PiRate Ratings College Basketball–Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Home	Visitor	Spread
Akron	Miami (O)	13.8
Arkansas	LSU	12.4
Ball St.	Buffalo	4.6
Boise St.	Fresno St.	13.9
Central Michigan	Bowling Green	0.4
Clemson	Georgia Tech	10.3
Drake	Indiana St.	5.8
East Carolina	Tulsa	4.8
Florida St.	Miami (Fla)	-5.2
Georgetown	DePaul	-1.9
Illinois	Ohio St.	2.2
Iowa St.	Kansas St.	5.2
La Salle	Davidson	-3.5
Mississippi	Missouri	0.4
Missouri St.	Illinois Chicago	11.6
North Carolina St.	Notre Dame	12.4
Northern Illinois	Kent St.	-13.0
Ohio	Western Michigan	10.2
Rutgers	Penn St.	6.1
San Jose St.	Air Force	3.1
Southern Illinois	Murray St.	6.1
Syracuse	North Carolina	-3.5
TCU	Oklahoma	7.0
Texas	Oklahoma St.	7.5
Toledo	Eastern Michigan	19.1
UNLV	Wyoming	7.8
Vanderbilt	Kentucky	-2.5

PiRate Ratings College Basketball–Monday, January 16,2023

Monday’s Spreads

Home	Visitor	Spread
Alabama A&M	Alabama St.	3.5
Bethune-Cookman	Arkansas Pine Bluff	0.9
Cal St. Fullerton	Cal Bakersfield	8.4
Charleston	William & Mary	14.5
Charlotte	UTEP	8.8
Columbia	Cornell	-13.3
Eastern Washington	Montana	3.4
Florida A&M	Mississippi Valley St.	2.7
Florida Int’l.	North Texas	-9.6
George Mason	George Washington	7.8
Hampton	North Carolina A&T	-4.6
Harvard	Dartmouth	9.0
Hawaii	Cal St. Northridge	14.7
Idaho	Montana St.	-9.0
La Salle	Saint Joseph’s	1.4
Long Island	St. Francis (NY)	-3.3
Loyola (MD)	Lehigh	-0.8
Merrimack	Wagner	-0.5
Miami (Fla)	Syracuse	7.7
Michigan St.	Purdue	-3.1
Middle Tennessee St.	UAB	-4.7
Minnesota	Illinois	-10.2
Northeastern	Delaware	-0.2
Penn	Princeton	-0.7
Prairie View	Alcorn St.	2.0
Purdue Ft. Wayne	Cleveland St.	5.2
Sacred Heart	St. Francis (PA)	2.8
Stonehill College	Fairleigh Dickinson	0.7
Texas Southern	Jackson St.	3.4
Towson	Hofstra	0.1
UC Irvine	UC Santa Barbara	4.3
UC Riverside	Cal Poly	9.9
UC San Diego	UC Davis	-4.6
UMBC	Hartford	17.0
UNC Wilmington	Elon	16.4
UTSA	Rice	-5.7
Villanova	Georgetown	13.8
Western Kentucky	Florida Atlantic	-5.3
Yale	Brown	10.0

