as the Ospreys hit three-pointer after three-pointer to pull away from Lipscomb quickly.  They will have to have a repeat performance to have a chance to upset FGCU today.

 

Have We Got Offense For You

We are true hardwood junkies here on the PiRate Ship.  And, we keep a close watch on all the low and mid-major conferences, where there are teams operating under the radar and not getting any national publicity.  If you really love basketball and especially love the style of play that was prevalent in the 1960s and 1970s, when teams raced up and down the floor with 80-possession games, then there is a must watch game for you tonight.

In the Summit League, at 9:30 PM Eastern Time, Fort Wayne will take on Omaha in a quarterfinal match.  The last time these two teams squared off, Ft. Wayne won 108-101 in overtime, and there is no reason to think tonight’s game will be much different.  That 45-minute game saw both teams accumulate 91 possessions, and even if they only play 40 minutes tonight, they could easily top 80 possessions apiece.

 

The Inaugural Ivy League Tournament Is Finally Set

Call us snobbish or traditional, but most of us buckaroos and buckarettes here really like the Ivy League basketball season.  Our head Captain here can remember Bill Bradley playing at Princeton and Jim McMillan playing at Columbia, and he has followed this league like he is the commissioner himself.

Last night, Penn upset Harvard, while Columbia fell to Yale.  The Lions could not protect a five-point second half lead, and then after Yale took a four-point lead, Columbia fought back to tie the game with less than 90 seconds to go.  A missed three-pointer when there was a possible high-percentage two-pointer available led to Yale getting the rebound with the lead in the final minute, and the Bulldogs then held onto the ball, forcing Columbia to foul.  Unfortunately for the Lions, they had yet to put Yale in the bonus, and they did not force the seventh foul until there were less than five seconds remaining.  Miye Oni hit both foul shots for Yale to put the dagger in CU’s hopes.

So, the first ever Ivy League Tournament will feature top-seed Princeton, who went a perfect 14-0 in the league facing fourth-seed Penn in one semifinal match, while Harvard and Yale meet in the other semifinal.  If the Ivy League had wanted to script the perfect first ever tournament, they would have wanted it exactly like this.  Two sets of arch-rivals with the weakest of the four teams hosting the thing at the most venerable Eastern gymnasium, the Palestra.  Hey Ivy League brass–we are waiting for our media pass!  We’ll sit anywhere and even move the dust mop across the floor at halftime and during timeouts.

Today’s Tournament Schedule (by Conference)

Time	Network	Conference	Team	vs.	Team
3:00 PM	ESPN	A_Sun TITLE	Florida Gulf Coast	vs.	North Florida
1:00 PM	ESPN	B-South TITLE	Winthrop	vs.	Campbell
2:00 PM	Comcast SN	Colonial	UNC-Wilmington	vs.	William & Mary
4:30 PM	Comcast SN	Colonial	College of Charleston	vs.	Northeastern
5:00 PM	ESPN3	Horizon	Green Bay	vs.	Illinois-Chicago
7:30 PM	ESPN3	Horizon	Northern Kentucky	vs.	Wright St.
4:30 PM	ESPN3	MAAC	Monmouth	vs.	Siena
7:00 PM	ESPN3	MAAC	St. Peter’s	vs.	Iona
2:00 PM	CBS	MVC  TITLE	Illinois St.	vs.	Wichita St.
12:00 PM	CBSSN	Patriot	Boston U	vs.	Lehigh
2:00 PM	CBSSN	Patriot	Bucknell	vs.	Navy
5:00 PM	ESPN3	SoCon	UNC-Greensboro	vs.	Wofford
7:30 PM	ESPN3	SoCon	East Tennessee St.	vs.	Samford
7:00 PM	ESPN3	Summit	South Dakota St.	vs.	Denver
9:30 PM	ESPN3	Summit	Omaha	vs.	Fort Wayne

Schedule by Tip-off Time

Time	Network	Conference	Team	vs.	Team
12:00 PM	CBSSN	Patriot	Boston U	vs.	Lehigh
1:00 PM	ESPN	Big South	Winthrop	vs.	Campbell
2:00 PM	Comcast SN	Colonial	UNC-Wilmington	vs.	William & Mary
2:00 PM	CBS	MVC	Illinois St.	vs.	Wichita St.
2:00 PM	CBSSN	Patriot	Bucknell	vs.	Navy
3:00 PM	ESPN	Atlantic Sun	Florida Gulf Coast	vs.	North Florida
4:30 PM	Comcast SN	Colonial	College of Charleston	vs.	Northeastern
4:30 PM	ESPN3	MAAC	Monmouth	vs.	Siena
5:00 PM	ESPN3	Horizon	Green Bay	vs.	Illinois-Chicago
5:00 PM	ESPN3	SoCon	UNC-Greensboro	vs.	Wofford
7:00 PM	ESPN3	MAAC	St. Peter’s	vs.	Iona
7:00 PM	ESPN3	Summit	South Dakota St.	vs.	Denver
7:30 PM	ESPN3	Horizon	Northern Kentucky	vs.	Wright St.
7:30 PM	ESPN3	SoCon	East Tennessee St.	vs.	Samford
9:30 PM	ESPN3	Summit	Omaha	vs.	Fort Wayne

Coming Tomorrow: An updated Bracketology Gurus report plus all the tournament brackets and the schedule of games for Monday.

2011 PiRate NCAA Basketball Tournament Preview

1. Which teams meet the upper range criteria in every category?  That means they outscored their opponents by eight or more per game; their field goal percentage was greater than 7.5% better than their opponents; they outrebounded their opponents by five or more per game; they forced at least three more turnovers per game than they committed; and they stole the ball 7.5 or more times per game.

 

ANSWER—No teams this year meet all the perfect criteria described above.  Six teams come close to meeting the perfect criteria, but all fall short in at least one statistic.  This means there is no clear-cut favorite—only six teams that most closely resemble the great champions of the past.  Of the six, three come from power conferences.  These three are Kansas, Ohio State, and Syracuse.

