PiRate Ratings College Basketball — Thursday, March 9, 2023

Home	Visitor	Spread
Akron	Buffalo	5.4
Arizona	Stanford	9.0
Auburn	Arkansas	-1.2
Ball St.	Ohio	-1.3
Baylor	Iowa St.	1.9
Boise St.	UNLV	5.3
Cal St. Fullerton	Hawaii	0.1
Central Florida	SMU	9.1
Clemson	North Carolina St.	-1.8
Connecticut	Providence	7.4
Creighton	Villanova	5.7
Dayton	Saint Joseph’s	9.2
Duke	Pittsburgh	3.5
Florida	Mississippi St.	-0.2
Florida Atlantic	Western Kentucky	11.4
Fordham	La Salle	4.0
Illinois	Penn St.	2.6
Iowa	Ohio St.	2.2
Jackson St.	Prairie View	-1.9
Kansas	West Virginia	2.8
Kansas St.	TCU	0.2
Kent St.	Northern Illinois	11.6
Marquette	St. John’s	7.4
Maryland	Minnesota	14.4
Maryland Eastern Shore	Morgan St.	3.0
Miami (Fla)	Wake Forest	4.8
Michigan	Rutgers	-0.4
Middle Tennessee	Charlotte	-0.6
Nevada	San Jose St.	5.6
Norfolk St.	Coppin St.	10.0
North Texas	Louisiana Tech	7.6
Oregon	Washington St.	1.8
Quinnipiac	Marist	6.9
Saint Louis	George Mason	2.9
Sam Houston St.	Cal Baptist	7.0
San Diego St.	Colorado St.	9.1
Seattle	Grand Canyon	-2.0
Siena	Niagara	3.4
South Florida	East Carolina	3.1
Southern	Alabama A&M	3.2
Southern Utah	Utah Tech	4.4
Tennessee	Mississippi	13.7
Texas	Oklahoma St.	5.6
Toledo	Miami (O)	12.7
UAB	Rice	11.6
UC Riverside	UC Davis	0.4
UC Santa Barbara	Cal Poly	10.4
UC-Irvine	Cal St. Bakersfield	11.3
UCLA	Colorado	9.4
USC	Arizona St.	2.3
Utah St.	New Mexico	2.7
Utah Valley	Tarleton St.	6.3
Vanderbilt	LSU	5.0
VCU	Davidson	5.8
Virginia	North Carolina	-0.6
Wichita St.	Tulsa	12.5
Xavier	DePaul	7.7

PiRate Ratings Bracketology

Date	3/7/2023
Seed	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team
1	Alabama	Houston	Kansas	Purdue
2	UCLA	Texas	Baylor	Arizona
3	Marquette	Kansas St.	Tennessee	Gonzaga
4	Connecticut	Xavier	Indiana	Virginia
5	San Diego St.	Saint Mary’s	Miami (Fla)	TCU
6	Iowa St.	Duke	Creighton	Texas A&M
7	Kentucky	Michigan St.	Northwestern	Maryland
8	Illinois	Iowa	Missouri	Arkansas
9	Florida Atlantic	Boise St.	Auburn	Providence
10	Memphis	West Virginia	North Carolina St.	USC
11	Pittsburgh	Rutgers	Mississippi St.	Nevada	Wisconsin	Penn St.
12	Oral Roberts	VCU	Drake	Charleston
13	Utah Valley	Toledo	Iona	Louisiana
14	Yale	Furman	UC Santa Barbara	Kennesaw St.
15	Colgate	Vermont	UNC Asheville	Montana St.
16	Cleveland St.	Texas A&M-CC	SE Missouri St.	Grambling	Howard	Fairleigh Dickinson

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Last 4 Byes: North Carolina St., USC, Pittsburgh, Rutgers

Last 4 In: Mississippi St., Nevada, Wisconsin, Penn St.

