PiRate Ratings College Basketball–Sunday, February 6, 2022

Home	Visitors	Spread
Georgetown	Providence	-7.1
Ohio St.	Maryland	9.3
Niagara	Iona	-7.5
Canisius	Manhattan	1.5
Purdue Fort Wayne	Green Bay	8.1
Missouri St.	Loyola Chicago	0.5
Quinnipiac	Monmouth	-4.7
Saint Peter’s	Marist	4.0
Fairfield	Siena	7.2
Cleveland St.	Milwaukee	10.4
San Diego St.	Nevada	11.2
Stanford	Washington	5.9
Miami (O)	Akron	-0.7
Iowa	Minnesota	11.0
Cincinnati	Houston	-8.1
Fresno St.	Wyoming	2.0

PiRate Ratings College Basketball–Friday, February 4, 2022

Friday’s PiRate Rating Spreads

Home	Visitors	Spread
Yale	Dartmouth	8.0
Richmond	St. Bonaventure	3.0
VMI	Western Carolina	11.1
Akron	Miami (O)	6.6
Northern Kentucky	Oakland	-5.0
Wright St.	Detroit	2.2
Seton Hall	Creighton	6.0
Cornell	Princeton	-0.5
Columbia	Pennsylvania	-9.4
Brown	Harvard	4.6
Purdue Fort Wayne	Milwaukee	6.4
Cleveland St.	Green Bay	12.1
Saint Peter’s	Quinnipiac	6.9
Siena	Rider	4.2
Canisius	Iona	-12.2
Niagara	Manhattan	6.2
Monmouth	Fairfield	6.4
Ball St.	Toledo	-10.5
Colorado St.	San Diego St.	1.4
Fresno St.	Nevada	8.2

Friday’s PiRate Ratings

#	Team	PiRate	Conference
1	Gonzaga	124.9	West Coast
2	Arizona	121.5	Pac-12
3	Kentucky	119.9	Southeastern
4	Baylor	119.8	Big 12
5	Auburn	119.7	Southeastern
6	Purdue	119.6	Big Ten
7	Houston	119.1	American Athletic
8	Kansas	118.2	Big 12
9	UCLA	117.9	Pac-12
10	Duke	117.7	Atlantic Coast
11	Villanova	117.6	Big East
12	Texas Tech	117.2	Big 12
13	Tennessee	116.6	Southeastern
14	Illinois	116.2	Big Ten
15	LSU	115.7	Southeastern
16	Connecticut	114.8	Big East
17	Alabama	114.7	Southeastern
18	Texas	114.7	Big 12
19	Michigan St.	114.5	Big Ten
20	Iowa	114.1	Big Ten
21	Ohio St.	113.9	Big Ten
22	Xavier	113.5	Big East
23	Indiana	113.2	Big Ten
24	Saint Mary’s	112.8	West Coast
25	Arkansas	112.7	Southeastern
26	USC	112.5	Pac-12
27	Marquette	112.2	Big East
28	Michigan	112.0	Big Ten
29	Wisconsin	112.0	Big Ten
30	North Carolina	112.0	Atlantic Coast
31	San Francisco	111.7	West Coast
32	Seton Hall	111.6	Big East
33	Florida	111.4	Southeastern
34	Oklahoma	111.3	Big 12
35	Washington St.	111.2	Pac-12
36	Oregon	111.2	Pac-12
37	Virginia Tech	111.1	Atlantic Coast
38	Iowa St.	111.0	Big 12
39	San Diego St.	111.0	Mountain West
40	Loyola Chicago	110.9	Missouri Valley
41	Mississippi St.	110.8	Southeastern
42	UAB	110.6	Conference USA
43	Wake Forest	110.6	Atlantic Coast
44	Boise St.	110.6	Mountain West
45	Murray St.	110.5	Ohio Valley
46	BYU	110.5	West Coast
47	Memphis	110.5	American Athletic
48	Utah St.	110.5	Mountain West
49	Providence	110.1	Big East
50	Oklahoma St.	110.1	Big 12
51	TCU	110.0	Big 12
52	Belmont	109.7	Ohio Valley
53	West Virginia	109.7	Big 12
54	SMU	109.6	American Athletic
55	Colorado St.	109.4	Mountain West
56	Saint Louis	109.3	Atlantic 10
57	Clemson	109.1	Atlantic Coast
58	Wyoming	109.0	Mountain West
59	Missouri St.	108.9	Missouri Valley
60	Toledo	108.8	Mid-American
61	Dayton	108.8	Atlantic 10
62	Northwestern	108.6	Big Ten
63	Davidson	108.6	Atlantic 10
64	Creighton	108.6	Big East
65	Miami FL	108.5	Atlantic Coast
66	Texas A&M	108.4	Southeastern
67	Notre Dame	108.3	Atlantic Coast
68	Furman	108.3	Southern
69	Kansas St.	108.1	Big 12
70	Florida St.	108.1	Atlantic Coast
71	Fresno St.	108.0	Mountain West
72	Cincinnati	108.0	American Athletic
73	Iona	107.9	Metro Atlantic
74	Syracuse	107.7	Atlantic Coast
75	St. John’s	107.7	Big East
76	Maryland	107.6	Big Ten
77	Penn St.	107.6	Big Ten
78	South Dakota St.	107.4	Summit
79	North Texas	107.4	Conference USA
80	Santa Clara	107.3	West Coast
81	Wichita St.	107.2	American Athletic
82	Chattanooga	107.2	Southern
83	VCU	107.1	Atlantic 10
84	Vermont	107.0	America East
85	Richmond	107.0	Atlantic 10
86	UCF	107.0	American Athletic
87	Virginia	106.7	Atlantic Coast
88	Ohio	106.7	Mid-American
89	St. Bonaventure	106.5	Atlantic 10
90	Drake	106.4	Missouri Valley
91	Vanderbilt	106.3	Southeastern
92	Minnesota	106.1	Big Ten
93	Louisiana Tech	105.9	Conference USA
94	Colorado	105.9	Pac-12
95	Stanford	105.8	Pac-12
96	Mississippi	105.7	Southeastern
97	Rutgers	105.7	Big Ten
98	Towson	105.6	Colonial Athletic
99	South Carolina	105.6	Southeastern
100	DePaul	105.2	Big East
101	New Mexico St.	105.1	Western Athletic
102	Northern Iowa	105.1	Missouri Valley
103	Liberty	104.9	Atlantic Sun
104	Louisville	104.9	Atlantic Coast
105	N.C. State	104.7	Atlantic Coast
106	Utah	104.6	Pac-12
107	Rhode Island	104.6	Atlantic 10
108	UNLV	104.5	Mountain West
109	George Mason	104.4	Atlantic 10
110	Grand Canyon	104.4	Western Athletic
111	Bradley	104.3	Missouri Valley
112	Tulane	104.0	American Athletic
113	UC Irvine	103.9	Big West
114	Wofford	103.8	Southern
115	Oakland	103.8	Horizon
116	Wagner	103.6	Northeast
117	Buffalo	103.5	Mid-American
118	Western Kentucky	103.4	Conference USA
119	Weber St.	103.3	Big Sky
120	Hofstra	103.3	Colonial Athletic
121	Butler	102.9	Big East
122	Temple	102.9	American Athletic
123	Arizona St.	102.9	Pac-12
124	Monmouth	102.9	Metro Atlantic
125	Washington	102.9	Pac-12
126	Utah Valley	102.8	Western Athletic
127	Nevada	102.8	Mountain West
128	Colgate	102.7	Patriot League
129	Seattle	102.5	Western Athletic
130	South Alabama	102.4	Sun Belt
131	Oral Roberts	102.4	Summit
132	California	102.3	Pac-12
133	Jacksonville St.	102.1	Atlantic Sun
134	Middle Tennessee	102.1	Conference USA
135	Georgia Tech	102.0	Atlantic Coast
136	Morehead St.	101.9	Ohio Valley
137	Florida Atlantic	101.9	Conference USA
138	Southern Illinois	101.8	Missouri Valley
139	Missouri	101.6	Southeastern
140	Yale	101.6	Ivy League
141	Akron	101.5	Mid-American
142	Tulsa	101.5	American Athletic
143	Stephen F. Austin	101.5	Western Athletic
144	Boston College	101.5	Atlantic Coast
145	UC Santa Barbara	101.5	Big West
146	Princeton	101.3	Ivy League
147	Drexel	101.0	Colonial Athletic
148	Nebraska	101.0	Big Ten
149	Delaware	100.8	Colonial Athletic
150	Longwood	100.8	Big South
151	Navy	100.7	Patriot League
152	Kent St.	100.6	Mid-American
153	VMI	100.6	Southern
154	Abilene Christian	100.5	Western Athletic
155	UC Riverside	100.5	Big West
156	Appalachian St.	100.5	Sun Belt
157	Montana St.	100.5	Big Sky
158	Coastal Carolina	100.4	Sun Belt
159	Saint Joseph’s	100.4	Atlantic 10
160	Sam Houston St.	100.4	Western Athletic
161	Cal St. Fullerton	100.3	Big West
162	Montana	100.2	Big Sky
163	Southern Utah	100.2	Big Sky
164	San Diego	100.2	West Coast
165	Saint Peter’s	100.1	Metro Atlantic
166	Charleston	100.1	Colonial Athletic
167	Hawaii	100.1	Big West
168	Texas St.	100.1	Sun Belt
169	Georgetown	100.0	Big East
170	Texas Southern	100.0	Southwestern Athletic
171	Pittsburgh	99.9	Atlantic Coast
172	Oregon St.	99.9	Pac-12
173	Louisiana	99.8	Sun Belt
174	North Dakota St.	99.8	Summit
175	Old Dominion	99.7	Conference USA
176	New Mexico	99.7	Mountain West
177	Gardner Webb	99.6	Big South
178	Massachusetts	99.6	Atlantic 10
179	Cleveland St.	99.6	Horizon
180	Rice	99.6	Conference USA
181	UTEP	99.5	Conference USA
182	Brown	99.5	Ivy League
183	East Carolina	99.4	American Athletic
184	Bellarmine	99.3	Atlantic Sun
185	Loyola Marymount	99.2	West Coast
186	Illinois St.	99.2	Missouri Valley
187	Arkansas St.	99.2	Sun Belt
188	Troy	99.1	Sun Belt
189	Fairfield	99.0	Metro Atlantic
190	Winthrop	98.9	Big South
191	Georgia St.	98.9	Sun Belt
192	Tarleton St.	98.9	Western Athletic
193	East Tennessee St.	98.8	Southern
194	Boston University	98.8	Patriot League
195	Fordham	98.7	Atlantic 10
196	UNC Greensboro	98.6	Southern
197	Marist	98.6	Metro Atlantic
198	Indiana St.	98.6	Missouri Valley
199	Southern	98.5	Southwestern Athletic
200	James Madison	98.5	Colonial Athletic
201	Long Beach St.	98.5	Big West
202	Bryant	98.4	Northeast
203	Western Illinois	98.4	Summit
204	Eastern Washington	98.4	Big Sky
205	Penn	98.4	Ivy League
206	Cornell	98.3	Ivy League
207	Georgia	98.3	Southeastern
208	Detroit Mercy	98.3	Horizon
209	Wright St.	98.0	Horizon
210	Norfolk St.	98.0	Mideastern Athletic
211	Niagara	97.9	Metro Atlantic
212	Valparaiso	97.9	Missouri Valley
213	Northern Colorado	97.8	Big Sky
214	UT Arlington	97.7	Sun Belt
215	Charlotte	97.7	Conference USA
216	Nicholls St.	97.6	Southland
217	Marshall	97.5	Conference USA
218	Campbell	97.5	Big South
219	Miami OH	97.4	Mid-American
220	Harvard	97.4	Ivy League
221	Jacksonville	97.3	Atlantic Sun
222	UNC Wilmington	97.2	Colonial Athletic
223	Bowling Green	97.2	Mid-American
224	UC Davis	97.2	Big West
225	Mercer	97.2	Southern
226	Florida Gulf Coast	97.1	Atlantic Sun
227	Howard	97.0	Mideastern Athletic
228	Samford	97.0	Southern
229	Georgia Southern	97.0	Sun Belt
230	UMKC	96.8	Summit
231	Cal Baptist	96.7	Western Athletic
232	South Dakota	96.7	Summit
233	Stony Brook	96.6	America East
234	Eastern Kentucky	96.6	Atlantic Sun
235	Kennesaw St.	96.5	Atlantic Sun
236	UNC Asheville	96.3	Big South
237	Portland	96.3	West Coast
238	Air Force	96.3	Mountain West
239	Northern Kentucky	96.3	Horizon
240	South Florida	96.2	American Athletic
241	UMBC	96.2	America East
242	FIU	96.2	Conference USA
243	Duquesne	96.1	Atlantic 10
244	Dartmouth	96.1	Ivy League
245	La Salle	96.0	Atlantic 10
246	New Hampshire	96.0	America East
247	Cal St. Bakersfield	95.9	Big West
248	Mount St. Mary’s	95.9	Northeast
249	Youngstown St.	95.8	Horizon
250	Ball St.	95.8	Mid-American
251	Quinnipiac	95.7	Metro Atlantic
252	UMass Lowell	95.6	America East
253	LIU	95.6	Northeast
254	Purdue Fort Wayne	95.6	Horizon
255	Northeastern	95.2	Colonial Athletic
256	Elon	95.0	Colonial Athletic
257	Portland St.	94.9	Big Sky
258	George Washington	94.8	Atlantic 10
259	New Orleans	94.8	Southland
260	Loyola MD	94.6	Patriot League
261	UC San Diego	94.6	Big West
262	Alcorn St.	94.5	Southwestern Athletic
263	The Citadel	94.5	Southern
264	Albany	94.5	America East
265	Pacific	94.4	West Coast
266	Louisiana Monroe	94.4	Sun Belt
267	Tennessee Tech	94.4	Ohio Valley
268	Siena	94.3	Metro Atlantic
269	Texas A&M Corpus Chris	94.3	Southland
270	Manhattan	94.2	Metro Atlantic
271	High Point	94.2	Big South
272	USC Upstate	94.1	Big South
273	Eastern Michigan	94.1	Mid-American
274	Illinois Chicago	94.0	Horizon
275	North Alabama	94.0	Atlantic Sun
276	Austin Peay	93.8	Ohio Valley
277	Army	93.8	Patriot League
278	North Florida	93.7	Atlantic Sun
279	Binghamton	93.7	America East
280	Hartford	93.6	America East
281	Presbyterian	93.6	Big South
282	Pepperdine	93.6	West Coast
283	Canisius	93.2	Metro Atlantic
284	North Carolina Central	93.1	Mideastern Athletic
285	Jackson St.	93.1	Southwestern Athletic
286	UT Rio Grande Valley	93.0	Western Athletic
287	SIU Edwardsville	93.0	Ohio Valley
288	Prairie View A&M	92.9	Southwestern Athletic
289	Dixie St.	92.8	Western Athletic
290	North Carolina A&T	92.8	Big South
291	Southeastern Louisiana	92.8	Southland
292	Lipscomb	92.8	Atlantic Sun
293	St. Thomas	92.8	Summit
294	Stetson	92.7	Atlantic Sun
295	Rider	92.6	Metro Atlantic
296	Radford	92.6	Big South
297	Evansville	92.4	Missouri Valley
298	Northern Illinois	92.1	Mid-American
299	Coppin St.	92.0	Mideastern Athletic
300	Western Carolina	92.0	Southern
301	San Jose St.	91.8	Mountain West
302	Robert Morris	91.7	Horizon
303	Milwaukee	91.7	Horizon
304	Tennessee Martin	91.6	Ohio Valley
305	Southeast Missouri St.	91.6	Ohio Valley
306	Denver	91.5	Summit
307	Lehigh	91.5	Patriot League
308	St. Francis PA	91.5	Northeast
309	Cal Poly	91.4	Big West
310	Florida A&M	91.4	Southwestern Athletic
311	Merrimack	91.3	Northeast
312	Grambling St.	91.2	Southwestern Athletic
313	Tennessee St.	91.2	Ohio Valley
314	McNeese St.	91.1	Southland
315	Sacred Heart	90.9	Northeast
316	St. Francis NY	90.8	Northeast
317	Lafayette	90.8	Patriot League
318	Sacramento St.	90.6	Big Sky
319	NJIT	90.4	America East
320	Little Rock	90.3	Sun Belt
321	Southern Miss	90.1	Conference USA
322	Northern Arizona	90.0	Big Sky
323	Green Bay	90.0	Horizon
324	UTSA	90.0	Conference USA
325	Idaho	89.9	Big Sky
326	Cal St. Northridge	89.9	Big West
327	Alabama St.	89.7	Southwestern Athletic
328	Morgan St.	89.7	Mideastern Athletic
329	Central Michigan	89.7	Mid-American
330	Maryland Eastern Shore	88.7	Mideastern Athletic
331	William & Mary	88.6	Colonial Athletic
332	Bucknell	88.5	Patriot League
333	American	88.5	Patriot League
334	Northwestern St.	88.5	Southland
335	Hampton	88.4	Big South
336	Lamar	88.0	Western Athletic
337	Central Arkansas	87.8	Atlantic Sun
338	Alabama A&M	87.8	Southwestern Athletic
339	South Carolina St.	87.7	Mideastern Athletic
340	Bethune Cookman	87.5	Southwestern Athletic
341	Western Michigan	87.4	Mid-American
342	Central Connecticut	87.4	Northeast
343	Idaho St.	87.4	Big Sky
344	Nebraska Omaha	86.8	Summit
345	North Dakota	86.8	Summit
346	Holy Cross	86.7	Patriot League
347	Fairleigh Dickinson	86.7	Northeast
348	Columbia	86.5	Ivy League
349	Chicago St.	85.9	Western Athletic
350	Incarnate Word	84.8	Southland
351	Houston Baptist	84.8	Southland
352	Charleston Southern	84.7	Big South
353	Maine	84.3	America East
354	Eastern Illinois	83.2	Ohio Valley
355	Arkansas Pine Bluff	82.7	Southwestern Athletic
356	IUPUI	80.3	Horizon
357	Delaware St.	79.1	Mideastern Athletic
358	Mississippi Valley St.	78.1	Southwestern Athletic