 

Kansas fails to meet the turnover margin requirement, but the Jayhawks surpass all the other qualifications.  Ohio State comes up a tad bit short in field goal percentage margin, rebounding margin, and steals per game, but just misses in all three.  Syracuse misses in rebounding and turnover margin, but they Orangemen do not miss by much. 

 

2. Which teams can be immediately eliminated due to a negative R+T rating?  Which teams have an incredibly low R+T Rating (<2.0)?

 

ANSWER—Three teams can immediately be eliminated due to negative R+T Ratings.  It comes as no surprise that Alabama State and Texas-San Antonio, two teams facing off in the First Round in Dayton, have negative R+T ratings.  The third team is Michigan.  The Wolverines were outrebounded by 1.9 boards per game, and they only had a +1.4 turnover margin with just 4.7 steals per game.

 

Five other teams finished with R+T ratings less than 2.0.  This usually means one and done for these teams, unless they have outstanding FG% margins or cupcake opponents with worse criteria numbers.  Those five teams are: Penn State, Richmond, St. Peter’s, UCLA, and UCSB.

 

3. Which teams are capable of winning it all?

 

ANSWER—We separate the contenders from the pretenders by looking at the total PiRate Criteria score and then looking to see if the high criteria scoring teams receive merit on every individual statistic.

 

Last year, Duke was head and heels better than the other 64 teams.  The Blue Devils had the highest score overall, and they satisfactorily rated in every PiRate category.

 

No teams appear to be as strong this year as the Blue Devils were last year, but nine teams meet most of the minimum requirements to be considered Final Four contenders this year.

 

It should come as no surprise that the top two teams, Ohio State and Kansas, rank at the top in the Criteria.  Kansas actually has the highest score of the 68 teams, a score of 23.  The Jayhawks outscored their opposition by 17.2 points, shot 11.7% better from the field than their opponents, and outrebounded their opponents by 7.8 boards per game.  These stats are worthy of a powerhouse.  However, KU enjoyed just a 0.9 turnover margin and stole the ball 7.9 times per game, giving the Jayhawks an R+T Rating of 9.5.  We tend to look for teams with an R+T Rating in excess of 10, so KU is not a great favorite to go all the way. 

 

Ohio State’s total Criteria score is 21, good for second best.  However, the Buckeyes enjoy an R+T Rating of 13.2, which is a number we really like in a Final Four contender.  This number correlates to 13 extra scoring opportunities that their opposition does not receive.  OSU outscores their opponents by 17.3 points per game, shot 6.9% better from the field than they allows, outrebounded their opponents by 4.9 per game, had a turnover margin of +4.8, and stole the ball 7.2 times per game. 

 

San Diego State comes in third with 19 total criteria points.  BYU, Pittsburgh, and Texas come in next with 18 points; the Panthers have an R+T rating above 10.  The other three teams with PiRate Criteria scores showing themselves to be strong contenders for a Final Four berth are Syracuse, Purdue, and Duke. 

 

Florida, North Carolina, and UNLV are actually almost in a statistical tie with Duke, meaning those three are dark horse candidates for the Final Four.

 

Overall, this is the weakest field by far in the six tournaments where we have ranked the teams according to our criteria.  Looking back, this could be the weakest field since the tournament expanded to 64 teams. 

 

North Carolina State, Kansas, and Villanova won national titles in the past with less than stellar numbers.  We do not have all the statistics from those years, so we cannot really calculate criteria numbers for those three champions.  Could this be a season in which one team gets hot for six games and comes from out of the pack to win it all?  It could happen, but we are sticking with this mechanical system and going with its results.  Kansas, Ohio State, Pittsburgh, and Texas appear to be the best PiRate Criteria matches to past Final Four teams, and they are the quartet we officially pick to make it to Houston.  Syracuse becomes the wildcard team that could sneak into the mix.

 

Here is a look at the First Four Round One games and the 32 second round games.  The number in (parentheses) represents the PiRate Bracketnomics criteria number.

 

First Four Round

 

#16 Texas-San Antonio 19-13 (Elim) vs. #16 Alabama State 17-17 (Elim)

At first, we thought this was highly ironic, but upon further review, we consider it sort of a compliment.  These two teams both must be eliminated based on negative R+T ratings.  Of course, one of them must win this game so that they can advance to a 25-point or more loss in the next round.

 

Most of you filling out your brackets do not have to worry about these games in Dayton.  You get to turn in your choices after these games have been played.

 

UTSA has better criteria numbers after you factor out both teams’ R+T numbers. 

 

Prediction: Texas-San Antonio 64  Alabama State 55

 

 

#12 U A B 22-8 (2) vs. #12 Clemson 21-11 (1)

If you have been following the “experts” since the pairings were announced Sunday evening, then you know that these two teams do not belong in the tournament in their opinion.  It is not our mission statement to declare which teams should and should not have been included in the Big Dance, but we will tell you that Harvard and Saint Mary’s enjoyed Criteria scores several points better than these two teams, while Colorado and Virginia Tech had equal numbers to these two.

 

This game should be as close as the criteria scores show.  UAB has a one-point advantage in the criteria, but the Blazers just do not excel in any stage of the game.  Clemson’s strong point is forcing turnovers by way of steals, and that leads to a lot of cheap baskets.  Cheap baskets pay off big time in the NCAA Tournament, so we will take the Tigers in this one.

 

Prediction: Clemson 74  UAB 67

 

#11 Southern Cal 19-14 (-1) vs. #11 Virginia Commonwealth 23-11 (-1)

The winner of this game is going home two days later.  Neither team merits inclusion in the Big Dance this year. 

 

Southern Cal has no apparent weakness according to the PiRate Criteria.  In fact, they have a great resume—for an NIT team.

