PiRate Ratings College Basketball For February 26, 2020

Wednesday’s Games

 

Home	Visitor	Spread
Abilene Christian	Sam Houston St.	3.8
Air Force	New Mexico	-1.4
American	Lafayette	2.6
Arkansas	Tennessee	5.5
Army	Holy Cross	11.7
Boston College	Notre Dame	-5.1
Bucknell	Colgate	-4.8
California Baptist	Utah Valley	7.7
Citadel	Mercer	-6.0
Connecticut	Central Florida	8.3
Florida	LSU	3.4
Fordham	Rhode Island	-12.8
George Washington	Richmond	-8.7
Houston Baptist	Nicholls	-8.9
Illinois St.	Bradley	-3.8
Lamar	Incarnate Word	12.9
Lehigh	Boston U	-6.0
Long Beach St.	Cal St. Northridge	0.7
Louisiana	Arkansas St.	2.0
Maine	New Hampshire	-2.8
Manhattan	Marist	6.3
Marquette	Georgetown	7.2
Massachusetts	VCU	-6.8
McNeese	Southeast Louisiana	10.0
Minnesota	Maryland	-0.2
Navy	Loyola (MD)	3.4
New Orleans	Texas A&M-CC	2.0
Northern Iowa	Evansville	18.4
Omaha	North Dakota	4.6
Penn St.	Rutgers	6.3
Pittsburgh	Syracuse	0.4
Purdue Fort Wayne	Denver	6.2
Quinnipiac	Siena	-2.8
Saint Louis	Saint Joseph’s	14.3
South Carolina	Georgia	5.8
South Florida	East Carolina	8.6
Southern Illinois	Indiana St.	0.4
St. Bonaventure	Duquesne	1.4
Stanford	Utah	9.6
Stephen F. Austin	Northwestern St.	15.6
Stony Brook	Hartford	9.7
UMass Lowell	Albany	1.9
UMBC	Binghamton	10.0
UNC Greensboro	Furman	4.0
UNLV	Boise St.	0.5
Vanderbilt	Missouri	-1.5
Villanova	St. John’s	10.4
Virginia Tech	Virginia	-0.3
VMI	Chattanooga	-2.9
Western Carolina	Samford	11.4
Wofford	East Tennessee St.	-4.0

 

Key TV Games on Wednesday Night

 

Time (EST)	Network	Home	Visitor
7:00 PM	BTN	Penn St.	Rutgers
7:00 PM	ESPN+	UNC Greensboro	Furman
8:30 PM	FS1	Marquette	Georgetown
8:30 PM	SECN	Arkansas	Tennessee
9:00 PM	BTN	Minnesota	Maryland
9:00 PM	ESPN2	Florida	LSU
10:00 PM	Pac12	Stanford	Utah

 

 

 

 

 

 

PiRate Ratings College Basketball For February 23, 2020

Sunday’s Games

 

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

 

Sunday’s Key TV Games

 

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

 

 

 

 

PiRate Ratings College Basketball For February 12, 2020

Wednesday’s Games

 

Home	Visitor	Spread
Abilene Christian	Houston Baptist	16.6
American	Loyola (MD)	6.2
Army	Lafayette	-1.8
Auburn	Alabama	5.6
Binghamton	Stony Brook	-10.6
Bradley	Indiana St.	2.9
Butler	Xavier	6.3
Central Arkansas	New Orleans	4.7
Chattanooga	VMI	9.1
East Tennessee St.	Citadel	21.9
Evansville	Loyola (Chi)	-8.6
Georgia	South Carolina	2.6
Georgia Tech	Louisville	-5.6
Hartford	Albany	1.5
Hawaii	Long Beach St.	11.8
La Salle	Richmond	-4.7
Lehigh	Holy Cross	7.4
Miami (Fla.)	Boston College	5.4
Missouri St.	Drake	2.2
Navy	Bucknell	4.3
Niagara	Canisius	-0.8
Nicholls	Lamar	8.2
Northern Iowa	Illinois St.	16.1
Northwestern	Michigan	-6.3
Northwestern St.	Incarnate Word	9.5
Ohio St.	Rutgers	6.5
Oklahoma	Iowa St.	5.6
Oral Roberts	Omaha	7.4
Pittsburgh	Clemson	4.4
Samford	Furman	-12.4
San Jose St.	Fresno St.	-6.5
Seton Hall	Creighton	6.0
SMU	Connecticut	2.5
South Dakota	Western Illinois	14.2
South Florida	Houston	-6.6
Southeast Louisiana	Sam Houston St.	-9.8
St. John’s	Providence	1.8
Texas A&M	Florida	-5.6
Texas A&M-CC	Stephen F. Austin	-7.8
Tulane	Temple	-3.8
Tulsa	East Carolina	12.3
UAB	Middle Tennessee	8.2
UC Riverside	UC Irvine	-3.9
UMass Lowell	Maine	6.8
UNC Greensboro	Western Carolina	10.3
UNLV	Nevada	-1.3
Valparaiso	Southern Illinois	2.7
VCU	George Mason	14.4
Vermont	New Hampshire	15.7
Villanova	Marquette	2.8
West Virginia	Kansas	-0.9
Wofford	Mercer	8.3

 

Wednesday’s Top TV Games

Time (EST)	Network	Home	Visitor
6:30 PM	FS1	Seton Hall	Creighton
6:30 PM	CBSSN	Butler	Xavier
7:00 PM	ESPN+	West Virginia	Kansas
7:00 PM	BTN	Ohio St.	Rutgers
8:30 PM	FS1	Villanova	Marquette

 

The 25-Teams Could Win The NCAA Championship Myth

 

If you view a national basketball telecast this year, the so-called experts announcing the games repeatedly say that this season is different because there are no overly dominating teams in college basketball.  These scribes say that 25 different teams could be good enough to win the national championship.  Some even say that 40 different teams are talented enough to make the Final Four.

We at the PiRate Ratings tend to be contrarian in nature.  We just don’t buy these theories of parity.  Certainly, none of the teams in this year’s Top 10 appear to be as talented and dominant as any of the Top 10 teams of the past decade.  However, none of the teams outside of the Top 10 appear to be as talented as their counterparts of the past decade.

We do not see the parity that others see, and the analytics when compared on a one season basis, actually tell us that fewer than 10 teams this season have statistical resumes worthy of contending for a national championship.

If you have been reading our chicken scratch long enough, you obviously know that we value certain data when predicting the outcomes of college basketball games past the Ides of March.  We have looked at reams and reams of data dating back to the years where statistics were kept on these games and have identified consistencies in the champions that other teams could not match.

Namely, the ability to rebound the basketball on the offensive end and get extra shooting chances appears to be much more valuable in the Big Dance than it is in the regular season, because so many of the tournament teams are in the top group of defensive teams.  Additionally, being able to protect the ball and limit turnovers has become more and more important in the 21st Century, because the age of pressing full court for 40 minutes and then relying on fast breaks off these turnovers just doesn’t happen like it used to work when UCLA ran its incredible 2-2-1 press and Rick Pitino used his matchup press defense at Kentucky.  So many of the top teams have little to no problem defeating the press defense and exploiting it for points that this strategy has become a non-factor most of the time.

Teams with excellent offensive efficiency, very good defensive efficiency, an ability to hold onto the ball, and a highly-ranked offensive rebounding rate rise above the rest when there are just 68 teams remaining in contention for the title.  Additionally, teams that lack this ability to rebound on the offensive end or limit turnovers have been vulnerable to early round upsets, as was seen multiple times with teams like Georgetown and Vanderbilt in the past decade, two notorious teams that were excellent offensive efficiency teams, very good defensive efficiency teams, but lousy offensive rebounding teams with no turnover margin advantage.

When you combine the teams that possess excellent offensive efficiency, very good defensive efficiency, strong rebounding ability with decent turnover prevention, and then said team has played a schedule that ranks in the top 35% of college basketball (basically a Power Conference), these are the teams that have National Championship Resumes.

By now, we hope you are wondering how many teams currently fit this National Championship footprint?  How many have excellent offensive efficiency, very good defensive efficiency, highly-ranked offensive rebounding ability, and a good rate of taking care of the rock?

The answer is far from the 25 to 40 teams that the hardwood pundits claim.  As of Wednesday, February 12, there are only 3 teams that possess these national championship worthy resumes.

Those three teams are: Duke, Gonzaga, and San Diego State.  Gonzaga and San Diego State just barely qualify on the basis of schedule strength, and unfortunately for the Aztecs in the Mountain West Conference, their remaining schedule might lower their overall schedule strength to remove SDSU from this list.

Because the West Coast Conference is abnormally stronger this season, Gonzaga still has enough games against opponents that will maintain the Bulldogs’ schedule strength above the line needed to qualify.

So, the next time you hear that this could be the year that somebody like Penn State or Rutgers makes an unexpected run to the national title, or that this is the year the Pac-12 returns to prominence with Oregon or Arizona winning it all, refer them to this data that says this is not so.  For now, we would tend to believe that Duke and Gonzaga are runaway top contenders.  We aren’t saying that somebody else might get hot and move into the field of legitimate contenders, since there is a month to go until Selection Sunday, but when somebody says that 25 teams today are good enough to win the title, laugh at the statement and educate them in the analytics of long historical importance.

Let’s take a look at the supposed biggest dark horse national champion in the last 60 years.  The infamous 1966 Texas Western Miners (UTEP today) pulled off the monumental upset over the mighty Kentucky Wildcats.  Was Texas Western a use anomaly that year?  Did they come from out of nowhere to upset the trends and blow this theory apart?

Quite the opposite.  The issue that year wasn’t the mathematics; it was the publicity.  Texas Western was no dark horse.  Let’s take a look at the stats available to us.

First, let’s start with the obvious.  What was the Miners strength of schedule?  They were an independent in 1966, which in those days was the largest group of all.  There were close to 50 Division I Independents then, and they included some of the top teams in the nation like former National Champion Loyola of Chicago, future National Runner-up Dayton, Providence, Houston, and Syracuse.

Texas Western finished the regular season with a 23-1 record and were ranked #3 in the polls.  When has the #3-ranked team ever been considered a dark horse or surprise team?  Just because the Nabobs of the Eastern Elite Media didn’t dub the Miners with their accolades, it did not make the Miners a dark horse.

The Miners played one Top 10 team in the regular season.  They slaughtered Iowa by 18 points.  They beat a host of above average teams by well above average margins and blew out the rest of the teams on their schedule until the final game.   They lost by two at Seattle, when the Chieftains were still a strong program and just seven years removed from appearing in the National Championship Game.

The issue with the established press is that all these TW wins came against teams west of the Mississippi River.  The media didn’t realize that the Miners had outrebounded their opponents by an average of 51.5 to 36.2 in their 24 regular season games.  They didn’t know that the Miners had one of the toughest defenses in the nation, limiting opponents to an estimated 79 points per 100 possessions (not exact because offensive rebounds and turnovers were not official stats then),  They didn’t see that the Miners were quite efficient for the day with an estimated 99 points per 100 possessions.  Remember that there was no three-point line then, and anything over 85 points per 100 possessions was above average.  That Texas Western team also took good care of the ball.  They had exceptional ball handlers in Bobby Joe Hill, Willie Worsley, and Orsten Artis.