Alphabetical

#	Team	PiRate	Conference
154	Abilene Christian	100.5	Western Athletic
238	Air Force	96.3	Mountain West
141	Akron	101.5	Mid-American
17	Alabama	114.7	Southeastern
338	Alabama A&M	87.8	Southwestern Athletic
327	Alabama St.	89.7	Southwestern Athletic
264	Albany	94.5	America East
262	Alcorn St.	94.5	Southwestern Athletic
333	American	88.5	Patriot League
156	Appalachian St.	100.5	Sun Belt
2	Arizona	121.5	Pac-12
123	Arizona St.	102.9	Pac-12
25	Arkansas	112.7	Southeastern
355	Arkansas Pine Bluff	82.7	Southwestern Athletic
187	Arkansas St.	99.2	Sun Belt
277	Army	93.8	Patriot League
5	Auburn	119.7	Southeastern
276	Austin Peay	93.8	Ohio Valley
250	Ball St.	95.8	Mid-American
4	Baylor	119.8	Big 12
184	Bellarmine	99.3	Atlantic Sun
52	Belmont	109.7	Ohio Valley
340	Bethune Cookman	87.5	Southwestern Athletic
279	Binghamton	93.7	America East
44	Boise St.	110.6	Mountain West
144	Boston College	101.5	Atlantic Coast
194	Boston University	98.8	Patriot League
223	Bowling Green	97.2	Mid-American
111	Bradley	104.3	Missouri Valley
182	Brown	99.5	Ivy League
202	Bryant	98.4	Northeast
332	Bucknell	88.5	Patriot League
117	Buffalo	103.5	Mid-American
121	Butler	102.9	Big East
46	BYU	110.5	West Coast
231	Cal Baptist	96.7	Western Athletic
309	Cal Poly	91.4	Big West
247	Cal St. Bakersfield	95.9	Big West
161	Cal St. Fullerton	100.3	Big West
326	Cal St. Northridge	89.9	Big West
132	California	102.3	Pac-12
218	Campbell	97.5	Big South
283	Canisius	93.2	Metro Atlantic
337	Central Arkansas	87.8	Atlantic Sun
342	Central Connecticut	87.4	Northeast
329	Central Michigan	89.7	Mid-American
166	Charleston	100.1	Colonial Athletic
352	Charleston Southern	84.7	Big South
215	Charlotte	97.7	Conference USA
82	Chattanooga	107.2	Southern
349	Chicago St.	85.9	Western Athletic
72	Cincinnati	108.0	American Athletic
57	Clemson	109.1	Atlantic Coast
179	Cleveland St.	99.6	Horizon
158	Coastal Carolina	100.4	Sun Belt
128	Colgate	102.7	Patriot League
94	Colorado	105.9	Pac-12
55	Colorado St.	109.4	Mountain West
348	Columbia	86.5	Ivy League
16	Connecticut	114.8	Big East
299	Coppin St.	92.0	Mideastern Athletic
206	Cornell	98.3	Ivy League
64	Creighton	108.6	Big East
244	Dartmouth	96.1	Ivy League
63	Davidson	108.6	Atlantic 10
61	Dayton	108.8	Atlantic 10
149	Delaware	100.8	Colonial Athletic
357	Delaware St.	79.1	Mideastern Athletic
306	Denver	91.5	Summit
100	DePaul	105.2	Big East
208	Detroit Mercy	98.3	Horizon
289	Dixie St.	92.8	Western Athletic
90	Drake	106.4	Missouri Valley
147	Drexel	101.0	Colonial Athletic
10	Duke	117.7	Atlantic Coast
243	Duquesne	96.1	Atlantic 10
183	East Carolina	99.4	American Athletic
193	East Tennessee St.	98.8	Southern
354	Eastern Illinois	83.2	Ohio Valley
234	Eastern Kentucky	96.6	Atlantic Sun
273	Eastern Michigan	94.1	Mid-American
204	Eastern Washington	98.4	Big Sky
256	Elon	95.0	Colonial Athletic
297	Evansville	92.4	Missouri Valley
189	Fairfield	99.0	Metro Atlantic
347	Fairleigh Dickinson	86.7	Northeast
242	FIU	96.2	Conference USA
33	Florida	111.4	Southeastern
310	Florida A&M	91.4	Southwestern Athletic
137	Florida Atlantic	101.9	Conference USA
226	Florida Gulf Coast	97.1	Atlantic Sun
70	Florida St.	108.1	Atlantic Coast
195	Fordham	98.7	Atlantic 10
71	Fresno St.	108.0	Mountain West
68	Furman	108.3	Southern
177	Gardner Webb	99.6	Big South
109	George Mason	104.4	Atlantic 10
258	George Washington	94.8	Atlantic 10
169	Georgetown	100.0	Big East
207	Georgia	98.3	Southeastern
229	Georgia Southern	97.0	Sun Belt
191	Georgia St.	98.9	Sun Belt
135	Georgia Tech	102.0	Atlantic Coast
1	Gonzaga	124.9	West Coast
312	Grambling St.	91.2	Southwestern Athletic
110	Grand Canyon	104.4	Western Athletic
323	Green Bay	90.0	Horizon
335	Hampton	88.4	Big South
280	Hartford	93.6	America East
220	Harvard	97.4	Ivy League
167	Hawaii	100.1	Big West
271	High Point	94.2	Big South
120	Hofstra	103.3	Colonial Athletic
346	Holy Cross	86.7	Patriot League
7	Houston	119.1	American Athletic
351	Houston Baptist	84.8	Southland
227	Howard	97.0	Mideastern Athletic
325	Idaho	89.9	Big Sky
343	Idaho St.	87.4	Big Sky
14	Illinois	116.2	Big Ten
274	Illinois Chicago	94.0	Horizon
186	Illinois St.	99.2	Missouri Valley
350	Incarnate Word	84.8	Southland
23	Indiana	113.2	Big Ten
198	Indiana St.	98.6	Missouri Valley
73	Iona	107.9	Metro Atlantic
20	Iowa	114.1	Big Ten
38	Iowa St.	111.0	Big 12
356	IUPUI	80.3	Horizon
285	Jackson St.	93.1	Southwestern Athletic
221	Jacksonville	97.3	Atlantic Sun
133	Jacksonville St.	102.1	Atlantic Sun
200	James Madison	98.5	Colonial Athletic
8	Kansas	118.2	Big 12
69	Kansas St.	108.1	Big 12
235	Kennesaw St.	96.5	Atlantic Sun
152	Kent St.	100.6	Mid-American
3	Kentucky	119.9	Southeastern
245	La Salle	96.0	Atlantic 10
317	Lafayette	90.8	Patriot League
336	Lamar	88.0	Western Athletic
307	Lehigh	91.5	Patriot League
103	Liberty	104.9	Atlantic Sun
292	Lipscomb	92.8	Atlantic Sun
320	Little Rock	90.3	Sun Belt
253	LIU	95.6	Northeast
201	Long Beach St.	98.5	Big West
150	Longwood	100.8	Big South
173	Louisiana	99.8	Sun Belt
266	Louisiana Monroe	94.4	Sun Belt
93	Louisiana Tech	105.9	Conference USA
104	Louisville	104.9	Atlantic Coast
40	Loyola Chicago	110.9	Missouri Valley
185	Loyola Marymount	99.2	West Coast
260	Loyola MD	94.6	Patriot League
15	LSU	115.7	Southeastern
353	Maine	84.3	America East
270	Manhattan	94.2	Metro Atlantic
197	Marist	98.6	Metro Atlantic
27	Marquette	112.2	Big East
217	Marshall	97.5	Conference USA
76	Maryland	107.6	Big Ten
330	Maryland Eastern Shore	88.7	Mideastern Athletic
178	Massachusetts	99.6	Atlantic 10
314	McNeese St.	91.1	Southland
47	Memphis	110.5	American Athletic
225	Mercer	97.2	Southern
311	Merrimack	91.3	Northeast
65	Miami FL	108.5	Atlantic Coast
219	Miami OH	97.4	Mid-American
28	Michigan	112.0	Big Ten
19	Michigan St.	114.5	Big Ten
134	Middle Tennessee	102.1	Conference USA
303	Milwaukee	91.7	Horizon
92	Minnesota	106.1	Big Ten
96	Mississippi	105.7	Southeastern
41	Mississippi St.	110.8	Southeastern
358	Mississippi Valley St.	78.1	Southwestern Athletic
139	Missouri	101.6	Southeastern
59	Missouri St.	108.9	Missouri Valley
124	Monmouth	102.9	Metro Atlantic
162	Montana	100.2	Big Sky
157	Montana St.	100.5	Big Sky
136	Morehead St.	101.9	Ohio Valley
328	Morgan St.	89.7	Mideastern Athletic
248	Mount St. Mary’s	95.9	Northeast
45	Murray St.	110.5	Ohio Valley
105	N.C. State	104.7	Atlantic Coast
151	Navy	100.7	Patriot League
148	Nebraska	101.0	Big Ten
344	Nebraska Omaha	86.8	Summit
127	Nevada	102.8	Mountain West
246	New Hampshire	96.0	America East
176	New Mexico	99.7	Mountain West
101	New Mexico St.	105.1	Western Athletic
259	New Orleans	94.8	Southland
211	Niagara	97.9	Metro Atlantic
216	Nicholls St.	97.6	Southland
319	NJIT	90.4	America East
210	Norfolk St.	98.0	Mideastern Athletic
275	North Alabama	94.0	Atlantic Sun
30	North Carolina	112.0	Atlantic Coast
290	North Carolina A&T	92.8	Big South
284	North Carolina Central	93.1	Mideastern Athletic
345	North Dakota	86.8	Summit
174	North Dakota St.	99.8	Summit
278	North Florida	93.7	Atlantic Sun
79	North Texas	107.4	Conference USA
255	Northeastern	95.2	Colonial Athletic
322	Northern Arizona	90.0	Big Sky
213	Northern Colorado	97.8	Big Sky
298	Northern Illinois	92.1	Mid-American
102	Northern Iowa	105.1	Missouri Valley
239	Northern Kentucky	96.3	Horizon
62	Northwestern	108.6	Big Ten
334	Northwestern St.	88.5	Southland
67	Notre Dame	108.3	Atlantic Coast
115	Oakland	103.8	Horizon
88	Ohio	106.7	Mid-American
21	Ohio St.	113.9	Big Ten
34	Oklahoma	111.3	Big 12
50	Oklahoma St.	110.1	Big 12
175	Old Dominion	99.7	Conference USA
131	Oral Roberts	102.4	Summit
36	Oregon	111.2	Pac-12
172	Oregon St.	99.9	Pac-12
265	Pacific	94.4	West Coast
205	Penn	98.4	Ivy League
77	Penn St.	107.6	Big Ten
282	Pepperdine	93.6	West Coast
171	Pittsburgh	99.9	Atlantic Coast
237	Portland	96.3	West Coast
257	Portland St.	94.9	Big Sky
288	Prairie View A&M	92.9	Southwestern Athletic
281	Presbyterian	93.6	Big South
146	Princeton	101.3	Ivy League
49	Providence	110.1	Big East
6	Purdue	119.6	Big Ten
254	Purdue Fort Wayne	95.6	Horizon
251	Quinnipiac	95.7	Metro Atlantic
296	Radford	92.6	Big South
107	Rhode Island	104.6	Atlantic 10
180	Rice	99.6	Conference USA
85	Richmond	107.0	Atlantic 10
295	Rider	92.6	Metro Atlantic
302	Robert Morris	91.7	Horizon
97	Rutgers	105.7	Big Ten
318	Sacramento St.	90.6	Big Sky
315	Sacred Heart	90.9	Northeast
159	Saint Joseph’s	100.4	Atlantic 10
56	Saint Louis	109.3	Atlantic 10
24	Saint Mary’s	112.8	West Coast
165	Saint Peter’s	100.1	Metro Atlantic
160	Sam Houston St.	100.4	Western Athletic
228	Samford	97.0	Southern
164	San Diego	100.2	West Coast
39	San Diego St.	111.0	Mountain West
31	San Francisco	111.7	West Coast
301	San Jose St.	91.8	Mountain West
80	Santa Clara	107.3	West Coast
129	Seattle	102.5	Western Athletic
32	Seton Hall	111.6	Big East
268	Siena	94.3	Metro Atlantic
287	SIU Edwardsville	93.0	Ohio Valley
54	SMU	109.6	American Athletic
130	South Alabama	102.4	Sun Belt
99	South Carolina	105.6	Southeastern
339	South Carolina St.	87.7	Mideastern Athletic
232	South Dakota	96.7	Summit
78	South Dakota St.	107.4	Summit
240	South Florida	96.2	American Athletic
305	Southeast Missouri St.	91.6	Ohio Valley
291	Southeastern Louisiana	92.8	Southland
199	Southern	98.5	Southwestern Athletic
138	Southern Illinois	101.8	Missouri Valley
321	Southern Miss	90.1	Conference USA
163	Southern Utah	100.2	Big Sky
89	St. Bonaventure	106.5	Atlantic 10
316	St. Francis NY	90.8	Northeast
308	St. Francis PA	91.5	Northeast
75	St. John’s	107.7	Big East
293	St. Thomas	92.8	Summit
95	Stanford	105.8	Pac-12
143	Stephen F. Austin	101.5	Western Athletic
294	Stetson	92.7	Atlantic Sun
233	Stony Brook	96.6	America East
74	Syracuse	107.7	Atlantic Coast
192	Tarleton St.	98.9	Western Athletic
51	TCU	110.0	Big 12
122	Temple	102.9	American Athletic
13	Tennessee	116.6	Southeastern
304	Tennessee Martin	91.6	Ohio Valley
313	Tennessee St.	91.2	Ohio Valley
267	Tennessee Tech	94.4	Ohio Valley
18	Texas	114.7	Big 12
66	Texas A&M	108.4	Southeastern
269	Texas A&M Corpus Chris	94.3	Southland
170	Texas Southern	100.0	Southwestern Athletic
168	Texas St.	100.1	Sun Belt
12	Texas Tech	117.2	Big 12
263	The Citadel	94.5	Southern
60	Toledo	108.8	Mid-American
98	Towson	105.6	Colonial Athletic
188	Troy	99.1	Sun Belt
112	Tulane	104.0	American Athletic
142	Tulsa	101.5	American Athletic
42	UAB	110.6	Conference USA
224	UC Davis	97.2	Big West
113	UC Irvine	103.9	Big West
155	UC Riverside	100.5	Big West
261	UC San Diego	94.6	Big West
145	UC Santa Barbara	101.5	Big West
86	UCF	107.0	American Athletic
9	UCLA	117.9	Pac-12
252	UMass Lowell	95.6	America East
241	UMBC	96.2	America East
230	UMKC	96.8	Summit
236	UNC Asheville	96.3	Big South
196	UNC Greensboro	98.6	Southern
222	UNC Wilmington	97.2	Colonial Athletic
108	UNLV	104.5	Mountain West
26	USC	112.5	Pac-12
272	USC Upstate	94.1	Big South
214	UT Arlington	97.7	Sun Belt
286	UT Rio Grande Valley	93.0	Western Athletic
106	Utah	104.6	Pac-12
48	Utah St.	110.5	Mountain West
126	Utah Valley	102.8	Western Athletic
181	UTEP	99.5	Conference USA
324	UTSA	90.0	Conference USA
212	Valparaiso	97.9	Missouri Valley
91	Vanderbilt	106.3	Southeastern
83	VCU	107.1	Atlantic 10
84	Vermont	107.0	America East
11	Villanova	117.6	Big East
87	Virginia	106.7	Atlantic Coast
37	Virginia Tech	111.1	Atlantic Coast
153	VMI	100.6	Southern
116	Wagner	103.6	Northeast
43	Wake Forest	110.6	Atlantic Coast
125	Washington	102.9	Pac-12
35	Washington St.	111.2	Pac-12
119	Weber St.	103.3	Big Sky
53	West Virginia	109.7	Big 12
300	Western Carolina	92.0	Southern
203	Western Illinois	98.4	Summit
118	Western Kentucky	103.4	Conference USA
341	Western Michigan	87.4	Mid-American
81	Wichita St.	107.2	American Athletic
331	William & Mary	88.6	Colonial Athletic
190	Winthrop	98.9	Big South
29	Wisconsin	112.0	Big Ten
114	Wofford	103.8	Southern
209	Wright St.	98.0	Horizon
58	Wyoming	109.0	Mountain West
22	Xavier	113.5	Big East
140	Yale	101.6	Ivy League
249	Youngstown St.	95.8	Horizon