 

The Trojans outscore their opponents by four points per game, and they outshoot them by 3.3%.  They have a small rebounding margin of 1.2, and they have an even smaller turnover margin of 0.6.  They average six steals per game and have a R+T rating of 2.1.  On top of these modest numbers, their schedule was average.

 

VCU is much in the same boat as USC with two exceptions.  They have a negative turnover margin, but they also average 8.5 steals per game.

 

The only other difference in these teams is their records away from home.  USC won only 41% of their games, while VCU won 60%.

 

This one is quite tough to pick, but we will go with the Trojans due to their superior inside talent.  We expect USC to win the rebounding edge by at least five.

 

Prediction: Southern Cal  65  V C U  60

 

#16 UNC-Asheville 19-13 (-5) vs. #16 Arkansas-Little Rock 19-16 (-13)

Obviously, we have two teams that would not even merit NIT bids had they lost in the championship games of their conference tournaments.  UALR has one of the lowest Criteria Scores in the seven years we have been calculating this data.

 

UNC-Asheville actually has a couple of positive Criteria stats.  Their R+T is 5.5, which had it come against a more difficult schedule, would have made them worthy of becoming a possible team to watch in the Round of 64.

 

We will go with UNCA here, as schedule strength is about the same for both teams.

 

Prediction: UNC-Asheville 69  Arkansas-Little Rock 59

 

 

Second-Round Games

 

East Regional

 

#1 Ohio State 32-2 (21) vs. #16 UTSA (Elim)/Alabama State (Elim)

This game will be over quickly.  There will be no scare, not even for two TV timeouts.  The second highest Criteria score versus one of the teams with an R+T Rating of “Eliminate.”

 

The Buckeyes outscored their opponents by more than 17 points per game.  Their strength of schedule was 13 points better than UTSA and 16 points better than Alabama State. 

 

We will go under the theory that UTSA will be the opponent in this game.  Using our Criteria Rating, Ohio State figures to be 30-40 points better than UTSA.  Coach Thad Matta will definitely empty his bench early in this game, so the Buckeyes may “only win” by 25-30. 

 

Prediction: Ohio State 78  Texas-San Antonio 50

 

#8 George Mason 26-6 (8) vs. #9 Villanova 21-11 (5)

George Mason is the higher seed in this game, so if they win, it cannot really be considered an upset.

 

Villanova was on course to be a four-seed when the Wildcats were 16-5 and contending for the Big East Conference regular season title.  The Wildcats could not compete down low against the more physical teams in their league.

 

George Mason has a higher PiRate Criteria Score, but it is not an insurmountable advantage.  The key stat for this game is the R+T Rating.  For GMU, it is 6.8.  For VU, it is 4.9.  Considering that Villanova played a harder schedule, these numbers basically cancel each other out, thus making this a tossup game.

 

There are two variables to consider here.  George Mason performed much better on the road, and Villanova is banged up a bit.

 

Prediction: George Mason 66  Villanova 62

 

#5 West Virginia 20-11 (6) vs. #12 UAB (2)/Clemson (1)

We believe the Mountaineers will be facing Clemson in this game, but the prediction will hold up if they play UAB. 

 

West Virginia is not as good this season as last season, and the Mountaineers will not advance to the Final Four, or even the Elite Eight.  They are liable to be out by the end of the weekend.  However, they are strong enough to get into the Round of 32. 

 

The Mountaineers best attribute is that they put up decent numbers against one of the toughest schedules in the country.  Of the NCAA Tournament teams, only Georgetown played a tougher schedule.  They will have to limit turnovers, or else this game will be close and go down to the wire.  We believe Coach Bob Huggins will be able to keep the pace at a level he likes and not allow Clemson (or UAB) to force the Mountaineers into enough mistakes to turn the tide.

 

Prediction: West Virginia 69  Clemson 62 (Or UAB 58)

 

#4 Kentucky 25-8 (14) vs. #13 Princeton 25-6 (-2)

Princeton has pulled off the big upset in the past, and they came within a missed jumper at the buzzer of becoming the only #16 seed to beat a #1 seed.  However, that was two decades ago.  The Tigers have not been to the NCAA Tournament in seven years, and that big win over UCLA was 15 years ago. 

 

Kentucky is not the type of team that will allow Princeton’s style of play to affect their style of play.  The Wildcats should actually play better than their norm with fewer mistakes. 

 

We believe that Princeton will actually crumble under relentless man-to-man pressure and turn the ball over enough times in the opening minutes of the game to allow the Wildcats to open a quick double-digit lead.  This group of Cats tends to fiddle around a little once they get a quick double-digit lead and then play uninspired ball until the opponent makes a run.  Then, they go on the attack at the right time and put the game away.

 

Adolph Rupp had a team just like this in 1958.  They were called “The Fiddlin’ Five.”  They were also called National Champions.  We won’t go so far as to put UK into this category, but we will advance the Wildcats into the next round and then into the Sweet 16.

 

Prediction: Kentucky 72  Princeton 59

 

#6 Xavier 24-7 (8) vs. #11 Marquette 20-14 (3)

If you are looking for a tough, hard-fought game with two Midwestern teams, then tune into this game Friday evening.

 

If the Musketeers were a little more competent at forcing turnovers, they could be a dark horse candidate to advance to the Elite Eight.  XU shoots the ball well and plays well on defense when it comes to preventing a lot of easy shots.  They do well on the boards, and against a team that cannot exploit their ball-handling and ball-hawking deficiencies, they will hold their own inside.  The only other possible problem for the Musketeers is a lack of depth, but in the NCAA Tournaments, TV timeouts are longer.  It is hard to wear a team down with such long breaks every four or so minutes.

 

Marquette does not have enough depth to take advantage of Xavier’s lack of depth, so this factor will become a non-factor.  The Golden Eagles got to this tournament due to their ability to put the ball into the basket.  Marquette needs to shoot better than 46% to win, while Xavier is adept at holding teams under 45% as a rule.