Texas Western began tournament play with an easy 15-point victory over Oklahoma City, holding the Chiefs 25 points under their average of nearly 100 points per game.  The Miners dominated on the glass and proved to be much too quick for the Chiefs, fouling out four of OKC’s starters.

In the second round, TW had to go to overtime to beat the favored Cincinnati Bearcats.  Cincinnati actually controlled the boards, but the Miners won with steals and not turning the ball over.  It was the only game where the other team won the rebounding war, but the difference in turnovers was huge.

In the Midwest Regional Final, Texas Western faced a favored Kansas team that featured all-American center Walt Wesley and 1st team all-Big 8 guard Jo Jo White.  The press basically advanced the Jayhawks to the Final Four before this game began, but the Miners proved to be too quick for the slower KU team.  TW won the rebounding and turnover battle, and Kansas’s two stars were matched by the Miners’ balance.  On to the Final Four in College Park, Maryland, went the Miners, finally playing games in the East.

The Final Four was nothing like it is today.  The University of Maryland’s gymnasium was no 70,000-seat dome stadium. Cole Field House seated about 12,000.  However, the press made a big deal out of half of this field.  The Eastern Region Champion Duke Blue Devils, the number two team in the nation placed the Mideast Region Champion Kentucky Wildcats, the number one team in the nation.  The winner of this game would then win the National Championship Game the next night against the winner of the other semifinal game.  Texas Western and Utah were there too.

The semifinal games were both close.  Kentucky came from behind to nip Duke, while Texas Western stayed ahead of Utah most of the game but never ran away from the Utes, thanks to superstar forward Jerry Chambers keeping the Utes in the game.

The Championship Game was considered an afterthought.  The mighty Wildcats of Kentucky were basketball royalty with their Baron, Adolph Rupp.  Texas Western was this tiny school from El Paso with a coach that had learned the game from the great Hank Iba, but they were almost as much a patsy for Kentucky’s soon to be fifth national title as the Washington Generals were for the Harlem Globetrotters.

There were some astute professional gamblers that knew what was really about to happen.  Kentucky’s players were quite talented.  They could shoot the ball about as competently as any team in the history of the game, and with Louie Dampier and Pat Riley on the perimeter, they could quickly shoot a weaker opponent out of the gym.  Kentucky’s devastating 1-3-1 zone trap defense had forced numerous opponents out of their normal offense, where they either turned the ball over or took a hurried shot.  It had worked like a charm 27 times out of 28.  Ironically, just like Texas Western, Kentucky only lost their regular season finale at Tennessee, a team that would win the SEC the following year.

The “Sharp” gamblers knew something that most of the rest of the nation and just about all of the Eastern Establishment media did not know.  Texas Western was much quicker than Kentucky.  Their man to man defense was stronger than Kentucky’s 1-3-1 zone trap, and it did not surrender a handful of easy buckets like the gambling press.

In the opening minutes of the game, neither team could find the range, but Kentucky’s fast break led to a couple of baskets.  Additionally in the first part of the game Kentucky enjoyed a huge rebounding edge, as the Wildcats missed multiple offensive tips.  Texas Western scored on some lob passes over the zone for easy layups, and even though they were a tad sloppy with the ball, they limited turnovers, being called for a couple of travelling violations but not giving UK easy breakaway baskets off steals.

The key sequence of the game was when Kentucky’s Tommy Kron dribbled the ball up the floor guarded man to man and then from the blind-side, Bobby Joe Hill came in and stole the ball, driving for an easy layup.  The play tightened the screws on the favored Wildcats.  On the very next possession, star guard Louie Dampier brought the ball up the middle of the floor, and Hill pressured him to the left.  As Dampier attempted to cross over, Hill stole the ball again and drove for another easy basket.

Texas Western never relinquished the lead the rest of the night.  As the game continued, Kentucky only had one shooting opportunity per possession, while Texas Western had second and third chances.  Thunderous dunks by power player David Latin allowed the patient Miners to keep the lead.  Kentucky had chances to tie or take the lead, but every time, the Texas Western defense held and secured the rebound.

Can San Diego State be this year’s Texas Western?  Can Gonzaga finally get over the hump and win the National Championship?  Will Coach Mike Krzyzewski win another national championship?  If we had to predict the champion today, we believe these are the only three possible teams that could go from 68 to 1.  Duke has the perfect resume this year.  We’ll see if anybody else joins the group of championship-worthy teams in the final four weeks before Selection Sunday.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PiRate Ratings College Basketball For February 4, 2020

Tuesday’s Games

 

Home	Visitor	Spread
Rhode Island	Massachusetts	15.7
Boston College	Duke	-17.2
Georgia Tech	Virginia Tech	3.2
Texas Tech	Oklahoma	7.0
DePaul	Xavier	0.8
Maryland	Rutgers	7.4
Michigan	Ohio St.	1.1
Michigan St.	Penn St.	7.9
Fairfield	Monmouth	0.1
Kent St.	Ball St.	3.5
Eastern Michigan	Buffalo	-1.7
Miami (O)	Western Michigan	4.3
Toledo	Northern Illinois	6.0
Central Michigan	Bowling Green	1.5
Fresno St.	Colorado St.	-0.8
Wyoming	Boise St.	-10.7
Nevada	Air Force	10.4
Arkansas	Auburn	3.4
Alabama	Tennessee	6.1
Kentucky	Mississippi St.	4.7
Texas A&M	Missouri	-0.9

 

Tuesday’s Best TV Games

 

Time (EST)	Network	Home	Visitor
7:00 PM	FS1	Maryland	Rutgers
7:00 PM	SECN	Arkansas	Auburn
7:00 PM	ESPN2	Michigan	Ohio St.
7:00 PM	ESPNU	Alabama	Tennessee
8:00 PM	BTN	Michigan St.	Penn St.
9:00 PM	ESPN	Kentucky	Mississippi St.
9:00 PM	ESPN2	Texas Tech	Oklahoma

 

 

PiRate Ratings College Basketball For January 28, 2020

Tuesday’s Games

 

Home	Visitor	Spread
St. John’s	Villanova	-2.1
Tennessee	Texas A&M	12.4
Virginia	Florida St.	-1.5
Florida	Mississippi St.	5.1
Cincinnati	SMU	6.2
VCU	Richmond	4.1
George Mason	Rhode Island	-5.4
Akron	Buffalo	9.5
Toledo	Kent St.	2.9
Clemson	Syracuse	1.3
Nebraska	Michigan	-6.2
Miami (O)	Central Michigan	0.7
Bowling Green	Ball St.	-0.9
Rutgers	Purdue	3.0
Miami	Virginia Tech	-1.0
Northern Illinois	Ohio	5.0
Missouri	Georgia	3.9
Duke	Pittsburgh	18.3
Georgetown	Butler	-0.7
Ole Miss	Auburn	-5.0
Air Force	Fresno St.	1.8
Wyoming	Utah St.	-13.6

 

Tuesday’s Best Games On TV

 

Tonight’s small slate of games features a couple of key contests where teams are

jostling for NCAA Tournament berths.  The top game of the night is an inner-city

battle between Virginia Commonwealth and Richmond, two Atlantic 10 rivals

separated by just five miles and a half dozen monuments.

 

If St. John’s has any idea of getting back on the Bubble for a potential NCAA

Tournament at-large bid the Red Storm needs to upset Villanova tonight at Madison

Square Garden.  St. John’s has dropped six of their last eight games.

 

Could it be that last year’s National Champion misses out on an NCAA Tournament

bid?  Virginia is hanging on by a thread in the at-large wars, as the Cavaliers might

become the first champion in five years not to make the Big Dance the next season.

UVA is 5-4 in the ACC and 13-6 overall with a couple of good wins, but multiple bad

losses.  A win tonight over a tough Florida State team could put the Cavs back above

the midpoint of the Bubble, but the Seminoles are competing for a number one

seed, and a road win in the ACC could strengthen that chance.

 

The Big Ten is the strongest conference in the nation today, and when 12 teams in

one league are competing for probably 10 bids, every game is vital.  Purdue is in

10th place in the Big Ten at 4-5/11-9, but the Boilermakers are in contention for an

at-large bid.  Rutgers is in great shape, as the Scarlet Knights are enjoying their best

season since Phil Sellers, Eddie Jordan, and Hollis Copeland made RU basketball the

most exciting event in the Metro NY-NJ area.  This year’s RU team sits at 6-3 in the

Big Ten, good enough for a tie for third and just one game behind the co-leaders.

 

At 2-5/12-8, Georgetown has moved far down the Bubble and is currently an NIT

team from the Big East.  If the tournament started today, five Big East Teams would

have invitations.  Butler 4-3/16-4 would be one of those five.  The Hoyas need a big

win over the Bulldogs tonight.

 

Time (EST)	Network	Home	Visitor
6:30 PM	FS1	St. John’s	Villanova
7:00 PM	ESPN	Virginia	Florida St.
7:00 PM	CBSSN	Va. Commonwealth	Richmond
8:00 PM	BigTen	Rutgers	Purdue
9:00 PM	CBSSN	Georgetown	Butler

 

 

PiRate Ratings Bracketology For January 20, 2020

Date	1/20/2020
Seed	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team
1	Baylor	Gonzaga	San Diego St.	Kansas
2	Duke	Florida St.	Michigan St.	Louisville
3	Seton Hall	Butler	Dayton	Oregon
4	West Virginia	Villanova	Maryland	Auburn
5	Kentucky	Colorado	Iowa	Arizona
6	Wichita St.	Creighton	Michigan	Ohio St.
7	Rutgers	Memphis	Penn St.	LSU
8	Wisconsin	Stanford	Arkansas	Marquette
9	Illinois	Indiana	Texas Tech	Houston
10	Florida	Oklahoma	BYU	Saint Mary’s
11	Virginia Tech	North Carolina St.	Northern Iowa	Purdue	USC
12	Liberty	East Tennessee	Akron	DePaul	VCU
13	Stephen F Austin	Yale	New Mexico St.	Western Kentucky
14	Little Rock	William & Mary	Wright St.	Vermont
15	Colgate	UC-Irvine	Montana	Murray St.
16	North Dakota St.	Winthrop	Monmouth	Norfolk St.	Prairie View	St. Francis (PA)

 

First Four Out
Minnesota	Georgetown	Virginia	Saint Louis

 

Next Four Out
Georgia	St. John’s	Washington	Richmond

 

 

 

 

PiRate Ratings College Basketball For January 20, 2020

Division 1 Basketball Games on Monday

 