PiRate Ratings By Conference

America East
Team	Rating
Vermont	107.0
Stony Brook	96.6
UMBC	96.2
New Hampshire	96.0
UMass Lowell	95.6
Albany	94.5
Binghamton	93.7
Hartford	93.6
NJIT	90.4
Maine	84.3
American Athletic
Team	Rating
Houston	119.1
Memphis	110.5
SMU	109.6
Cincinnati	108.0
Wichita St.	107.2
UCF	107.0
Tulane	104.0
Temple	102.9
Tulsa	101.5
East Carolina	99.4
South Florida	96.2
Atlantic 10
Team	Rating
Saint Louis	109.3
Dayton	108.8
Davidson	108.6
VCU	107.1
Richmond	107.0
St. Bonaventure	106.5
Rhode Island	104.6
George Mason	104.4
Saint Joseph’s	100.4
Massachusetts	99.6
Fordham	98.7
Duquesne	96.1
La Salle	96.0
George Washington	94.8
Atlantic Coast
Team	Rating
Duke	117.7
North Carolina	112.0
Virginia Tech	111.1
Wake Forest	110.6
Clemson	109.1
Miami FL	108.5
Notre Dame	108.3
Florida St.	108.1
Syracuse	107.7
Virginia	106.7
Louisville	104.9
N.C. State	104.7
Georgia Tech	102.0
Boston College	101.5
Pittsburgh	99.9
Atlantic Sun
Team	Rating
Liberty	104.9
Jacksonville St.	102.1
Bellarmine	99.3
Jacksonville	97.3
Florida Gulf Coast	97.1
Eastern Kentucky	96.6
Kennesaw St.	96.5
North Alabama	94.0
North Florida	93.7
Lipscomb	92.8
Stetson	92.7
Central Arkansas	87.8
Big 12
Team	Rating
Baylor	119.8
Kansas	118.2
Texas Tech	117.2
Texas	114.7
Oklahoma	111.3
Iowa St.	111.0
Oklahoma St.	110.1
TCU	110.0
West Virginia	109.7
Kansas St.	108.1
Big East
Team	Rating
Villanova	117.6
Connecticut	114.8
Xavier	113.5
Marquette	112.2
Seton Hall	111.6
Providence	110.1
Creighton	108.6
St. John’s	107.7
DePaul	105.2
Butler	102.9
Georgetown	100.0
Big Sky
Team	Rating
Weber St.	103.3
Montana St.	100.5
Montana	100.2
Southern Utah	100.2
Eastern Washington	98.4
Northern Colorado	97.8
Portland St.	94.9
Sacramento St.	90.6
Northern Arizona	90.0
Idaho	89.9
Idaho St.	87.4
Big South
Team	Rating
Longwood	100.8
Gardner Webb	99.6
Winthrop	98.9
Campbell	97.5
UNC Asheville	96.3
High Point	94.2
USC Upstate	94.1
Presbyterian	93.6
North Carolina A&T	92.8
Radford	92.6
Hampton	88.4
Charleston Southern	84.7
Big Ten
Team	Rating
Purdue	119.6
Illinois	116.2
Michigan St.	114.5
Iowa	114.1
Ohio St.	113.9
Indiana	113.2
Michigan	112.0
Wisconsin	112.0
Northwestern	108.6
Maryland	107.6
Penn St.	107.6
Minnesota	106.1
Rutgers	105.7
Nebraska	101.0
Big West
Team	Rating
UC Irvine	103.9
UC Santa Barbara	101.5
UC Riverside	100.5
Cal St. Fullerton	100.3
Hawaii	100.1
Long Beach St.	98.5
UC Davis	97.2
Cal St. Bakersfield	95.9
UC San Diego	94.6
Cal Poly	91.4
Cal St. Northridge	89.9
Colonial Athletic
Team	Rating
Towson	105.6
Hofstra	103.3
Drexel	101.0
Delaware	100.8
Charleston	100.1
James Madison	98.5
UNC Wilmington	97.2
Northeastern	95.2
Elon	95.0
William & Mary	88.6
Conference USA
Team	Rating
UAB	110.6
North Texas	107.4
Louisiana Tech	105.9
Western Kentucky	103.4
Middle Tennessee	102.1
Florida Atlantic	101.9
Old Dominion	99.7
Rice	99.6
UTEP	99.5
Charlotte	97.7
Marshall	97.5
FIU	96.2
Southern Miss	90.1
UTSA	90.0
Horizon
Team	Rating
Oakland	103.8
Cleveland St.	99.6
Detroit Mercy	98.3
Wright St.	98.0
Northern Kentucky	96.3
Youngstown St.	95.8
Purdue Fort Wayne	95.6
Illinois Chicago	94.0
Robert Morris	91.7
Milwaukee	91.7
Green Bay	90.0
IUPUI	80.3
Ivy League
Team	Rating
Yale	101.6
Princeton	101.3
Brown	99.5
Penn	98.4
Cornell	98.3
Harvard	97.4
Dartmouth	96.1
Columbia	86.5
Metro Atlantic
Team	Rating
Iona	107.9
Monmouth	102.9
Saint Peter’s	100.1
Fairfield	99.0
Marist	98.6
Niagara	97.9
Quinnipiac	95.7
Siena	94.3
Manhattan	94.2
Canisius	93.2
Rider	92.6
Mid-American
Team	Rating
Toledo	108.8
Ohio	106.7
Buffalo	103.5
Akron	101.5
Kent St.	100.6
Miami OH	97.4
Bowling Green	97.2
Ball St.	95.8
Eastern Michigan	94.1
Northern Illinois	92.1
Central Michigan	89.7
Western Michigan	87.4
Mideastern Athletic
Team	Rating
Norfolk St.	98.0
Howard	97.0
North Carolina Central	93.1
Coppin St.	92.0
Morgan St.	89.7
Maryland Eastern Shore	88.7
South Carolina St.	87.7
Delaware St.	79.1
Missouri Valley
Team	Rating
Loyola Chicago	110.9
Missouri St.	108.9
Drake	106.4
Northern Iowa	105.1
Bradley	104.3
Southern Illinois	101.8
Illinois St.	99.2
Indiana St.	98.6
Valparaiso	97.9
Evansville	92.4
Mountain West
Team	Rating
San Diego St.	111.0
Boise St.	110.6
Utah St.	110.5
Colorado St.	109.4
Wyoming	109.0
Fresno St.	108.0
UNLV	104.5
Nevada	102.8
New Mexico	99.7
Air Force	96.3
San Jose St.	91.8
Northeast
Team	Rating
Wagner	103.6
Bryant	98.4
Mount St. Mary’s	95.9
LIU	95.6
St. Francis PA	91.5
Merrimack	91.3
Sacred Heart	90.9
St. Francis NY	90.8
Central Connecticut	87.4
Fairleigh Dickinson	86.7
Ohio Valley
Team	Rating
Murray St.	110.5
Belmont	109.7
Morehead St.	101.9
Tennessee Tech	94.4
Austin Peay	93.8
SIU Edwardsville	93.0
Tennessee Martin	91.6
Southeast Missouri St.	91.6
Tennessee St.	91.2
Eastern Illinois	83.2
Pac-12
Team	Rating
Arizona	121.5
UCLA	117.9
USC	112.5
Washington St.	111.2
Oregon	111.2
Colorado	105.9
Stanford	105.8
Utah	104.6
Arizona St.	102.9
Washington	102.9
California	102.3
Oregon St.	99.9
Patriot League
Team	Rating
Colgate	102.7
Navy	100.7
Boston University	98.8
Loyola MD	94.6
Army	93.8
Lehigh	91.5
Lafayette	90.8
Bucknell	88.5
American	88.5
Holy Cross	86.7
Southeastern
Team	Rating
Kentucky	119.9
Auburn	119.7
Tennessee	116.6
LSU	115.7
Alabama	114.7
Arkansas	112.7
Florida	111.4
Mississippi St.	110.8
Texas A&M	108.4
Vanderbilt	106.3
Mississippi	105.7
South Carolina	105.6
Missouri	101.6
Georgia	98.3
Southern
Team	Rating
Furman	108.3
Chattanooga	107.2
Wofford	103.8
VMI	100.6
East Tennessee St.	98.8
UNC Greensboro	98.6
Mercer	97.2
Samford	97.0
The Citadel	94.5
Western Carolina	92.0
Southland
Team	Rating
Nicholls St.	97.6
New Orleans	94.8
Texas A&M Corpus Chris	94.3
Southeastern Louisiana	92.8
McNeese St.	91.1
Northwestern St.	88.5
Incarnate Word	84.8
Houston Baptist	84.8
Southwestern Athletic
Team	Rating
Texas Southern	100.0
Southern	98.5
Alcorn St.	94.5
Jackson St.	93.1
Prairie View A&M	92.9
Florida A&M	91.4
Grambling St.	91.2
Alabama St.	89.7
Alabama A&M	87.8
Bethune Cookman	87.5
Arkansas Pine Bluff	82.7
Mississippi Valley St.	78.1
Summit
Team	Rating
South Dakota St.	107.4
Oral Roberts	102.4
North Dakota St.	99.8
Western Illinois	98.4
UMKC	96.8
South Dakota	96.7
St. Thomas	92.8
Denver	91.5
Nebraska Omaha	86.8
North Dakota	86.8
Sun Belt
Team	Rating
South Alabama	102.4
Appalachian St.	100.5
Coastal Carolina	100.4
Texas St.	100.1
Louisiana	99.8
Arkansas St.	99.2
Troy	99.1
Georgia St.	98.9
UT Arlington	97.7
Georgia Southern	97.0
Louisiana Monroe	94.4
Little Rock	90.3
West Coast
Team	Rating
Gonzaga	124.9
Saint Mary’s	112.8
San Francisco	111.7
BYU	110.5
Santa Clara	107.3
San Diego	100.2
Loyola Marymount	99.2
Portland	96.3
Pacific	94.4
Pepperdine	93.6
Western Athletic
Team	Rating
New Mexico St.	105.1
Grand Canyon	104.4
Utah Valley	102.8
Seattle	102.5
Stephen F. Austin	101.5
Abilene Christian	100.5
Sam Houston St.	100.4
Tarleton St.	98.9
Cal Baptist	96.7
UT Rio Grande Valley	93.0
Dixie St.	92.8
Lamar	88.0
Chicago St.	85.9

Coming Later Today: Updated Bracketology

PiRate Ratings College Basketball–Monday, January 31, 2022

Monday’s PiRate Rating Spreads

Home	Visitors	Spread
Lafayette	Colgate	-9.5
Notre Dame	Duke	-5.6
Western Illinois	UMKC	4.8
Kennesaw St.	Liberty	-4.7
Maine	Hartford	-5.8
Vermont	Albany	15.0
Southern Utah	Northern Arizona	13.4
UNC Wilmington	Drexel	-1.1
Boston University	Holy Cross	16.5
Tennessee Tech	Morehead St.	-4.5
Austin Peay	SIU Edwardsville	3.2
Mercer	Wofford	-5.0
Penn St.	Iowa	-3.8
South Carolina St.	Howard	-7.9
Maryland-Eastern Shore	Morgan St.	0.8
Delaware St.	Coppin St.	-11.1
North Dakota	South Dakota St.	-19.0
Alabama A&M	Bethune-Cookman	2.0
Wyoming	Colorado St.	1.6
Jackson St.	Southern	-1.8
Alcorn St.	Grambling	7.2
Baylor	West Virginia	14.2
Weber St.	Eastern Washington	7.9
North Carolina Central	Norfolk St.	-3.1
Alabama St.	Florida A&M	1.0
Santa Clara	Pacific	14.8
Oklahoma	TCU	5.8
San Diego St.	New Mexico	13.8
Portland St.	Northern Colorado	-1.9