 

Prediction: Xavier 71  Marquette 65

 

#3 Syracuse 26-7 (17) vs. #14 Indiana State 20-13 (-4)

Syracuse has been getting very little national exposure since their 18-0 start ended with an 8-7 finish.  The Orangemen are a team to watch in this tournament.  If not for a pedestrian 71% winning percentage away from the Carrier Dome, we would have them as one of the top four teams in this tournament.

 

Coach Jim Boeheim’s team outscores their opposition by 10.3 points per game; they outshoot them by 7.6%, and they outrebound them by 3.6 boards per game.  Their turnover margin is +1.9, and they averaged almost nine steals per game.  Their R+T Rating is 7.6, and their Strength of Schedule is somewhere between above-average and very good.  This is the Criteria Score of a team that will advance to the Sweet 16 and compete for an Elite Eight and Final Four berth.

 

Indiana State needs the return of Larry Bird to win this game.  They are too perimeter-oriented.  The Sycamores do not have the beef down low to contend in the paint, and even though Syracuse plays a 2-3 zone, teams rarely beat the Orangemen by firing up 25 long-range bombs.

 

This one smells like a blowout.

 

Prediction: Syracuse 81  Indiana State 62

 

#7 Washington 23-10 (13) vs. #10 Georgia 21-11 (2)

Washington is one of those teams that can play with anybody in this tournament—when they are playing up to their potential.  The Huskies could also exit in the first round if they play like they did the weekend they went to Oregon and Oregon State.

 

Georgia is much more consistent, but their best effort will not defeat the Huskies’ best effort.

 

Washington lacked the seasoned experience this season, and it showed when they ventured away from Seattle.  The Huskies lost to weaker opponents because they lacked the composure to win on foreign courts.  That changed when they arrived in Los Angeles for the Pac-10 Tournament.  Isaiah Thomas took over command of the team and led them to the tournament title.  This makes UW a scary and dangerous team capable of returning to the Sweet 16.

 

Georgia must really dominate the glass in this game, because we believe they will turn the ball over too many times against UW’s pressure man-to-man defense.  It is our opinion that the Bulldogs will play a little timidly at the start of this game and find themselves in a hole.

 

The Bulldogs had trouble against Alabama’s defense, and Washington is similar but with a much better offense.

 

Prediction: Washington 78  Georgia 70

 

#2 North Carolina 26-7 (15) vs. #15 Long Island 27-5 (-1)

 

Long Island is just the type of team that can forget that their opponent is a dynasty program that chews up and spits out little programs like this.

 

Teams from Brooklyn don’t intimidate easily, especially when they are led by a trio of Texans.  So, LIU will not be intimidated, but will they be talented enough to make a game of this contest?

 

That’s the rub.  They lack the defensive ability to slow down the Tar Heels, while Coach Roy Williams’ team will be able to hold the Blackbirds under their scoring average.  The big problem for LIU will be holding onto the ball, and we could see North Carolina forcing 20 turnovers in this game.  When the Tar Heels force more turnovers than they commit, they are almost unbeatable.  This game could be interesting for a short time, but it will eventually get out of hand.

 

Prediction: North Carolina 88  Long Island 70

 

West Regional

 

#1 Duke 30-4 (15) vs. #16 Hampton 24-8 (-8)

Duke has nothing to worry about here.  This will be like one of their November/December home games where they quickly put the cupcake away with a barrage of power and speed.  You know the type: a 37-point win over Princeton; a 34-point win over Miami of Ohio; a 52-point win over Colgate.

 

Hampton got to the Dance using an aggressive defense and three-point shooting barrage on offense.  Duke will not be affected by the defensive pressure, and they will cut off the open shots from the outside.  It will be a mercy killing, and it will be quick.  Look for the Blue Devils to be up by more than 15 points before the halfway point of the first half.  By the time Coach K empties the bench, the Blue Devils should be up by 25-30 points.

 

Prediction: Duke 81  Hampton 61

 

#8 Michigan 20-13 (Elim) vs. #9 Tennessee 19-14 (10)

Michigan is the highest-rated team that fails to meet our R+T Rating requirement, so the Wolverines are automatically tabbed as a first-round loser.

 

Coach Jim Beilein has been in a similar position before.  He guided a West Virginia team with not-so-flashy Criteria numbers to the Elite Eight, where they forced Louisville to come from 20 points down to rally for the victory.  That WVU team had one of the worst negative rebounding numbers of any team in Elite Eight history, but that team made few mistakes and had a nice turnover margin.

 

This Michigan team was only outrebounded by two a game, but they do not create enough extra possessions with their miniscule turnover margin of 1.4 and their average of just 4.7 steals per game.

 

Tennessee has been up and down, and the Volunteers are not going to make a repeat run to the Elite Eight this year.  However, Coach Bruce Pearl’s troops will control the boards in this game and maybe force more turnovers than they commit.  We figure that Tennessee will have 10 more opportunities to score in this game, and that is too many for the Wolverines to make up with their three-point shooting.

 

Prediction: Tennessee 74  Michigan 69

 

#5 Arizona 27-7 (3) vs. #12 Memphis 25-9 (-1)

Memphis was not going to earn an at-large bid this season had they failed to win the Conference USA Tournament.  They received an ideal first round opponent, and the Tigers actually have a fighting chance to pull off yet another classic #12-seed over #5-seed upset.

 

Arizona needs to pound the ball inside and rely on numerous offensive rebounds to win this game.  Other teams might be able to exploit Memphis’s poor ball-handling skills, but the Wildcats do not have the defensive acumen to take advantage here.

 

Memphis will try to make this an up-tempo game where they can neutralize Arizona’s height advantage inside.  It has a chance of working, but Arizona probably has too much power inside and just enough quickness to stop the Tigers’ transition game.