Home	Visitor	Spread
Howard	Yale	-24.1
Fairleigh Dickinson	Central Connecticut	12.7
St. Francis (PA)	Merrimack	8.5
Old Dominion	Charlotte	3.3
Florida A&M	UNC Central	1.4
Wagner	Long Island	-3.3
Mississippi Valley St.	Southern	-9.8
Robert Morris	Sacred Heart	1.7
USC Upstate	High Point	8.0
West Virginia	Texas	11.3
Radford	Winthrop	2.7
Colgate	Bucknell	8.7
Virginia	North Carolina St.	2.8
Presbyterian	Campbell	-3.7
Gardner-Webb	Hampton	9.2
Mount St. Mary’s	St. Francis (NY)	5.3
Longwood	UNC Asheville	-0.8
South Carolina St.	UM Eastern Shore	11.5
Morgan St.	North Carolina A&T	2.4
North Texas	Rice	12.4
Grambling	Texas Southern	-0.3
Arkansas-Pine Bluff	Alcorn St.	-4.2
Jackson St.	Prairie View	-5.0
Baylor	Oklahoma	10.5
Portland St.	Weber St.	6.6

 

 

Monday’s PiRate Ratings

 

#	Team	PiRate	Conference
1	Duke	121.2	Atlantic Coast
2	Kansas	121.1	Big 12
3	Gonzaga	119.4	West Coast
4	Michigan St.	118.5	Big Ten
5	Baylor	117.3	Big 12
6	Louisville	116.7	Atlantic Coast
7	Arizona	116.5	Pac-12
8	Dayton	116.5	Atlantic 10
9	Seton Hall	115.9	Big East
10	Maryland	115.8	Big Ten
11	West Virginia	115.8	Big 12
12	Ohio St.	115.5	Big Ten
13	San Diego St.	115.0	Mountain West
14	Florida St.	114.9	Atlantic Coast
15	Butler	114.9	Big East
16	Iowa	114.6	Big Ten
17	Texas Tech	113.7	Big 12
18	Oregon	113.7	Pac-12
19	Kentucky	113.6	Southeastern
20	Michigan	113.3	Big Ten
21	Purdue	113.2	Big Ten
22	Auburn	113.0	Southeastern
23	Florida	113.0	Southeastern
24	Arkansas	112.8	Southeastern
25	Penn St.	112.8	Big Ten
26	Marquette	112.6	Big East
27	BYU	112.6	West Coast
28	Rutgers	112.5	Big Ten
29	Colorado	112.5	Pac-12
30	Villanova	112.5	Big East
31	Houston	112.5	American Athletic
32	LSU	112.4	Southeastern
33	Memphis	112.3	American Athletic
34	Wisconsin	112.3	Big Ten
35	Illinois	111.7	Big Ten
36	Alabama	111.6	Southeastern
37	Indiana	111.6	Big Ten
38	Minnesota	111.5	Big Ten
39	Creighton	111.4	Big East
40	Wichita St.	111.1	Big East
41	Stanford	110.9	Pac-12
42	Saint Mary’s	110.8	West Coast
43	Mississippi St.	110.7	Southeastern
44	VCU	110.6	Atlantic 10
45	North Carolina St.	110.5	Atlantic Coast
46	Washington	110.5	Pac-12
47	Oklahoma	110.3	Big 12
48	Cincinnati	110.0	American Athletic
49	Georgetown	109.9	Big East
50	Virginia	109.8	Atlantic Coast
51	Syracuse	109.2	Atlantic Coast
52	Xavier	109.0	Big East
53	Tennessee	108.9	Southeastern
54	Utah St.	108.9	Mountain West
55	Virginia Tech	108.9	Atlantic Coast
56	Notre Dame	108.9	Atlantic Coast
57	East Tennessee St.	108.8	Southern
58	Northern Iowa	108.8	Missouri Valley
59	Iowa St.	108.7	Big 12
60	Texas	108.5	Big 12
61	USC	108.5	Pac-12
62	Yale	108.5	Ivy
63	DePaul	108.4	Big East
64	Missouri	108.0	Southeastern
65	Providence	108.0	Big East
66	Richmond	107.8	Atlantic 10
67	Rhode Island	107.7	Atlantic 10
68	Oregon St.	107.7	Pac-12
69	UNC Greensboro	107.7	Southern
70	Arizona St.	107.7	Pac-12
71	St. John’s	107.6	Big East
72	TCU	107.6	Big 12
73	Liberty	107.5	Atlantic Sun
74	Clemson	107.5	Atlantic Coast
75	Oklahoma St.	107.5	Big 12
76	Louisiana Tech	107.4	Conference USA
77	Pittsburgh	107.3	Atlantic Coast
78	Vermont	107.3	American East
79	Akron	107.2	Mid-American
80	Georgia	107.1	Southeastern
81	Connecticut	107.0	American Athletic
82	North Carolina	107.0	Atlantic Coast
83	SMU	107.0	American Athletic
84	Belmont	107.0	Ohio Valley
85	Duquesne	106.9	Atlantic 10
86	Georgia Tech	106.6	Atlantic Coast
87	Temple	106.6	American Athletic
88	Furman	106.4	Southern
89	Kansas St.	106.1	Big 12
90	South Carolina	105.6	Southeastern
91	Saint Louis	105.5	Atlantic 10
92	Miami (Fla.)	105.5	Atlantic Coast
93	New Mexico St.	105.5	Western Athletic
94	North Texas	105.4	Conference USA
95	Davidson	105.3	Atlantic 10
96	Loyola (Chi.)	105.2	Missouri Valley
97	Bradley	105.0	Missouri Valley
98	San Francisco	105.0	West Coast
99	Harvard	104.9	Ivy
100	Tulsa	104.8	American Athletic
101	Georgia St.	104.8	Sun Belt
102	Ball St.	104.8	Mid-American
103	Nevada	104.7	Mountain West
104	Mississippi	104.7	Southeastern
105	Wake Forest	104.3	Atlantic Coast
106	Western Kentucky	104.3	Conference USA
107	Kent St.	104.3	Mid-American
108	Boise St.	104.3	Mountain West
109	Northwestern	104.2	Big Ten
110	Toledo	104.1	Mid-American
111	Colorado St.	104.0	Mountain West
112	Central Florida	103.9	American Athletic
113	UC Irvine	103.8	Big West
114	Utah	103.7	Pac-12
115	Northern Kentucky	103.7	Horizon
116	Wright St.	103.4	Horizon
117	Washington St.	103.3	Pac-12
118	UT Arlington	103.3	Southland
119	New Mexico	103.2	Mountain West
120	South Florida	103.1	American Athletic
121	St. Bonaventure	103.1	Atlantic 10
122	Indiana St.	103.1	Missouri Valley
123	Oral Roberts	103.0	Summit
124	UCLA	103.0	Pac-12
125	Texas St.	102.9	Sun Belt
126	Nebraska	102.9	Big Ten
127	Northern Colorado	102.9	Big Sky
128	Stephen F. Austin	102.8	Southland
129	Stony Brook	102.6	American East
130	UNLV	102.6	Mountain West
131	Fresno St.	102.6	Mountain West
132	Murray St.	102.4	Ohio Valley
133	Colgate	102.1	Patriot
134	Charleston	102.0	Colonial Athletic
135	Winthrop	102.0	Big South
136	Wofford	101.9	Southern
137	South Dakota St.	101.8	Summit
138	Radford	101.7	Big South
139	Buffalo	101.6	Mid-American
140	Hofstra	101.6	Colonial Athletic
141	Northeastern	101.5	Colonial Athletic
142	Georgia Southern	101.5	Sun Belt
143	Little Rock	101.5	Sun Belt
144	Santa Clara	101.4	West Coast
145	Southern Utah	101.4	Big Sky
146	Texas A&M	101.3	Southeastern
147	North Dakota St.	101.2	Summit
148	Penn	101.0	Ivy
149	Pacific	100.8	West Coast
150	Missouri St.	100.8	Missouri Valley
151	William & Mary	100.8	Colonial Athletic
152	UTEP	100.7	Conference USA
153	Pepperdine	100.7	West Coast
154	Marshall	100.6	Conference USA
155	George Mason	100.6	Atlantic 10
156	UC Santa Barbara	100.5	Big West
157	Drake	100.5	Missouri Valley
158	Western Carolina	100.4	Southern
159	Vanderbilt	100.3	Southeastern
160	Valparaiso	100.3	Missouri Valley
161	Tulane	100.3	American Athletic
162	Florida Int’l.	100.2	Conference USA
163	Coastal Carolina	100.2	Sun Belt
164	Bowling Green	100.2	Mid-American
165	Boston College	99.9	Atlantic Coast
166	Eastern Washington	99.9	Big Sky
167	Sam Houston St.	99.8	Southland
168	Towson	99.8	Colonial Athletic
169	Air Force	99.8	Mountain West