Monday’s PiRate Ratings

#	Team	PiRate	Conference
1	Gonzaga	124.5	West Coast
2	Arizona	121.2	Pac-12
3	Baylor	120.5	Big 12
4	Kentucky	120.2	Southeastern
5	Purdue	119.4	Big Ten
6	Houston	119.4	American Athletic
7	Auburn	119.3	Southeastern
8	UCLA	118.2	Pac-12
9	Villanova	118.2	Big East
10	Kansas	117.9	Big 12
11	Duke	117.2	Atlantic Coast
12	Tennessee	116.7	Southeastern
13	Texas Tech	116.6	Big 12
14	LSU	116.6	Southeastern
15	Illinois	116.0	Big Ten
16	Connecticut	115.5	Big East
17	Alabama	115.2	Southeastern
18	Texas	115.0	Big 12
19	Michigan St.	114.8	Big Ten
20	Iowa	114.3	Big Ten
21	Xavier	114.0	Big East
22	Ohio St.	113.9	Big Ten
23	Indiana	113.2	Big Ten
24	USC	112.6	Pac-12
25	Michigan	112.5	Big Ten
26	Saint Mary’s	112.5	West Coast
27	Wisconsin	112.2	Big Ten
28	Oklahoma	112.1	Big 12
29	Arkansas	112.0	Southeastern
30	North Carolina	112.0	Atlantic Coast
31	Seton Hall	111.9	Big East
32	Florida	111.7	Southeastern
33	Marquette	111.6	Big East
34	Iowa St.	111.2	Big 12
35	Washington St.	111.1	Pac-12
36	BYU	111.1	West Coast
37	Virginia Tech	111.1	Atlantic Coast
38	Loyola Chicago	111.0	Missouri Valley
39	San Francisco	110.8	West Coast
40	Wake Forest	110.7	Atlantic Coast
41	Boise St.	110.7	Mountain West
42	Oregon	110.7	Pac-12
43	San Diego St.	110.6	Mountain West
44	UAB	110.5	Conference USA
45	Mississippi St.	110.5	Southeastern
46	Memphis	110.4	American Athletic
47	Murray St.	110.4	Ohio Valley
48	Oklahoma St.	110.2	Big 12
49	Utah St.	110.1	Mountain West
50	Providence	109.9	Big East
51	Colorado St.	109.6	Mountain West
52	SMU	109.4	American Athletic
53	West Virginia	109.3	Big 12
54	TCU	109.3	Big 12
55	Belmont	109.1	Ohio Valley
56	Saint Louis	109.0	Atlantic 10
57	Clemson	109.0	Atlantic Coast
58	Northwestern	109.0	Big Ten
59	Miami FL	108.7	Atlantic Coast
60	Notre Dame	108.6	Atlantic Coast
61	VCU	108.6	Atlantic 10
62	Missouri St.	108.5	Missouri Valley
63	Davidson	108.5	Atlantic 10
64	Toledo	108.4	Mid-American
65	Florida St.	108.3	Atlantic Coast
66	Texas A&M	108.2	Southeastern
67	Wyoming	108.2	Mountain West
68	Creighton	108.1	Big East
69	Furman	108.1	Southern
70	Cincinnati	108.0	American Athletic
71	Iona	107.9	Metro Atlantic
72	Kansas St.	107.8	Big 12
73	South Dakota St.	107.8	Summit
74	Chattanooga	107.8	Southern
75	St. John’s	107.7	Big East
76	Maryland	107.6	Big Ten
77	Syracuse	107.5	Atlantic Coast
78	Penn St.	107.5	Big Ten
79	Dayton	107.4	Atlantic 10
80	North Texas	107.4	Conference USA
81	Fresno St.	107.2	Mountain West
82	Vermont	107.2	America East
83	Wichita St.	107.1	American Athletic
84	St. Bonaventure	107.0	Atlantic 10
85	UCF	106.9	American Athletic
86	Santa Clara	106.8	West Coast
87	Virginia	106.6	Atlantic Coast
88	Richmond	106.6	Atlantic 10
89	Colorado	106.5	Pac-12
90	Louisiana Tech	106.4	Conference USA
91	Ohio	106.3	Mid-American
92	Minnesota	106.3	Big Ten
93	Stanford	106.0	Pac-12
94	Vanderbilt	105.9	Southeastern
95	South Carolina	105.8	Southeastern
96	Drake	105.7	Missouri Valley
97	Rutgers	105.5	Big Ten
98	DePaul	105.3	Big East
99	Towson	105.2	Colonial Athletic
100	Louisville	105.1	Atlantic Coast
101	Rhode Island	105.0	Atlantic 10
102	N.C. State	105.0	Atlantic Coast
103	New Mexico St.	105.0	Western Athletic
104	Bradley	104.8	Missouri Valley
105	Northern Iowa	104.6	Missouri Valley
106	Mississippi	104.6	Southeastern
107	George Mason	104.4	Atlantic 10
108	Wagner	104.3	Northeast
109	UNLV	104.3	Mountain West
110	Wofford	104.1	Southern
111	Utah	103.9	Pac-12
112	Oakland	103.9	Horizon
113	Liberty	103.8	Atlantic Sun
114	UC Irvine	103.8	Big West
115	Hofstra	103.7	Colonial Athletic
116	Grand Canyon	103.7	Western Athletic
117	Weber St.	103.6	Big Sky
118	Buffalo	103.6	Mid-American
119	Tulane	103.6	American Athletic
120	Utah Valley	103.5	Western Athletic
121	California	103.4	Pac-12
122	Jacksonville St.	103.3	Atlantic Sun
123	Nevada	103.1	Mountain West
124	Monmouth	103.0	Metro Atlantic
125	Colgate	102.9	Patriot League
126	Arizona St.	102.9	Pac-12
127	Oral Roberts	102.8	Summit
128	Butler	102.7	Big East
129	Seattle	102.6	Western Athletic
130	Western Kentucky	102.6	Conference USA
131	Temple	102.5	American Athletic
132	South Alabama	102.4	Sun Belt
133	Southern Illinois	102.4	Missouri Valley
134	Georgia Tech	102.4	Atlantic Coast
135	Middle Tennessee	101.8	Conference USA
136	Tulsa	101.7	American Athletic
137	Washington	101.7	Pac-12
138	Yale	101.7	Ivy League
139	Boston College	101.7	Atlantic Coast
140	UC Santa Barbara	101.7	Big West
141	Akron	101.5	Mid-American
142	Princeton	101.5	Ivy League
143	Morehead St.	101.5	Ohio Valley
144	Florida Atlantic	101.3	Conference USA
145	Delaware	101.3	Colonial Athletic
146	Missouri	101.2	Southeastern
147	Abilene Christian	101.1	Western Athletic
148	UC Riverside	101.1	Big West
149	Navy	101.0	Patriot League
150	Drexel	100.9	Colonial Athletic
151	Oregon St.	100.7	Pac-12
152	Georgetown	100.6	Big East
153	Montana St.	100.6	Big Sky
154	Stephen F. Austin	100.6	Western Athletic
155	San Diego	100.5	West Coast
156	Southern Utah	100.5	Big Sky
157	Saint Joseph’s	100.5	Atlantic 10
158	Nebraska	100.5	Big Ten
159	Appalachian St.	100.4	Sun Belt
160	Coastal Carolina	100.4	Sun Belt
161	Longwood	100.3	Big South
162	Saint Peter’s	100.3	Metro Atlantic
163	Cal St. Fullerton	100.2	Big West
164	North Dakota St.	100.2	Summit
165	Hawaii	100.2	Big West
166	Montana	100.1	Big Sky
167	Texas St.	100.1	Sun Belt
168	Kent St.	100.0	Mid-American
169	Pittsburgh	99.9	Atlantic Coast
170	Bellarmine	99.9	Atlantic Sun
171	Sam Houston St.	99.9	Western Athletic
172	Texas Southern	99.9	Southwestern Athletic
173	Loyola Marymount	99.8	West Coast
174	VMI	99.8	Southern
175	New Mexico	99.8	Mountain West
176	Cleveland St.	99.8	Horizon
177	Massachusetts	99.7	Atlantic 10
178	East Carolina	99.7	American Athletic
179	Boston University	99.7	Patriot League
180	UTEP	99.6	Conference USA
181	Brown	99.5	Ivy League
182	Old Dominion	99.5	Conference USA
183	Rice	99.5	Conference USA
184	Arkansas St.	99.5	Sun Belt
185	Charleston	99.4	Colonial Athletic
186	Indiana St.	99.3	Missouri Valley
187	Georgia St.	99.3	Sun Belt
188	Fairfield	99.2	Metro Atlantic
189	Gardner Webb	99.2	Big South
190	UNC Greensboro	99.1	Southern
191	Louisiana	99.1	Sun Belt
192	Illinois St.	99.1	Missouri Valley
193	East Tennessee St.	98.9	Southern
194	Tarleton St.	98.9	Western Athletic
195	Georgia	98.8	Southeastern
196	Northern Colorado	98.7	Big Sky
197	Winthrop	98.7	Big South
198	Marist	98.6	Metro Atlantic
199	Troy	98.6	Sun Belt
200	Cornell	98.4	Ivy League
201	Bryant	98.4	Northeast
202	Penn	98.3	Ivy League
203	Western Illinois	98.3	Summit
204	Miami OH	98.3	Mid-American
205	Charlotte	98.3	Conference USA
206	James Madison	98.3	Colonial Athletic
207	Long Beach St.	98.2	Big West
208	Eastern Washington	98.2	Big Sky
209	Detroit Mercy	98.2	Horizon
210	Norfolk St.	98.2	Mideastern Athletic
211	Fordham	98.1	Atlantic 10
212	Valparaiso	98.1	Missouri Valley
213	Niagara	98.1	Metro Atlantic
214	Wright St.	98.0	Horizon
215	Marshall	97.9	Conference USA
216	Nicholls St.	97.9	Southland
217	Campbell	97.9	Big South
218	Stony Brook	97.8	America East
219	Bowling Green	97.8	Mid-American
220	Southern	97.7	Southwestern Athletic
221	UT Arlington	97.7	Sun Belt
222	Howard	97.6	Mideastern Athletic
223	Harvard	97.5	Ivy League
224	UNC Wilmington	97.3	Colonial Athletic
225	Florida Gulf Coast	97.3	Atlantic Sun
226	Jacksonville	96.9	Atlantic Sun
227	Georgia Southern	96.8	Sun Belt
228	Cal Baptist	96.8	Western Athletic
229	Duquesne	96.8	Atlantic 10
230	Eastern Kentucky	96.7	Atlantic Sun
231	South Dakota	96.6	Summit
232	UC Davis	96.6	Big West
233	Mercer	96.6	Southern
234	Kennesaw St.	96.6	Atlantic Sun
235	Portland	96.6	West Coast
236	UNC Asheville	96.6	Big South
237	Air Force	96.6	Mountain West
238	South Florida	96.5	American Athletic
239	Northern Kentucky	96.4	Horizon
240	Dartmouth	96.3	Ivy League
241	Cal St. Bakersfield	96.2	Big West
242	La Salle	96.2	Atlantic 10
243	Ball St.	96.2	Mid-American
244	Youngstown St.	96.1	Horizon
245	New Hampshire	96.1	America East
246	Samford	96.0	Southern
247	UMKC	96.0	Summit
248	UMBC	96.0	America East
249	FIU	96.0	Conference USA
250	LIU	95.8	Northeast
251	Purdue Fort Wayne	95.7	Horizon
252	Mount St. Mary’s	95.7	Northeast
253	Quinnipiac	95.7	Metro Atlantic
254	Northeastern	95.6	Colonial Athletic
255	UMass Lowell	95.4	America East
256	Alcorn St.	95.1	Southwestern Athletic
257	Pacific	95.0	West Coast
258	George Washington	94.8	Atlantic 10
259	Loyola MD	94.7	Patriot League
260	Albany	94.7	America East
261	Texas A&M Corpus Chris	94.6	Southland
262	High Point	94.5	Big South
263	The Citadel	94.5	Southern
264	Tennessee Tech	94.5	Ohio Valley
265	UC San Diego	94.5	Big West
266	Elon	94.5	Colonial Athletic
267	Eastern Michigan	94.3	Mid-American
268	Portland St.	94.3	Big Sky
269	Siena	94.3	Metro Atlantic
270	North Alabama	94.3	Atlantic Sun
271	Manhattan	94.2	Metro Atlantic
272	Illinois Chicago	94.0	Horizon
273	Louisiana Monroe	93.9	Sun Belt
274	Army	93.9	Patriot League
275	New Orleans	93.9	Southland
276	USC Upstate	93.8	Big South
277	Pepperdine	93.6	West Coast
278	Canisius	93.5	Metro Atlantic
279	Hartford	93.4	America East
280	Dixie St.	93.4	Western Athletic
281	Jackson St.	93.4	Southwestern Athletic
282	Austin Peay	93.4	Ohio Valley
283	Lipscomb	93.3	Atlantic Sun
284	Presbyterian	93.1	Big South
285	Prairie View A&M	92.9	Southwestern Athletic
286	North Carolina A&T	92.9	Big South
287	SIU Edwardsville	92.7	Ohio Valley
288	UT Rio Grande Valley	92.7	Western Athletic
289	St. Thomas	92.7	Summit
290	Binghamton	92.7	America East
291	Rider	92.6	Metro Atlantic
292	North Carolina Central	92.6	Mideastern Athletic
293	Radford	92.6	Big South
294	North Florida	92.5	Atlantic Sun
295	Southeast Missouri St.	92.4	Ohio Valley
296	Southeastern Louisiana	92.4	Southland
297	Evansville	92.4	Missouri Valley
298	Coppin St.	92.3	Mideastern Athletic
299	Stetson	92.3	Atlantic Sun
300	San Jose St.	92.2	Mountain West
301	Robert Morris	91.8	Horizon
302	Milwaukee	91.8	Horizon
303	Merrimack	91.8	Northeast
304	St. Francis PA	91.7	Northeast
305	Western Carolina	91.6	Southern
306	Denver	91.5	Summit
307	Tennessee St.	91.5	Ohio Valley
308	Cal Poly	91.4	Big West
309	Lehigh	91.2	Patriot League
310	McNeese St.	91.2	Southland
311	Little Rock	91.2	Sun Belt
312	Florida A&M	91.1	Southwestern Athletic
313	Northern Illinois	91.0	Mid-American
314	Lafayette	90.9	Patriot League
315	Sacramento St.	90.8	Big Sky
316	Sacred Heart	90.7	Northeast
317	NJIT	90.6	America East
318	St. Francis NY	90.4	Northeast
319	Grambling St.	90.4	Southwestern Athletic
320	Tennessee Martin	90.3	Ohio Valley
321	Southern Miss	90.3	Conference USA
322	Cal St. Northridge	90.2	Big West
323	Green Bay	90.1	Horizon
324	UTSA	90.1	Conference USA
325	Morgan St.	90.0	Mideastern Athletic
326	Idaho	89.9	Big Sky
327	Alabama St.	89.6	Southwestern Athletic
328	Northern Arizona	89.6	Big Sky
329	William & Mary	89.2	Colonial Athletic
330	American	88.9	Patriot League
331	Central Michigan	88.9	Mid-American
332	Western Michigan	88.8	Mid-American
333	Hampton	88.7	Big South
334	Bucknell	88.4	Patriot League
335	Lamar	88.4	Western Athletic
336	Maryland Eastern Shore	88.3	Mideastern Athletic
337	Northwestern St.	87.9	Southland
338	Bethune Cookman	87.8	Southwestern Athletic
339	Central Arkansas	87.5	Atlantic Sun
340	Idaho St.	87.4	Big Sky
341	Alabama A&M	87.3	Southwestern Athletic
342	Fairleigh Dickinson	87.3	Northeast
343	South Carolina St.	87.2	Mideastern Athletic
344	Central Connecticut	86.9	Northeast
345	Columbia	86.5	Ivy League
346	Nebraska Omaha	86.3	Summit
347	North Dakota	86.3	Summit
348	Holy Cross	85.7	Patriot League
349	Chicago St.	85.3	Western Athletic
350	Houston Baptist	85.2	Southland
351	Maine	85.1	America East
352	Charleston Southern	84.7	Big South
353	Incarnate Word	84.5	Southland
354	Eastern Illinois	83.1	Ohio Valley
355	Arkansas Pine Bluff	82.7	Southwestern Athletic
356	IUPUI	80.2	Horizon
357	Delaware St.	78.7	Mideastern Athletic
358	Mississippi Valley St.	77.9	Southwestern Athletic

Alphabetical

#	Team	PiRate	Conference
147	Abilene Christian	101.1	Western Athletic
237	Air Force	96.6	Mountain West
141	Akron	101.5	Mid-American
17	Alabama	115.2	Southeastern
341	Alabama A&M	87.3	Southwestern Athletic
327	Alabama St.	89.6	Southwestern Athletic
260	Albany	94.7	America East
256	Alcorn St.	95.1	Southwestern Athletic
330	American	88.9	Patriot League
159	Appalachian St.	100.4	Sun Belt
2	Arizona	121.2	Pac-12
126	Arizona St.	102.9	Pac-12
29	Arkansas	112.0	Southeastern
355	Arkansas Pine Bluff	82.7	Southwestern Athletic
184	Arkansas St.	99.5	Sun Belt
274	Army	93.9	Patriot League
7	Auburn	119.3	Southeastern
282	Austin Peay	93.4	Ohio Valley
243	Ball St.	96.2	Mid-American
3	Baylor	120.5	Big 12
170	Bellarmine	99.9	Atlantic Sun
55	Belmont	109.1	Ohio Valley
338	Bethune Cookman	87.8	Southwestern Athletic
290	Binghamton	92.7	America East
41	Boise St.	110.7	Mountain West
139	Boston College	101.7	Atlantic Coast
179	Boston University	99.7	Patriot League
219	Bowling Green	97.8	Mid-American
104	Bradley	104.8	Missouri Valley
181	Brown	99.5	Ivy League
201	Bryant	98.4	Northeast
334	Bucknell	88.4	Patriot League
118	Buffalo	103.6	Mid-American
128	Butler	102.7	Big East
36	BYU	111.1	West Coast
228	Cal Baptist	96.8	Western Athletic
308	Cal Poly	91.4	Big West
241	Cal St. Bakersfield	96.2	Big West
163	Cal St. Fullerton	100.2	Big West
322	Cal St. Northridge	90.2	Big West
121	California	103.4	Pac-12
217	Campbell	97.9	Big South
278	Canisius	93.5	Metro Atlantic
339	Central Arkansas	87.5	Atlantic Sun
344	Central Connecticut	86.9	Northeast
331	Central Michigan	88.9	Mid-American
185	Charleston	99.4	Colonial Athletic
352	Charleston Southern	84.7	Big South
205	Charlotte	98.3	Conference USA
74	Chattanooga	107.8	Southern
349	Chicago St.	85.3	Western Athletic
70	Cincinnati	108.0	American Athletic
57	Clemson	109.0	Atlantic Coast
176	Cleveland St.	99.8	Horizon
160	Coastal Carolina	100.4	Sun Belt
125	Colgate	102.9	Patriot League
89	Colorado	106.5	Pac-12
51	Colorado St.	109.6	Mountain West
345	Columbia	86.5	Ivy League
16	Connecticut	115.5	Big East
298	Coppin St.	92.3	Mideastern Athletic
200	Cornell	98.4	Ivy League
68	Creighton	108.1	Big East
240	Dartmouth	96.3	Ivy League
63	Davidson	108.5	Atlantic 10
79	Dayton	107.4	Atlantic 10
145	Delaware	101.3	Colonial Athletic
357	Delaware St.	78.7	Mideastern Athletic
306	Denver	91.5	Summit
98	DePaul	105.3	Big East
209	Detroit Mercy	98.2	Horizon
280	Dixie St.	93.4	Western Athletic
96	Drake	105.7	Missouri Valley
150	Drexel	100.9	Colonial Athletic
11	Duke	117.2	Atlantic Coast
229	Duquesne	96.8	Atlantic 10
178	East Carolina	99.7	American Athletic
193	East Tennessee St.	98.9	Southern
354	Eastern Illinois	83.1	Ohio Valley
230	Eastern Kentucky	96.7	Atlantic Sun
267	Eastern Michigan	94.3	Mid-American
208	Eastern Washington	98.2	Big Sky
266	Elon	94.5	Colonial Athletic
297	Evansville	92.4	Missouri Valley
188	Fairfield	99.2	Metro Atlantic
342	Fairleigh Dickinson	87.3	Northeast
249	FIU	96.0	Conference USA
32	Florida	111.7	Southeastern
312	Florida A&M	91.1	Southwestern Athletic
144	Florida Atlantic	101.3	Conference USA
225	Florida Gulf Coast	97.3	Atlantic Sun
65	Florida St.	108.3	Atlantic Coast
211	Fordham	98.1	Atlantic 10
81	Fresno St.	107.2	Mountain West
69	Furman	108.1	Southern
189	Gardner Webb	99.2	Big South
107	George Mason	104.4	Atlantic 10
258	George Washington	94.8	Atlantic 10
152	Georgetown	100.6	Big East
195	Georgia	98.8	Southeastern
227	Georgia Southern	96.8	Sun Belt
187	Georgia St.	99.3	Sun Belt
134	Georgia Tech	102.4	Atlantic Coast
1	Gonzaga	124.5	West Coast
319	Grambling St.	90.4	Southwestern Athletic
116	Grand Canyon	103.7	Western Athletic
323	Green Bay	90.1	Horizon
333	Hampton	88.7	Big South
279	Hartford	93.4	America East
223	Harvard	97.5	Ivy League
165	Hawaii	100.2	Big West
262	High Point	94.5	Big South
115	Hofstra	103.7	Colonial Athletic
348	Holy Cross	85.7	Patriot League
6	Houston	119.4	American Athletic
350	Houston Baptist	85.2	Southland
222	Howard	97.6	Mideastern Athletic
326	Idaho	89.9	Big Sky
340	Idaho St.	87.4	Big Sky
15	Illinois	116.0	Big Ten
272	Illinois Chicago	94.0	Horizon
192	Illinois St.	99.1	Missouri Valley
353	Incarnate Word	84.5	Southland
23	Indiana	113.2	Big Ten
186	Indiana St.	99.3	Missouri Valley
71	Iona	107.9	Metro Atlantic
20	Iowa	114.3	Big Ten
34	Iowa St.	111.2	Big 12
356	IUPUI	80.2	Horizon
281	Jackson St.	93.4	Southwestern Athletic
226	Jacksonville	96.9	Atlantic Sun
122	Jacksonville St.	103.3	Atlantic Sun
206	James Madison	98.3	Colonial Athletic
10	Kansas	117.9	Big 12
72	Kansas St.	107.8	Big 12
234	Kennesaw St.	96.6	Atlantic Sun
168	Kent St.	100.0	Mid-American
4	Kentucky	120.2	Southeastern
242	La Salle	96.2	Atlantic 10
314	Lafayette	90.9	Patriot League
335	Lamar	88.4	Western Athletic
309	Lehigh	91.2	Patriot League
113	Liberty	103.8	Atlantic Sun
283	Lipscomb	93.3	Atlantic Sun
311	Little Rock	91.2	Sun Belt
250	LIU	95.8	Northeast
207	Long Beach St.	98.2	Big West
161	Longwood	100.3	Big South
191	Louisiana	99.1	Sun Belt
273	Louisiana Monroe	93.9	Sun Belt
90	Louisiana Tech	106.4	Conference USA
100	Louisville	105.1	Atlantic Coast
38	Loyola Chicago	111.0	Missouri Valley
173	Loyola Marymount	99.8	West Coast
259	Loyola MD	94.7	Patriot League
14	LSU	116.6	Southeastern
351	Maine	85.1	America East
271	Manhattan	94.2	Metro Atlantic
198	Marist	98.6	Metro Atlantic
33	Marquette	111.6	Big East
215	Marshall	97.9	Conference USA
76	Maryland	107.6	Big Ten
336	Maryland Eastern Shore	88.3	Mideastern Athletic
177	Massachusetts	99.7	Atlantic 10
310	McNeese St.	91.2	Southland
46	Memphis	110.4	American Athletic
233	Mercer	96.6	Southern
303	Merrimack	91.8	Northeast
59	Miami FL	108.7	Atlantic Coast
204	Miami OH	98.3	Mid-American
25	Michigan	112.5	Big Ten
19	Michigan St.	114.8	Big Ten
135	Middle Tennessee	101.8	Conference USA
302	Milwaukee	91.8	Horizon
92	Minnesota	106.3	Big Ten
106	Mississippi	104.6	Southeastern
45	Mississippi St.	110.5	Southeastern
358	Mississippi Valley St.	77.9	Southwestern Athletic
146	Missouri	101.2	Southeastern
62	Missouri St.	108.5	Missouri Valley
124	Monmouth	103.0	Metro Atlantic
166	Montana	100.1	Big Sky
153	Montana St.	100.6	Big Sky
143	Morehead St.	101.5	Ohio Valley
325	Morgan St.	90.0	Mideastern Athletic
252	Mount St. Mary’s	95.7	Northeast
47	Murray St.	110.4	Ohio Valley
102	N.C. State	105.0	Atlantic Coast
149	Navy	101.0	Patriot League
158	Nebraska	100.5	Big Ten
346	Nebraska Omaha	86.3	Summit
123	Nevada	103.1	Mountain West
245	New Hampshire	96.1	America East
175	New Mexico	99.8	Mountain West
103	New Mexico St.	105.0	Western Athletic
275	New Orleans	93.9	Southland
213	Niagara	98.1	Metro Atlantic
216	Nicholls St.	97.9	Southland
317	NJIT	90.6	America East
210	Norfolk St.	98.2	Mideastern Athletic
270	North Alabama	94.3	Atlantic Sun
30	North Carolina	112.0	Atlantic Coast
286	North Carolina A&T	92.9	Big South
292	North Carolina Central	92.6	Mideastern Athletic
347	North Dakota	86.3	Summit
164	North Dakota St.	100.2	Summit
294	North Florida	92.5	Atlantic Sun
80	North Texas	107.4	Conference USA
254	Northeastern	95.6	Colonial Athletic
328	Northern Arizona	89.6	Big Sky
196	Northern Colorado	98.7	Big Sky
313	Northern Illinois	91.0	Mid-American
105	Northern Iowa	104.6	Missouri Valley
239	Northern Kentucky	96.4	Horizon
58	Northwestern	109.0	Big Ten
337	Northwestern St.	87.9	Southland
60	Notre Dame	108.6	Atlantic Coast
112	Oakland	103.9	Horizon
91	Ohio	106.3	Mid-American
22	Ohio St.	113.9	Big Ten
28	Oklahoma	112.1	Big 12
48	Oklahoma St.	110.2	Big 12
182	Old Dominion	99.5	Conference USA
127	Oral Roberts	102.8	Summit
42	Oregon	110.7	Pac-12
151	Oregon St.	100.7	Pac-12
257	Pacific	95.0	West Coast
202	Penn	98.3	Ivy League
78	Penn St.	107.5	Big Ten
277	Pepperdine	93.6	West Coast
169	Pittsburgh	99.9	Atlantic Coast
235	Portland	96.6	West Coast
268	Portland St.	94.3	Big Sky
285	Prairie View A&M	92.9	Southwestern Athletic
284	Presbyterian	93.1	Big South
142	Princeton	101.5	Ivy League
50	Providence	109.9	Big East
5	Purdue	119.4	Big Ten
251	Purdue Fort Wayne	95.7	Horizon
253	Quinnipiac	95.7	Metro Atlantic
293	Radford	92.6	Big South
101	Rhode Island	105.0	Atlantic 10
183	Rice	99.5	Conference USA
88	Richmond	106.6	Atlantic 10
291	Rider	92.6	Metro Atlantic
301	Robert Morris	91.8	Horizon
97	Rutgers	105.5	Big Ten
315	Sacramento St.	90.8	Big Sky
316	Sacred Heart	90.7	Northeast
157	Saint Joseph’s	100.5	Atlantic 10
56	Saint Louis	109.0	Atlantic 10
26	Saint Mary’s	112.5	West Coast
162	Saint Peter’s	100.3	Metro Atlantic
171	Sam Houston St.	99.9	Western Athletic
246	Samford	96.0	Southern
155	San Diego	100.5	West Coast
43	San Diego St.	110.6	Mountain West
39	San Francisco	110.8	West Coast
300	San Jose St.	92.2	Mountain West
86	Santa Clara	106.8	West Coast
129	Seattle	102.6	Western Athletic
31	Seton Hall	111.9	Big East
269	Siena	94.3	Metro Atlantic
287	SIU Edwardsville	92.7	Ohio Valley
52	SMU	109.4	American Athletic
132	South Alabama	102.4	Sun Belt
95	South Carolina	105.8	Southeastern
343	South Carolina St.	87.2	Mideastern Athletic
231	South Dakota	96.6	Summit
73	South Dakota St.	107.8	Summit
238	South Florida	96.5	American Athletic
295	Southeast Missouri St.	92.4	Ohio Valley
296	Southeastern Louisiana	92.4	Southland
220	Southern	97.7	Southwestern Athletic
133	Southern Illinois	102.4	Missouri Valley
321	Southern Miss	90.3	Conference USA
156	Southern Utah	100.5	Big Sky
84	St. Bonaventure	107.0	Atlantic 10
318	St. Francis NY	90.4	Northeast
304	St. Francis PA	91.7	Northeast
75	St. John’s	107.7	Big East
289	St. Thomas	92.7	Summit
93	Stanford	106.0	Pac-12
154	Stephen F. Austin	100.6	Western Athletic
299	Stetson	92.3	Atlantic Sun
218	Stony Brook	97.8	America East
77	Syracuse	107.5	Atlantic Coast
194	Tarleton St.	98.9	Western Athletic
54	TCU	109.3	Big 12
131	Temple	102.5	American Athletic
12	Tennessee	116.7	Southeastern
320	Tennessee Martin	90.3	Ohio Valley
307	Tennessee St.	91.5	Ohio Valley
264	Tennessee Tech	94.5	Ohio Valley
18	Texas	115.0	Big 12
66	Texas A&M	108.2	Southeastern
261	Texas A&M Corpus Chris	94.6	Southland
172	Texas Southern	99.9	Southwestern Athletic
167	Texas St.	100.1	Sun Belt
13	Texas Tech	116.6	Big 12
263	The Citadel	94.5	Southern
64	Toledo	108.4	Mid-American
99	Towson	105.2	Colonial Athletic
199	Troy	98.6	Sun Belt
119	Tulane	103.6	American Athletic
136	Tulsa	101.7	American Athletic
44	UAB	110.5	Conference USA
232	UC Davis	96.6	Big West
114	UC Irvine	103.8	Big West
148	UC Riverside	101.1	Big West
265	UC San Diego	94.5	Big West
140	UC Santa Barbara	101.7	Big West
85	UCF	106.9	American Athletic
8	UCLA	118.2	Pac-12
255	UMass Lowell	95.4	America East
248	UMBC	96.0	America East
247	UMKC	96.0	Summit
236	UNC Asheville	96.6	Big South
190	UNC Greensboro	99.1	Southern
224	UNC Wilmington	97.3	Colonial Athletic
109	UNLV	104.3	Mountain West
24	USC	112.6	Pac-12
276	USC Upstate	93.8	Big South
221	UT Arlington	97.7	Sun Belt
288	UT Rio Grande Valley	92.7	Western Athletic
111	Utah	103.9	Pac-12
49	Utah St.	110.1	Mountain West
120	Utah Valley	103.5	Western Athletic
180	UTEP	99.6	Conference USA
324	UTSA	90.1	Conference USA
212	Valparaiso	98.1	Missouri Valley
94	Vanderbilt	105.9	Southeastern
61	VCU	108.6	Atlantic 10
82	Vermont	107.2	America East
9	Villanova	118.2	Big East
87	Virginia	106.6	Atlantic Coast
37	Virginia Tech	111.1	Atlantic Coast
174	VMI	99.8	Southern
108	Wagner	104.3	Northeast
40	Wake Forest	110.7	Atlantic Coast
137	Washington	101.7	Pac-12
35	Washington St.	111.1	Pac-12
117	Weber St.	103.6	Big Sky
53	West Virginia	109.3	Big 12
305	Western Carolina	91.6	Southern
203	Western Illinois	98.3	Summit
130	Western Kentucky	102.6	Conference USA
332	Western Michigan	88.8	Mid-American
83	Wichita St.	107.1	American Athletic
329	William & Mary	89.2	Colonial Athletic
197	Winthrop	98.7	Big South
27	Wisconsin	112.2	Big Ten
110	Wofford	104.1	Southern
214	Wright St.	98.0	Horizon
67	Wyoming	108.2	Mountain West
21	Xavier	114.0	Big East
138	Yale	101.7	Ivy League
244	Youngstown St.	96.1	Horizon