 

Prediction: Arizona 76  Memphis 69

 

#4 Texas 27-7 (18) vs. #13 Oakland 25-9 (3)

This has become a popular upset pick in the media.  Oakland has generated a lot of positive press, and many “experts” are calling for the upset in this game.  We are not one of them.  Not only do we believe the Longhorns will take care of Oakland with relative ease in this game, we believe Texas is a force to be reckoned with in the next two or three rounds. 

 

Let’s look at Texas’ Criteria Rating.  At 18, the ‘Horns rate as our sixth best team in the tournament.  They have a 13.5 point scoring margin, a 7.1% field goal margin, a 6.6 rebounding margin, and a 1.2 turnover margin.  Their only Achilles Heel is a low amount of steals resulting in a R+T Rating of 8.3.  Had that number been above 10, we would be selecting Coach Rick Barnes’ team for the Final Four.

 

Oakland won this year with strong rebounding and an excellent ability to force their opponents into bad shots.  Center Keith Benson is a future NBA player, but he is not enough to propel the Golden Grizzlies into the next round.

 

Prediction: Texas 77  Oakland 65

 

#6 Cincinnati 25-8 (9) vs. #11 Missouri 23-9 (10)

On paper, this looks like the best game of this round between a team with contrasting styles.

 

Cincinnati is one of the top defensive teams in the tournament.  The Bearcats are tough inside, and they have quality depth to continue playing hard in the paint. 

 

Missouri uses the “40 minutes of Hell” approach that Coach Mike Anderson learned under his mentor Nolan Richardson.  The Tigers press full court and run the fast break as often as they get the chance.  They are perimeter-oriented and can score a lot of points in a hurry.

 

When we try to decide tossup games, we look to the all-important defense and rebounding stats, since that is what wins close games in the Big Dance. 

 

Missouri is vulnerable in both of these crucial areas.  They have given up a lot of cheap baskets this year when teams solved their press.  The Tigers were outrebounded by 1.7 boards per game.

 

Cincinnati owns a +2.7 rebounding margin, and the Bearcats held onto the ball quite competently.  We believe Coach Mick Cronin’s crew will advance.

 

Prediction: Cincinnati 68  Missouri 65

 

#3 Connecticut 26-9 (9) vs. #14 Bucknell 25-8 (-4)

Ask Kansas Coach Bill Self if it is wise to underestimate Bucknell.  The Bison know how to hold onto the ball and work for intelligent shots.  Give them an opening, and they can bury you with a high field goal percentage.

 

Connecticut did the unthinkable by winning five games in five days.  Their defense does not get the merit it deserves, because Kemba Walker gets more attention for his offensive antics.  The Huskies actually held teams under 40% from the field.

 

Coach Jim Calhoun knows how to prepare a team for tournament action.  He will have UConn ready for this game, and the Huskies will not overlook the Bison.

 

Prediction: Connecticut 73  Bucknell 58

 

#7 Temple 25-7 (5) vs. #10 Penn State 19-14 (-1)

Temple’s score must be tempered by the fact that they are a wounded team coming into this tournament.  Two starters suffered injuries late in the season, and one is out for the remainder of the year, while the other may or may not be ready to play.  We must throw out Temple’s score of “5” in the PiRate Criteria, because 40% of the key players that produced that number will either not play or be greatly less effective.

 

Penn State is a lot like Southern Cal in this tournament.  The Nittany Lions have the look of a strong NIT team.  Aside from a so-so record against a strong schedule, they really have little to offer outside of one star player. 

 

We believe this Keystone State rivalry game will be close, and it could come down to the last shot.  Because the Owls are limping, we will go with the Big Ten representative.

 

Prediction: Penn State 59  Temple 56

 

#2 San Diego State 32-2 (19) vs. #15 Northern Colorado 21-10 (-6)

Most of you reading this probably cannot remember Texas Western University, but you may have scene the movie where the Miners were too quick for Kentucky and pulled off the big upset to win the 1966 National Championship.  Maybe some of you remember the Long Beach State 49ers ascension into the top 10 under Jerry Tarkanian and then Lute Olson.  Still more can remember when Tark the Shark moved to UNLV and turned the Runnin’ Rebels into a national power.

 

San Diego State is the next Western team to fit this bill.  The Aztecs are legitimate contenders to advance deep into this tournament.  They have few exploitable weaknesses, and they are the best team West of the Rockies.  Coach Steve Fisher knows how to get teams ready for tournament play, as he has three Final Fours on his resume and one National Championship.

 

SDSU’s PiRate Criteria numbers are flashy.  Their scoring margin is 13.3 points per game.  Their FG% margin is 7.1%.  They outrebound their opposition by almost seven per game, and they force 1.6 more turnovers than they commit.  Their one weak spot is a pedestrian 6.2 steals average.  If they run up against a more powerful team inside, they could have trouble getting enough extra scoring opportunities.

 

Northern Colorado will not be one of those teams that can cause trouble for the Aztecs.  The Bears are a good rebounding team, but their rebounding prowess came against a schedule that rates 10 points weaker than San Diego State’s schedule.

 

Prediction: San Diego State 73  Northern Colorado 51

 

Southwest Regional

#1 Kansas 32-2 (23) vs. #16 Boston U 21-13 (-11)

Kansas is a team on a mission.  The Jayhawks will not allow a repeat of what happened last year, and that extra incentive should be enough to send KU to Houston.

 

Kansas has the top PiRate Criteria Score this year.  They meet the basic requirements that most prior National Champions have met—scoring margin: 17.2; FG% margin: 11.7; Rebounding margin: 7.8; Turnover Margin: 0.9; Steals per game: 7.9; R+T Ratings: 9.5.

 

How do you beat this year’s KU team?  Kansas State and Texas pulled it off by matching up well inside and going head-to-head with them in the paint.

 

Boston U has the second lowest PiRate Criteria score of the 65 teams that have positive R+T Ratings.  The Terriers are way overmatched in this game, and they will have to be glad they just made it here.