170	Austin Peay	99.8	Ohio Valley
171	Charlotte	99.8	Conference USA
172	California Baptist	99.7	Western Athletic
173	Montana	99.6	Big Sky
174	Chattanooga	99.6	Southern
175	Hawaii	99.6	Big West
176	Old Dominion	99.6	Conference USA
177	North Florida	99.6	Atlantic Sun
178	UAB	99.6	Conference USA
179	La Salle	99.6	Atlantic 10
180	St. Francis (PA)	99.5	Northeast
181	South Alabama	99.4	Sun Belt
182	UTSA	99.2	Conference USA
183	Southern Illinois	99.2	Missouri Valley
184	Boston U	99.2	Patriot
185	Central Michigan	99.1	Mid-American
186	California	99.1	Pac-12
187	Northern Illinois	98.8	Mid-American
188	South Dakota	98.3	Summit
189	Princeton	98.3	Ivy
190	Rider	98.3	Metro Atlantic
191	Lafayette	98.3	Patriot
192	Nicholls St.	98.2	Southland
193	Appalachian St.	98.1	Sun Belt
194	Delaware	98.0	Colonial Athletic
195	Florida Atlantic	97.9	Conference USA
196	Massachusetts	97.7	Atlantic 10
197	Dartmouth	97.7	Ivy
198	Sacramento St.	97.7	Big Sky
199	San Diego	97.7	West Coast
200	Miami (O)	97.6	Mid-American
201	Omaha	97.6	Summit
202	Abilene Christian	97.5	Southland
203	Ohio	97.5	Mid-American
204	George Washington	97.4	Atlantic 10
205	Sacred Heart	97.3	Northeast
206	Oakland	97.3	Horizon
207	Seattle	97.3	Western Athletic
208	Drexel	97.2	Colonial Athletic
209	Portland St.	97.2	Big Sky
210	Brown	97.1	Ivy
211	Northern Arizona	97.1	Big Sky
212	Loyola Marymount	97.1	West Coast
213	Prairie View A&M	97.1	Southwestern Athl.
214	Monmouth	97.0	Metro Atlantic
215	Siena	96.9	Metro Atlantic
216	Illinois St.	96.8	Missouri Valley
217	Cal St. Bakersfield	96.7	Western Athletic
218	Eastern Illinois	96.7	Ohio Valley
219	Arkansas St.	96.5	Sun Belt
220	Bucknell	96.4	Patriot
221	Green Bay	96.4	Horizon
222	North Dakota	96.4	Summit
223	Navy	96.4	Patriot
224	Canisius	96.2	Metro Atlantic
225	American	96.2	Patriot
226	Long Island	96.2	Northeast
227	UC Riverside	96.2	Big West
228	Albany	96.1	American East
229	Eastern Michigan	96.0	Mid-American
230	Bryant	96.0	Northeast
231	Robert Morris	96.0	Northeast
232	Rice	96.0	Conference USA
233	Montana St.	95.9	Big Sky
234	Grand Canyon	95.8	Western Athletic
235	UC Davis	95.8	Big West
236	Jacksonville St.	95.7	Ohio Valley
237	Youngstown St.	95.7	Horizon
238	Gardner-Webb	95.6	Big South
239	Western Michigan	95.5	Mid-American
240	Saint Joseph’s	95.4	Atlantic 10
241	Tennessee St.	95.4	Ohio Valley
242	Saint Peter’s	95.4	Metro Atlantic
243	Missouri-KC	95.4	Western Athletic
244	Mercer	95.4	Southern
245	Columbia	95.3	Ivy
246	Quinnipiac	95.3	Metro Atlantic
247	Fairfield	95.2	Metro Atlantic
248	Manhattan	95.2	Metro Atlantic
249	East Carolina	95.2	American Athletic
250	Milwaukee	95.1	Horizon
251	McNeese St.	95.1	Southland
252	Campbell	95.1	Big South
253	Jacksonville	94.9	Atlantic Sun
254	Illinois Chicago	94.7	Horizon
255	Texas Southern	94.7	Southwestern Athl.
256	Troy	94.5	Sun Belt
257	Iona	94.5	Metro Atlantic
258	UT Rio Grande Valley	94.4	Western Athletic
259	Louisiana Monroe	94.4	Sun Belt
260	Evansville	94.4	Missouri Valley
261	Purdue Fort Wayne	94.4	Summit
262	UMass Lowell	94.4	American East
263	Portland	94.3	West Coast
264	Lipscomb	94.2	Atlantic Sun
265	Fordham	94.2	Atlantic 10
266	Merrimack	94.0	Northeast
267	Louisiana	93.9	Sun Belt
268	NJIT	93.8	Atlantic Sun
269	Norfolk St.	93.8	Mideastern Athletic
270	Cal St. Fullerton	93.7	Big West
271	Lehigh	93.7	Patriot
272	Lamar	93.7	Southland
273	Southern Miss.	93.7	Conference USA
274	James Madison	93.7	Colonial Athletic
275	Weber St.	93.6	Big Sky
276	Samford	93.6	Southern
277	Cal St. Northridge	93.6	Big West
278	Loyola (MD)	93.6	Patriot
279	Detroit	93.5	Horizon
280	Mount St. Mary’s	93.5	Northeast
281	UNC Asheville	93.5	Big South
282	Utah Valley	93.3	Western Athletic
283	VMI	93.1	Southern
284	New Hampshire	93.1	American East
285	Morehead St.	93.0	Ohio Valley
286	Hartford	93.0	American East
287	North Alabama	92.9	Atlantic Sun
288	Cornell	92.6	Ivy
289	Middle Tennessee	92.5	Conference USA
290	Citadel	92.4	Southern
291	Wyoming	92.3	Mountain West
292	Niagara	92.1	Metro Atlantic
293	Idaho St.	92.1	Big Sky
294	North Carolina Central	92.1	Mideastern Athletic
295	Texas A&M CC	92.1	Southland
296	Bethune Cookman	92.0	Mideastern Athletic
297	San Jose St.	92.0	Mountain West
298	Alcorn St.	91.7	Southwestern Athl.
299	Charleston Southern	91.6	Big South
300	Army	91.6	Patriot
301	UM Baltimore Co.	91.4	American East
302	Grambling	91.4	Southwestern Athl.
303	North Carolina A&T	91.4	Mideastern Athletic
304	Idaho	91.3	Big Sky
305	St. Francis (NY)	91.2	Northeast
306	Long Beach St.	91.2	Big West
307	Elon	90.9	Colonial Athletic
308	UT-Martin	90.9	Ohio Valley
309	Florida Gulf Coast	90.8	Atlantic Sun
310	Morgan St.	90.8	Mideastern Athletic
311	Stetson	90.7	Atlantic Sun
312	Cal Poly	90.7	Big West
313	Central Arkansas	90.6	Southland
314	UNC Wilmington	90.6	Colonial Athletic
315	Fairleigh Dickinson	90.6	Northeast
316	New Orleans	90.5	Southland
317	Florida A&M	90.5	Mideastern Athletic
318	Southern	90.4	Southwestern Athl.
319	Cleveland St.	90.4	Horizon
320	Denver	90.0	Summit
321	Eastern Kentucky	90.0	Ohio Valley
322	USC Upstate	90.0	Big South
323	Wagner	89.9	Northeast
324	Longwood	89.7	Big South
325	IUPUI	89.6	Horizon
326	Hampton	89.4	Big South
327	Northwestern St.	89.3	Southland
328	South Carolina St.	89.2	Mideastern Athletic
329	Jackson St.	89.1	Southwestern Athl.
330	SE Missouri	89.1	Ohio Valley
331	Western Illinois	89.0	Summit
332	Coppin St.	88.7	Mideastern Athletic
333	SE Louisiana	88.6	Southland
334	Maine	88.4	American East
335	Presbyterian	88.4	Big South
336	Marist	88.0	Metro Atlantic
337	Binghamton	87.7	American East
338	Holy Cross	87.2	Patriot
339	SIU Edwardsville	86.9	Ohio Valley
340	Tennessee Tech	86.9	Ohio Valley
341	Alabama A&M	86.9	Southwestern Athl.
342	Alabama St.	86.6	Southwestern Athl.
343	High Point	85.0	Big South
344	Houston Baptist	84.8	Southland
345	Arkansas Pine Bluff	84.5	Southwestern Athl.
346	Kennesaw St.	83.7	Atlantic Sun
347	Incarnate Word	83.6	Southland
348	Howard	81.4	Mideastern Athletic
349	Central Connecticut	80.9	Northeast
350	MD Eastern Shore	80.7	Mideastern Athletic
351	Delaware St.	80.6	Mideastern Athletic
352	Mississippi Valley St.	77.6	Southwestern Athl.
353	Chicago St.	77.4	Western Athletic