Monday’s PiRate Ratings

#	Team	PiRate	Conference
1	Houston	120.7	American Athletic
2	Tennessee	120.4	Southeastern
3	Alabama	120.0	Southeastern
4	UCLA	118.8	Pac-12
5	Connecticut	117.6	Big East
6	Kansas	117.3	Big 12
7	Purdue	116.8	Big Ten
8	Gonzaga	116.7	West Coast
9	Texas	115.9	Big 12
10	Arizona	114.6	Pac-12
11	Xavier	114.6	Big East
12	Baylor	114.4	Big 12
13	Saint Mary’s	114.3	West Coast
14	Marquette	114.2	Big East
15	Iowa St.	114.2	Big 12
16	Rutgers	114.2	Big Ten
17	Creighton	113.8	Big East
18	Arkansas	113.8	Southeastern
19	Virginia	113.6	Atlantic Coast
20	North Carolina	113.6	Atlantic Coast
21	Auburn	113.5	Southeastern
22	Ohio St.	113.5	Big Ten
23	Illinois	113.4	Big Ten
24	TCU	113.3	Big 12
25	Indiana	113.0	Big Ten
26	Iowa	113.0	Big Ten
27	Duke	112.3	Atlantic Coast
28	Kansas St.	112.2	Big 12
29	West Virginia	112.1	Big 12
30	Kentucky	112.0	Southeastern
31	San Diego St.	111.9	Mountain West
32	Boise St.	111.5	Mountain West
33	Providence	111.5	Big East
34	Florida	111.4	Southeastern
35	Memphis	111.4	American Athletic
36	North Carolina St.	111.2	Atlantic Coast
37	Oklahoma	111.2	Big 12
38	Miami (Fla)	110.9	Atlantic Coast
39	Oklahoma St.	110.9	Big 12
40	Texas Tech	110.9	Big 12
41	Maryland	110.9	Big Ten
42	Michigan St.	110.7	Big Ten
43	Utah St.	110.5	Mountain West
44	Penn St.	110.4	Big Ten
45	Texas A&M	110.4	Southeastern
46	Colorado	110.2	Pac-12
47	Virginia Tech	110.2	Atlantic Coast
48	Arizona St.	110.2	Pac-12
49	Michigan	109.9	Big Ten
50	Missouri	109.8	Southeastern
51	Dayton	109.8	Atlantic 10
52	Seton Hall	109.8	Big East
53	Northwestern	109.7	Big Ten
54	Clemson	109.7	Atlantic Coast
55	St. John’s	109.6	Big East
56	Florida Atlantic	109.6	Conference USA
57	USC	109.6	Pac-12
58	Central Florida	109.5	American Athletic
59	New Mexico	109.4	Mountain West
60	Mississippi St.	109.3	Southeastern
61	Oregon	109.2	Pac-12
62	UAB	109.1	Conference USA
63	Nevada	109.0	Mountain West
64	Utah	109.0	Pac-12
65	Wisconsin	108.6	Big Ten
66	Cincinnati	108.5	American Athletic
67	Washington St.	108.5	Pac-12
68	Pittsburgh	108.2	Atlantic Coast
69	Villanova	108.2	Big East
70	Kent St.	107.9	Mid-American
71	North Texas	107.5	Conference USA
72	Wake Forest	107.5	Atlantic Coast
73	Marshall	107.3	Sun Belt
74	Sam Houston St.	107.3	Western Athletic
75	BYU	107.2	West Coast
76	Liberty	107.2	Atlantic Sun
77	Iona	106.9	Metro Atlantic
78	Tulane	106.9	American Athletic
79	Butler	106.8	Big East
80	James Madison	106.7	Sun Belt
81	Saint Louis	106.6	Atlantic 10
82	UNLV	106.5	Mountain West
83	Bradley	106.3	Missouri Valley
84	Charleston	106.2	Colonial Athletic
85	Mississippi	106.2	Southeastern
86	Oral Roberts	106.2	Summit
87	Syracuse	106.2	Atlantic Coast
88	Vanderbilt	106.2	Southeastern
89	Georgia	106.0	Southeastern
90	Santa Clara	105.9	West Coast
91	Drake	105.8	Missouri Valley
92	VCU	105.5	Atlantic 10
93	LSU	105.4	Southeastern
94	Yale	105.3	Ivy League
95	UC Irvine	105.2	Big West
96	Grand Canyon	105.0	Western Athletic
97	Nebraska	105.0	Big Ten
98	Stanford	105.0	Pac-12
99	Utah Valley	104.6	Western Athletic
100	Toledo	104.6	Mid-American
101	Washington	104.4	Pac-12
102	Richmond	104.4	Atlantic 10
103	Charlotte	104.2	Conference USA
104	Loyola Marymount	104.2	West Coast
105	Furman	104.1	Southern
106	Colorado St.	104.0	Mountain West
107	Indiana St.	103.9	Missouri Valley
108	Southern Illinois	103.8	Missouri Valley
109	Princeton	103.7	Ivy League
110	San Francisco	103.7	West Coast
111	George Mason	103.7	Atlantic 10
112	Duquesne	103.6	Atlantic 10
113	Cornell	103.6	Ivy League
114	Youngstown St.	103.4	Horizon
115	Hofstra	103.4	Colonial Athletic
116	Akron	103.4	Mid-American
117	Colgate	103.4	Patriot League
118	UC Santa Barbara	103.4	Big West
119	UNC Greensboro	103.0	Southern
120	Southern Utah	103.0	Western Athletic
121	Wichita St.	103.0	American Athletic
122	Notre Dame	103.0	Atlantic Coast
123	Montana St.	102.9	Big Sky
124	Southern Miss	102.9	Sun Belt
125	Louisiana	102.9	Sun Belt
126	Chattanooga	102.8	Southern
127	Temple	102.8	American Athletic
128	Georgia Tech	102.6	Atlantic Coast
129	Hawaii	102.5	Big West
130	DePaul	102.5	Big East
131	Belmont	102.5	Missouri Valley
132	UNC Wilmington	102.3	Colonial Athletic
133	Seattle	102.2	Western Athletic
134	Louisiana Tech	102.2	Conference USA
135	Missouri St.	102.1	Missouri Valley
136	Troy	102.0	Sun Belt
137	Middle Tennessee	101.9	Conference USA
138	Longwood	101.9	Big South
139	Quinnipiac	101.8	Metro Atlantic
140	Western Kentucky	101.8	Conference USA
141	Davidson	101.7	Atlantic 10
142	Ball St.	101.6	Mid-American
143	Stephen F. Austin	101.6	Western Athletic
144	South Florida	101.6	American Athletic
145	Massachusetts	101.5	Atlantic 10
146	Samford	101.4	Southern
147	Wyoming	101.3	Mountain West
148	Florida St.	101.1	Atlantic Coast
149	Towson	101.0	Colonial Athletic
150	San Jose St.	101.0	Mountain West
151	Ohio	100.9	Mid-American
152	Florida Gulf Coast	100.8	Atlantic Sun
153	UMass Lowell	100.8	America East
154	Air Force	100.8	Mountain West
155	St. Bonaventure	100.7	Atlantic 10
156	UC Riverside	100.7	Big West
157	Purdue Fort Wayne	100.7	Horizon
158	Eastern Washington	100.6	Big Sky
159	Penn	100.5	Ivy League
160	Cal Baptist	100.5	Western Athletic
161	Drexel	100.4	Colonial Athletic
162	Northern Iowa	100.3	Missouri Valley
163	New Mexico St.	100.2	Western Athletic
164	Minnesota	100.2	Big Ten
165	Fresno St.	100.1	Mountain West
166	Vermont	100.1	America East
167	Murray St.	100.1	Missouri Valley
168	Tarleton St.	100.1	Western Athletic
169	Harvard	100.0	Ivy League
170	Pepperdine	100.0	West Coast
171	SMU	100.0	American Athletic
172	Old Dominion	99.9	Sun Belt
173	Radford	99.8	Big South
174	Portland	99.8	West Coast
175	UC Davis	99.8	Big West
176	Siena	99.8	Metro Atlantic
177	Montana	99.7	Big Sky
178	Kennesaw St.	99.6	Atlantic Sun
179	Bryant	99.6	America East
180	SIU Edwardsville	99.6	Ohio Valley
181	Jacksonville	99.4	Atlantic Sun
182	Appalachian St.	99.3	Sun Belt
183	Gardner Webb	99.3	Big South
184	Long Beach St.	99.3	Big West
185	South Alabama	99.2	Sun Belt
186	South Dakota St.	99.1	Summit
187	Stetson	99.1	Atlantic Sun
188	Rice	99.1	Conference USA