 

Prediction: Kansas 90  Boston U 62

 

#8 U N L V 24-8 (15) vs. #9 Illinois 19-13 (1)

If our ratings are worth their salt, then this game should not be all that close.  UNLV may be just the third best team in the Mountain West, but the MWC was better overall this year than the Pac-10.  Third best in the MWC makes the Runnin’ Rebels one of the dozen or so teams capable of making a two weekend run.

 

Coach Lon Kruger has taken two different teams to the Elite Eight (Kansas State and Florida).  His teams play intelligently without being flashy.

 

UNLV went 24-3 against teams not named Brigham Young or San Diego State.  They are not particularly strong on the boards, and this will eventually be their downfall.  The Rebels shoot the ball brilliantly, and they alter enough opponent shots to force a lower field goal percentage.  They also take care of the ball and do not make a lot of floor mistakes.

 

Illinois is an inconsistent, underachieving team.  This can be dangerous for the prognosticator, because it is difficult if not impossible to predict which schizophrenic state will appear for each game.

 

The Illini are not particularly strong on the glass or at taking care of the ball, and that is a recipe for disaster when the opponent is as good as UNLV.  Even if Illinois comes out playing their best basketball, it may not be enough to beat UNLV playing their typical game.

 

Prediction: U N L V  72  Illinois 64

 

#5 Vanderbilt 23-10 (5) vs. #12 Richmond 26-7 (2)

Here is another game getting a lot of attention due to its upset potential.  Historically, the #12 seed produces the a lot of great upsets.

 

This game could go either way.  Both teams have exploitable weaknesses, and it just so happens that both teams’ have the assets capable of exploiting the other’s weaknesses.

 

Let’s start with Vanderbilt.  The Commodores are not particularly strong on the defensive perimeter.  Worthy opponents have been able to beat them off the drive and get a lot of open inside shots.  This weak perimeter defense has also led to frontcourt players having to help, thus leaving open holes near the basket.

 

Richmond’s offense is a modified version of the Princeton Offense.  The Spiders have the talent to get open shots inside and in the five to ten-foot range.

 

Richmond cannot rebound against more physical teams.  The Spiders make up for their rebounding liabilities by seldom throwing the ball away.

 

Vanderbilt has an excellent physical presence inside with three beefy players that can rebound the ball on offense and defense.

 

So, which team gets the edge in our PiRate Ratings?  We always look to defense in rebounding in tossup games.  Vanderbilt holds the rebounding edge, while Richmond holds the defensive edge.  It is basically a wash, so we have to look elsewhere.  While Richmond has been much better away from home, Vanderbilt’s schedule is seven points more difficult.  We’ll go with the power conference team, but not by much

 

Prediction: Vanderbilt 70  Richmond 67

 

#4 Louisville 25-9 (12) vs. #13 Morehead State 24-9 (3)

This should be an interesting game, but in the end the big brothers are going to defeat their little brothers in this battle of two Bluegrass State teams.

 

40 years ago this week, another little brother upset a big brother on their way to a surprise appearance in the Final Four (later vacated).  In 1971, Western Kentucky did not just upset Kentucky, the Hilltoppers ran the Wildcats off the floor.  Can there be a repeat two score later?  No!

 

Coach Rick Pitino’s Cardinals are vulnerable on the boards, and Morehead State has the nation’s best rebounder in the nation in Kenneth Faried.  However, the Eagles do not have enough talent or depth to keep up with Louisville.  They may emerge with a slight rebounding edge in this game, but it will not be enough to make up for all the open shots the Cardinals will get.

 

Louisville is going to run into trouble when they meet up with a team that can rebound and play credible defense.  That would be Kansas in the Sweet 16.  Until then, they have a relatively easy route to the Sweet 16.

 

Prediction: Louisville 78  Morehead State 62

 

#6 Georgetown 21-10 (8) vs. #11 Southern Cal (-1)/Va. Commonwealth (-1)

Last year, we discussed Georgetown’s vulnerabilities and the probability that they would fail to make it past the first weekend.  We expected the Hoyas to fall as a favorite in their second game, but they were a one and done team.

 

This year’s team is not much better than last year’s Hoya team, but they received a much more favorable draw.

 

Coach John Thompson III’s Hoyas once again have a rather low R+T Rating thanks to a turnover margin of -1.9 and a low amount of steals per game.  They will exit from the tournament in the next round unless there is a monumental upset in their pairing.

 

Neither USC nor VCU has the talent to take advantage of Georgetown’s deficiencies.  The three teams combined have a R+T rating below Purdue’s.

 

One additional note: The Hoyas will be a tad bit better than their Criteria Score in the tournament.  Chris Wright suffered a hand fracture in the middle of the schedule, and he is expected to be near 100% for the tournament.  You have to add maybe one point to their Criteria Score, but that is not enough to put them over the top in their second game.

 

Prediction: Georgetown 69  Southern Cal 61 (or VCU 60)

 

#3 Purdue 25-7 (16) vs. #14 St. Peter’s 20-13 (-7)

If only… Purdue fans will never know just how good their team might have been with Robbie Hummel joining JaJuan Johnson and E’Twaun Moore playing together.  This would have been the best Boilermaker team since Rick Mount led Purdue to the Championship Game against UCLA in 1969.

 

The Boilermakers no longer have that one glaring weakness that Gene Keady’s teams had and thus prevented Purdue from getting past the second round.  This team does well on the boards like most of those past Purdue teams, but they are particularly strong when it comes to forcing turnovers and taking advantage by converting steals into points.  It is the way many teams go on runs that put opponents out of commission.

 

St. Peter’s just barely avoided being immediately eliminated with a negative R+T Rating.  They squeaked by at 0.1.  It might as well be a negative number, as the Peacocks were outrebounded by 0.4 per game and had a turnover margin of -0.9 against a schedule that was four points below average and seven points weaker than the schedule Purdue faced.