 

Alphabetical

 

#	Team	PiRate	Conf.
1	Abilene Christian	97.5	Southland
2	Air Force	99.8	Mountain West
3	Akron	107.2	Mid-American
4	Alabama	111.6	Southeastern
5	Alabama A&M	86.9	Southwestern Athl.
6	Alabama St.	86.6	Southwestern Athl.
7	Albany	96.1	American East
8	Alcorn St.	91.7	Southwestern Athl.
9	American	96.2	Patriot
10	Appalachian St.	98.1	Sun Belt
11	Arizona	116.5	Pac-12
12	Arizona St.	107.7	Pac-12
13	Arkansas	112.8	Southeastern
14	Arkansas Pine Bluff	84.5	Southwestern Athl.
15	Arkansas St.	96.5	Sun Belt
16	Army	91.6	Patriot
17	Auburn	113.0	Southeastern
18	Austin Peay	99.8	Ohio Valley
19	Ball St.	104.8	Mid-American
20	Baylor	117.3	Big 12
21	Belmont	107.0	Ohio Valley
22	Bethune Cookman	92.0	Mideastern Athletic
23	Binghamton	87.7	American East
24	Boise St.	104.3	Mountain West
25	Boston College	99.9	Atlantic Coast
26	Boston U	99.2	Patriot
27	Bowling Green	100.2	Mid-American
28	Bradley	105.0	Missouri Valley
29	Brown	97.1	Ivy
30	Bryant	96.0	Northeast
31	Bucknell	96.4	Patriot
32	Buffalo	101.6	Mid-American
33	Butler	114.9	Big East
34	BYU	112.6	West Coast
35	Cal Poly	90.7	Big West
36	Cal St. Bakersfield	96.7	Western Athletic
37	Cal St. Fullerton	93.7	Big West
38	Cal St. Northridge	93.6	Big West
39	California	99.1	Pac-12
40	California Baptist	99.7	Western Athletic
41	Campbell	95.1	Big South
42	Canisius	96.2	Metro Atlantic
43	Central Arkansas	90.6	Southland
44	Central Connecticut	80.9	Northeast
45	Central Florida	103.9	American Athletic
46	Central Michigan	99.1	Mid-American
47	Charleston	102.0	Colonial Athletic
48	Charleston Southern	91.6	Big South
49	Charlotte	99.8	Conference USA
50	Chattanooga	99.6	Southern
51	Chicago St.	77.4	Western Athletic
52	Cincinnati	110.0	American Athletic
53	Citadel	92.4	Southern
54	Clemson	107.5	Atlantic Coast
55	Cleveland St.	90.4	Horizon
56	Coastal Carolina	100.2	Sun Belt
57	Colgate	102.1	Patriot
58	Colorado	112.5	Pac-12
59	Colorado St.	104.0	Mountain West
60	Columbia	95.3	Ivy
61	Connecticut	107.0	American Athletic
62	Coppin St.	88.7	Mideastern Athletic
63	Cornell	92.6	Ivy
64	Creighton	111.4	Big East
65	Dartmouth	97.7	Ivy
66	Davidson	105.3	Atlantic 10
67	Dayton	116.5	Atlantic 10
68	Delaware	98.0	Colonial Athletic
69	Delaware St.	80.6	Mideastern Athletic
70	Denver	90.0	Summit
71	DePaul	108.4	Big East
72	Detroit	93.5	Horizon
73	Drake	100.5	Missouri Valley
74	Drexel	97.2	Colonial Athletic
75	Duke	121.2	Atlantic Coast
76	Duquesne	106.9	Atlantic 10
77	East Carolina	95.2	American Athletic
78	East Tennessee St.	108.8	Southern
79	Eastern Illinois	96.7	Ohio Valley
80	Eastern Kentucky	90.0	Ohio Valley
81	Eastern Michigan	96.0	Mid-American
82	Eastern Washington	99.9	Big Sky
83	Elon	90.9	Colonial Athletic
84	Evansville	94.4	Missouri Valley
85	Fairfield	95.2	Metro Atlantic
86	Fairleigh Dickinson	90.6	Northeast
87	Florida	113.0	Southeastern
88	Florida A&M	90.5	Mideastern Athletic
89	Florida Atlantic	97.9	Conference USA
90	Florida Gulf Coast	90.8	Atlantic Sun
91	Florida Int’l.	100.2	Conference USA
92	Florida St.	114.9	Atlantic Coast
93	Fordham	94.2	Atlantic 10
94	Fresno St.	102.6	Mountain West
95	Furman	106.4	Southern
96	Gardner-Webb	95.6	Big South
97	George Mason	100.6	Atlantic 10
98	George Washington	97.4	Atlantic 10
99	Georgetown	109.9	Big East
100	Georgia	107.1	Southeastern
101	Georgia Southern	101.5	Sun Belt
102	Georgia St.	104.8	Sun Belt
103	Georgia Tech	106.6	Atlantic Coast
104	Gonzaga	119.4	West Coast
105	Grambling	91.4	Southwestern Athl.
106	Grand Canyon	95.8	Western Athletic
107	Green Bay	96.4	Horizon
108	Hampton	89.4	Big South
109	Hartford	93.0	American East
110	Harvard	104.9	Ivy
111	Hawaii	99.6	Big West
112	High Point	85.0	Big South
113	Hofstra	101.6	Colonial Athletic
114	Holy Cross	87.2	Patriot
115	Houston	112.5	American Athletic
116	Houston Baptist	84.8	Southland
117	Howard	81.4	Mideastern Athletic
118	Idaho	91.3	Big Sky
119	Idaho St.	92.1	Big Sky
120	Illinois	111.7	Big Ten
121	Illinois Chicago	94.7	Horizon
122	Illinois St.	96.8	Missouri Valley
123	Incarnate Word	83.6	Southland
124	Indiana	111.6	Big Ten
125	Indiana St.	103.1	Missouri Valley
126	Iona	94.5	Metro Atlantic
127	Iowa	114.6	Big Ten
128	Iowa St.	108.7	Big 12
129	IUPUI	89.6	Horizon
130	Jackson St.	89.1	Southwestern Athl.
131	Jacksonville	94.9	Atlantic Sun
132	Jacksonville St.	95.7	Ohio Valley
133	James Madison	93.7	Colonial Athletic
134	Kansas	121.1	Big 12
135	Kansas St.	106.1	Big 12
136	Kennesaw St.	83.7	Atlantic Sun
137	Kent St.	104.3	Mid-American
138	Kentucky	113.6	Southeastern
139	La Salle	99.6	Atlantic 10
140	Lafayette	98.3	Patriot
141	Lamar	93.7	Southland
142	Lehigh	93.7	Patriot
143	Liberty	107.5	Atlantic Sun
144	Lipscomb	94.2	Atlantic Sun
145	Little Rock	101.5	Sun Belt
146	Long Beach St.	91.2	Big West
147	Long Island	96.2	Northeast
148	Longwood	89.7	Big South
149	Louisiana	93.9	Sun Belt
150	Louisiana Monroe	94.4	Sun Belt
151	Louisiana Tech	107.4	Conference USA
152	Louisville	116.7	Atlantic Coast
153	Loyola (Chi.)	105.2	Missouri Valley
154	Loyola Marymount	97.1	West Coast
155	Loyola (MD)	93.6	Patriot
156	LSU	112.4	Southeastern
157	Maine	88.4	American East
158	Manhattan	95.2	Metro Atlantic
159	Marist	88.0	Metro Atlantic
160	Marquette	112.6	Big East
161	Marshall	100.6	Conference USA
162	Maryland	115.8	Big Ten
163	Massachusetts	97.7	Atlantic 10
164	McNeese St.	95.1	Southland
165	MD Eastern Shore	80.7	Mideastern Athletic
166	Memphis	112.3	American Athletic
167	Mercer	95.4	Southern
168	Merrimack	94.0	Northeast
169	Miami (Fla.)	105.5	Atlantic Coast
170	Miami (O)	97.6	Mid-American
171	Michigan	113.3	Big Ten
172	Michigan St.	118.5	Big Ten
173	Middle Tennessee	92.5	Conference USA
174	Milwaukee	95.1	Horizon
175	Minnesota	111.5	Big Ten
176	Mississippi	104.7	Southeastern
177	Mississippi St.	110.7	Southeastern
178	Mississippi Valley St.	77.6	Southwestern Athl.
179	Missouri	108.0	Southeastern
180	Missouri-KC	95.4	Western Athletic
181	Missouri St.	100.8	Missouri Valley
182	Monmouth	97.0	Metro Atlantic
183	Montana	99.6	Big Sky
184	Montana St.	95.9	Big Sky
185	Morehead St.	93.0	Ohio Valley
186	Morgan St.	90.8	Mideastern Athletic
187	Mount St. Mary’s	93.5	Northeast
188	Murray St.	102.4	Ohio Valley
189	Navy	96.4	Patriot
190	Nebraska	102.9	Big Ten
191	Nevada	104.7	Mountain West
192	New Hampshire	93.1	American East
193	New Mexico	103.2	Mountain West
194	New Mexico St.	105.5	Western Athletic
195	New Orleans	90.5	Southland
196	Niagara	92.1	Metro Atlantic
197	Nicholls St.	98.2	Southland
198	NJIT	93.8	Atlantic Sun
199	Norfolk St.	93.8	Mideastern Athletic
200	North Alabama	92.9	Atlantic Sun
201	North Carolina	107.0	Atlantic Coast
202	North Carolina A&T	91.4	Mideastern Athletic
203	North Carolina Central	92.1	Mideastern Athletic
204	North Carolina St.	110.5	Atlantic Coast
205	North Dakota	96.4	Summit
206	North Dakota St.	101.2	Summit
207	North Florida	99.6	Atlantic Sun
208	North Texas	105.4	Conference USA
209	Northeastern	101.5	Colonial Athletic
210	Northern Arizona	97.1	Big Sky
211	Northern Colorado	102.9	Big Sky
212	Northern Illinois	98.8	Mid-American
213	Northern Iowa	108.8	Missouri Valley
214	Northern Kentucky	103.7	Horizon
215	Northwestern	104.2	Big Ten
216	Northwestern St.	89.3	Southland
217	Notre Dame	108.9	Atlantic Coast
218	Oakland	97.3	Horizon
219	Ohio	97.5	Mid-American
220	Ohio St.	115.5	Big Ten
221	Oklahoma	110.3	Big 12
222	Oklahoma St.	107.5	Big 12
223	Old Dominion	99.6	Conference USA
224	Omaha	97.6	Summit
225	Oral Roberts	103.0	Summit
226	Oregon	113.7	Pac-12
227	Oregon St.	107.7	Pac-12
228	Pacific	100.8	West Coast
229	Penn	101.0	Ivy
230	Penn St.	112.8	Big Ten
231	Pepperdine	100.7	West Coast
232	Pittsburgh	107.3	Atlantic Coast
233	Portland	94.3	West Coast
234	Portland St.	97.2	Big Sky
235	Prairie View A&M	97.1	Southwestern Athl.
236	Presbyterian	88.4	Big South
237	Princeton	98.3	Ivy
238	Providence	108.0	Big East
239	Purdue	113.2	Big Ten
240	Purdue Fort Wayne	94.4	Summit
241	Quinnipiac	95.3	Metro Atlantic
242	Radford	101.7	Big South
243	Rhode Island	107.7	Atlantic 10
244	Rice	96.0	Conference USA
245	Richmond	107.8	Atlantic 10
246	Rider	98.3	Metro Atlantic
247	Robert Morris	96.0	Northeast
248	Rutgers	112.5	Big Ten
249	Sacramento St.	97.7	Big Sky
250	Sacred Heart	97.3	Northeast
251	Saint Joseph’s	95.4	Atlantic 10
252	Saint Louis	105.5	Atlantic 10
253	Saint Mary’s	110.8	West Coast
254	Saint Peter’s	95.4	Metro Atlantic
255	Sam Houston St.	99.8	Southland
256	Samford	93.6	Southern
257	San Diego	97.7	West Coast
258	San Diego St.	115.0	Mountain West
259	San Francisco	105.0	West Coast
260	San Jose St.	92.0	Mountain West
261	Santa Clara	101.4	West Coast
262	SE Louisiana	88.6	Southland
263	SE Missouri	89.1	Ohio Valley
264	Seattle	97.3	Western Athletic
265	Seton Hall	115.9	Big East
266	Siena	96.9	Metro Atlantic
267	SIU Edwardsville	86.9	Ohio Valley
268	SMU	107.0	American Athletic
269	South Alabama	99.4	Sun Belt
270	South Carolina	105.6	Southeastern
271	South Carolina St.	89.2	Mideastern Athletic
272	South Dakota	98.3	Summit
273	South Dakota St.	101.8	Summit
274	South Florida	103.1	American Athletic
275	Southern	90.4	Southwestern Athl.
276	Southern Illinois	99.2	Missouri Valley
277	Southern Miss.	93.7	Conference USA
278	Southern Utah	101.4	Big Sky
279	St. Bonaventure	103.1	Atlantic 10
280	St. Francis (NY)	91.2	Northeast
281	St. Francis (PA)	99.5	Northeast
282	St. John’s	107.6	Big East
283	Stanford	110.9	Pac-12
284	Stephen F. Austin	102.8	Southland
285	Stetson	90.7	Atlantic Sun
286	Stony Brook	102.6	American East
287	Syracuse	109.2	Atlantic Coast
288	TCU	107.6	Big 12
289	Temple	106.6	American Athletic
290	Tennessee	108.9	Southeastern
291	Tennessee St.	95.4	Ohio Valley
292	Tennessee Tech	86.9	Ohio Valley
293	Texas	108.5	Big 12
294	Texas A&M	101.3	Southeastern
295	Texas A&M CC	92.1	Southland
296	Texas Southern	94.7	Southwestern Athl.
297	Texas St.	102.9	Sun Belt
298	Texas Tech	113.7	Big 12
299	Toledo	104.1	Mid-American
300	Towson	99.8	Colonial Athletic
301	Troy	94.5	Sun Belt
302	Tulane	100.3	American Athletic
303	Tulsa	104.8	American Athletic
304	UAB	99.6	Conference USA
305	UC Davis	95.8	Big West
306	UC Irvine	103.8	Big West
307	UC Riverside	96.2	Big West
308	UC Santa Barbara	100.5	Big West
309	UCLA	103.0	Pac-12
310	UM Baltimore Co.	91.4	American East
311	UMass Lowell	94.4	American East
312	UNC Asheville	93.5	Big South
313	UNC Greensboro	107.7	Southern
314	UNC Wilmington	90.6	Colonial Athletic
315	UNLV	102.6	Mountain West
316	USC	108.5	Pac-12
317	USC Upstate	90.0	Big South
318	UT Arlington	103.3	Southland
319	UT Rio Grande Valley	94.4	Western Athletic
320	UT-Martin	90.9	Ohio Valley
321	Utah	103.7	Pac-12
322	Utah St.	108.9	Mountain West
323	Utah Valley	93.3	Western Athletic
324	UTEP	100.7	Conference USA
325	UTSA	99.2	Conference USA
326	Valparaiso	100.3	Missouri Valley
327	Vanderbilt	100.3	Southeastern
328	VCU	110.6	Atlantic 10
329	Vermont	107.3	American East
330	Villanova	112.5	Big East
331	Virginia	109.8	Atlantic Coast
332	Virginia Tech	108.9	Atlantic Coast
333	VMI	93.1	Southern
334	Wagner	89.9	Northeast
335	Wake Forest	104.3	Atlantic Coast
336	Washington	110.5	Pac-12
337	Washington St.	103.3	Pac-12
338	Weber St.	93.6	Big Sky
339	West Virginia	115.8	Big 12
340	Western Carolina	100.4	Southern
341	Western Illinois	89.0	Summit
342	Western Kentucky	104.3	Conference USA
343	Western Michigan	95.5	Mid-American
344	Wichita St.	111.1	Big East
345	William & Mary	100.8	Colonial Athletic
346	Winthrop	102.0	Big South
347	Wisconsin	112.3	Big Ten
348	Wofford	101.9	Southern
349	Wright St.	103.4	Horizon
350	Wyoming	92.3	Mountain West
351	Xavier	109.0	Big East
352	Yale	108.5	Ivy
353	Youngstown St.	95.7	Horizon