189	Boston College	99.1	Atlantic Coast
190	Wofford	99.0	Southern
191	UNC Asheville	99.0	Big South
192	Lipscomb	99.0	Atlantic Sun
193	Cal St. Fullerton	98.9	Big West
194	Eastern Kentucky	98.8	Atlantic Sun
195	Fordham	98.8	Atlantic 10
196	California	98.8	Pac-12
197	Wright St.	98.5	Horizon
198	George Washington	98.4	Atlantic 10
199	UTEP	98.4	Conference USA
200	Queens	98.3	Atlantic Sun
201	San Diego	98.3	West Coast
202	Rider	98.2	Metro Atlantic
203	Rhode Island	98.1	Atlantic 10
204	East Carolina	98.1	American Athletic
205	Abilene Christian	98.0	Western Athletic
206	Texas St.	98.0	Sun Belt
207	Cleveland St.	98.0	Horizon
208	Norfolk St.	97.9	Mideastern Athletic
209	Texas A&M CC	97.8	Southland
210	Buffalo	97.8	Mid-American
211	North Carolina Central	97.8	Mideastern Athletic
212	Saint Joseph’s	97.8	Atlantic 10
213	Brown	97.8	Ivy League
214	Georgia Southern	97.7	Sun Belt
215	Oregon St.	97.6	Pac-12
216	Northern Kentucky	97.6	Horizon
217	Detroit Mercy	97.5	Horizon
218	Delaware	97.5	Colonial Athletic
219	American	97.4	Patriot League
220	UMBC	97.4	America East
221	Georgetown	97.4	Big East
222	St. Thomas	97.3	Summit
223	Southern	97.3	Southwestern Athletic
224	Sacramento St.	97.2	Big Sky
225	Milwaukee	97.1	Horizon
226	Army	97.1	Patriot League
227	Georgia St.	97.1	Sun Belt
228	Grambling	96.8	Southwestern Athletic
229	Portland St.	96.8	Big Sky
230	Loyola (Chi.)	96.8	Atlantic 10
231	Weber St.	96.8	Big Sky
232	Pacific	96.6	West Coast
233	Utah Tech	96.6	Western Athletic
234	Mercer	96.6	Southern
235	South Carolina	96.5	Southeastern
236	North Dakota St.	96.4	Summit
237	Illinois St.	96.3	Missouri Valley
238	La Salle	96.2	Atlantic 10
239	UMKC	96.1	Summit
240	Navy	96.1	Patriot League
241	Morgan St.	96.0	Mideastern Athletic
242	Nicholls St.	96.0	Southland
243	Southeast Missouri St.	95.9	Ohio Valley
244	Coastal Carolina	95.9	Sun Belt
245	Boston University	95.8	Patriot League
246	Bellarmine	95.8	Atlantic Sun
247	Western Carolina	95.8	Southern
248	Northwestern St.	95.6	Southland
249	Tulsa	95.6	American Athletic
250	Campbell	95.6	Big South
251	Niagara	95.5	Metro Atlantic
252	Florida Int’l	95.4	Conference USA
253	Fairfield	95.3	Metro Atlantic
254	East Tennessee St.	95.2	Southern
255	Bowling Green	95.0	Mid-American
256	Lafayette	94.8	Patriot League
257	Northeastern	94.8	Colonial Athletic
258	Southern Indiana	94.7	Ohio Valley
259	Winthrop	94.7	Big South
260	Northern Colorado	94.7	Big Sky
261	Austin Peay	94.6	Atlantic Sun
262	Louisville	94.5	Atlantic Coast
263	Robert Morris	94.5	Horizon
264	UT Arlington	94.5	Western Athletic
265	Western Illinois	94.3	Summit
266	Oakland	94.3	Horizon
267	Mount St. Mary’s	94.2	Metro Atlantic
268	Charleston Southern	94.2	Big South
269	William & Mary	94.2	Colonial Athletic
270	North Florida	94.2	Atlantic Sun
271	Alcorn St.	94.2	Southwestern Athletic
272	North Carolina A&T	94.1	Colonial Athletic
273	Southeastern Louisiana	94.1	Southland
274	Idaho St.	94.0	Big Sky
275	Bucknell	94.0	Patriot League
276	Canisius	94.0	Metro Atlantic
277	UT-Martin	93.7	Ohio Valley
278	Prairie View A&M	93.7	Southwestern Athletic
279	New Hampshire	93.6	America East
280	Lehigh	93.6	Patriot League
281	Northern Arizona	93.6	Big Sky
282	High Point	93.5	Big South
283	USC Upstate	93.5	Big South
284	Dartmouth	93.5	Ivy League
285	Central Michigan	93.3	Mid-American
286	Cal Poly	93.3	Big West
287	Howard	93.3	Mideastern Athletic
288	Western Michigan	93.2	Mid-American
289	Illinois Chicago	93.2	Missouri Valley
290	South Dakota	93.1	Summit
291	Miami (O)	93.1	Mid-American
292	Louisiana Monroe	93.0	Sun Belt
293	Jacksonville St.	93.0	Atlantic Sun
294	Cal St. Bakersfield	93.0	Big West
295	Wagner	92.9	Northeast
296	Maryland Eastern Shore	92.9	Mideastern Athletic
297	UT Rio Grande Valley	92.9	Western Athletic
298	Saint Peter’s	92.9	Metro Atlantic
299	UC San Diego	92.7	Big West
300	Tennessee Tech	92.7	Ohio Valley
301	Marist	92.6	Metro Atlantic
302	Texas Southern	92.6	Southwestern Athletic
303	Morehead St.	92.5	Ohio Valley
304	Valparaiso	92.5	Missouri Valley
305	Stony Brook	92.3	Colonial Athletic
306	Texas A&M Commerce	92.3	Southland
307	Tennessee St.	92.2	Ohio Valley
308	Maine	92.2	America East
309	Chicago St.	92.1	Independents
310	Denver	92.1	Summit
311	Fairleigh Dickinson	92.0	Northeast
312	Omaha	91.8	Summit
313	Northern Illinois	91.8	Mid-American
314	Jackson St.	91.7	Southwestern Athletic
315	The Citadel	91.7	Southern
316	Arkansas St.	91.6	Sun Belt
317	Idaho	91.4	Big Sky
318	Binghamton	91.4	America East
319	North Alabama	91.4	Atlantic Sun
320	NJIT	91.1	America East
321	Sacred Heart	91.0	Northeast
322	Manhattan	91.0	Metro Atlantic
323	Coppin St.	90.9	Mideastern Athletic
324	UTSA	90.9	Conference USA
325	Cal St. Northridge	90.8	Big West
326	St. Francis PA	90.7	Northeast
327	Presbyterian	90.5	Big South
328	North Dakota	90.5	Summit
329	Central Connecticut	90.4	Northeast
330	Albany	90.4	America East
331	VMI	90.3	Southern
332	Loyola (MD)	90.3	Patriot League
333	Stonehill	90.2	Northeast
334	Merrimack	89.9	Northeast
335	Eastern Michigan	89.8	Mid-American
336	McNeese St.	89.5	Southland
337	Alabama A&M	89.5	Southwestern Athletic
338	Lindenwood	89.3	Ohio Valley
339	Central Arkansas	89.2	Atlantic Sun
340	Little Rock	88.8	Ohio Valley
341	New Orleans	88.7	Southland
342	Arkansas Pine Bluff	88.7	Southwestern Athletic
343	Evansville	88.6	Missouri Valley
344	Alabama St.	88.5	Southwestern Athletic
345	Holy Cross	88.5	Patriot League
346	Elon	88.4	Colonial Athletic
347	South Carolina St.	88.1	Mideastern Athletic
348	Eastern Illinois	88.0	Ohio Valley
349	Columbia	87.8	Ivy League
350	St. Francis NY	87.4	Northeast
351	Bethune Cookman	87.1	Southwestern Athletic
352	Hampton	87.0	Colonial Athletic
353	Houston Christian	86.5	Southland
354	Incarnate Word	86.3	Southland
355	Monmouth	85.1	Colonial Athletic
356	Florida A&M	84.3	Southwestern Athletic
357	Delaware St.	84.1	Mideastern Athletic
358	Mississippi Valley St.	84.1	Southwestern Athletic
359	Lamar	83.6	Southland
360	Green Bay	83.6	Horizon
361	Hartford	82.9	Independents
362	Long Island	81.6	Northeast
363	IUPUI	81.2	Horizon