First 4 Out: Utah St., Arizona St., Oklahoma St., North Carolina

Next 4 Out: Clemson, Michigan, Oregon, Vanderbilt

PiRate Ratings Bracketology

Date	3/3/2023
Seed	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team
1	Alabama	Houston	Kansas	Purdue
2	UCLA	Texas	Baylor	Arizona
3	Kansas St.	Tennessee	Marquette	Gonzaga
4	Connecticut	Xavier	Indiana	Virginia
5	TCU	San Diego St.	Saint Mary’s	Miami (Fla)
6	Creighton	Kentucky	Iowa St.	Duke
7	Michigan St.	Texas A&M	Maryland	Iowa
8	Northwestern	Missouri	Illinois	Boise St.
9	Providence	Arkansas	Florida Atlantic	Memphis
10	North Carolina St.	Nevada	USC	West Virginia
11	Auburn	Pittsburgh	Mississippi St.	Rutgers	Arizona St.	Wisconsin
12	Oral Roberts	Bradley	VCU	Iona
13	Southern Miss.	Hofstra	Toledo	Utah Valley
14	Furman	UC-Irvine	Colgate	Youngstown St.
15	Kennesaw St.	Vermont	E. Washington	Penn
16	UNC Asheville	Grambling	Texas A&M-CC	Morehead St.	Howard	Fairleigh-Dickinson

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Last 4 Byes: USC, West Virginia, Auburn, Pittsburgh

Last 4 In: Mississippi St., Rutgers, Arizona St., Wisconsin

First 4 Out: North Carolina, Utah St., Penn State, Michigan

Next 4 Out: Oklahoma St., Oregon, Clemson, New Mexico

PiRate Ratings Bracketology

Date	2/27/2023
Seed	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team
1	Alabama	Houston	Kansas	Purdue
2	UCLA	Texas	Baylor	Arizona
3	Kansas St.	Tennessee	Marquette	Gonzaga
4	Indiana	Connecticut	Xavier	Iowa St.
5	Virginia	Miami (Fla)	TCU	San Diego St.
6	Saint Mary’s	Creighton	Northwestern	Maryland
7	Kentucky	Illinois	Michigan St.	Duke
8	Providence	Texas A&M	Arkansas	Iowa
9	Rutgers	Missouri	Nevada	North Carolina St.
10	Florida Atlantic	Auburn	Boise St.	USC
11	Mississippi St.	West Virginia	Pittsburgh	Memphis	Wisconsin	Oklahoma St.
12	Oral Roberts	VCU	Bradley	Hofstra
13	Southern Miss.	Utah Valley	Toledo	Iona
14	Kennesaw St.	UC-Irvine	Colgate	Furman
15	E. Washington	Vermont	Penn	Youngstown St.
16	UNC Asheville	Texas A&M-CC	Morehead St.	Grambling	Howard	Fairleigh Dickinson

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Last 4 Byes: Boise St., USC, Mississippi St., West Virginia

Last 4 In: Pittsburgh, Memphis, Wisconsin, Oklahoma St.

First 4 Out: Arizona St., Michigan, North Carolina, Penn St.