 

 

PiRate Ratings By Conference

 

#	American Athletic	PiRate
1	Houston	112.5
2	Memphis	112.3
3	Cincinnati	110.0
4	Connecticut	107.0
5	SMU	107.0
6	Temple	106.6
7	Tulsa	104.8
8	Central Florida	103.9
9	South Florida	103.1
10	Tulane	100.3
11	East Carolina	95.2
Avg	American Athletic	105.7
#	American East	PiRate
1	Vermont	107.3
2	Stony Brook	102.6
3	Albany	96.1
4	UMass Lowell	94.4
5	New Hampshire	93.1
6	Hartford	93.0
7	UM Baltimore Co.	91.4
8	Maine	88.4
9	Binghamton	87.7
Avg	American East	94.9
#	Atlantic 10	PiRate
1	Dayton	116.5
2	VCU	110.6
3	Richmond	107.8
4	Rhode Island	107.7
5	Duquesne	106.9
6	Saint Louis	105.5
7	Davidson	105.3
8	St. Bonaventure	103.1
9	George Mason	100.6
10	La Salle	99.6
11	Massachusetts	97.7
12	George Washington	97.4
13	Saint Joseph’s	95.4
14	Fordham	94.2
Avg.	Atlantic 10	103.5
#	Atlantic Coast	PiRate
1	Duke	121.2
2	Louisville	116.7
3	Florida St.	114.9
4	North Carolina St.	110.5
5	Virginia	109.8
6	Syracuse	109.2
7	Virginia Tech	108.9
8	Notre Dame	108.9
9	Clemson	107.5
10	Pittsburgh	107.3
11	North Carolina	107.0
12	Georgia Tech	106.6
13	Miami (Fla.)	105.5
14	Wake Forest	104.3
15	Boston College	99.9
Avg	Atlantic Coast	109.2
#	Atlantic Sun	PiRate
1	Liberty	107.5
2	North Florida	99.6
3	Jacksonville	94.9
4	Lipscomb	94.2
5	NJIT	93.8
6	North Alabama	92.9
7	Florida Gulf Coast	90.8
8	Stetson	90.7
9	Kennesaw St.	83.7
Avg	Atlantic Sun	94.2
#	Big 12	PiRate
1	Kansas	121.1
2	Baylor	117.3
3	West Virginia	115.8
4	Texas Tech	113.7
5	Oklahoma	110.3
6	Iowa St.	108.7
7	Texas	108.5
8	TCU	107.6
9	Oklahoma St.	107.5
10	Kansas St.	106.1
Avg	Big 12	111.7
#	Big East	PiRate
1	Seton Hall	115.9
2	Butler	114.9
3	Marquette	112.6
4	Villanova	112.5
5	Creighton	111.4
6	Wichita St.	111.1
7	Georgetown	109.9
8	Xavier	109.0
9	DePaul	108.4
10	Providence	108.0
11	St. John’s	107.6
Avg	Big East	111.0
#	Big Sky	PiRate
1	Northern Colorado	102.9
2	Southern Utah	101.4
3	Eastern Washington	99.9
4	Montana	99.6
5	Sacramento St.	97.7
6	Portland St.	97.2
7	Northern Arizona	97.1
8	Montana St.	95.9
9	Weber St.	93.6
10	Idaho St.	92.1
11	Idaho	91.3
#	Big Sky	97.1
#	Big South	PiRate
1	Winthrop	102.0
2	Radford	101.7
3	Gardner-Webb	95.6
4	Campbell	95.1
5	UNC Asheville	93.5
6	Charleston Southern	91.6
7	USC Upstate	90.0
8	Longwood	89.7
9	Hampton	89.4
10	Presbyterian	88.4
11	High Point	85.0
Avg	Big South	92.9
#	Big Ten	PiRate
1	Michigan St.	118.5
2	Maryland	115.8
3	Ohio St.	115.5
4	Iowa	114.6
5	Michigan	113.3
6	Purdue	113.2
7	Penn St.	112.8
8	Rutgers	112.5
9	Wisconsin	112.3
10	Illinois	111.7
11	Indiana	111.6
12	Minnesota	111.5
13	Northwestern	104.2
14	Nebraska	102.9
Avg	Big Ten	112.2
#	Big West	PiRate
1	UC Irvine	103.8
2	UC Santa Barbara	100.5
3	Hawaii	99.6
4	UC Riverside	96.2
5	UC Davis	95.8
6	Cal St. Fullerton	93.7
7	Cal St. Northridge	93.6
8	Long Beach St.	91.2
9	Cal Poly	90.7
Avg	Big West	96.1
#	Colonial Athletic	PiRate
1	Charleston	102.0
2	Hofstra	101.6
3	Northeastern	101.5
4	William & Mary	100.8
5	Towson	99.8
6	Delaware	98.0
7	Drexel	97.2
8	James Madison	93.7
9	Elon	90.9
10	UNC Wilmington	90.6
Avg	Colonial Athletic	97.6
#	Conference USA	PiRate
1	Louisiana Tech	107.4
2	North Texas	105.4
3	Western Kentucky	104.3
4	UTEP	100.7
5	Marshall	100.6
6	Florida Int’l.	100.2
7	Charlotte	99.8
8	Old Dominion	99.6
9	UAB	99.6
10	UTSA	99.2
11	Florida Atlantic	97.9
12	Rice	96.0
13	Southern Miss.	93.7
14	Middle Tennessee	92.5
Avg	Conference USA	99.8
#	Horizon	PiRate
1	Northern Kentucky	103.7
2	Wright St.	103.4
3	Oakland	97.3
4	Green Bay	96.4
5	Youngstown St.	95.7
6	Milwaukee	95.1
7	Illinois Chicago	94.7
8	Detroit	93.5
9	Cleveland St.	90.4
10	IUPUI	89.6
Avg	Horizon	96.0
#	Ivy	PiRate
1	Yale	108.5
2	Harvard	104.9
3	Penn	101.0
4	Princeton	98.3
5	Dartmouth	97.7
6	Brown	97.1
7	Columbia	95.3
8	Cornell	92.6
Avg	Ivy	99.4
#	Metro Atlantic	PiRate
1	Rider	98.3
2	Monmouth	97.0
3	Siena	96.9
4	Canisius	96.2
5	Saint Peter’s	95.4
6	Quinnipiac	95.3
7	Fairfield	95.2
8	Manhattan	95.2
9	Iona	94.5
10	Niagara	92.1
11	Marist	88.0
Avg	Metro Atlantic	94.9
#	Mid-American	PiRate
1	Akron	107.2
2	Ball St.	104.8
3	Kent St.	104.3
4	Toledo	104.1
5	Buffalo	101.6
6	Bowling Green	100.2
7	Central Michigan	99.1
8	Northern Illinois	98.8
9	Miami (O)	97.6
10	Ohio	97.5
11	Eastern Michigan	96.0
12	Western Michigan	95.5
Avg	Mid-American	100.6
#	Mideastern Athletic	PiRate
1	Norfolk St.	93.8
2	North Carolina Central	92.1
3	Bethune Cookman	92.0
4	North Carolina A&T	91.4
5	Morgan St.	90.8
6	Florida A&M	90.5
7	South Carolina St.	89.2
8	Coppin St.	88.7
9	Howard	81.4
10	MD Eastern Shore	80.7
11	Delaware St.	80.6
Avg	Mideastern Athletic	88.3
#	Missouri Valley	PiRate
1	Northern Iowa	108.8
2	Loyola (Chi.)	105.2
3	Bradley	105.0
4	Indiana St.	103.1
5	Missouri St.	100.8
6	Drake	100.5
7	Valparaiso	100.3
8	Southern Illinois	99.2
9	Illinois St.	96.8
10	Evansville	94.4
Avg	Missouri Valley	101.4
#	Mountain West	PiRate
1	San Diego St.	115.0
2	Utah St.	108.9
3	Nevada	104.7
4	Boise St.	104.3
5	Colorado St.	104.0
6	New Mexico	103.2
7	UNLV	102.6
8	Fresno St.	102.6
9	Air Force	99.8
10	Wyoming	92.3
11	San Jose St.	92.0
Avg	Mountain West	102.7
#	Northeast	PiRate
1	St. Francis (PA)	99.5
2	Sacred Heart	97.3
3	Long Island	96.2
4	Bryant	96.0
5	Robert Morris	96.0
6	Merrimack	94.0
7	Mount St. Mary’s	93.5
8	St. Francis (NY)	91.2
9	Fairleigh Dickinson	90.6
10	Wagner	89.9
11	Central Connecticut	80.9
Avg	Northeast	93.2
#	Ohio Valley	PiRate
1	Belmont	107.0
2	Murray St.	102.4
3	Austin Peay	99.8
4	Eastern Illinois	96.7
5	Jacksonville St.	95.7
6	Tennessee St.	95.4
7	Morehead St.	93.0
8	UT-Martin	90.9
9	Eastern Kentucky	90.0
10	SE Missouri	89.1
11	SIU Edwardsville	86.9
12	Tennessee Tech	86.9
Avg	Ohio Valley	94.5
#	Pac-12	PiRate
1	Arizona	116.5
2	Oregon	113.7
3	Colorado	112.5
4	Stanford	110.9
5	Washington	110.5
6	USC	108.5
7	Oregon St.	107.7
8	Arizona St.	107.7
9	Utah	103.7
10	Washington St.	103.3
11	UCLA	103.0
12	California	99.1
Avg	Pac-12	108.1
#	Patriot	PiRate
1	Colgate	102.1
2	Boston U	99.2
3	Lafayette	98.3
4	Bucknell	96.4
5	Navy	96.4
6	American	96.2
7	Lehigh	93.7
8	Loyola (MD)	93.6
9	Army	91.6
10	Holy Cross	87.2
Avg	Patriot	95.5
#	Southeastern	PiRate
1	Kentucky	113.6
2	Auburn	113.0
3	Florida	113.0
4	Arkansas	112.8
5	LSU	112.4
6	Alabama	111.6
7	Mississippi St.	110.7
8	Tennessee	108.9
9	Missouri	108.0
10	Georgia	107.1
11	South Carolina	105.6
12	Mississippi	104.7
13	Texas A&M	101.3
14	Vanderbilt	100.3
Avg	Southeastern	108.8
#	Southern	PiRate
1	East Tennessee St.	108.8
2	UNC Greensboro	107.7
3	Furman	106.4
4	Wofford	101.9
5	Western Carolina	100.4
6	Chattanooga	99.6
7	Mercer	95.4
8	Samford	93.6
9	VMI	93.1
10	Citadel	92.4
Avg	Southern	99.9
#	Southland	PiRate
1	UT Arlington	103.3
2	Stephen F. Austin	102.8
3	Sam Houston St.	99.8
4	Nicholls St.	98.2
5	Abilene Christian	97.5
6	McNeese St.	95.1
7	Lamar	93.7
8	Texas A&M CC	92.1
9	Central Arkansas	90.6
10	New Orleans	90.5
11	Northwestern St.	89.3
12	SE Louisiana	88.6
13	Houston Baptist	84.8
14	Incarnate Word	83.6
Avg	Southland	93.6
#	Southwestern Athletic	PiRate
1	Prairie View A&M	97.1
2	Texas Southern	94.7
3	Alcorn St.	91.7
4	Grambling	91.4
5	Southern	90.4
6	Jackson St.	89.1
7	Alabama A&M	86.9
8	Alabama St.	86.6
9	Arkansas Pine Bluff	84.5
10	Mississippi Valley St.	77.6
Avg	Southwestern Athletic	89.0
#	Summit	PiRate
1	Oral Roberts	103.0
2	South Dakota St.	101.8
3	North Dakota St.	101.2
4	South Dakota	98.3
5	Omaha	97.6
6	North Dakota	96.4
7	Purdue Fort Wayne	94.4
8	Denver	90.0
9	Western Illinois	89.0
Avg	Summit	96.9
#	Sun Belt	PiRate
1	Georgia St.	104.8
2	Texas St.	102.9
3	Georgia Southern	101.5
4	Little Rock	101.5
5	Coastal Carolina	100.2
6	South Alabama	99.4
7	Appalachian St.	98.1
8	Arkansas St.	96.5
9	Troy	94.5
10	Louisiana Monroe	94.4
11	Louisiana	93.9
Avg	Sun Belt	98.9
#	West Coast	PiRate
1	Gonzaga	119.4
2	BYU	112.6
3	Saint Mary’s	110.8
4	San Francisco	105.0
5	Santa Clara	101.4
6	Pacific	100.8
7	Pepperdine	100.7
8	San Diego	97.7
9	Loyola Marymount	97.1
10	Portland	94.3
Avg	West Coast	104.0
#	Western Athletic	PiRate
1	New Mexico St.	105.5
2	California Baptist	99.7
3	Seattle	97.3
4	Cal St. Bakersfield	96.7
5	Grand Canyon	95.8
6	Missouri-KC	95.4
7	UT Rio Grande Valley	94.4
8	Utah Valley	93.3
9	Chicago St.	77.4
Avg	Western Athletic	95.1