Alphabetical

#	Team	PiRate	Conference
205	Abilene Christian	98.0	Western Athletic
154	Air Force	100.8	Mountain West
116	Akron	103.4	Mid-American
3	Alabama	120.0	Southeastern
337	Alabama A&M	89.5	Southwestern Athletic
344	Alabama St.	88.5	Southwestern Athletic
330	Albany	90.4	America East
271	Alcorn St.	94.2	Southwestern Athletic
219	American	97.4	Patriot League
182	Appalachian St.	99.3	Sun Belt
10	Arizona	114.6	Pac-12
48	Arizona St.	110.2	Pac-12
18	Arkansas	113.8	Southeastern
342	Arkansas Pine Bluff	88.7	Southwestern Athletic
316	Arkansas St.	91.6	Sun Belt
226	Army	97.1	Patriot League
21	Auburn	113.5	Southeastern
261	Austin Peay	94.6	Atlantic Sun
142	Ball St.	101.6	Mid-American
12	Baylor	114.4	Big 12
246	Bellarmine	95.8	Atlantic Sun
131	Belmont	102.5	Missouri Valley
351	Bethune Cookman	87.1	Southwestern Athletic
318	Binghamton	91.4	America East
32	Boise St.	111.5	Mountain West
189	Boston College	99.1	Atlantic Coast
245	Boston University	95.8	Patriot League
255	Bowling Green	95.0	Mid-American
83	Bradley	106.3	Missouri Valley
213	Brown	97.8	Ivy League
179	Bryant	99.6	America East
275	Bucknell	94.0	Patriot League
210	Buffalo	97.8	Mid-American
79	Butler	106.8	Big East
75	BYU	107.2	West Coast
160	Cal Baptist	100.5	Western Athletic
286	Cal Poly	93.3	Big West
294	Cal St. Bakersfield	93.0	Big West
193	Cal St. Fullerton	98.9	Big West
325	Cal St. Northridge	90.8	Big West
196	California	98.8	Pac-12
250	Campbell	95.6	Big South
276	Canisius	94.0	Metro Atlantic
339	Central Arkansas	89.2	Atlantic Sun
329	Central Connecticut	90.4	Northeast
58	Central Florida	109.5	American Athletic
285	Central Michigan	93.3	Mid-American
84	Charleston	106.2	Colonial Athletic
268	Charleston Southern	94.2	Big South
103	Charlotte	104.2	Conference USA
126	Chattanooga	102.8	Southern
309	Chicago St.	92.1	Independents
66	Cincinnati	108.5	American Athletic
54	Clemson	109.7	Atlantic Coast
207	Cleveland St.	98.0	Horizon
244	Coastal Carolina	95.9	Sun Belt
117	Colgate	103.4	Patriot League
46	Colorado	110.2	Pac-12
106	Colorado St.	104.0	Mountain West
349	Columbia	87.8	Ivy League
5	Connecticut	117.6	Big East
323	Coppin St.	90.9	Mideastern Athletic
113	Cornell	103.6	Ivy League
17	Creighton	113.8	Big East
284	Dartmouth	93.5	Ivy League
141	Davidson	101.7	Atlantic 10
51	Dayton	109.8	Atlantic 10
218	Delaware	97.5	Colonial Athletic
357	Delaware St.	84.1	Mideastern Athletic
310	Denver	92.1	Summit
130	DePaul	102.5	Big East
217	Detroit Mercy	97.5	Horizon
91	Drake	105.8	Missouri Valley
161	Drexel	100.4	Colonial Athletic
27	Duke	112.3	Atlantic Coast
112	Duquesne	103.6	Atlantic 10
204	East Carolina	98.1	American Athletic
254	East Tennessee St.	95.2	Southern
348	Eastern Illinois	88.0	Ohio Valley
194	Eastern Kentucky	98.8	Atlantic Sun
335	Eastern Michigan	89.8	Mid-American
158	Eastern Washington	100.6	Big Sky
346	Elon	88.4	Colonial Athletic
343	Evansville	88.6	Missouri Valley
253	Fairfield	95.3	Metro Atlantic
311	Fairleigh Dickinson	92.0	Northeast
34	Florida	111.4	Southeastern
356	Florida A&M	84.3	Southwestern Athletic
56	Florida Atlantic	109.6	Conference USA
152	Florida Gulf Coast	100.8	Atlantic Sun
252	Florida Int’l	95.4	Conference USA
148	Florida St.	101.1	Atlantic Coast
195	Fordham	98.8	Atlantic 10
165	Fresno St.	100.1	Mountain West
105	Furman	104.1	Southern
183	Gardner Webb	99.3	Big South
111	George Mason	103.7	Atlantic 10
198	George Washington	98.4	Atlantic 10
221	Georgetown	97.4	Big East
89	Georgia	106.0	Southeastern
214	Georgia Southern	97.7	Sun Belt
227	Georgia St.	97.1	Sun Belt
128	Georgia Tech	102.6	Atlantic Coast
8	Gonzaga	116.7	West Coast
228	Grambling	96.8	Southwestern Athletic
96	Grand Canyon	105.0	Western Athletic
360	Green Bay	83.6	Horizon
352	Hampton	87.0	Colonial Athletic
361	Hartford	82.9	Independents
169	Harvard	100.0	Ivy League
129	Hawaii	102.5	Big West
282	High Point	93.5	Big South
115	Hofstra	103.4	Colonial Athletic
345	Holy Cross	88.5	Patriot League
1	Houston	120.7	American Athletic
353	Houston Christian	86.5	Southland
287	Howard	93.3	Mideastern Athletic
317	Idaho	91.4	Big Sky
274	Idaho St.	94.0	Big Sky
23	Illinois	113.4	Big Ten
289	Illinois Chicago	93.2	Missouri Valley
237	Illinois St.	96.3	Missouri Valley
354	Incarnate Word	86.3	Southland
25	Indiana	113.0	Big Ten
107	Indiana St.	103.9	Missouri Valley
77	Iona	106.9	Metro Atlantic
26	Iowa	113.0	Big Ten
15	Iowa St.	114.2	Big 12
363	IUPUI	81.2	Horizon
314	Jackson St.	91.7	Southwestern Athletic
181	Jacksonville	99.4	Atlantic Sun
293	Jacksonville St.	93.0	Atlantic Sun
80	James Madison	106.7	Sun Belt
6	Kansas	117.3	Big 12
28	Kansas St.	112.2	Big 12
178	Kennesaw St.	99.6	Atlantic Sun
70	Kent St.	107.9	Mid-American
30	Kentucky	112.0	Southeastern
238	La Salle	96.2	Atlantic 10
256	Lafayette	94.8	Patriot League
359	Lamar	83.6	Southland
280	Lehigh	93.6	Patriot League
76	Liberty	107.2	Atlantic Sun
338	Lindenwood	89.3	Ohio Valley
192	Lipscomb	99.0	Atlantic Sun
340	Little Rock	88.8	Ohio Valley
184	Long Beach St.	99.3	Big West
362	Long Island	81.6	Northeast
138	Longwood	101.9	Big South
125	Louisiana	102.9	Sun Belt
292	Louisiana Monroe	93.0	Sun Belt
134	Louisiana Tech	102.2	Conference USA
262	Louisville	94.5	Atlantic Coast
230	Loyola (Chi.)	96.8	Atlantic 10
332	Loyola (MD)	90.3	Patriot League
104	Loyola Marymount	104.2	West Coast
93	LSU	105.4	Southeastern
308	Maine	92.2	America East
322	Manhattan	91.0	Metro Atlantic
301	Marist	92.6	Metro Atlantic
14	Marquette	114.2	Big East
73	Marshall	107.3	Sun Belt
41	Maryland	110.9	Big Ten
296	Maryland Eastern Shore	92.9	Mideastern Athletic
145	Massachusetts	101.5	Atlantic 10
336	McNeese St.	89.5	Southland
35	Memphis	111.4	American Athletic
234	Mercer	96.6	Southern
334	Merrimack	89.9	Northeast
38	Miami (Fla)	110.9	Atlantic Coast
291	Miami (O)	93.1	Mid-American
49	Michigan	109.9	Big Ten
42	Michigan St.	110.7	Big Ten
137	Middle Tennessee	101.9	Conference USA
225	Milwaukee	97.1	Horizon
164	Minnesota	100.2	Big Ten
85	Mississippi	106.2	Southeastern
60	Mississippi St.	109.3	Southeastern
358	Mississippi Valley St.	84.1	Southwestern Athletic
50	Missouri	109.8	Southeastern
135	Missouri St.	102.1	Missouri Valley
355	Monmouth	85.1	Colonial Athletic
177	Montana	99.7	Big Sky
123	Montana St.	102.9	Big Sky
303	Morehead St.	92.5	Ohio Valley
241	Morgan St.	96.0	Mideastern Athletic
267	Mount St. Mary’s	94.2	Metro Atlantic
167	Murray St.	100.1	Missouri Valley
240	Navy	96.1	Patriot League
97	Nebraska	105.0	Big Ten
63	Nevada	109.0	Mountain West
279	New Hampshire	93.6	America East
59	New Mexico	109.4	Mountain West
163	New Mexico St.	100.2	Western Athletic
341	New Orleans	88.7	Southland
251	Niagara	95.5	Metro Atlantic
242	Nicholls St.	96.0	Southland
320	NJIT	91.1	America East
208	Norfolk St.	97.9	Mideastern Athletic
319	North Alabama	91.4	Atlantic Sun
20	North Carolina	113.6	Atlantic Coast
272	North Carolina A&T	94.1	Colonial Athletic
211	North Carolina Central	97.8	Mideastern Athletic
36	North Carolina St.	111.2	Atlantic Coast
328	North Dakota	90.5	Summit
236	North Dakota St.	96.4	Summit
270	North Florida	94.2	Atlantic Sun
71	North Texas	107.5	Conference USA
257	Northeastern	94.8	Colonial Athletic
281	Northern Arizona	93.6	Big Sky
260	Northern Colorado	94.7	Big Sky
313	Northern Illinois	91.8	Mid-American
162	Northern Iowa	100.3	Missouri Valley
216	Northern Kentucky	97.6	Horizon
53	Northwestern	109.7	Big Ten
248	Northwestern St.	95.6	Southland
122	Notre Dame	103.0	Atlantic Coast
266	Oakland	94.3	Horizon
151	Ohio	100.9	Mid-American
22	Ohio St.	113.5	Big Ten
37	Oklahoma	111.2	Big 12
39	Oklahoma St.	110.9	Big 12
172	Old Dominion	99.9	Sun Belt
312	Omaha	91.8	Summit
86	Oral Roberts	106.2	Summit
61	Oregon	109.2	Pac-12
215	Oregon St.	97.6	Pac-12
232	Pacific	96.6	West Coast
159	Penn	100.5	Ivy League
44	Penn St.	110.4	Big Ten
170	Pepperdine	100.0	West Coast
68	Pittsburgh	108.2	Atlantic Coast
174	Portland	99.8	West Coast
229	Portland St.	96.8	Big Sky
278	Prairie View A&M	93.7	Southwestern Athletic
327	Presbyterian	90.5	Big South
109	Princeton	103.7	Ivy League
33	Providence	111.5	Big East
7	Purdue	116.8	Big Ten
157	Purdue Fort Wayne	100.7	Horizon
200	Queens	98.3	Atlantic Sun
139	Quinnipiac	101.8	Metro Atlantic
173	Radford	99.8	Big South
203	Rhode Island	98.1	Atlantic 10
188	Rice	99.1	Conference USA
102	Richmond	104.4	Atlantic 10
202	Rider	98.2	Metro Atlantic
263	Robert Morris	94.5	Horizon
16	Rutgers	114.2	Big Ten
224	Sacramento St.	97.2	Big Sky
321	Sacred Heart	91.0	Northeast
212	Saint Joseph’s	97.8	Atlantic 10
81	Saint Louis	106.6	Atlantic 10
13	Saint Mary’s	114.3	West Coast
298	Saint Peter’s	92.9	Metro Atlantic
74	Sam Houston St.	107.3	Western Athletic
146	Samford	101.4	Southern
201	San Diego	98.3	West Coast
31	San Diego St.	111.9	Mountain West
110	San Francisco	103.7	West Coast
150	San Jose St.	101.0	Mountain West
90	Santa Clara	105.9	West Coast
133	Seattle	102.2	Western Athletic
52	Seton Hall	109.8	Big East
176	Siena	99.8	Metro Atlantic
180	SIU Edwardsville	99.6	Ohio Valley
171	SMU	100.0	American Athletic
185	South Alabama	99.2	Sun Belt
235	South Carolina	96.5	Southeastern
347	South Carolina St.	88.1	Mideastern Athletic
290	South Dakota	93.1	Summit
186	South Dakota St.	99.1	Summit
144	South Florida	101.6	American Athletic
243	Southeast Missouri St.	95.9	Ohio Valley
273	Southeastern Louisiana	94.1	Southland
223	Southern	97.3	Southwestern Athletic
108	Southern Illinois	103.8	Missouri Valley
258	Southern Indiana	94.7	Ohio Valley
124	Southern Miss	102.9	Sun Belt
120	Southern Utah	103.0	Western Athletic
155	St. Bonaventure	100.7	Atlantic 10
350	St. Francis NY	87.4	Northeast
326	St. Francis PA	90.7	Northeast
55	St. John’s	109.6	Big East
222	St. Thomas	97.3	Summit
98	Stanford	105.0	Pac-12
143	Stephen F. Austin	101.6	Western Athletic
187	Stetson	99.1	Atlantic Sun
333	Stonehill	90.2	Northeast
305	Stony Brook	92.3	Colonial Athletic
87	Syracuse	106.2	Atlantic Coast
168	Tarleton St.	100.1	Western Athletic
24	TCU	113.3	Big 12
127	Temple	102.8	American Athletic
2	Tennessee	120.4	Southeastern
307	Tennessee St.	92.2	Ohio Valley
300	Tennessee Tech	92.7	Ohio Valley
9	Texas	115.9	Big 12
45	Texas A&M	110.4	Southeastern
209	Texas A&M CC	97.8	Southland
306	Texas A&M Commerce	92.3	Southland
302	Texas Southern	92.6	Southwestern Athletic
206	Texas St.	98.0	Sun Belt
40	Texas Tech	110.9	Big 12
315	The Citadel	91.7	Southern
100	Toledo	104.6	Mid-American
149	Towson	101.0	Colonial Athletic
136	Troy	102.0	Sun Belt
78	Tulane	106.9	American Athletic
249	Tulsa	95.6	American Athletic
62	UAB	109.1	Conference USA
175	UC Davis	99.8	Big West
95	UC Irvine	105.2	Big West
156	UC Riverside	100.7	Big West
299	UC San Diego	92.7	Big West
118	UC Santa Barbara	103.4	Big West
4	UCLA	118.8	Pac-12
153	UMass Lowell	100.8	America East
220	UMBC	97.4	America East
239	UMKC	96.1	Summit
191	UNC Asheville	99.0	Big South
119	UNC Greensboro	103.0	Southern
132	UNC Wilmington	102.3	Colonial Athletic
82	UNLV	106.5	Mountain West
57	USC	109.6	Pac-12
283	USC Upstate	93.5	Big South
264	UT Arlington	94.5	Western Athletic
297	UT Rio Grande Valley	92.9	Western Athletic
277	UT-Martin	93.7	Ohio Valley
64	Utah	109.0	Pac-12
43	Utah St.	110.5	Mountain West
233	Utah Tech	96.6	Western Athletic
99	Utah Valley	104.6	Western Athletic
199	UTEP	98.4	Conference USA
324	UTSA	90.9	Conference USA
304	Valparaiso	92.5	Missouri Valley
88	Vanderbilt	106.2	Southeastern
92	VCU	105.5	Atlantic 10
166	Vermont	100.1	America East
69	Villanova	108.2	Big East
19	Virginia	113.6	Atlantic Coast
47	Virginia Tech	110.2	Atlantic Coast
331	VMI	90.3	Southern
295	Wagner	92.9	Northeast
72	Wake Forest	107.5	Atlantic Coast
101	Washington	104.4	Pac-12
67	Washington St.	108.5	Pac-12
231	Weber St.	96.8	Big Sky
29	West Virginia	112.1	Big 12
247	Western Carolina	95.8	Southern
265	Western Illinois	94.3	Summit
140	Western Kentucky	101.8	Conference USA
288	Western Michigan	93.2	Mid-American
121	Wichita St.	103.0	American Athletic
269	William & Mary	94.2	Colonial Athletic
259	Winthrop	94.7	Big South
65	Wisconsin	108.6	Big Ten
190	Wofford	99.0	Southern
197	Wright St.	98.5	Horizon
147	Wyoming	101.3	Mountain West
11	Xavier	114.6	Big East
94	Yale	105.3	Ivy League
114	Youngstown St.	103.4	Horizon