Next 4 Out: Clemson, Utah St., New Mexico, Texas Tech

PiRate Ratings College Basketball–Saturday, February 25, 2023

Home	Visitor	Spread
Abilene Christian	Utah Valley	-3.8
Akron	Western Michigan	15.0
Alabama	Arkansas	8.8
Alabama St.	Alabama A&M	0.1
Albany	NJIT	0.0
Alcorn St.	Prairie View	3.8
Arizona	Arizona St.	11.0
Baylor	Texas	1.5
Bethune-Cookman	Southern U.	-6.2
Binghamton	Maine	1.7
Boston U.	Lehigh	3.1
Bowling Green	Kent St.	-11.4
Bryant	Vermont	-1.1
Bucknell	Lafayette	0.5
BYU	San Francisco	5.6
Cal Poly	UC Davis	-6.3
Cal St. Bakersfield	Cal St. Fullerton	-6.4
California	Washington St.	-10.3
Central Connecticut St.	Sacred Heart	2.1
Central Michigan	Northern Illinois	-2.2
Charleston	Stony Brook	19.8
Charleston Southern	Presbyterian	4.7
Charlotte	Rice	6.5
Columbia	Brown	-8.8
Coppin St.	Maryland Eastern Shore	-4.2
Dayton	George Mason	10.0
Denver	Omaha	4.4
Detroit	Wright St.	1.6
Duke	Virginia Tech	6.2
East Carolina	Houston	-19.8
East Tennessee St.	UNC Greensboro	-5.5
Eastern Illinois	Tennessee Tech	-1.5
Eastern Michigan	Ball St.	-7.3
Elon	Delaware	-3.2
Fairleigh Dickinson	St. Francis (NY)	6.3
Florida A&M	Grambling	-8.8
Florida Atlantic	UTEP	13.9
Florida Intl.	UTSA	8.0
Fordham	Rhode Island	7.4
George Washington	La Salle	2.5
Georgia	Missouri	-3.6
Georgia Tech	Louisville	7.8
Gonzaga	Saint Mary’s	4.8
Green Bay	Purdue Ft. Wayne	-11.3
Harvard	Princeton	0.0
Hawaii	UC Irvine	0.4
Hofstra	Northeastern	14.7
Holy Cross	Army	-4.1
Idaho St.	Eastern Washington	-5.9
Incarnate Word	Texas A&M-Commerce	-1.6
Iowa	Michigan St.	2.7
Iowa St.	Oklahoma	7.1
IUPUI	Youngstown St.	-16.7
Jackson St.	Texas Southern	1.6
Kansas	West Virginia	7.5
Kentucky	Auburn	2.1
Lamar	New Orleans	0.4
Lindenwood	Little Rock	1.0
Long Beach St.	Cal St. Northridge	12.0
Long Island	Merrimack	-8.8
Longwood	UNC Asheville	3.1
Loyola (MD)	American	-0.6
Marquette	DePaul	16.4
Mercer	The Citadel	7.2
Miami (Fla)	Florida St.	16.2
Miami (O)	Ohio	-6.7
Middle Tennessee	Louisiana Tech	3.9
Milwaukee	Cleveland St.	-0.4
Mississippi	LSU	4.7
Mississippi St.	Texas A&M	0.8
Mississippi Valley St.	Arkansas Pine Bluff	-2.1
Montana	Sacramento St.	6.2
Montana St.	Portland St.	9.3
Morehead St.	UT Martin	3.2
Morgan St.	Delaware St.	9.0
Navy	Colgate	-1.6
Nebraska	Minnesota	10.5
New Mexico	San Diego St.	-0.6
Nicholls St.	Houston Christian	11.4
North Carolina	Virginia	2.9
North Carolina A&T	Hampton	6.1
North Carolina Central	Howard	5.8
North Carolina St.	Clemson	6.5
North Dakota	St. Thomas (MN)	-2.7
North Dakota St.	Western Illinois	6.1
Northern Colorado	Northern Arizona	3.0
Oakland	Northern Kentucky	-2.3
Oklahoma St.	Kansas St.	1.0
Oregon St.	Oregon	-9.2
Pacific	Portland	0.2
Penn	Dartmouth	10.4
Pepperdine	Loyola Marymount	-1.8
Pittsburgh	Syracuse	6.3
Purdue	Indiana	6.4
Radford	Campbell	5.8
Saint Louis	Loyola (Chi.)	11.2
Sam Houston St.	Southern Utah	5.6
Samford	Furman	-0.8
San Diego	Santa Clara	-4.9
San Jose St.	Boise St.	-5.9
SIU Edwardsville	Southeast Missouri St.	3.4
South Carolina St.	Norfolk St.	-8.9
South Dakota	UMKC	1.1
South Dakota St.	Oral Roberts	-5.0
South Florida	SMU	5.0
Southeastern Louisiana	McNeese St.	8.0
St. Francis (PA)	Wagner	0.3
St. John’s	Connecticut	-7.8
Tennessee	South Carolina	23.0
Tennessee St.	Southern Indiana	2.2
Texas A&M-CC	Northwestern St.	3.6
Texas Tech	TCU	0.0
Toledo	Buffalo	9.2
UC San Diego	UC Santa Barbara	-5.7
UMass Lowell	New Hampshire	10.2
UNC Wilmington	Towson	0.8
USC Upstate	Gardner-Webb	-2.4
UT Arlington	Utah Tech	-0.5
UT-Rio Grande Valley	Tarleton St.	-3.3
Utah	USC	1.3
Vanderbilt	Florida	-0.9
Villanova	Creighton	-3.8
Wake Forest	Notre Dame	9.2
Weber St.	Idaho	7.7
Western Carolina	VMI	10.1
Western Kentucky	UAB	-6.1
William & Mary	Monmouth	6.9
Winthrop	High Point	6.1
Wofford	Chattanooga	-0.2
Yale	Cornell	8.0