 

Prediction: Purdue 73  St. Peter’s 56

 

#7 Texas A&M 24-8 (8) vs. #10 Florida State 21-10 (2)

The Big 12’s third best team has enough talent to challenge for a Sweet 16 berth.  We’ll leave the next round for another time and talk about this game.

 

The Aggies have no glaring weakness, and they have a few strengths, namely rebounding and defense (which wins games in the NCAA Tournament).  They are much like Kansas Lite.  A&M was not a team of surprises during the regular season.  They beat the teams they were supposed to beat and failed to upset the teams better than they were.  We expect the trend to continue.  They are better than the Seminoles.

 

Florida State does not take good care of the ball, and that costs them in confrontations against good opponents.  The Seminoles do not play particularly well away from Tallahassee, and they should be making a quick exit from the Dance.

 

Prediction: Texas A&M 73  Florida State 65

 

#2 Notre Dame 26-6 (11) vs. #15 Akron 23-12 (-9)

This is the best Irish team since Digger Phelps led Notre Dame in the late 1980’s.  Throw in the fact that this team has a chip on its shoulders following a first round exit last year, and the Irish have to be considered the Sweet 16 favorite in their four-team pairing this weekend.

 

The Irish finished the regular season with a scoring margin of 10.4 points per game.  Down the stretch, they went 7-2 against teams in this tournament.  The Selection Committee placed Notre Dame in a bracket that should provide a very memorable Sweet 16 contest against one of their most bitter arch-rivals.

 

Akron has a big seven-foot center, but the Zips do not rebound the ball all that well.  Zeke Marshall, the aforementioned big man, concentrates his efforts on blocking shots, and he frequently is not in position to rebound the ball.  So, the blocked shot frequently turns into a made basket off an offensive rebound.  The Zips did not fare well on the road this year, and with a considerably weaker schedule than average, this does not bode well.

 

Prediction:  Notre Dame 81  Akron 57

 

Southeast Regional

#1 Pittsburgh 27-5 (18) vs. #16 UNC-Asheville (-5)/U A L R (-13)

One of us here at the PiRate Ratings might be dating himself, but he sees a lot of the 1962 Cincinnati Bearcats in this year’s Pitt team.  The Panthers have a dominating inside power game that will pulverize any finesse team that cannot hit 10 three-pointers.  Neither UNCA nor UALR has a remote chance to make this game a close contest.

 

Pitt outscored their opposition by 13.1 points per game.  This stat looks even better when you factor in that they compiled this gaudy stat playing in a league that produced 11 NCAA Tournament teams.  The Panthers outshot their opponents by 7.6%, and they totally dominated the glass with a 10.4 rebounding advantage.  If you are thinking the way to beat them is to play a packed in zone, think again.  Ashton Gibbs can bury you from outside with his near 50% three-point accuracy, and Brad Wannamaker can still get the ball inside to one of the bruisers waiting to punish you with a thunder dunk.

 

Only a negative turnover margin prevents the Panthers from being there with Kansas as a co-favorite for winning all the marbles.

 

Pitt’s cupcake opponent will have to be happy with winning their First Four game, because they will be humiliated in this game.

 

Prediction: Pittsburgh 78  UNC-Asheville 54 (or UALR 48)

 

#8 Butler 23-9 (7) vs. #9 Old Dominion 27-6 (10)

This is the second best matchup in this round, and the winner will put a scare into Pittsburgh in the next round and even have a decent shot at the upset.

 

Butler is now the hunted rather than the hunter.  The Bulldogs will not sneak up on anybody this year.  More importantly, they are not as talented as they were last year.  The Bulldogs fared much better on the road last year than this season.  However, down the stretch, Butler started to look like a team proficient enough to get past the first weekend once again.

 

Old Dominion has the talent to advance past the first weekend as well.  The Monarchs are a miniature version of Pittsburgh, the team they would face in the next round should they win this game.

 

ODU is the nation’s number one rebounding team with a +12.2 margin.  The Monarchs’ schedule was not outstanding, but it was on par with several teams from the so-called power conferences, and they finished 6-4 against teams in this tournament.  This is a better ODU team than the one that upset Notre Dame in the first round last year, and this game should be one you do not want to miss.

 

 

Prediction: Old Dominion 72  Butler 70 in overtime

 

#5 Kansas State 22-10 (9) vs. #12 Utah State 30-3 (14)

This is the one game where a number 12 seed winning would not really be all that much of an upset.  Utah State should have been a top eight seed in this tournament.  If we were conspiracy buffs, we would say that the Selection Committee searched for a team that the Aggies do not match up with all that well and placed them in this spot to verify their actions.

 

Kansas State does not take care of the ball well enough to advance very deep into this tournament, but their first game opponent cannot take advantage of that weakness.

 

Utah State has dominated their opponents by forcing them to play a patient half-court game with very little scoring in transition.  They prefer to work the ball patiently for a good shot and then force opponents to take a low-percentage shot.  Thus, the Aggies outrebound their opponents, but they do so by forcing more bad shots than by out-leaping their opponents.

 

Kansas State has the talent to force Utah State to play at a quicker tempo and force them to defend one-on-one.  Jacob Pullen is a poor man’s (and smaller) Derrick Rose.  He can break down most opponents off the dribble, and he should be able to force USU to resort to some type of combination defense to keep him from going wild.

 

What scares us most about Utah State is that they had two opportunities to show they are deserving of their lofty ranking.  They lost to BYU and to Georgetown, and they never really threatened to pull of the upset in either game.

 

This is one game where we are going to go against our own chalk.  Kansas State’s schedule was seven points tougher, and the Wildcats can exploit the Aggies’ weaknesses.

 

Prediction: Kansas State 70  Utah State 63

 

#4 Wisconsin 23-8 (7) vs. #13 Belmont 30-4 (9)

This game has become the most-picked upset special around the nation.  Belmont is being compared with Butler of last year.  The Bruins are lofty of all this attention-gathering admiration, but Wisconsin is not the Washington Generals.