PiRate Ratings By Conference

America East
Team	Rating
UMass Lowell	100.8
Vermont	100.1
Bryant	99.6
UMBC	97.4
New Hampshire	93.6
Maine	92.2
Binghamton	91.4
NJIT	91.1
Albany	90.4
American Athletic
Team	Rating
Houston	120.7
Memphis	111.4
Central Florida	109.5
Cincinnati	108.5
Tulane	106.9
Wichita St.	103.0
Temple	102.8
South Florida	101.6
SMU	100.0
East Carolina	98.1
Tulsa	95.6
Atlantic 10
Team	Rating
Dayton	109.8
Saint Louis	106.6
VCU	105.5
Richmond	104.4
George Mason	103.7
Duquesne	103.6
Davidson	101.7
Massachusetts	101.5
St. Bonaventure	100.7
Fordham	98.8
George Washington	98.4
Rhode Island	98.1
Saint Joseph’s	97.8
Loyola (Chi.)	96.8
La Salle	96.2
Atlantic Coast
Team	Rating
Virginia	113.6
North Carolina	113.6
Duke	112.3
North Carolina St.	111.2
Miami (Fla)	110.9
Virginia Tech	110.2
Clemson	109.7
Pittsburgh	108.2
Wake Forest	107.5
Syracuse	106.2
Notre Dame	103.0
Georgia Tech	102.6
Florida St.	101.1
Boston College	99.1
Louisville	94.5
Atlantic Sun
Team	Rating
Liberty	107.2
Florida Gulf Coast	100.8
Kennesaw St.	99.6
Jacksonville	99.4
Stetson	99.1
Lipscomb	99.0
Eastern Kentucky	98.8
Queens	98.3
Bellarmine	95.8
Austin Peay	94.6
North Florida	94.2
Jacksonville St.	93.0
North Alabama	91.4
Central Arkansas	89.2
Big 12
Team	Rating
Kansas	117.3
Texas	115.9
Baylor	114.4
Iowa St.	114.2
TCU	113.3
Kansas St.	112.2
West Virginia	112.1
Oklahoma	111.2
Oklahoma St.	110.9
Texas Tech	110.9
Big East
Team	Rating
Connecticut	117.6
Xavier	114.6
Marquette	114.2
Creighton	113.8
Providence	111.5
Seton Hall	109.8
St. John’s	109.6
Villanova	108.2
Butler	106.8
DePaul	102.5
Georgetown	97.4
Big Sky
Team	Rating
Montana St.	102.9
Eastern Washington	100.6
Montana	99.7
Sacramento St.	97.2
Portland St.	96.8
Weber St.	96.8
Northern Colorado	94.7
Idaho St.	94.0
Northern Arizona	93.6
Idaho	91.4
Big South
Team	Rating
Longwood	101.9
Radford	99.8
Gardner Webb	99.3
UNC Asheville	99.0
Campbell	95.6
Winthrop	94.7
Charleston Southern	94.2
High Point	93.5
USC Upstate	93.5
Presbyterian	90.5
Big Ten
Team	Rating
Purdue	116.8
Rutgers	114.2
Ohio St.	113.5
Illinois	113.4
Indiana	113.0
Iowa	113.0
Maryland	110.9
Michigan St.	110.7
Penn St.	110.4
Michigan	109.9
Northwestern	109.7
Wisconsin	108.6
Nebraska	105.0
Minnesota	100.2
Big West
Team	Rating
UC Irvine	105.2
UC Santa Barbara	103.4
Hawaii	102.5
UC Riverside	100.7
UC Davis	99.8
Long Beach St.	99.3
Cal St. Fullerton	98.9
Cal Poly	93.3
Cal St. Bakersfield	93.0
UC San Diego	92.7
Cal St. Northridge	90.8
Colonial Athletic
Team	Rating
Charleston	106.2
Hofstra	103.4
UNC Wilmington	102.3
Towson	101.0
Drexel	100.4
Delaware	97.5
Northeastern	94.8
William & Mary	94.2
North Carolina A&T	94.1
Stony Brook	92.3
Elon	88.4
Hampton	87.0
Monmouth	85.1
Conference USA
Team	Rating
Florida Atlantic	109.6
UAB	109.1
North Texas	107.5
Charlotte	104.2
Louisiana Tech	102.2
Middle Tennessee	101.9
Western Kentucky	101.8
Rice	99.1
UTEP	98.4
Florida Int’l	95.4
UTSA	90.9
Horizon
Team	Rating
Youngstown St.	103.4
Purdue Fort Wayne	100.7
Wright St.	98.5
Cleveland St.	98.0
Northern Kentucky	97.6
Detroit Mercy	97.5
Milwaukee	97.1
Robert Morris	94.5
Oakland	94.3
Green Bay	83.6
IUPUI	81.2
Independents
Team	Rating
Chicago St.	92.1
Hartford	82.9
Ivy League
Team	Rating
Yale	105.3
Princeton	103.7
Cornell	103.6
Penn	100.5
Harvard	100.0
Brown	97.8
Dartmouth	93.5
Columbia	87.8
Metro Atlantic
Team	Rating
Iona	106.9
Quinnipiac	101.8
Siena	99.8
Rider	98.2
Niagara	95.5
Fairfield	95.3
Mount St. Mary’s	94.2
Canisius	94.0
Saint Peter’s	92.9
Marist	92.6
Manhattan	91.0
Mid-American
Team	Rating
Kent St.	107.9
Toledo	104.6
Akron	103.4
Ball St.	101.6
Ohio	100.9
Buffalo	97.8
Bowling Green	95.0
Central Michigan	93.3
Western Michigan	93.2
Miami (O)	93.1
Northern Illinois	91.8
Eastern Michigan	89.8
Mideastern Athletic
Team	Rating
Norfolk St.	97.9
North Carolina Central	97.8
Morgan St.	96.0
Howard	93.3
Maryland Eastern Shore	92.9
Coppin St.	90.9
South Carolina St.	88.1
Delaware St.	84.1
Missouri Valley
Team	Rating
Bradley	106.3
Drake	105.8
Indiana St.	103.9
Southern Illinois	103.8
Belmont	102.5
Missouri St.	102.1
Northern Iowa	100.3
Murray St.	100.1
Illinois St.	96.3
Illinois Chicago	93.2
Valparaiso	92.5
Evansville	88.6
Mountain West
Team	Rating
San Diego St.	111.9
Boise St.	111.5
Utah St.	110.5
New Mexico	109.4
Nevada	109.0
UNLV	106.5
Colorado St.	104.0
Wyoming	101.3
San Jose St.	101.0
Air Force	100.8
Fresno St.	100.1
Northeast
Team	Rating
Wagner	92.9
Fairleigh Dickinson	92.0
Sacred Heart	91.0
St. Francis PA	90.7
Central Connecticut	90.4
Stonehill	90.2
Merrimack	89.9
St. Francis NY	87.4
Long Island	81.6
Ohio Valley
Team	Rating
SIU Edwardsville	99.6
Southeast Missouri St.	95.9
Southern Indiana	94.7
UT-Martin	93.7
Tennessee Tech	92.7
Morehead St.	92.5
Tennessee St.	92.2
Lindenwood	89.3
Little Rock	88.8
Eastern Illinois	88.0
Pac-12
Team	Rating
UCLA	118.8
Arizona	114.6
Colorado	110.2
Arizona St.	110.2
USC	109.6
Oregon	109.2
Utah	109.0
Washington St.	108.5
Stanford	105.0
Washington	104.4
California	98.8
Oregon St.	97.6
Patriot League
Team	Rating
Colgate	103.4
American	97.4
Army	97.1
Navy	96.1
Boston University	95.8
Lafayette	94.8
Bucknell	94.0
Lehigh	93.6
Loyola (MD)	90.3
Holy Cross	88.5
Southeastern
Team	Rating
Tennessee	120.4
Alabama	120.0
Arkansas	113.8
Auburn	113.5
Kentucky	112.0
Florida	111.4
Texas A&M	110.4
Missouri	109.8
Mississippi St.	109.3
Mississippi	106.2
Vanderbilt	106.2
Georgia	106.0
LSU	105.4
South Carolina	96.5
Southern
Team	Rating
Furman	104.1
UNC Greensboro	103.0
Chattanooga	102.8
Samford	101.4
Wofford	99.0
Mercer	96.6
Western Carolina	95.8
East Tennessee St.	95.2
The Citadel	91.7
VMI	90.3
Southland
Team	Rating
Texas A&M CC	97.8
Nicholls St.	96.0
Northwestern St.	95.6
Southeastern Louisiana	94.1
Texas A&M Commerce	92.3
McNeese St.	89.5
New Orleans	88.7
Houston Christian	86.5
Incarnate Word	86.3
Lamar	83.6
Southwestern Athletic
Team	Rating
Southern	97.3
Grambling	96.8
Alcorn St.	94.2
Prairie View A&M	93.7
Texas Southern	92.6
Jackson St.	91.7
Alabama A&M	89.5
Arkansas Pine Bluff	88.7
Alabama St.	88.5
Bethune Cookman	87.1
Florida A&M	84.3
Mississippi Valley St.	84.1
Summit
Team	Rating
Oral Roberts	106.2
South Dakota St.	99.1
St. Thomas	97.3
North Dakota St.	96.4
UMKC	96.1
Western Illinois	94.3
South Dakota	93.1
Denver	92.1
Omaha	91.8
North Dakota	90.5
Sun Belt
Team	Rating
Marshall	107.3
James Madison	106.7
Southern Miss	102.9
Louisiana	102.9
Troy	102.0
Old Dominion	99.9
Appalachian St.	99.3
South Alabama	99.2
Texas St.	98.0
Georgia Southern	97.7
Georgia St.	97.1
Coastal Carolina	95.9
Louisiana Monroe	93.0
Arkansas St.	91.6
West Coast
Team	Rating
Gonzaga	116.7
Saint Mary’s	114.3
BYU	107.2
Santa Clara	105.9
Loyola Marymount	104.2
San Francisco	103.7
Pepperdine	100.0
Portland	99.8
San Diego	98.3
Pacific	96.6
Western Athletic
Team	Rating
Sam Houston St.	107.3
Grand Canyon	105.0
Utah Valley	104.6
Southern Utah	103.0
Seattle	102.2
Stephen F. Austin	101.6
Cal Baptist	100.5
New Mexico St.	100.2
Tarleton St.	100.1
Abilene Christian	98.0
Utah Tech	96.6
UT Arlington	94.5
UT Rio Grande Valley	92.9