PiRate Ratings By Conference

America East
Team	Rating
Vermont	107.2
Stony Brook	97.8
New Hampshire	96.1
UMBC	96.0
UMass Lowell	95.4
Albany	94.7
Hartford	93.4
Binghamton	92.7
NJIT	90.6
Maine	85.1
American Athletic
Team	Rating
Houston	119.4
Memphis	110.4
SMU	109.4
Cincinnati	108.0
Wichita St.	107.1
UCF	106.9
Tulane	103.6
Temple	102.5
Tulsa	101.7
East Carolina	99.7
South Florida	96.5
Atlantic 10
Team	Rating
Saint Louis	109.0
VCU	108.6
Davidson	108.5
Dayton	107.4
St. Bonaventure	107.0
Richmond	106.6
Rhode Island	105.0
George Mason	104.4
Saint Joseph’s	100.5
Massachusetts	99.7
Fordham	98.1
Duquesne	96.8
La Salle	96.2
George Washington	94.8
Atlantic Coast
Team	Rating
Duke	117.2
North Carolina	112.0
Virginia Tech	111.1
Wake Forest	110.7
Clemson	109.0
Miami FL	108.7
Notre Dame	108.6
Florida St.	108.3
Syracuse	107.5
Virginia	106.6
Louisville	105.1
N.C. State	105.0
Georgia Tech	102.4
Boston College	101.7
Pittsburgh	99.9
Atlantic Sun
Team	Rating
Liberty	103.8
Jacksonville St.	103.3
Bellarmine	99.9
Florida Gulf Coast	97.3
Jacksonville	96.9
Eastern Kentucky	96.7
Kennesaw St.	96.6
North Alabama	94.3
Lipscomb	93.3
North Florida	92.5
Stetson	92.3
Central Arkansas	87.5
Big 12
Team	Rating
Baylor	120.5
Kansas	117.9
Texas Tech	116.6
Texas	115.0
Oklahoma	112.1
Iowa St.	111.2
Oklahoma St.	110.2
West Virginia	109.3
TCU	109.3
Kansas St.	107.8
Big East
Team	Rating
Villanova	118.2
Connecticut	115.5
Xavier	114.0
Seton Hall	111.9
Marquette	111.6
Providence	109.9
Creighton	108.1
St. John’s	107.7
DePaul	105.3
Butler	102.7
Georgetown	100.6
Big Sky
Team	Rating
Weber St.	103.6
Montana St.	100.6
Southern Utah	100.5
Montana	100.1
Northern Colorado	98.7
Eastern Washington	98.2
Portland St.	94.3
Sacramento St.	90.8
Idaho	89.9
Northern Arizona	89.6
Idaho St.	87.4
Big South
Team	Rating
Longwood	100.3
Gardner Webb	99.2
Winthrop	98.7
Campbell	97.9
UNC Asheville	96.6
High Point	94.5
USC Upstate	93.8
Presbyterian	93.1
North Carolina A&T	92.9
Radford	92.6
Hampton	88.7
Charleston Southern	84.7
Big Ten
Team	Rating
Purdue	119.4
Illinois	116.0
Michigan St.	114.8
Iowa	114.3
Ohio St.	113.9
Indiana	113.2
Michigan	112.5
Wisconsin	112.2
Northwestern	109.0
Maryland	107.6
Penn St.	107.5
Minnesota	106.3
Rutgers	105.5
Nebraska	100.5
Big West
Team	Rating
UC Irvine	103.8
UC Santa Barbara	101.7
UC Riverside	101.1
Cal St. Fullerton	100.2
Hawaii	100.2
Long Beach St.	98.2
UC Davis	96.6
Cal St. Bakersfield	96.2
UC San Diego	94.5
Cal Poly	91.4
Cal St. Northridge	90.2
Colonial Athletic
Team	Rating
Towson	105.2
Hofstra	103.7
Delaware	101.3
Drexel	100.9
Charleston	99.4
James Madison	98.3
UNC Wilmington	97.3
Northeastern	95.6
Elon	94.5
William & Mary	89.2
Conference USA
Team	Rating
UAB	110.5
North Texas	107.4
Louisiana Tech	106.4
Western Kentucky	102.6
Middle Tennessee	101.8
Florida Atlantic	101.3
UTEP	99.6
Old Dominion	99.5
Rice	99.5
Charlotte	98.3
Marshall	97.9
FIU	96.0
Southern Miss	90.3
UTSA	90.1
Horizon
Team	Rating
Oakland	103.9
Cleveland St.	99.8
Detroit Mercy	98.2
Wright St.	98.0
Northern Kentucky	96.4
Youngstown St.	96.1
Purdue Fort Wayne	95.7
Illinois Chicago	94.0
Robert Morris	91.8
Milwaukee	91.8
Green Bay	90.1
IUPUI	80.2
Ivy League
Team	Rating
Yale	101.7
Princeton	101.5
Brown	99.5
Cornell	98.4
Penn	98.3
Harvard	97.5
Dartmouth	96.3
Columbia	86.5
Metro Atlantic
Team	Rating
Iona	107.9
Monmouth	103.0
Saint Peter’s	100.3
Fairfield	99.2
Marist	98.6
Niagara	98.1
Quinnipiac	95.7
Siena	94.3
Manhattan	94.2
Canisius	93.5
Rider	92.6
Mid-American
Team	Rating
Toledo	108.4
Ohio	106.3
Buffalo	103.6
Akron	101.5
Kent St.	100.0
Miami OH	98.3
Bowling Green	97.8
Ball St.	96.2
Eastern Michigan	94.3
Northern Illinois	91.0
Central Michigan	88.9
Western Michigan	88.8
Mideastern Athletic
Team	Rating
Norfolk St.	98.2
Howard	97.6
North Carolina Central	92.6
Coppin St.	92.3
Morgan St.	90.0
Maryland Eastern Shore	88.3
South Carolina St.	87.2
Delaware St.	78.7
Missouri Valley
Team	Rating
Loyola Chicago	111.0
Missouri St.	108.5
Drake	105.7
Bradley	104.8
Northern Iowa	104.6
Southern Illinois	102.4
Indiana St.	99.3
Illinois St.	99.1
Valparaiso	98.1
Evansville	92.4
Mountain West
Team	Rating
Boise St.	110.7
San Diego St.	110.6
Utah St.	110.1
Colorado St.	109.6
Wyoming	108.2
Fresno St.	107.2
UNLV	104.3
Nevada	103.1
New Mexico	99.8
Air Force	96.6
San Jose St.	92.2
Northeast
Team	Rating
Wagner	104.3
Bryant	98.4
LIU	95.8
Mount St. Mary’s	95.7
Merrimack	91.8
St. Francis PA	91.7
Sacred Heart	90.7
St. Francis NY	90.4
Fairleigh Dickinson	87.3
Central Connecticut	86.9
Ohio Valley
Team	Rating
Murray St.	110.4
Belmont	109.1
Morehead St.	101.5
Tennessee Tech	94.5
Austin Peay	93.4
SIU Edwardsville	92.7
Southeast Missouri St.	92.4
Tennessee St.	91.5
Tennessee Martin	90.3
Eastern Illinois	83.1
Pac-12
Team	Rating
Arizona	121.2
UCLA	118.2
USC	112.6
Washington St.	111.1
Oregon	110.7
Colorado	106.5
Stanford	106.0
Utah	103.9
California	103.4
Arizona St.	102.9
Washington	101.7
Oregon St.	100.7
Patriot League
Team	Rating
Colgate	102.9
Navy	101.0
Boston University	99.7
Loyola MD	94.7
Army	93.9
Lehigh	91.2
Lafayette	90.9
American	88.9
Bucknell	88.4
Holy Cross	85.7
Southeastern
Team	Rating
Kentucky	120.2
Auburn	119.3
Tennessee	116.7
LSU	116.6
Alabama	115.2
Arkansas	112.0
Florida	111.7
Mississippi St.	110.5
Texas A&M	108.2
Vanderbilt	105.9
South Carolina	105.8
Mississippi	104.6
Missouri	101.2
Georgia	98.8
Southern
Team	Rating
Furman	108.1
Chattanooga	107.8
Wofford	104.1
VMI	99.8
UNC Greensboro	99.1
East Tennessee St.	98.9
Mercer	96.6
Samford	96.0
The Citadel	94.5
Western Carolina	91.6
Southland
Team	Rating
Nicholls St.	97.9
Texas A&M Corpus Chris	94.6
New Orleans	93.9
Southeastern Louisiana	92.4
McNeese St.	91.2
Northwestern St.	87.9
Houston Baptist	85.2
Incarnate Word	84.5
Southwestern Athletic
Team	Rating
Texas Southern	99.9
Southern	97.7
Alcorn St.	95.1
Jackson St.	93.4
Prairie View A&M	92.9
Florida A&M	91.1
Grambling St.	90.4
Alabama St.	89.6
Bethune Cookman	87.8
Alabama A&M	87.3
Arkansas Pine Bluff	82.7
Mississippi Valley St.	77.9
Summit
Team	Rating
South Dakota St.	107.8
Oral Roberts	102.8
North Dakota St.	100.2
Western Illinois	98.3
South Dakota	96.6
UMKC	96.0
St. Thomas	92.7
Denver	91.5
Nebraska Omaha	86.3
North Dakota	86.3
Sun Belt
Team	Rating
South Alabama	102.4
Appalachian St.	100.4
Coastal Carolina	100.4
Texas St.	100.1
Arkansas St.	99.5
Georgia St.	99.3
Louisiana	99.1
Troy	98.6
UT Arlington	97.7
Georgia Southern	96.8
Louisiana Monroe	93.9
Little Rock	91.2
West Coast
Team	Rating
Gonzaga	124.5
Saint Mary’s	112.5
BYU	111.1
San Francisco	110.8
Santa Clara	106.8
San Diego	100.5
Loyola Marymount	99.8
Portland	96.6
Pacific	95.0
Pepperdine	93.6
Western Athletic
Team	Rating
New Mexico St.	105.0
Grand Canyon	103.7
Utah Valley	103.5
Seattle	102.6
Abilene Christian	101.1
Stephen F. Austin	100.6
Sam Houston St.	99.9
Tarleton St.	98.9
Cal Baptist	96.8
Dixie St.	93.4
UT Rio Grande Valley	92.7
Lamar	88.4
Chicago St.	85.3

Coming Later Today: Updated Bracketology

There was quite a bit of movement in the March Madness field this past weekend, and the Bubble has changed quite a bit since Friday.