 

Belmont has the highest scoring margin in the nation at 18.4 points per game.  The Bruins outshot their opposition by 5.7% per game, and they took a lot of three-point attempts.  They outrebounded their opponents by 3.9, and they had an eye-popping 5.3 turnover margin.  They share the top steals per game average in this tournament with Missouri at 9.7, and their R+T Rating is the best in the tournament at 16.2 (three better than number two Ohio State).

 

Of course, these statistics were compiled against inferior competition.  Belmont’s schedule strength is nine points below the national average and a dozen below their first round opponent.  Against the opponents that made it to this tournament, they were 1-3.  They beat Alabama State by 13.  The three losses were on the road to in-state rivals Tennessee (twice) and Vanderbilt, but they led in the second half of those games.

 

The last time Belmont was in the Big Dance, the Bruins came within a missed last shot of sending Duke home.   

 

Wisconsin was not expected to be this good in 2011.  This was supposed to be a minor rebuilding season for the Badgers.  The Badgers usually run Coach Bo Ryan’s Swing Offense with great efficiency, rarely turning the ball over.  They outscored their opponents by 9.9 points per game, and they outshot they outrebounded them by 3.8 boards per game. 

 

The Badgers have been a hot and cold team this year.  When they have been hot, they have been nearly unbeatable, because Ryan’s teams always limit possessions.  When they have been cold, they have been easily beatable, because Ryan’s teams always limit possessions.  They finished the season as cold as ice, so the Badgers must be considered a slight underdog in this game.

 

Prediction: Belmont 74  Wisconsin 70

 

#6 St. John’s 21-11 (9) vs. #11 Gonzaga 24-9 (13)

Here is a game where we believe the seedings should be switched.  Gonzaga has been here enough times to be considered a regular in the NCAA Tournament, like Duke, Kansas, Ohio State, and Connecticut.  This makes a baker’s dozen consecutive appearances in the Big Dance for the Bulldogs. 

 

In past years, Gonzaga had a big scorer that could take over games.  Adam Morrison comes to mind.  This year, the Zags are more difficult to prepare for, because they are more team-oriented.  There is not a big star on the roster, but all five starters are capable of taking the team on his shoulders with a hot night.

 

In their nine-game winning streak to close the season, Gonzaga eliminated Saint Mary’s from the Dance party with two victories.  The Bulldogs scoring margin in those nine games was 76-58.  This is a good team playing its best ball of the year, and we expect Coach Mark Few to win yet another NCAA Tournament game.

 

St. John’s comes into the tournament minus one of its stars.  Starting forward D. J. Kennedy went down for the season with a knee injury in the Big East Tournament, and the Red Storm is now suspect in the paint.  Their Criteria Score of nine should be discounted by two to three points.  It is enough to take this contest from tossup status to near-comfortable status for Gonzaga.

 

Prediction: Gonzaga 74  St. John’s 66

 

#3 Brigham Young 30-4 (18) vs. #14 Wofford 21-12 (-1)

So, you didn’t get a chance to see Pete Maravich play at LSU in 1968, 1969, or 1970, eh?  We must admit that nobody will ever be the collegiate equal for Maravich, but Jimmer Fredette may be the closest thing to him.

 

Throw out the floppy socks and floppy Beatles haircut and throw out some of the most unbelievable passes in the history of the game (so unbelievable that Maravich’s teammates frequently could not see them coming), and Fredette is not that far behind Maravich.

 

The sports nation will be turning its eyes to this game just to see if Fredette can make a run at a single game scoring mark.  If we remember correctly, Notre Dame’s Austin Carr set the mark back in 1970 with 61 points against Ohio U in a regional qualifier game.

 

BYU may have been a strong Final Four contender had Brandon Davies not loved his girlfriend so much.  The Cougars averaged 8.7 fewer points per game once Davies was suspended. 

 

Wofford will not be able to take much advantage of Davies’ absence.  The Terriers fared well in all PiRate Criteria categories, but they did not meet even the minimum “numbers to look for” in any category, and their schedule strength was five points below the norm. 

 

Prediction: Brigham Young 75  Wofford 63

 

#7 U C L A 22-10 (-3) vs. #10 Michigan State 19-14 (1)

If only this were a few years ago.  Neither of these historically dominating teams is going to make waves in this year’s tournament, and the winner will be around for just one more game.

 

UCLA would be a national title contender if Kevin Love had stuck around for four years.  Imagine Love as a senior on this team.  Can you say Bill Walton-like numbers?  Alas, the Bruins must get by with a couple of well above-average forwards instead of the best three-man tandem in the nation.

 

The Bruins have the worst turnover margin of any team in this tournament.  At -3.4, UCLA would need to dominate on the boards, and while they usually win that battle, it is anything but dominating.

 

Michigan State’s one asset year in and year out under Coach Tom Izzo has been their rebounding acumen.  For most teams, a +4.3 edge on the boards would be considered outstanding, but in East Lansing, this is considered a down year. 

 

Neither team has done all that well away from their home court this season, and there really is only one stat where one team stands out ahead of the other.  MSU’s schedule was four points tougher than UCLA’s schedule.  That’s our spread for this game.  

 

Prediction: Michigan State 64  UCLA 60

 

#2 Florida 26-7 (15) vs. #15 UC-Santa Barbara 18-13 (-10)

The Gators looked like a potential Final Four team in the last month, at least when they were not playing Kentucky.  UCSB is not Kentucky. 

 

Florida tends to commit too many floor mistakes to win four games in this year’s tournament.  They have enough talent to get through the first weekend, but we do not see the Gators extending their stay after that.

 

UCSB upset Long Beach State to get here, and the Gauchos are one of the weakest teams in the tournament according to our Criteria Score.  With negative rebounding and turnover margins, they just barely escape automatic elimination with a R+T rating of 0.3. 

 

Prediction: Florida 76  U C S B  54

 

 

 

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