Coming Later Today: Updated Bracketology

PiRate Ratings College Basketball–Wednesday, January 11, 2023

Home	Visitor	Spread
Arkansas	Alabama	0.0
Army	American	-0.7
Bradley	Evansville	19.5
Bryant	Albany	10.3
Bucknell	Loyola (MD)	7.7
Cal Baptist	Utah Valley	-1.9
Cal St. Bakersfield	UC Santa Barbara	-7.7
Cal St. Northridge	UC Davis	-5.9
Central Florida	Memphis	1.4
Charleston Southern	High Point	-0.4
Chattanooga	Western Carolina	8.2
Cincinnati	East Carolina	11.5
Clemson	Louisville	17.9
Colgate	Boston U.	10.3
Davidson	Richmond	0.6
Delaware	Towson	-1.9
Duke	Pittsburgh	8.3
Elon	North Carolina A&T	-2.8
Florida Int’l.	Florida Atlantic	-12.6
Georgia	Mississippi St.	-1.7
Hofstra	Monmouth	20.1
Houston	South Florida	24.5
Illinois St.	Missouri St.	-4.5
Indiana St.	Southern Illinois	4.2
Lehigh	Holy Cross	5.0
Maine	New Hampshire	2.4
Marquette	Connecticut	-2.3
Massachusetts	La Salle	8.6
Mercer	Furman	-5.0
Miami (Fla)	Boston College	13.5
Navy	Lafayette	6.1
NJIT	Binghamton	2.8
North Texas	Louisiana Tech	8.5
Northwestern	Rutgers	-1.1
Penn St.	Indiana	-1.5
Presbyterian	Gardner Webb	-6.8
Rhode Island	St. Bonaventure	0.7
Rice	Middle Tennessee	0.0
Saint Joseph’s	Duquesne	-3.0
Saint Louis	George Mason	5.9
Samford	Wofford	3.0
SMU	Tulane	-3.0
Syracuse	Virginia Tech	-1.9
Tarleton St.	Chicago St.	10.4
Texas	TCU	6.9
Texas A&M	Missouri	0.4
The Citadel	East Tennessee St.	0.1
UAB	Western Kentucky	11.1
UC Irvine	Cal St. Fullerton	9.3
UC San Diego	UC Riverside	-4.8
UMass Lowell	Vermont	2.5
UNC Wilmington	Charleston	-0.4
UNLV	Boise St.	0.8
USC Upstate	Campbell	1.4
UT Rio Grande Valley	Abilene Christian	-5.0
UTEP	UTSA	9.5
VMI	UNC Greensboro	-8.4
Wake Forest	Florida St.	7.9
Washington St.	California	13.0
West Virginia	Baylor	2.1
William & Mary	Hampton	7.9
Winthrop	Radford	-1.2
Xavier	Creighton	3.5

PiRate Ratings College Basketball–Tuesday, January 3, 2023

Home	Visitor	Spread
Air Force	Utah St.	-9.3
Akron	Northern Illinois	12.7
Alabama	Mississippi	12.1
Boise St.	San Jose St.	10.9
Boston College	Notre Dame	-0.9
Buffalo	Ohio	0.2
Central Michigan	Miami (O)	3.7
Creighton	Seton Hall	7.3
Eastern Michigan	Bowling Green	0.9
Fresno St.	New Mexico	-5.0
Kent St.	Western Michigan	18.4
Kentucky	LSU	10.3
Louisville	Syracuse	-8.2
Michigan St.	Nebraska	6.6
Pittsburgh	Virginia	-4.2
St. John’s	Marquette	-2.0
Tennessee	Mississippi St.	12.9
Texas	Kansas St.	9.8
Texas Tech	Kansas	-1.5
Toledo	Ball St.	7.2
Vanderbilt	South Carolina	10.4
Wisconsin	Minnesota	14.4

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Crash! Like a meteorite falling to Earth, our picks free-fell and left a tail of fire as they fell. In just two lousy weeks, a 16-5 start with an incredible profit has been reduced to a minor loss after failing to pick a single correct selection last week.

Of course, the good news for those of you that read this strictly for enjoyment is that your profit and loss statement has remained the same as ours, nothing wagered and nothing lost or gained, so we can come right back with some selections, knowing we will still have the same amount of money in our real accounts, regardless of what our imaginary accounts indicate.