PiRate Ratings College Basketball–Saturday, January 22, 2022

Home	Visitors	Spread
Duke	Syracuse	12.6
Georgetown	Villanova	-14.5
Texas Tech	West Virginia	8.1
St. John’s	Seton Hall	-4.1
Boston College	Virginia Tech	-7.5
Maine	Maryland-Baltimore Co.	-7.1
IUPUI	Northern Kentucky	-12.4
Northeastern	Hofstra	-2.7
Minnesota	Rutgers	2.9
Rhode Island	George Washington	15.8
Auburn	Kentucky	2.7
Boston	Lehigh	10.8
New Hampshire	UMass Lowell	4.0
Green Bay	Oakland	-11.7
Indiana St.	Valparaiso	3.3
VMI	Chattanooga	-5.0
Delaware	Elon	8.8
Florida	Vanderbilt	8.5
Navy	Army	9.9
Texas	Oklahoma St.	6.7
Holy Cross	Bucknell	0.6
Central Florida	Tulane	8.2
Loyola (MD)	American	9.3
Middle Tennessee	Southern Miss.	12.3
Radford	UNC Asheville	-0.7
Winthrop	Gardner-Webb	3.9
Miami (Fla.)	Florida St.	1.2
Dartmouth	Princeton	-3.3
Cornell	Harvard	0.9
Columbia	Brown	-9.9
Georgia St.	Coastal Carolina	1.3
Fordham	Davidson	-8.7
Towson	UNC Wilmington	12.9
Drexel	William & Mary	16.4
Western Michigan	Bowling Green	-7.1
Air Force	Colorado St.	-11.8
Lipscomb	Kennesaw St.	-2.2
VCU	Saint Joseph’s	10.6
Oklahoma	Baylor	-4.8
Florida A&M	Alcorn St.	-1.5
Rice	Charlotte	4.3
Stephen F. Austin	New Mexico St.	0.1
Sam Houston	Grand Canyon	-2.1
Presbyterian	Longwood	-3.9
Milwaukee	Detroit	-0.7
Arkansas St.	Texas St.	0.1
Little Rock	UT Arlington	-3.1
Louisiana Monroe	South Alabama	-3.7
Georgia Southern	Appalachian St.	-0.7
Western Illinois	South Dakota St.	-6.5
UNLV	San Jose St.	14.4
Loyola (Chi.)	Missouri St.	7.3
Grambling	Mississippi Valley St.	15.2
Miami (O)	Northern Illinois	11.8
South Carolina	Georgia	9.4
Kansas St.	Kansas	-7.4
Iowa St.	TCU	6.0
Bethune-Cookman	Jackson St.	-5.1
Morgan St.	Howard	-3.6
Nicholls St.	SE Louisiana	8.6
Long Beach St.	UC Irvine	-5.6
Morehead St.	SIU Edwardsville	11.2
Tennessee St.	Austin Peay	1.0
Maryland-Eastern Shore	South Carolina St.	4.3
Louisiana Tech	UAB	-1.5
Florida Atlantic	Marshall	5.1
Northern Arizona	Montana	-6.8
Southern Utah	Idaho St.	15.8
Utah Valley	Lamar	17.4
Abilene Christian	California Baptist	6.7
Hampton	High Point	-8.0
USC Upstate	Charleston Southern	9.6
Louisville	Notre Dame	1.2
NC St.	Virginia	1.0
Pennsylvania	Yale	-2.1
Jacksonville St.	Florida Gulf Coast	0.9
Denver	Omaha	6.4
East Tennessee St.	The Citadel	7.7
James Madison	Charleston	3.3
Mississippi St.	Mississippi	9.5
Eastern Illinois	Southeast Missouri St.	-4.9
Delaware St.	North Carolina Central	-9.1
Texas A&M-CC	Houston Baptist	13.3
North Alabama	Stetson	3.7
La Salle	Richmond	-7.3
Iowa	Penn St.	9.0
Idaho	Sacramento St.	-1.1
Eastern Washington	Northern Colorado	1.4
New Orleans	Northwestern St.	8.7
Incarnate Word	McNeese	-4.3
North Carolina A&T	Campbell	-1.4
UNC Greensboro	Samford	7.0
Mercer	Western Carolina	9.2
Creighton	DePaul	6.1
Houston	East Carolina	21.3
Tennessee	LSU	1.2
Southern	Arkansas-Pine Bluff	16.1
Norfolk St.	Coppin St.	6.9
North Texas	Old Dominion	10.5
Clemson	Pittsburgh	10.7
Northern Iowa	Drake	2.8
Alabama	Missouri	17.9
Utah	USC	-5.4
Prairie View A&M	Alabama St.	6.2
Texas Southern	Alabama A&M	13.0
Florida International	Western Kentucky	-5.3
Albany	Stony Brook	0.1
Vermont	Hartford	16.6
NJIT	Binghamton	2.2
Eastern Kentucky	North Florida	7.9
Bellarmine	Jacksonville	4.3
George Mason	Dayton	-2.3
Wofford	Furman	1.9
Akron	Eastern Michigan	11.4
Pepperdine	San Francisco	-14.4
Wyoming	New Mexico	13.1
Murray St.	UT Martin	23.2
Tarleton St.	Seattle	-0.5
Wake Forest	North Carolina	1.3
Illinois-Chicago	Wright St.	-0.9
Louisiana	Troy	3.0
Bradley	Southern Illinois	4.0
Oral Roberts	North Dakota St.	7.0
UMKC	North Dakota	12.0
St. Thomas	South Dakota	0.6
Pacific	San Diego	-2.2
Arkansas	Texas A&M	6.6
Colorado	UCLA	-6.2
Cal St. Fullerton	UC San Diego	8.4
Dixie St.	UT Rio Grande Valley	1.1
BYU	Portland	19.3
San Diego St.	Boise St.	4.5
Cal Poly	Hawaii	-5.8
Cal St. Northridge	UC Riverside	-7.7
Portland St.	Montana St.	-3.1
Loyola Marymount	Saint Mary’s	-6.8
Stanford	Arizona St.	5.7

Great Slate Of Games On TV Today

Time (ET)	Network	Home	Visitors
12:00 PM	ESPN2	Texas Tech	West Va.
1:00 PM	CBS	Auburn	Kentucky
1:30 PM	CBSSN	Navy	Army
2:00 PM	ESPN	Miami (Fla.)	Florida St.
3:00 PM	ESPN+	Oklahoma	Baylor
3:30 PM	CBSSN	Loyola (Chi.)	Missouri St.
4:00 PM	ESPN+	Kansas St.	Kansas
4:00 PM	ESPN2	Iowa St.	TCU
4:00 PM	ESPNU	Mississippi St.	Ole Miss
6:00 PM	ESPN	Tennessee	LSU
8:00 PM	ACCN	Wake Forest	North Carolina
8:30 PM	SECN	Arkansas	Texas A&M
9:30 PM	CBSSN	San Diego St.	Boise St.

PiRate Picks–December 3-4, 2021

A November To Remember!

The last three weeks of PiRate Picks have seen an incredible winning streak only seen twice before at this site. In that time, we wagered on 11 different Money Line parlays and single games, all at odds of +150 or more. At 100 imaginary dollars per imaginary wager, we have seen an imaginary return of $2,770.35, for an imaginary profit of $1,670.35. That comes to an imaginary return on investment of 152% !

Last week, we placed a governor on our wagering engine informing you that we had guaranteed ourselves a winning season in imaginary funds, and we had no plans to give the imaginary windfall profits back to the books. We selected two high odds parlays at +201.37 and +150.77. Both of them won for us, although we had to sweat out Alabama’s beating Auburn.

This week being Championship Week, there are few options to choose from with just a tad over a dozen games. We did not have a parlay jump off the sheet. We had to go looking for value and really found very little. If this were for real, we would pocket our profits and withdraw it from the books. But, to not play any parlays would mean you have no reason to read this week’s publication. So, we painstakingly compared odds trying to shop for an extra 5% benefit, and we came up with two parlays that have the odds we want.

If this is your first visit to this site or this weekly feature, here is an important disclaimer: We never play these selections for real. It is strictly an exercise in mathematical fun. We strongly urge you not to play these picks, unless they simply verify the selections you have already considered. We know that about 25-30 of you reading this feature would be considered professional handicappers/players in Nevada and offshore. We don’t worry about your profit/loss from wagering, because that’s your profession and you look at dozens of references. But, if you are reading this and have a legal account with one of the big handicapping corporations, you most likely won’t be able to play these selections at the odds we issue, because we shop around until we find the best odds. In order to replicate our odds, you would have to open accounts with six different books that we have found the best odds this year. Next year, it could be different books entirely.

Here are our two parlays for this week.

December 3-4

Odds:	+185.49
Must Win	Opponent
Kent St.	Northern Illinois
Pittsburgh	Wake Forest
Odds:	+205.60
Must Win	Opponent
Oklahoma St.	Baylor
San Diego St.	Utah St.
Georgia	Alabama

Mountain West Coast Conference Preview

Like every other conference in 2020, the Mountain West Conference was forced to make some eleventh hour changes, delaying the start of the season to late October.  One team, Colorado State, played just four games.  Several teams made it to six games.  A couple played seven times, and no team played double digit games.

Divisional play was cancelled last year, with the top two finishers facing off in the MWC Championship Game.  San Jose State finished first with a 6-0 league record, while Boise State finished a half-game back at 5-0.  In the MWC Championship Game, the Spartans bested the Broncos by two touchdowns.

Normalcy returns in 2021, as the teams return to divisional play.  At the preseason meetings the MWC Media voted their predicted order of finish for the season.  Here is how it turned out:

Mountain West Conference Preseason Media Poll
Mountain Division	1st Pl	Overall
Boise St.	23	148
Wyoming	2	115
Air Force		104
Colorado St.		72
Utah St.		47
New Mexico		39
West Division	1st Pl	Overall
Nevada	19	141
San Jose St.	5	121
San Diego St.		96
Fresno St.	1	85
Hawaii		56
UNLV		26

Here is the PiRate Ratings Preview for the MWC

Boise State breaks in a new head coach, after Bryan Harsin left for Auburn.  The Broncos return 16 starters including their starting quarterback and two excellent receivers.  New coach Andy Avalos needs to get more consistency out of the Boise State offense.  The defense is good enough to win games for the Broncos as long as the offense tops 30 points.

One of these years, Wyoming is going to put it all together and take the Mountain Division flag.  Coach Craig Bohl has what looks like his best team since he arrived in Laramie, and this could be the year the Cowboys challenge for the division title.  The Wyoming defense should challenge for the league lead in points allowed and total yards allowed.

AIr Force led the MWC in scoring defense last year, while the option offense was off and on.  When an option style team has a veteran quarterback, they usually perform a little better than the previous season.  However, even though quarterback Haaziq Daniels returns to start, he will play behind an offensive line that must replace all five starters.  The Falcon defense is going to need to come out with a lot of stalled opponent drives if AFA is going to compete for the division flag.

Colorado State has had a lot of turnover the last couple of seasons with three different head coaches.  Current coach and former Boston College head man Steve Addazio didn’t get much of a chance to coach in Fort Collins in his first year, going just 1-3.  He has an experienced squad returning, but the Rams have a tough schedule.  Competing for a winning record may be two seasons away at the least.

Utah State won just one time last year, a 14-point victory over New Mexico.  Once considered an offensive firepower, the Aggies are anything but that these days.  USU must break in a new quarterback, three new pass catchers, and a new running back, and the offense is going to struggle at times after averaging just 15.5 points per game last year.  The defense was mediocre in 2020, and it could be weaker this year, so the Aggies are not likely to enjoy a winning season.

New Mexico lost their first five games but was competitive in four of those games last year.  The Lobos ended the season with wins over Wyoming and Fresno State, and they return 14 starters.  They are a good quarterback away from contending for a bowl game this year.

In the West Division, the Nevada Wolf Pack clearly begins the season as the team to beat for the championship.  The Wolf Pack have the far and away best quarterback in the league and one of the top five in the nation in Carson Strong.  Give Strong a highly competent receiving corps, and Nevada should ride their version of the Air Raid offense to more than 35 points per game this year.  The good news for the Pack is their defense should be somewhat improved this year after surrendering just 23 points per game last year.  Keep an eye on this team; they have two road games against Power Five conference opponents, and they play Boise State on the road.  It would not be a shock if Nevada pulled off upsets in any or all of these games, assuming they count as upsets.

Nevada will have to compete with San Jose State and San Diego State for the West Division title, as both the Spartans and Aztecs are quite talented.  San Jose State went undefeated in the regular season and topped Boise State in the MWC title game, but they fell to a hot Ball State team in the Arizona Bowl.  The Spartans return their entire starting defense, while the offense returns the second best quarterback in the league in Nick Starkel, playing behind an offensive line that returns all five regulars.  Other than a game at USC in September, the Spartans have a chance to win the rest.  The November 6 game at Nevada might decide the division title.

San Diego State began to play defense in 2020 like the Aztecs were known for a decade ago, giving up 17.8 points per game and finishing third nationally in yards allowed at 283.5 per game.  SDSU doesn’t have the experienced quarterback like the other two contenders, but the Aztec defense should be even stronger in 2021.  

Fresno State had an off year at 3-3, and the Bulldogs concluded 2020 with a 49-39 loss to New Mexico.  Things weren’t as bad as they appeared to be for this team.  They suffered the most logistical nightmare of any team thanks to Covid.  The program totally shut down for more than six months, and after beating Utah State on November 14, they prepared to play for three weeks only to find out late each week that their game had been cancelled.  Additionally, after October’s home game win over Colorado State, they had to play their final four games on the road. Second year coach Kalen DeBoer welcomes back an experienced roster.  DeBoer went 67-3 in his previous stint as a head coach at NAIA power Sioux Falls.  Expect the Bulldogs to begin a trek back toward regular contention for the MWC championship.  Having to play at Oregon and at UCLA in September and then making a trip to Hawaii in early October could task the roster a tad too much, but FSU could easily sneak into contention .

Hawaii cannot be discounted as a dark horse in the West Division race.  Todd Graham guided the Rainbow Warriors to a 5-4 record that included a New Mexico Bowl win over Houston last year.  The UH offense was consistent, but the defense was not.  Expect a better defensive performance this year, and the offense should be strong once again.  UH will be handicapped a bit this year having to play seven road games, while their home games will be played in a retrofitted practice field on campus, while waiting for Aloha Stadium to be rebuilt.  The practice field will serve as the home field for the next three years.

UNLV wore the collar in 2020, going 0-6 in Coach Marcus Arroyo’s first season.  The Rebels will be interesting to watch this year, even if the total level of talent isn’t ready to compete in the MWC.  While 10 starters return to the weakest defense in the league, and a couple of  players that missed 2020 will be back to make the defense stronger, the focus will be on the offense, namely at quarterback.  

Tate Martell was the Gatorade National Player of the Year as a senior at Bishop Gorman High School in Las Vegas.  Martell took a circuitous route home after committing to multiple colleges and playing for both Ohio State and Miami of Florida.  He has one year to show NFL scouts that he is worthy of being drafted.  If he can live up to expectations, Martell could challenge Starkel as second best passer in the league.  If not, UNLV could struggle to win a conference game this year.

Here are the preseason PiRate Ratings for the MWC

Mountain West Conference
Mountain Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Boise St.	103.9	103.3	104.3	103.9
Wyoming	97.7	98.4	99.5	98.5
Air Force	96.4	96.3	96.9	96.5
Colorado St.	88.8	88.8	89.3	89.0
Utah St.	85.6	86.6	85.2	85.8
New Mexico	85.8	86.2	85.2	85.7
West Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
San Jose St.	100.8	101.1	99.0	100.3
San Diego St.	100.6	99.9	100.2	100.2
Nevada	98.4	99.7	98.4	98.8
Fresno St.	93.7	95.7	96.7	95.3
Hawaii	94.8	94.1	94.7	94.6
U N L V	85.8	84.3	84.6	84.9
MWC Averages	94.4	94.5	94.5	94.5

The PiRate Ratings are designed only to predict the next game for each team and not to look forward past that game, but just for fun, here are our predictions for 2021.

MWC Mountain	Conf.	Overall
Boise St.	7-1	8-5
Wyoming	6-2	10-2
Air Force	4-4	7-5
New Mexico	3-5	6-6
Colorado St.	2-6	4-8
Utah St.	1-7	3-9
MWC West	Conf.	Overall
San Jose St.	6-2	10-3*
Nevada	6-2	8-4
San Diego St.	5-3	8-4
Hawaii	4-4	7-6
Fresno St.	3-5	5-7
UNLV	1-7	2-10
* San Jose St. wins MWC Championship Game

PiRate Ratings College Basketball Spreads

Saturday, March 13, 2021

Team 1	Team 2	Spread
Hartford	U Mass-Lowell	3.4
Wichita St.	Cincinnati	3.9
Houston	Memphis	6.4
Florida St.	Georgia Tech	3.7
Saint Bonaventure	VCU	1.7
Creighton	Georgetown	7.9
Eastern Washington	Montana St.	7.9
Michigan	Ohio St.	4.0
Illinois	Iowa	0.2
Texas	Oklahoma St.	1.1
UCSB	UC-Irvine	3.0
Western Kentucky	North Texas	-1.3
Iona	Fairfield	7.4
Buffalo	Ohio	3.5
Norfolk St.	Morgan St.	2.6
San Diego St.	Utah St.	2.3
Colorado	Oregon St.	9.1
Colgate	Loyola (MD)	12.2
Alabama	Tennessee	3.9
Arkansas	LSU	2.5
Nicholls	Abilene Christian	-7.6
Prairie View A&M	Texas Southern	0.6
Grand Canyon	New Mexico St.	1.7

Conference Tournaments Update

Saturday, March 13

Bids Awarded Today

America East: UMass-Lowell vs. Hartford

Atlantic 10: Saint Bonaventure vs/ VCU

Big East: Creighton vs. Georgetown (Hoyas would pop a bubble for the at-large field if they win)

Big Sky: Eastern Washington vs. Montana St.

Big 12: Texas vs. Oklahoma St.

Big West: UCSB vs. UC-Irvine

Conference USA: Western Kentucky vs. North Texas

Metro Atlantic: Fairfield vs. Iona

Mid-American: Buffalo vs. Ohio U

Mideastern Athletic: Norfolk St. vs. Morgan St.

Mountain West: San Diego St. vs. Utah St.

Pac-12: Colorado vs. Oregon St. (Beavers win would pop a bubble in the at-large field)

Southland: Nicholls vs. Abilene Christian

Southwestern Athletic: Prairie View A&M vs. Texas Southern

Western Athletic: Grand Canyon vs. New Mexico St.