 

 

Conference Ratings

#	Conference	PiRate
1	Big Ten	112.2
2	Big 12	111.7
3	Big East	111.0
4	Atlantic Coast	109.2
5	Southeastern	108.8
6	Pac-12	108.1
7	American Athletic	105.7
8	West Coast	104.0
9	Atlantic 10	103.5
10	Mountain West	102.7
11	Missouri Valley	101.4
12	Mid-American	100.6
13	Southern	99.9
14	Conference USA	99.8
15	Ivy	99.4
16	Sun Belt	98.9
17	Colonial Athletic	97.6
18	Big Sky	97.1
19	Summit	96.9
20	Big West	96.1
21	Horizon	96.0
22	Patriot	95.5
23	Western Athletic	95.1
24	Metro Atlantic	94.9
25	American East	94.9
26	Ohio Valley	94.5
27	Atlantic Sun	94.2
28	Southland	93.6
29	Northeast	93.2
30	Big South	92.9
31	Southwestern Athletic	89.0
32	Mideastern Athletic	88.3

 

Two Mid-Major Games Worth Watching Tonight

 

You won’t see these two games being hyped by the national media tonight, but if you want to see two excellent games between Mid-Major teams that could be in the NCAA Tournament, you will be entertained by these two contests:

At 7 PM Eastern Time, Winthrop (5-0/11-7) visits rival Radford (5-0/10-7) in a battle for first place in the Big South Conference.

Also at 7 PM Eastern Time, Bucknell (4-2/8-11) visits Colgate (5-1/14-5) in a battle for supremacy in the Patriot League.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PiRate Ratings College Basketball For January 19, 2020

Division 1 Basketball Games on Sunday

 

Home	Visitor	Spread
Canisius	Rider	-0.8
Chicago State	Cal St. Bakersfield	-15.8
Cincinnati	East Carolina	16.9
Fordham	Davidson	-7.4
Illinois State	Loyola (Chi.)	-4.9
Maine	Binghamton	1.8
Marist	Iona	-4.5
Niagara	Siena	-2.2
North Dakota State	North Dakota	7.4
Rutgers	Minnesota	3.9
South Dakota	South Dakota State	-1.3
Southern Illinois	Drake	0.1
UCLA	California	6.5
UMKC	Grand Canyon	3.3
Wake Forest	Boston College	6.7

PiRate Ratings Conference Tournament Update–March 1, 2018

Conference Tournament Action From Last Night

Big Ten Conference Tournament
First Round–February 28
Iowa 96	Illinois 87
Rutgers 65	Minnesota 54

Updated Big Ten Bracket

Second Round–March 1
Time	Higher Seed	Lower Seed	TV
12:00 PM	#8 Maryland	#9 Wisconsin	Big Ten
2:15 PM	#5 Michigan	Iowa	Big Ten
6:30 PM	#7 Penn St.	#10 Northwestern	Big Ten
8:45 PM	#6 Indiana	Rutgers	Big Ten
Quarterfinals–March 2
Time	Higher Seed	Lower Seed	TV
12:00 PM	#1 Michigan St.	Mary or Wisc	Big Ten
2:15 PM	#4 Nebraska	Michigan or Iowa	Big Ten
6:30 PM	#2 Ohio St.	PSU or N’Western	Big Ten
8:45 PM	#3 Purdue	Indiana or Rutgers	Big Ten
Semifinals–March 3
Time	Higher Seed	Lower Seed	TV
2:00 PM	MSU/Mary/Wisc	Neb/Mich/Iowa	CBS
4:30 PM	OSU/Purd/NW	Purd/Ind/Rutg	CBS
Championship–March 4
Time	Higher Seed	Lower Seed	TV
4:30 PM			CBS

 

Northeast Conference Tournament
First Round–February 28
Wagner 73	Central Connecticut 61
Robert Morris 60	Mount St. Mary’s 56
Fairleigh-Dickinson 84	St. Francis (Pa) 75
Long Island 73	St. Francis (Bkn) 50

Updated Northeast Conference Bracket

Semifinals–March 3
Time	Home Team	Visitors	TV
12:00 PM	#1 Wagner	#7 Robert Morris	ESPN3
2:00 PM	#4 Long Island	#6 Fairleigh-Dickinson	ESPN3
Championship–March 6
Time	Home Team	Visitors	TV
7:00 PM	Higher Seed	Lower Seed	ESPN2

 

Ohio Valley Conference Tournament
First Round–February 28
Tennessee Tech 60	SIU-Edwardsville 51
Eastern Illinois 73	Tennessee St. 71

Updated Ohio Valley Conference Bracket

Quarterfinals–March 1
Time	Higher Seed	Lower Seed	TV
6:30 PM	#4 Jacksonville St.	Tennessee Tech	OVC
9:00 PM	#3 Austin Peay	Eastern Illinois	OVC
Semifinals–March 2
Time	Higher Seed	Lower Seed	TV
7:00 PM	#1 Murray St.	Jax. St. or Tenn Tech	ESPNU
9:30 PM	#2 Belmont	APSU or E. Illinois	ESPNU
Championship–March 3
Time	Higher Seed	Lower Seed	TV
7:00 PM			ESPN2

 

Other Conference Tournaments in Action Today

Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament

All Games Played at Higher Seed

All Times EST

Semifinals–March 1
Time	Home	Visitors	TV
7:00 PM	#1 Florida Gulf Coast	#5 North Florida	ESPN3
8:00 PM	#2 Lipscomb	#3 Jacksonville	ESPN3

 

Big South Conference Tournament

Championship Game at Higher Seed

Quarterfinals and Semfinals at #1 Seed UNC-Asheville

All Times EST

Quarterfinals–March 1
Time	Higher Seed	Lower Seed	TV
1:00 PM	#2 Radford	#10 Longwood	ESPN3
3:30 PM	#3 Winthrop	#6 Gardner-Webb	ESPN3
7:00 PM	#1 UNC-Asheville	#8 Charleston Southern	ESPN3
9:30 PM	#4 Campbell	#5 Liberty	ESPN3

 

Patriot League Tournament

All Games Played at Higher Seed

All Times EST

Quarterfinals–March 1
Time	Home	Visitors	TV
7:00 PM	#1 Bucknell	#8 Loyola (MD)	Stadium
7:00 PM	#4 Lehigh	#5 Boston U	Stadium
7:00 PM	#2 Colgate	#7 Lafayette	Stadium
7:00 PM	#3 Navy	#6 Holy Cross	Stadium

 

Conference Tournaments Beginning Today

Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Tournament
Albany, NY
All Times EST
First Round–March 1
Time	Higher Seed	Lower Seed	TV
5:00 PM	#8 Monmouth	#9 St. Peter’s	ESPN3
7:30 PM	#7 Quinnipiac	#10 Siena	ESPN3
10:00 PM	#6 Fairfield	#11 Marist	ESPN3
Quarterfinals–March 2
Time	Higher Seed	Lower Seed	TV
7:00 PM	#1 Rider	Monmouth or St. Peter’s	ESPN3
9:30 PM	#2 Canisius	Quinn. or Siena	ESPN3
Quarterfinals–March 3
Time	Higher Seed	Lower Seed	TV
7:00 PM	#3 Niagara	Fair. or Marist	ESPN3
9:30 PM	#4 Iona	#5 Manhattan	ESPN3
Semifinals–March 4
Time	Higher Seed	Lower Seed	TV
7:00 PM	Rider/Monm/St. P	Iona or Manhattan	ESPN3
9:30 PM	Can/Quinn/Siena	Niag/Fair/Marist	ESPN3
Championship–March 5
Time	Higher Seed	Lower Seed	TV
7:00 PM			TBA

While Rider and Canisius tied for the regular season conference championship, there are two other teams to watch closely in this tournament.  Iona has the best offense in the league, and in a tournament, sometimes the team that plays loose and can fill it up from outside will get a large lead against the other team that begins tight and cannot hit their perimeter shots.  Iona is the two-time defending tournament champion, and until the Gaels lose, they are our favorite to win it again, even as the four-seed.