This week, we add a couple of teaser selections, something we have used in the past, sometimes with very successful results and sometimes stinkers. When we issue teaser selections, it is more important which numbers the teasers pass than the teams involved. We look to change the margin in a way that picks up a large percentage in historical actual spread. Teasing through 3, 6, 7, 10, and 13 points picks up some extra oomph. Additionally, being able to tease a favorite down to just 1 point is another good option. And, if you can tease a favorite into an underdog status of 3 1/2 points or 7 1/2 points, you enjoy some extra advantage.

We haven’t forgotten money line parlays this week, as we have a 3-team parlay going off at better than 2-1 odds, something that won big for us in September.

Without further adieu, here are this week’s selections.

Selection #1: Iowa State +17 vs. Texas

When the margin went from 16 1/2 to 17 late Wednesday afternoon (when this feature is composed), this became a play for us. While we believe this is a single-digit game, we waited for that precious half-point. Iowa State’s defense can slow down the combination of Ewers and Robinson, maybe not enough to win, but enough to lose by 7-13 points.

Selection #2: North Carolina State + 3 1/2 vs. Syracuse

Syracuse being undefeated is a feel good story, but we think the wrong team is favored, and getting that hook onto the 3 makes it quite attractive for our system.

Selection #3: 6-point teaser with 2 games @ -110

Alabama -1 vs. Tennessee

North Carolina -1 vs. Duke

As we mentioned above, teasing a favorite down to 1 point is something we like. We believe the Tide and Tar Heels will both win, and teasing down to 1 is valuable

Selection #4: 9-point teaser with 3 games @ -107

Clemson +5 1/2 vs. Florida St.

Arkansas + 7 1/2 vs. BYU

Illinois + 15 1/2 vs. Minnesota

Taking Clemson from -3 1/2 to +5 1/2 goes through 3 on both sides, and we like the percentage advantage knowing that a 3-point CU loss still wins for this selection. Taking Arkansas from favorite to underdog by more than 7 and knowing that K. J. Jefferson is now likely to play makes the second leg very attractive. Taking a hot home dog and making them more than a 2-touchdown underdog in a game we believe the Illini have a 35-40% chance of winning completes the trio.

Selection #5: Money Line Parlay @ +238.81

Baylor over West Virginia

Miami (O) over Bowling Green

Oregon State over Washington State

West Virginia coach Neal Brown, hoping to not be fired in midseason like five others have been fired so far, has made statements that he knew turning around the Mountaineer program would be a long process. When a coach says this, he is admitting that his team is outmanned. Brown’s job is only a little more secure than Bryan Harsin’s job at the moment, while Baylor is still in the Big 12 race to finish in second place and make the conference championship game.

Miami of Ohio might lose another conference game this year, but we can’t see woeful Bowling Green being that team.

Oregon State and Washington State should be an excellent game to watch as an impartial football fan. The two teams are stronger than many give credit for, and we think the Beavers’ home field advantage is worth just enough to give OSU a slight advantage.

Remember: Don‘t wager real money on these games!

Special Note: We here at the PiRate Ratings do not report on rumors, as we previously were professional sports journalists. In order to report on a story, we wanted two different sources independent of each other to give us nearly identical information. We have such information, and the news is not good for Auburn football coach Bryan Harsin. Rumors of his being dismissed now have two different sources telling us that a substantial loss to Ole Miss this weekend would be the end of his coaching tenure at the Loveliest Village On The Plains. What substantial means was not explained.

PiRate Picks: September 22-24, 2022

After losing most of our imaginary profit made in the first two weeks last week, we happened to be gifted with a week where the numbers seemed to be in our favor. We issued seven selections, including a Money Line Parlay that had eye-popping +204.42 odds. The Wyoming-Air Force rivlary game immediately drew our attention, as the 14 1/2 points were not just a gift, but an outright mistake. It won to start the weekend out on a great note.

We played two short favorites at home, something we rarely like to play. One of them, Maryland over SMU, won. The other was winning until a true freshman quarterback acted like Peyton Manning in the second half of his game, and our own local Vanderbilt Commodores won as a road ‘dog.

We played three totals, and all three won, but two of those were by the skin of our teeth. Oklahoma blew Nebraska off their home field. Thankfully, they ate the last 6 minutes off the clock when any score would have done us in. Notre Dame and Cal covered the 40 1/2 point total by a half point. Once again, we felt the AFA-Wyoming game was a gift with its high total, because the Cowboys historically have slowed down the option and kept this game close and low scoring.

Now to the Money Line Parlay at better than 2-1 odds. Penn State easily clobbered Auburn, as we thought would happen. Texas A&M was in a must-win situation to save Jimbo Fisher’s smoldering seat from becoming inflamed. North Carolina State proved their ranking is valid by topping Texas Tech with little trouble, and voila, we had an outstanding week cashing in six imaginary tickets in seven wagers. The imaginary $700 investment returned $1,294.42 for a fake profit of 85%. For the season to date, our beginning imaginary balance of $1,000 is now worth $1,906.19 a profit gain of 90.6% in four weeks.

That is now in the past. What have we done for you lately? We are about to do a lot by telling you that as wonderful as the numbers looked to us last week, they look that terrible this week. So many spreads are one point away from being plays for us. That one point is where we live. 20-something games were wiped out just because the number needed to be 7 1/2 instead of 6 1/2, 3 1/2 instead of 2 1/2, and 10 1/2 instead of 9 1/2. Buying points or playing teasers are two things we don’t like to do, unless we can play a 3-game, 10-point teaser where we can move spreads from 4 1/2 to 14 1/2, 7 1/2 to 17 1/2, 11 1/2 to 21 1/2 and similar.

Additionally, the totals seem to be a lot more accurate this week. Maybe on Monday, there were some playable totals, but by Wednesday night (when our picks are made), they had moved to unplayable numbers. We found just one game where we live the total this week.

That brings us to the Money Line parlay possibilities. Our philosophy with Money Line parlays is to take no more than three games on a parlay and to get at least +130 odds. Very rarely, we will add a fourth game that we believe has a better than 98% chance that the favorite will win. We could have added fourth games to the two parlays we chose, but that would have only raised the odds from the +130s to the +160s, and we don’t have the 98% confidence rating on either game. So, we are going with just three selections this week, hoping that next week will bring us more selection opportunities.

Selection #1: Southern California and Oregon State Under 70 1/2

It is our belief that this number had to be a little inflated to make it closer to a 50-50 wagering proposition. Still, the public is tending to the Over here. Both teams’ defenses and special teams have contributed to their scoring so far this year. This game figures to have better special teams defense, and both teams’ coaches might be preparing a little more than normal conservative game plans. We think the score could be in the neighborhood of 35-27, 35-31, or 34-28. Even a 38-28 game wins for us. So does a 35-34. It has to get to 38-35, 42-31, and 45-28 before this one loses.

Selection #2: Money Line Parlay at +135.77

Syracuse over Virginia

Georgia Southern over Ball St.

Old Dominion over Arkansas St.

Selection #3: Money Line Parlay at +134.52

Kansas over Duke

Clemson over Wake Forest

Temple over U Mass.

There is nothing special in our parlay picks this week. We simply believe that the chances of winning either one top the odds. We believe each one has a better than 50% chance of winning, and the chance of winning at least one of the two are 90%. Since going 1-1 in these two parlays is a guaranteed profit, we chose to pick these two with very similar odds, even if they are near our minimum odds we like to play.

Remember This: The PiRates never wager real money on these selections. We hope you don’t either. If you do wager real money, please do not use our selections as the main reference for your wagering.

We are not naive. We know there are more than a dozen of you that play our selections. Just because we have begun the 2022 football season with incredible results, there is no guarantee that this will continue. We have enjoyed 17 winning seasons in 22 years with this feature, but a couple of those 5 losing seasons were big losers. Many of our winning seasons returned 8-15% profit, some of those coming in years when the overall stock market returns were better than 15%. You don’t have to deal with the vig when you invest in corporations.