America East Conference

Championship Game– 11 AM EST, ESPN2

6 U Mass-Lowell at 4 Hartford

American Athletic Conference

Semifinals @ Fort Worth, TX

1 Wichita St. vs. 5 Cincinnati 

2 Houston vs. 3 Memphis 

Atlantic Coast Conference

Championship Game, 8:30 PM EST. ESPN

2 Florida St. vs. 4 Georgia Tech

Atlantic 10 Conference

Championship Game–Tomorrow, 1PM EDT, CBS @ Dayton, OH

1 Saint Bonaventure vs. 2 Virginia Commonwealth

Big East Conference

Championship Game, 6:30 PM EST FOX

2 Creighton vs. 8 Georgetown 

Big Sky Conference

Championship Game, 8 PM EST, ESPNU

2 Eastern Washington vs. 5 Montana St.

 

Big Ten Conference

Semfinals @ Indianapolis, IN

1 Michigan vs. 5 Ohio St.

2 Illinois vs. 3 Iowa 

Big 12 Conference

Championship Game, 6PM EST, ESPN

3 Texas vs. 5 Oklahoma St.

Big West Conference

Championship Game, 11:30 PM EST, ESPN2

1 UCSB vs. 2 UC-Irvine

Conference USA

Championship Game, 9PM EST, CBSSN

1E Western Kentucky vs. 3W North Texas

Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference

Championship Game, 4 PM EST, ESPNU

7 Fairfield vs. 9 Iona

Mid-American Conference

Championship Game, 7:30 PM EST, ESPN2

2 Buffalo vs. 5 Ohio U

Mideastern Athletic Conference

Championship Game, 1PM EST, ESPN2

2N Norfolk St. vs. 3N Morgan St. 

Mountain West Conference

Championship Game, 6PM EST, CBS

1 San Diego St. vs. 2 Utah St.

Pac-12 Conference

Championship Game, 10:30 PM EST, ESPN

3 Colorado vs. 5 Oregon St.

Patriot League

Championship Game, Tomorrow, 12 PM EDT, CBSSN

9 Loyola (MD) at 2 Colgate

Southeastern Conference

Semifinals @ Nashville, TN

1 Alabama vs. 4 Tennessee

2 Arkansas vs. 3 LSU 

Southland Conference

Championship Game, 9:30 PM EST, ESPN2

1 Nicholls vs.2 Abilene Christian 

Southwestern Athletic Conference

Championship Game, 6PM EST, ESPNU

1 Prairie View A&M vs. 3 Texas Southern 

Western Athletic Conference

Championship Game, 10PM, ESPNU

1 Grand Canyon vs. 3 New Mexico St.

Automatic Qualifiers

Liberty 23-5

Winthrop 23-1

Loyola (Chi.) 24-4

Morehead St. 23-7

UNC-Greensboro 21-8

Appalachian St. 17-11

Drexel 12-7

Cleveland St. 19-7

Mount St. Mary’s 12-10

Oral Roberts 16-10

Gonzaga 26-0

PiRate Ratings College Basketball Spreads

Thursday, March 11, 2021

Home	Visitor	Spread
South Florida	Temple	-2.6
Tulsa	Tulane	2.7
Central Florida	East Carolina	4.7
Virginia	Syracuse	3.4
Georgia Tech	Miami	11.1
Florida St.	Duke	4.8
Virginia Tech	North Carolina	-3.0
West Virginia	Oklahoma St.	1.4
Baylor	Kansas St.	22.7
Kansas	Oklahoma	2.6
Texas	Texas Tech	0.3
Villanova	Georgetown	8.6
St. John’s	Seton Hall	-0.2
Creighton	Butler	11.0
Connecticut	DePaul	11.0
Southern Utah	Northern Colorado	6.7
Idaho St.	Montana St.	-1.6
Eastern Washington	Northern Arizona	15.2
Weber St.	Montana	4.9
Maryland	Michigan St.	2.2
Ohio St.	Minnesota	7.3
Rutgers	Indiana	1.3
Wisconsin	Penn St.	2.3
UCSB	Long Beach St.	14.8
UC Davis	Cal St. Bakersfield	-5.4
UC Irvine	Cal Poly	17.1
UC Riverside	Hawaii	7.0
Western Kentucky	UTSA	5.3
UAB	Rice	7.8
Louisiana Tech	Florida Atlantic	8.9
Old Dominion	North Texas	-6.1
Saint Peter’s	Rider	6.2
Marist	Niagara	-1.0
Toledo	Ball St.	8.3
Kent St.	Ohio U	1.1
Buffalo	Miami (O)	8.0
Akron	Bowling Green	1.2
Florida A&M	Morgan St.	-1.2
Norfolk St.	North Carolina Central	4.6
San Diego St.	Wyoming	15.2
Boise St.	Nevada	4.0
Utah St.	UNLV	11.1
Colorado St.	Fresno St.	10.9
Oregon	Arizona St.	7.7
UCLA	Oregon St.	5.4
USC	Utah	7.3
Colorado	California	14.8
Kentucky	Mississippi St.	2.5
Florida	Vanderbilt	7.0
Missouri	Georgia	4.2
Ole Miss	South Carolina	5.1
Northwestern St.	New Orleans	-2.2
Sam Houston St.	Lamar	8.8
Texas Southern	Alcorn St.	7.1
Grambling	Southern	-1.7
California Baptist	Seattle	0.2
New Mexico St.	UT Rio Grande Valley	7.9

Conference Tournaments Update

America East Conference

Championship Game–Saturday, March 13, 11 AM, ESPN2

6 U Mass-Lowell at 4 Hartford

American Athletic Conference

1st Round–Thursday, March 11 @ Fort Worth, TX

8 South Florida vs. 9 Temple (winner plays 1 Wichita St. Friday)

(4 SMU plays 5 Cincinnati Friday)

7 Tulsa vs. 10 Tulane (winner plays 2 Houston Friday)

6 Central Florida vs. 11 East Carolina (winner plays 3 Memphis Friday)

Atlantic Coast Conference

Quarterfinals, Thursday, March 11

1 Virginia vs. 8 Syracuse

4 Georgia Tech vs. 13 Miami (Fla.)

2 Florida St. vs. 10 Duke

3 Virginia Tech vs. 6 North Carolina

Atlantic 10 Conference

Championship Game–Sunday, March 14, 1PM, CBS @ Dayton, OH

1 Saint Bonaventure vs. 2 Virginia Commonwealth

Big East Conference

Quarterfinals–Thursday, March 11 @ New York, NY

1 Villanova vs. 8 Georgetown

4 St. John’s vs. 5 Seton Hall

2 Creighton vs. 10 Butler

3 Connecticut vs. 11 DePaul

Big Sky Conference

Quarterfinals–Thursday, March 11 @ Boise, ID

1 Southern Utah vs. 8 Northern Colorado

4 Idaho St. vs. 5 Montana St.

2 Eastern Washington vs. 10 Northern Arizona

3 Weber St. vs. 6 Montana

Big Ten Conference

2nd Round–Thursday, March 11 @ Indianapolis, IN

8 Maryland vs. 9 Michigan St.

5 Ohio St. vs. 13 Minnesota

7 Rutgers vs. 10 Indiana

6 Wisconsin vs. 11 Penn St.

Big 12 Conference

Quarterfinals–Thursday, March 11 @ Kansas City, MO

1 Baylor vs. 9 Kansas St.

4 West Virginia vs. 5 Oklahoma St.

2 Kansas vs. 7 Oklahoma

3 Texas vs. 6 Texas Tech

Big West Conference

Quarterfinals–Thursday, March 11 @ Las Vegas

1 UCSB vs. 9 Long Beach St.

4 Cal St. Bakersfield vs. 5 UC-Davis

2 UC-Irvine vs. 10 Cal Poly

3 UC-Riverside vs. 6 Hawaii

Conference USA

Quarterfinals–Thursday, March 11 @ Frisco, TX (Dallas Cowboys Practice Facility)

1E Western Kentucky vs. 4W UTSA

2W UAB vs. 6W Rice

1W Louisiana Tech vs. 4E Florida Atlantic

2E Old Dominion vs. 3W North Texas

Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference

Quarterfinals Continue, Thursday, March 11 @ Atlantic City, NJ

4 Marist vs. 5 Niagara

3 St. Peter’s vs. 11 Rider

Mid-American Conference

Quarterfinals–Thursday, March 11 @ Cleveland

1 Toledo vs. 8 Ball St.

4 Kent St. vs. 5 Ohio U

2 Buffalo vs. 7 Miami (O)

3 Akron vs. 6 Bowling Green

Mideastern Athletic Conference

Quarterfinals, Thursday, March 11 @ Norfolk, VA

2S Florida A&M vs. 3N Morgan St.

2N Norfolk St. vs. 3S UNC-Central

Mountain West Conference

Quarterfinals–Thursday, March 11 @ Las Vegas

1 San Diego St. vs. 8 Wyoming

4 Boise St. vs. 5 Nevada

2 Utah St. vs. 7 UNLV

3 Colorado St. vs. 6 Fresno St.

Pac-12 Conference

Quarterfinals–Thursday, March 11 @ Las Vegas

1 Oregon vs. 8 Arizona St.

4 UCLA vs. 5 Oregon St.

2 USC vs. 7 Utah

3 Colorado vs. 11 California

Patriot League

Championship Game, Sunday March 14, 12 PM EST, CBSSN

9 Loyola (MD) at 2 Colgate

Southeastern Conference

2nd Round–Thursday, March 11 @ Nashville, TN

8 Kentucky vs. 9 Mississippi St. (winner plays 1 Alabama Friday)

5 Florida vs. 13 Vanderbilt (winner plays 4 Tennessee Friday)

7 Missouri vs. 10 Georgia (winner plays 2 Arkansas Friday)

6 Ole Miss vs. 11 South Carolina (winner plays 3 LSU Friday)

Southland Conference

Quarterfinals–Thursday, March 11 @ Katy, TX (Greater Houston)

4 Northwestern St. vs. 5 New Orleans

3 Sam Houston St. vs. 6 Lamar

Southwestern Athletic Conference

Quarterfinals Continue, Thursday, March 11 @ Birmingham, AL

4 Grambling vs. 5 Southern

3 Texas Southern vs. 6 Alcorn St.

Western Athletic Conference

Quarterfinals–Thursday, March 11 @ Las Vegas

4 California-Baptist vs. 5 Seattle (winner plays 1 Grand Canyon Friday)

3 New Mexico St. vs. 6 UT-Rio Grande Valley (winner plays 2 Utah Valley Friday)

Automatic Qualifiers

Liberty 23-5

Winthrop 23-1

Loyola (Chi.) 24-4

Morehead St. 23-7

UNC-Greensboro 21-8

Appalachian St. 17-11

Drexel 12-7

Cleveland St. 19-7

Mount St. Mary’s 12-10

Oral Roberts 16-10

Gonzaga 26-0

PiRate Ratings College Basketball For March 7, 2020

Saturday’s Games

 

Home	Visitor	Spread
Alabama A&M	Jackson St.	-3.9
Alabama St.	Grambling	-0.1
Alcorn St.	Texas Southern	-0.8
Arizona	Washington	10.0
Arizona St.	Washington St.	9.9
Arkansas Pine Bluff	Mississippi Valley St.	8.3
Belmont	Murray St.	2.9
Bradley	Drake	3.0
Cal St. Fullerton	Long Beach St.	4.1
Cal St. Northridge	Hawaii	1.4
Central Arkansas	Northwestern St.	4.7
Cincinnati	Temple	9.8
Creighton	Seton Hall	3.0
Dartmouth	Brown	5.2
Dayton	George Washington	23.8
Drexel	UNC Wilmington	3.1
Duke	North Carolina	12.5
East Tennessee St.	VMI	13.9
Eastern Washington	Weber St.	12.0
Elon	James Madison	1.0
Florida	Kentucky	2.7
Florida Intl.	Western Kentucky	-0.4
Florida St.	Boston College	17.8
Fordham	George Mason	-2.1
Furman	Wofford	6.3
Georgetown	Villanova	-2.2
Grand Canyon	Cal St. Bakersfield	3.0
Hartford	UMass Lowell	3.0
Harvard	Yale	-1.6
Idaho	Idaho St.	-1.0
Incarnate Word	Abilene Christian	-11.7
Indiana	Wisconsin	2.1
Kansas St.	Iowa St.	2.1
Lamar	McNeese	3.5
Louisiana	Arkansas St.	1.7
Louisiana Tech	Charlotte	9.1
LSU	Georgia	8.8
Massachusetts	Rhode Island	-5.2
Mercer	Western Carolina	-2.2
Miami (Fla.)	Syracuse	-0.5
Middle Tennessee	Southern Miss.	2.6
Mississippi St.	Ole Miss	5.3
Missouri	Alabama	-0.8
Missouri St.	Valparaiso	2.1
Montana	Southern Utah	4.2
Montana St.	Northern Colorado	-5.8
New Orleans	Southeastern Louisiana	5.4
North Dakota St.	Denver	11.7
Northwestern	Penn St.	-8.2
Notre Dame	Virginia Tech	6.1
Oregon	Stanford	7.0
Oregon St.	California	9.6
Pacific	San Francisco	-3.4
Penn	Columbia	12.2
Portland St.	Sacramento St.	3.8
Princeton	Cornell	10.9
Providence	DePaul	7.9
Purdue	Rutgers	4.5
Rice	UTEP	2.3
Robert Morris	Long Island	5.0
Saint Joseph’s	La Salle	-3.4
Saint Louis	St. Bonaventure	6.3
Saint Mary’s	Pepperdine	8.5
San Diego St.	Utah St.	5.2
South Dakota St.	Purdue Fort Wayne	9.9
South Florida	SMU	0.6
Southern	Prairie View	0.1
St. Francis (PA)	Sacred Heart	4.6
St. John’s	Marquette	-1.6
Stephen F. Austin	Sam Houston	10.0
Stony Brook	Albany	9.0
TCU	Oklahoma	-0.7
Tennessee	Auburn	1.1
Texas	Oklahoma St.	4.1
Texas A&M	Arkansas	-4.5
Texas A&M-CC	Houston Baptist	9.8
Texas Tech	Kansas	-4.0
UAB	Old Dominion	1.2
UC Santa Barbara	Cal Poly	13.2
UMBC	New Hampshire	2.2
UNC Greensboro	Chattanooga	5.9
USC	UCLA	3.8
UT Rio Grande Valley	California Baptist	-0.9
UT-Arlington	Coastal Carolina	6.8
Utah	Colorado	-4.8
UTSA	Marshall	-0.4
Vanderbilt	South Carolina	-5.1
Vermont	Maine	20.3
Virginia	Louisville	-2.3
West Virginia	Baylor	0.4
Xavier	Butler	1.4

 

Saturday’s Key Games on TV

 

Time (EST)	Network	Home	Visitor
12:00 PM	ESPN	Indiana	Wisconsin
12:00 PM	ESPN2	Tennessee	Auburn
12:00 PM	ESPN3	St. Francis (PA)	Sacred Heart
1:00 PM	CBS	Florida	Kentucky
1:00 PM	ESPN+	West Virginia	Baylor
2:00 PM	ESPN	Texas Tech	Kansas
2:00 PM	ESPN3	Robert Morris	Long Island
2:30 PM	Fox	Creighton	Seton Hall
3:15 PM	CBS	USC	UCLA
3:35 PM	CBSSN	Bradley	Drake
4:00 PM	ESPN	Virginia	Louisville
5:30 PM	CBS	San Diego St.	Utah St.
5:30 PM	ESPN3	Stephen F. Austin	Sam Houston St.
6:00 PM	ESPN+	Penn	Columbia
6:00 PM	ESPN+	Princeton	Cornell
6:00 PM	ESPN2	TCU	Oklahoma
6:05 PM	CBSSN	Missouri St.	Valparaiso
7:00 PM	ESPN+	Harvard	Yale
8:00 PM	ESPN2	Belmont	Murray St.
8:30 PM	ESPN+	UNC Greensboro	Chattanooga
8:30 PM	FS1	Xavier	Butler
11:00 PM	FS1	Oregon	Stanford
12:00 AM	ESPN2	Saint Mary’s	Pepperdine

 

CONFERENCE  TOURNAMENTS  UPDATE

 

America East Tournament
Quarterfinals	March 7	at Higher Seed’s Home Court
Home	Visitor	Time (ET)	TV
1 Vermont (24-7)	8 Maine (9-21)	7:00 PM	ESPN3
2 Stony Brook (19-12)	7 Albany (14-17)	7:00 PM	ESPN3
3 Hartford (16-15)	6 UMass Lowell (13-18)	5:00 PM	ESPN3
4 UMBC (15-16)	5 New Hampshire (15-14)	1:00 PM	ESPN3

Vermont is the heavy favorite to repeat as AEC Champions.  The Catamounts will host every game they play in this tournament, and while Vermont’s two conference losses did come at home, it would be a major upset if another team represented the league in the NCAA Tournament.  Vermont is certainly an upset-worthy double-digit seed in the Big Dance, while no other team in this league is talented enough to win anything other than a play-in game in Dayton.

 

 

 

Big South Tournament
Semifinals
Winner	Score	Loser	Score
Winthrop	78	Gardner-Webb	66
Hampton	86	Radford	78

With top seed Radford losing to Hampton, Winthrop now becomes host team for Sunday’s Big South Championship Game.  The Eagles will host the surprise Hampton Pirates at 1:00 PM tomorrow in a game televised on ESPN.

 

 

 

Colonial Athletic Tournament
1st Round	March 7	Washington, D.C. (Entertainment & Sports Arena)
Team	Team	Time (ET)	TV
8 Drexel (13-18)	9 UNC Wilmington (10-21)	4:00 PM	FloHoops (Subscrip.)
7 Elon (11-20)	10 James Madison (9-20)	6:30 PM	FloHoops (Subscrip.)

 

Five CAA Teams finished with double-digit conference wins, and none of them play today, as they received byes to the quarterfinals.  We don’t expect any of today’s combatants to be around by the semifinals.  