The other team to watch from back of the pack is Fairfield, the hottest team in the league entering the tournament.  The Stags match up quite well with Niagara, who they would face in the quarterfinal round if they win tonight.

 

Missouri Valley Conference Tournament
St. Louis (Arch Madness)
All Times CST
First Round–March 1
Time	Higher Seed	Lower Seed	TV
6:00 PM	#8 Evansville	#9 Northern Iowa	ESPN3
8:30 PM	#7 Missouri St.	#10 Valparaiso	ESPN3
Quarterfinals–March 2
Time	Higher Seed	Lower Seed	TV
12:00 PM	#1 Loyola (Chi.)	Evansville or UNI	ESPN3
2:30 PM	#4 Drake	#5 Bradley	ESPN3
6:00 PM	#2 Southern Illinois	MSU or Valpo	ESPN3
8:30 PM	#3 Illinois St.	#6 Indiana St.	ESPN3
Semifinals–March 3
Time	Higher Seed	Lower Seed	TV
2:30 PM	Loyola/Evans/UNI	Drake or Bradley	CBSSN
5:00 PM	SIU/MSU/Valpo	Ill St. or Ind St.	CBSSN
Championship–March 4
Time	Higher Seed	Lower Seed	TV
1:00 PM			CBS

Without Wichita State playing bully on the rest of the league, it was thought that the Valley would be a wide open race this year with a host of teams competing for the regular season and tournament championships.  However, Loyola (Chi.), with five players averaging double figure scoring, has been nearly unstoppable in conference play this year.  The Ramblers have only been to a single NCAA Tournament since their heydays of the 1960’s,   Loyola enters Arch Madness on a 14 for 15 winning streak.

If any other team wins this tournament, it will be a major upset and will produce a 15-seed or worse.  Loyola could be a 13-seed as the Tournament Champions.

There is one team from way back in the pack that has the potential to sneak into the semifinals.  Northern Iowa is the number 9 seed.  If they beat Evansville tonight, they might be the team that can match up best with Loyola, who they would face tomorrow.  If they were to eliminate the Goliath, then there isn’t another team in the field any better than the Panthers.

 

PiRate Ratings Conference Tournament Update–February 28, 2018

Conference Tournament Results From Last Night

Big South Conference Tournament
First Round–February 27
Longwood   68	High Point   55
Charleston Southern   68	Presbyterian   51

Big South Bracket Update

Quarterfinals–March 1
Time	Higher Seed	Lower Seed	TV
1:00 PM	#2 Radford	#10 Longwood	ESPN3
3:30 PM	#3 Winthrop	#6 Gardner-Webb	ESPN3
7:00 PM	#1 UNC-Asheville	#8 Charleston Southern	ESPN3
9:30 PM	#4 Campbell	#5 Liberty	ESPN3
Semifinals–March 2
Time	Higher Seed	Lower Seed	TV
6:00 PM	Radford or Longwood	Winthrop/G-Webb	ESPN3
8:30 PM	UNCA/Chas. Southern	Campbell or Liberty	ESPN3
Championship–March 4
Time	Home	Visitors	TV
1:00 PM	Higher Seed	Lower Seed	ESPN

 

Patriot League Tournament
First Round–February 27
Lafayette   93	American   86
Loyola (MD)   82	Army   79

Patriot League Bracket Update

Quarterfinals–March 1
Time	Home	Visitors	TV
7:00 PM	#1 Bucknell	#8 Loyola (MD)	Stadium
7:00 PM	#4 Lehigh	#5 Boston U	Stadium
7:00 PM	#2 Colgate	#7 Lafayette	Stadium
7:00 PM	#3 Navy	#6 Holy Cross	Stadium
Semifinals–March 4
Time	Home	Visitors	TV
12/2	Bucknell or Loyola	Lehigh or Boston U	CBSSN
12/2	Colgate or Lafayette	Navy or Holy Cross	CBSSN
Championship–March 7
Time	Home	Visitors	TV
7:30 PM			CBSSN

Conference Tournaments in Action Today

Big Ten Conference Tournament
New York City
All Times EST
First Round–February 28
Time	Higher Seed	Lower Seed	TV
5:30 PM	#12 Iowa	#13 Illinois	Big Ten
7:45 PM	#11 Minnesota	#14 Rutgers	Big Ten
Second Round–March 1
Time	Higher Seed	Lower Seed	TV
12:00 PM	#8 Maryland	#9 Wisconsin	Big Ten
2:15 PM	#5 Michigan	Iowa or Illinois	Big Ten
6:30 PM	#7 Penn St.	#10 Northwestern	Big Ten
8:45 PM	#6 Indiana	Minn. or Rutgers	Big Ten
Quarterfinals–March 2
Time	Higher Seed	Lower Seed	TV
12:00 PM	#1 Michigan St.	Mary or Wisc	Big Ten
2:15 PM	#4 Nebraska	Mich/Iowa/Ill	Big Ten
6:30 PM	#2 Ohio St.	PSU or N’Western	Big Ten
8:45 PM	#3 Purdue	Ind/Minn/Rutg	Big Ten
Semifinals–March 3
Time	Higher Seed	Lower Seed	TV
2:00 PM	MSU/Mary/Wisc	Neb/Mich/Iowa/Ill	CBS
4:30 PM	OSU/Purd/NW	Purd/Ind/Minn/Rutg	CBS
Championship–March 4
Time	Higher Seed	Lower Seed	TV
4:30 PM			CBS

The Big Ten Tournament was moved up a week so that it could be held at Madison Square Garden in New York.  The Big East has dibs on next week.  You won’t find one Big Ten coach happy with this decision, and Commissioner Jim Delany has stated that the Big Ten will not squeeze its schedule again to hold its tournament a week earlier than normal.

Two of the four coaches participating tonight have been reported to be on hot seats with their schools, but we tend to believe they will both be back next year despite poor seasons this year.  Minnesota’s Richard Pitino has had to deal with a suspension of his top player and injuries to multiple contributing players, so that the Gophers have not been able to practice 5 on 5 during conference tournament action. UM lost nine games in a row before winning on senior night over Iowa, and the Gophers enter tournament play below .500 at 15-16 after being ranked as high as 12th in the AP poll in November.

Speaking of Iowa, some media outlets report that Hawkeye coach Fran McCaffery is on the hot seat and could lose his job once Iowa has been eliminated from this tournament.  McCaffery received a lucrative extension last year, and we do not think the university would ante up such a large buyout.

As for this tournament, two teams are desperate to win multiple games to get into the NCAA Tournament.  Nebraska (13-5/22-9) is not even on the list of first 6 teams out.  The Cornhuskers must get to the Semifinals of this tournament just to get into the conversation, and they probably need to make it to the Championship Game to have any chance to make the field.

Penn State (9-9/19-12) has no chance other than to win the tournament.  In some years, a .500 record in the Big Ten would have been enough to get a team in the field, but with the new quadrant system in place and the fact that conference won-loss records no longer factor into the selection process, the Nittany Lions have no chance other than to win the automatic bid.

Michigan State has won 12 games in a row and looks like the clear favorite, but the top seed has not been all that successful in this tournament.  With the schedule bunched together, the four teams with double byes (MSU, Ohio St., Purdue, and Nebraska) have huge advantages.  A Nebraska-Michigan State semifinal game would be can’t miss for sure, with the Spartans vying for a #1 seed, and the Cornhuskers faced with a must-win to get in dilemma.  Michigan is the defending tournament champions.  The Wolverines won from back in the pack last year.

Northeast Conference Tournament
All Games at Higher Seed
Top 8 Teams Qualify and Tournament Re-seeds after Quarterfinals
All Times EST
Quarterfinals–February 28
Time	Home Team	Visitors	TV
7:00 PM	#1 Wagner	#8 Central Connecticut	NEC *
7:00 PM	#2 Mount St. Mary’s	#7 Robert Morris	NEC *
7:00 PM	#3 St. Francis (PA)	#6 Fairleigh-Dickinson	NEC *
7:00 PM	#4 Long Island	#5 St. Francis (Bkn)	NEC *
* NEC Front Row at http://necfrontrow.com/
Semifinals–March 3
Time	Home Team	Visitors	TV
12:00 PM	Highest Remaining	Lowest Remaining	ESPN3
2:00 PM	2nd Highest	3rd Highest	ESPN3
Championship–March 6
Time	Home Team	Visitors	TV
7:00 PM	Higher Seed	Lower Seed	ESPN2

This tournament is a toss-up with seven teams capable of winning it all.  The fact that the higher seeds host the games, and the tournament re-seeds after the quarterfinals really helps the top two seeds, but the next five teams are strong enough to win on the road.

Third-seeded St. Francis (Pa.) enters the tournament riding a five-game winning streak, but the Red Flash were wiped off the floor by top-seed Wagner twice this year.  Fourth-seed Long Island and Sixth-seed Fairleigh Dickinson match up quite well with Wagner and both beat the Seahawks on their home floors, while losing close games at Wagner.

 

Ohio Valley Conference Tournament
Evansville, IN
Top 8 Teams Qualify, Southeast Missouri ineligible due to low APR Scores
All Times CST
First Round–February 28
Time	Higher Seed	Lower Seed	TV
6:30 PM	#5 Tennessee Tech	#8 SIU-Edwardsville	OVC
9:00 PM	#6 Tennessee St.	#7 Eastern Illinois	OVC
OVC Network at http://www.ovcdigitalnetwork.com/watch
Quarterfinals–March 1
Time	Higher Seed	Lower Seed	TV
6:30 PM	#4 Jacksonville St.	Tenn Tech or SIU-E	OVC
9:00 PM	#3 Austin Peay	TSU or EIU	OVC
Semifinals–March 2
Time	Higher Seed	Lower Seed	TV
7:00 PM	#1 Murray St.	JSU/TTU/SIU-E	ESPNU
9:30 PM	#2 Belmont	APSU/TSU/EIU	ESPNU
Championship–March 3
Time	Higher Seed	Lower Seed	TV
7:00 PM			ESPN2

The OVC Tournament moves away from Nashville this year to Evansville, and with it goes Belmont’s home town advantage (the tournament was played downtown at the old Municpal Auditorium and not on Belmont’s campus).

The move up the road 125 miles should help top-seed Murray State, and in this league the top two seeds receive staggering advantages, getting byes to the semifinal round.

We’d be surprised if Belmont and Murray didn’t meet in the championship, but Austin Peay and Jacksonville State will have a lot to say about that.  We do not see any of the other four teams having much chance to make it all the way to the championship.  The OVC will be the first team to place a team into the field of 68.