PiRate Ratings College Basketball–Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Home	Visitors	Spread
Rhode Island	Richmond	2.2
Georgia	Alabama	-15.0
Duke	Clemson	12.1
Illilnois	Michigan St.	5.4
Villanova	DePaul	15.3
Northern Kentucky	Wright St.	-0.7
Charleston	William & Mary	13.2
Dayton	Fordham	12.4
Yale	Columbia	17.6
Iona	Siena	16.6
Temple	Cincinnati	-3.1
Indiana St.	Missouri St.	-7.6
Ohio	Northern Illinois	16.5
Bowling Green	Eastern Michigan	6.8
Central Michigan	Akron	-11.6
Kent St.	Western Michigan	13.3
Toledo	Buffalo	5.4
Ball St.	Miami (O)	-2.5
Baylor	Kansas St.	14.6
North Dakota St.	St. Thomas	7.6
Pittsburgh	Syracuse	-4.7
Loyola (Chi.)	Southern Illinois	12.3
Rutgers	Maryland	1.4
Missouri	Auburn	-15.4
Connecticut	Georgetown	17.5
Kentucky	Mississippi St.	11.3
TCU	Texas	-1.5
Colorado St.	Nevada	11.2
New Mexico	Fresno St.	-4.9
Boise St.	Wyoming	5.1
Oregon	Colorado	6.8
Cal St. Northridge	UCSB	-7.3
San Jose St.	Air Force	-0.1
UCLA	Arizona	-3.1

PiRate Ratings College Basketball–Tuesday, January 11, 2022

Home	Visitors	Spread
Canisius	Quinnipiac	-0.5
Fairfield	Iona	-5.3
Stanford	USC	-6.6
Towson	Hofstra	3.8
Tennessee	South Carolina	14.3
Penn St.	Rutgers	4.1
Baylor	Texas Tech	10.1
Vanderbilt	Kentucky	-8.6
Marquette	DePaul	7.0
Syracuse	Pittsburgh	10.2
North Alabama	Eastern Kentucky	-2.3
Liberty	North Florida	13.2
Jacksonville St.	Lipscomb	11.9
Jacksonville	Stetson	5.7
Bellarmine	Central Arkansas	12.1
La Salle	St. Bonaventure	-10.7
VCU	George Washington	17.7
Dayton	Saint Louis	1.3
Davidson	Massachusetts	10.7
James Madison	Northeastern	3.9
Drexel	Delaware	2.5
Akron	Ball St.	10.3
Ohio	Bowling Green	8.0
Kent St.	Northern Illinois	13.0
Western Michigan	Buffalo	-15.0
Miami (O)	Toledo	-2.2
Eastern Michigan	Central Michigan	6.7
Stephen F. Austin	UT Rio Grande Valley	10.9
Kansas	Iowa St.	12.0
Florida St.	Miami (Fla.)	6.8
Northern Iowa	Indiana St.	8.5
Texas	Oklahoma	5.4
Nebraska	Illinois	-14.1
Texas A&M	Mississippi	4.7
Alabama	Auburn	-0.1
Creighton	Providence	1.2
West Virginia	Oklahoma St.	2.6
Loyola (Chi.)	Valparaiso	17.2
Fresno St.	San Jose St.	16.1
UNLV	New Mexico	7.4

PiRate Ratings College Basketball Spreads

Wednesday, January 5, 2022

Home	Visitors	Spread
St. John’s	DePaul	4.3
Michigan St.	Nebraska	16.4
South Florida	Houston	-20.5
Florida	Alabama	0.4
Tennessee	Ole Miss	15.9
East Carolina	Tulane	0.1
Central Florida	Temple	11.4
Louisvile	Pittsburgh	12.6
Dayton	VCU	0.9
Saint Joseph’s	Davidson	-4.5
Richmond	Massachusetts	6.9
Miami (Fla.)	Syracuse	1.2
Villanova	Creighton	10.2
Iowa St.	Texas Tech	-1.4
Notre Dame	North Carolina	-1.9
Bradley	Missouri St.	-3.1
Northwestern	Penn St.	6.3

PiRate Ratings Sweet 16 Spreads

Friday, March 26, 2021

Favorite	Underdog	Spread
Loyola (Chi.)	Oregon St.	6.5
Baylor	Villanova	5.2
Arkansas	Oral Roberts	13.3
Houston	Syracuse	7.0
Gonzaga	Creighton	13.3
Michigan	Florida St.	3.4
Alabama	UCLA	5.7
USC	Oregon	3.4

Bracketnomics Took A Beating

Like 99% of the public, our brackets are destroyed thanks to all the lower seeded teams winning in the first two rounds. Obviously, the Big Ten was highly overrated, and the Pac-12 was highly underrated. A lack of non-conference games this year made the schedule strengths too biased. There are only four teams in the Sweet 16 with resumes similar to past national champions.

Gonzaga is the only remaining team that meets 90% of the criteria of a national champion. Michigan would also meet the criteria, but their star playmaker is still injured and out. So, the Wolverines have to be discounted somewhat.

Baylor and Houston meet more than 75% of the criteria, but they are missing one key important stat. Connecticut is the only past national champion of the 21st Century to win the national title with this type of criteria.

If Gonzaga wins the title, then the bracketnomics data will have proven itself to be accurate for the year, even if our interpretation of the data was wrong. If Michigan, Houston, or Baylor wins the title, then it will be another Connecticut type of deal, where the criteria was valid but not identifiable enough to be considered a success. If anybody else cuts the nets, then the criteria failed for this year.

What should we make of this data this year? Do we throw this year out due to the highly dysfunctional season? So many games were cancelled this year, while other games were scheduled on as little as 48-72 hours notice. Included in the cancellations was a Gonzaga vs. Baylor game that should have been played, in all places, in Indianapolis in December!

One thing we will note in 2021-2022 is to consider the Big Ten Conference to be a tad overrated and the Pac-12 Conference a tad underrated. Maybe, it is time for “The Conference of Champions” to return to its prominence it enjoyed in the second half of the 20th Century.

What to Make of Gonzaga

Gonzaga’s strength of schedule just barely qualifies for national championship-worthy criteria. However, no team from outside the Power Conferences (AAC, ACC, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12, or SEC) has won the national championship since 1990, when UNLV cut down the nets. In three decades, Gonzaga came within a made basket, and Butler came within a rimmed out prayer of pulling off the Mid-Major miracle.

Gonzaga has been compared all season to the 1991 UNLV team that ran the table during the regular season with a scoring margin of close to 30 points, only to fall to Duke in the Final Four.

Could Gonzaga meet a power conference blue blood and meet the same fate as UNLV 30 years ago? Creighton would not be considered a blue blood, and we cannot see the Bulldogs losing Saturday. A win in the Sweet 16 would have GU playing a Pac-12 team in the Elite 8, either USC or Oregon. We cannot count either of these teams as a Duke-like blue blood.

In the National Semifinals, Gonzaga would face either Michigan, Florida State, UCLA, or Alabama. With Isaiah Livers able to play, Michigan would definitely be considered blue blood material. Florida State is in the blue blood neighborhood. UCLA and Alabama are both a little too green to be blue these days.

The Championship Game would present a potential opponent in Baylor that would be a true blue blood team this year. Syracuse might be a powder blue blood with their matchup zone so hard to prepare for when teams have not faced it before.

However, we here on the PiRate ship do not see Gonzaga as the UNLV team three decades later. We see this Bulldogs team more like the 1964 UCLA Bruins 57 years later. By this, we do not refer to playing style. The two teams couldn’t be any more different. Coach John Wooden’s first national champions were small in size; no starter was taller than 6 foot 5 inches. Gonzaga has size and muscle inside.

The 1964 Bruins used a devastating 2-2-1, 3/4 court zone press and occasionally a 1-2-1-1 full court zone press to force tempo and turnovers, while Gonzaga uses a standard half-court defense that relies on pressuring the ball and forcing poor shots, where they can control the boards and run the fast break and secondary break for cheap baskets and then hit the offensive glass for additional chances.

Where the two teams are quite similar is their method for winning games. In going 30-0 in 1964, UCLA put every game away with a 2 to 3 minute scoring run. The best example occurred in the national title game, where a favored Duke team, with two 6 foot 10 inch starters towering over the Bruins, fell under pressure in just 2 1/2 minutes, as the Bruins ran off 16 points in a row.

Gonzaga has this same ability to take a three-point lead and make it a 15-point lead in just a couple minutes of playing time. Their game against BYU in the West Coast Conference Championship Game is a testament to this ability. BYU held a 10-point lead and looked like they were going to do what Saint Mary’s had done in the prior WCC Championship Game. Then, in very little clock time, GU went from 10 down to 10 up, and the game was over.

There is another team remaining with the same ability to go on a major game-clinching scoring run, and that is Houston. Funny how comparing Gonzaga to UCLA brings Houston into the conversation, as Houston and UCLA conjure up memories of past titanic rivals like Dempsey-Tunney, Affirmed-Alydar, and New York Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgers.

Houston is most definitely not considered the favorite to make it to the National Championship Game. They still have to solve the Syracuse zone and then possibly beat the most underrated team in the field in Loyola of Chicago or the team that found lightning in a bottle in Oregon State. Then, they most likely have to dismiss Baylor to make it to their third national championship game in the school’s history.

A Houston-Gonzaga national championship tilt would be quite memorable, and it would be one where both teams enjoy scoring runs that make the outcome unpredictable.