The #’s 5 & 6 seeds in this tournament, Delaware and Northeastern, are the two dark horses that could create some havoc during the the next few days.  Hofstra and William and Mary are the top two seeds, but neither is a shoo-in to make the conference championship game.

 

 

 

Missouri Valley Tournament (Arch Madness)
Quarterfinals
Winner	Score	Loser	Score
Drake	77	Northern Iowa	56
Bradley	64	Southern Illinois	59
Valparaiso	74	Loyola (Chi.)	73 ot
Missouri St.	78	Indiana St.	51

 

Missouri Valley Tournament (Arch Madness)
Semifinals	March 7	St. Louis (Enterprise Center)
Team	Team	Time (ET)	TV
4 Bradley (21-11)	8 Drake (20-13)	3:30 PM	CBSSN
6 Missouri St. (16-16)	7 Valparaiso (18-15)	6:00 PM	CBSSN

 

As we mentioned in our first preview of Arch Madness, this tournament has been won by a team coming from back in the pack as often as it has been won by the top seed.  Well, after yesterday, you can kiss the top three seeds good bye!  Northern Iowa, Loyola of Chicago, and Indiana State all went home, and we are left with a 4, 6, 7, and 8 seed.  And, the 8-seeded Drake Bulldogs looked the most impressive by far in the quarterfinal shellacking of UNI.  

Missouri State vastly played beneath the level of its talent in the regular season, so it would not be surprising to see the Bears playing for a spot in the NCAA Tournament tomorrow.  MSU coach Dana Ford comes from the Gregg Marshall coaching tree, and his team plays a similar style, which tends to bring teams to their peak performance in March.

 

 

 

Mountain West Tournament
Semifinals
Winner	Score	Loser	Score
San Diego St.	81	Boise St.	68
Utah St.	89	Wyoming	82

 

Mountain West Tournament
Championship	March 7	Las Vegas (Thomas & Mack Center)
Team	Team	Time (ET)	TV
1 San Diego St. (30-1)	2 Utah St. (25-8)	5:30 PM	CBS

 

With the top two teams making it to the Championship Game, the league is now guaranteed to have two Dance tickets punched.  Utah St. has now moved off the Bubble into the safe part of the projected field.  

San Diego State started cold last night and trailed by 16 points before a barrage of three-pointers brought the Aztecs back and allowed them to tie the game at the half and then run away in the second half in a similar manner to their blowout of Iowa across town in a mid-season tournament in Vegas.  A win today could secure a number one seed for SDSU, as they are locked in a fierce battle with Dayton for the fourth number one seed as of this moment.

 

 

 

Northeast Tournament
Quarterfinals
Winner	Score	Loser	Score
Robert Morris	59	St. Francis (NY)	58
St. Francis (PA)	87	Bryant	61
Sacred Heart	61	Mount St. Mary’s	59
Long Island	73	Fairleigh-Dickinson	72

Northeast Tournament
Semifinals	March 7	at Higher Seed’s Home Court
Home	Visitor	Time (ET)	TV
2 St. Francis (PA) (21-9)	3 Sacred Heart (20-12)	12:00 PM	ESPN3
1 Robert Morris (18-14)	4 Long Island (15-17)	2:00 PM	ESPN3

 

 

 

Ohio Valley Tournament
Semifinals
Winner	Score	Loser	Score
Belmont	60	Eastern Kentucky	50
Murray St.	73	Austin Peay	61

 

Ohio Valley Tournament
Championship	March 7	Evansville, IN (Ford Center)
Team	Team	Time (ET)	TV
1 Belmont (25-7)	2 Murray St. (23-8)	8:00 PM	ESPN2

 

This tournament can almost schedule this game as part of its regular season package.  Belmont and Murray State have met in the OVC Title Game numerous times since the Bruins entered the league.  Last year, both teams made the NCAA Tournament and won their first games.  Neither are as strong as they were last year, but that doesn’t mean that the winner of this game must be taken lightly in the Big Dance.  The champion will receive a #14 or #15 seed in the field, and some #2 or 3 seed will be in for a real fight.

 

 

Southern Tournament
1st Round
Winner	Score	Loser	Score
VMI	96	Samford	78
Wofford	93	The Citadel	76

Southern Tournament
Quarterfinals	March 7	Asheville, NC (Harrah’s Cherokee Center)
Team	Team	Time ET	TV
1 East Tennessee St. (27-4)	9 VMI (9-23)	12:00 PM	ESPN+
4 Mercer (17-14)	5 Western Carolina (18-11)	2:30 PM	ESPN+
2 Furman (25-6)	7 Wofford (17-15)	6:00 PM	ESPN+
3 UNC Greensboro (23-8)	6 Chattanooga (19-12)	8:30 PM	ESPN+

East Tennessee coach Steve Forbes doesn’t let his troops rest on their laurels.  When Northern Iowa was upset yesterday in the quarterfinal round of the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament, you can bet he used this to make sure his team knew it better come ready to play against VMI today.  The Keydets can score points in a hurry, and if ETSU comes out flat thinking they can walk over VMI like Sherman marched through Atlanta, the Bucs may find themselves in a big hole.

All four of these games are worth watching.  Any of the remaining eight teams are strong enough and talented enough to win three games in the next three days.  Even the lowest remaining seed, Wofford, can cut the nets, as they did last year.  

If East Tennessee wins two games in this tournament and then loses to a Furman or UNC Greensboro, the Buccaneers could still receive an at-large bid, but it isn’t a sure thing.  The chances that two SoCon teams get bids are rather slim, which makes this tournament so exciting with eight quality teams remaining.  If you like contrasting styles of play, this is a tournament you want to watch even if you have no dog in the fight.

 

 

 

Summit Tournament
Quarterfinals	March 7 & 8	Sioux Falls, SD (Sanford Premier Center)
Home	Visitor	Time (ET)	TV
1 North Dakota St. (22-8)	8 Denver (7-23)	7:00 PM 3/7	ESPN+
4 Oral Roberts (16-13)	5 Omaha (16-15)	7:00 PM 3/8	ESPN+
2 South Dakota St. (22-9)	7 Purdue Fort Wayne (13-18)	9:30 PM 3/7	ESPN+
3 South Dakota (20-11)	6 North Dakota (13-17)	9:30 PM 3/8	ESPN+

 

Depending on which way you drive into the Denny Sanford Premier Center, you might think the building is a giant cylinder or you might think it is a long rectangular complex.  Take it from somebody that was there and mistook the building for something else because he arrived on the back side of the arena rather than the front.

This year’s Summit League Tournament may have the same feeling.  On the front side of the league, South Dakota State and North Dakota State look like potent teams destined to make the championship round.  But, on the back side of the league, teams like Omaha and Oral Roberts might look like they belong in a different league, but when the front end and back end are brought together (the venue looks like a giant barge), the tournament takes on a different style with some potentially interesting games.  Don’t put the top two seeds in the Championship Game bracket in pen.  

Having no connection to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, let me highly endorse visiting this beautiful city.  The Falls here are nothing like those in Niagara, but they are incredibly wonderful in their own way.  There is a traquilizing effect to seeing multiple falls at the level of the falls as opposed to being well above in Niagara or in the Maid of the Mist in the water.  While Niagara is a power plant of water flow, Sioux Falls has more peaceful water.  Consider Sioux Falls in a future Summer Vacation when you plan a visit to Mount Rushmore.

 

 

 

Sun Belt Tournament
1st Round	March 7	at Higher Seed’s Home Court
Home	Visitor	Time (ET)	TV
8 Louisiana (13-18)	9 Arkansas St. (16-15)	12:00 PM	ESPN+
7 UT-Arlington (14-17)	10 Coastal Carolina (15-16)	3:00 PM	ESPN+

 

The Sun Belt Conference plays its tournament in a similar manner to the Ohio Valley and West Coast Conferences.  The bottom four teams play in the first round with the two winners advancing to play the next two teams above them in the seed line.  Then, the two winners in the second round advance to play the next two teams above them in the seed line.  Meanwhile, the top two seeds receive byes to the Semifinal Round.

Unlike the OVC and WCC, the first three rounds are played on the home courts of the higher-seeded teams, so it really makes the regular season standings meaningful.

This format gives the top two seeds, Little Rock and South Alabama, huge advantages over the rest of the field, since they can plan to be in Le Vieux Carre while the other teams must earn their way to the Smoothie King Center.

In this tournament, the 3rd-seeded Texas State Bobcats are probably the best team, and they should make it to New Orleans to face 2nd-seed South Alabama.  If they beat the Jaguars in the semifinal round, they stand a better than 50-50 chance of knocking off Little Rock if the Trojans knock of 4th-seed Georgia Southern or an upset winner in the prior rounds.

 

 

 

West Coast Tournament
2nd Round
Winner	Score	Loser	Score
San Francisco	82	Loyola Marymount	53
Pepperdine	84	Santa Clara	73

West Coast Tournament
Quarterfinals	March 7	Las Vegas (Orleans Arena)
Team	Team	Time (ET)	TV
4 Pacific (23-9)	5 San Francisco (21-11)	10:00 PM	ESPN2
3 Saint Mary’s (24-7)	6 Pepperdine (16-15)	12:30 AM	ESPN2

The two winners last night looked very impressive beating teams they were favored to beat.  Now, the competition gets a little tougher, and tonight’s games should be tense and close.  Gonzaga faces the winner of the Pacific-San Francisco game, while BYU faces the winner of the SMC-Pepperdine game.  The remainder of this tournament is going to be uber interesting, and you should stay up late and catch all the action.  Hopefully, the zebras won’t become too much of a factor like last night’s Pepperdine-Santa Clara game, when they whistled more technical fouls in a three-minute stretch than most conference tournaments have in the entire meet.

 

Don’t Forget–Spring Forward Tonight Before Bedtime–Turn up your clocks one hour for daylight savings time and realize you are “losing an hour of sleep.”  I’ve heard about that thing called sleep; maybe some time, I will try it out.

PiRate Ratings College Basketball For March 6, 2020

Friday’s Games

 

Home	Visitor	Spread
Akron	Kent St.	6.7
Belmont	Eastern Kentucky	9.7
Bowling Green	Buffalo	1.6
Bradley	Southern Illinois	4.1
Canisius	Niagara	5.8
Central Michigan	Western Michigan	4.6
Clemson	Georgia Tech	3.1
Dartmouth	Yale	-6.5
Davidson	VCU	2.0
Duquesne	Richmond	-0.7
Harvard	Brown	12.0
Indiana St.	Missouri St	0.9
Loyola (Chi.)	Valparaiso	3.7
Manhattan	Fairfield	4.9
Miami (O)	Ohio	-0.1
Monmouth	Siena	1.3
Murray St.	Austin Peay	2.1
North Carolina St.	Wake Forest	7.0
Northern Illinois	Ball St.	0.4
Northern Iowa	Drake	9.8
Pennsylvania	Cornell	11.4
Pepperdine	Santa Clara	0.6
Princeton	Columbia	10.7
Radford	Hampton	12.3
Saint Peter’s	Iona	4.5
Samford	VMI	-3.1
San Diego St.	Boise St.	8.9
San Francisco	Loyola Marymount	7.2
Toledo	Eastern Michigan	5.7
Utah St.	Wyoming	16.2
Winthrop	Gardner-Webb	4.5
Wofford	Citadel	12.6

 

Key TV Games on Friday

 

Time (EST)	Network	Home	Visitor
1:00 PM	ESPN+	Northern Iowa	Drake
6:00 PM	ESPN+	Winthrop	Gardner-Webb
6:00 PM	ESPNU	Bowling Green	Buffalo
6:30 PM	CBSSN	Akron	Kent St.
7:00 PM	ESPN+	Duquesne	Richmond
7:00 PM	ESPN+	Monmouth	Siena
7:00 PM	ESPN+	Harvard	Brown
7:00 PM	ESPN+	Penn	Cornell
7:00 PM	ESPN+	Princeton	Columbia
7:00 PM	ESPN+	Dartmouth	Yale
7:00 PM	ESPN+	Loyola (Chi.)	Valparaiso
8:00 PM	ESPNU	Belmont	Eastern Kentucky
8:00 PM	ESPN+	Radford	Hampton
9:00 PM	CBSSN	San Diego St.	Boise St.
10:00 PM	ESPNU	Murray St.	Austin Peay
11:30 PM	CBSSN	Utah St.	Wyoming

 

Conference Tournament Updates

 

Atlantic Sun Tournament
Semifinals
Winner	Score	Loser	Score
Liberty	66	Stetson	62
Lipscomb	73	North Florida	71

Liberty will now host Lipscomb for the Atlantic Sun Championship on Sunday at 3:00 PM EDT.  The game will be televised on ESPN.

 

 

Big South Tournament
Quarterfinals
Winner	Score	Loser	Score
Winthrop	106	USC Upstate	70
Gardner-Webb	72	UNC Asheville	62
Radford	62	Charleston Southern	48
Hampton	78	Longwood	53

 

Semifinals	March 6	at #1 Seed Radford
Team	Team	Time (ET)	TV
2 Winthrop (22-10)	3 Gardner-Webb (16-15)	6:00 PM	ESPN+
1 Radford (21-10)	5 Hampton (14-18)	8:30 PM	ESPN+

 

 

 

Horizon League Tournament
Quarterfinals
Winner	Score	Loser	Score
Green Bay	78	Oakland	63
Illinois Chicago	67	Youngstown	61

The tournament now moves to Indianapolis for the final two rounds.  The top four seeds have advanced.  On Monday night, #1 Wright St. will play #4 Illinois-Chicago at 7:00 PM EDT on ESPNU.  Then 30 minutes after the conclusion of that game, #2 Northern Kentucky will play #3 Green Bay on ESPN2.

 

 

 

Missouri Valley Tournament (Arch Madness)
1st Round
Winner	Score	Loser	Score
Drake	75	Illinois St.	65
Valparaiso	58	Evansville	55

 

Quarterfinals	March 6	St. Louis (Enterprise Center)
Team	Team	Time (ET)	TV
1 Northern Iowa (25-5)	8 Drake (19-13)	1:00 PM	MVC TV Network
4 Bradley (20-11)	5 Southern Illinois (16-15)	3:30 PM	MVC TV Network
2 Loyola (Chi.) (21-10)	7 Valparaiso (17-15)	7:00 PM	MVC TV Network
3 Indiana St. (18-11)	6 Missouri St. (15-16)	9:30 PM	MVC TV Network

 

 

 

Mountain West Tournament
Quarterfinals
Winner	Score	Loser	Score
San Diego St.	73	Air Force	60
Boise St.	67	UNLV	61
Utah St.	75	New Mexico	70
Wyoming	74	Nevada	71

 

Semifinals	March 6	Las Vegas (Thomas & Mack Center)
Team	Team	Time (ET)	TV
1 San Diego St. (29-1)	5 Boise St. (20-11)	9:00 PM	CBSSN
2 Utah St. (24-8)	11 Wyoming (9-23)	11:30 PM	CBSSN

 

 

Ohio Valley Tournament
Quarterfinals
Winner	Score	Loser	Score
Eastern Kentucky	58	Tennessee St.	48
Austin Peay	76	Eastern Illinois	65

 

Semifinals	March 6	Evansville, IN (Ford Center)
Team	Team	Time (ET)	TV
1 Belmont (24-7)	4 Eastern Kentucky (16-16)	8:00 PM	ESPNU
2 Murray St. (22-8)	3 Austin Peay (21-11)	10:00 PM	ESPNU

 

 

 

Patriot League Tournament
Quarterfinals
Winner	Score	Loser	Score
Bucknell	64	American	59
Boston U	69	Navy	63
Lafayette	73	Army	68
Colgate	83	Lehigh	70

The tournament resumes Sunday with the semifinal round.  Boston U hosts Bucknell at 12:00 PM and Colgate hosts Lafayette at 2:00 PM.  Both games will be televised on CBSSN.

 

 

Southern Tournament
1st Round	March 6	Asheville, NC (Harrah’s Cherokee Center)
Team	Team	Time ET	TV
8 Samford (10-22)	9 VMI (8-23)	5:00 PM	ESPN+
7 Wofford (16-15)	10 The Citadel (6-23)	7:30 PM	ESPN+
Southern Tournament
Quarterfinals	March 7	Asheville, NC (Harrah’s Cherokee Center)
Team	Team	Time ET	TV
1 East Tennessee St. (27-4)	Samford/VMI	12:00 PM	ESPN+
4 Mercer (17-14)	5 Western Carolina (18-11)	2:30 PM	ESPN+
2 Furman (25-6)	Wofford/The Citadel	6:00 PM	ESPN+
3 UNC Greensboro (23-8)	6 Chattanooga (19-12)	8:30 PM	ESPN+
Southern Tournament
Semifinals	March 8	Asheville, NC (Harrah’s Cherokee Center)
Team	Team	Time ET	TV
ETSU/Samford/VMI	Mercer/Western Carolina	4:00 PM	ESPN+
Furman/Wofford/Citadel	UNCG/Chattanooga	6:30 PM	ESPN+
Southern Tournament
Championship	March 9	Asheville, NC (Harrah’s Cherokee Center)
Team	Team	Time ET	TV
		7:00 PM	ESPN

This tournament has six teams talented enough to win and receive the automatic bid.  East Tennessee has a long winning streak, and the Buccaneers have a chance to earn an at-large bid if they fail to win the tournament.  Furman and UNC-Greensboro appeared to be a little off their peaks as the calendar flipped to March, while Chattanooga and Western Carolina are playing their best ball of the season.

 

 

 

West Coast Tournament
1st Round
Winner	Score	Loser	Score
Loyola Marymount	75	San Diego	61
Santa Clara	76	Portland	62

 

2nd Round	March 6	Las Vegas (Orleans Arena)
Team	Team	Time (ET)	TV
5 San Francisco (20-11)	8 Loyola Marymount (11-20)	9:00 PM	BYUtv
6 Pepperdine (15-15)	7 Santa Clara (20-12)	11:30 PM	BYUtv

 

Coming Later Today:  Updated Bracketology