PiRate Ratings Bracketology

Date	2/24/2023
Seed	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team
1	Alabama	Houston	Kansas	Purdue
2	Texas	UCLA	Arizona	Baylor
3	Marquette	Virginia	Kansas St.	Tennessee
4	Iowa St.	Indiana	Gonzaga	Connecticut
5	Miami (Fla)	Xavier	Saint Mary’s	Creighton
6	San Diego St.	Illinois	TCU	Northwestern
7	Duke	Maryland	Providence	Texas A&M
8	Michigan St.	Arkansas	Iowa	North Carolina St.
9	Auburn	Kentucky	Rutgers	Missouri
10	Florida Atlantic	Pittsburgh	Nevada	Boise St.
11	Memphis	Oklahoma St.	West Virginia	USC	Mississippi St.	Wisconsin
12	Oral Roberts	Drake	Toledo	Marshall
13	Hofstra	Kennesaw St.	VCU	Iona
14	Colgate	Utah Valley	UC-Irvine	Eastern Washington
15	Penn	Cleveland St.	Vermont	Samford
16	UNC Asheville	Northwestern St.	Morehead St.	Howard	Alcorn St.	St. Francis (PA)

Last 4 Byes: Nevada, Boise St., Memphis, Oklahoma St.

Last 4 In: West Virginia, USC, Mississippi St., Wisconsin

First 4 Out: Utah St., North Carolina, Texas Tech, Michigan

Next 4 Out: Clemson, New Mexico, Penn St., Arizona St.

What Is My Process?

I have been asked by multiple people how I make my bracketology. It is a multi-step process. I use the same data that the NCAA Selection Committee uses–Net Ratings, Strength of Schedule, Strength of Wins, Eye Test, etc. that the Committee uses.

I begin by choosing the one-bid conference representatives. Each time, I use the team that is in first place at the time. If two or more teams are tied for first, I choose the team with the most current success. Most of these teams automatically move to the 12-16 seed lines. They will be compared to each other and seeded 12 through 16. A couple (like Florida Atlantic this year) may move up. If enough move up, then the at-large field may feature two or even four 12-seeds, but in most years, the last 4 teams in the field will be the 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th best 11-seeds.

The next step in the process is to pick the teams that are obviously getting bids from the multiple bid conferences. These include teams like Virginia, Marquette, Alabama, Purdue, Kansas, and UCLA among others at the present time. After that, I then choose about 20 other teams that represent the Bubble. From these 20 Bubble teams, I will closely examine the resumes of each, ranking them from 1 to 20. The big question with the Bubble is, “how many are needed to get to 68 total teams?” This week, it was seven. Seven teams made the field. Eight teams fell into first 4 out or next 4 out, while the other five would be placed in an under consideration list and needing a lot of help. Michigan had been in the under consideration group for weeks until recent victories allowed the Wolverines to jump up to first 4 out status. A couple more wins, and the Maize and Blue might find themselves in the Field.

Once I have the 68 teams chosen, and I have the 12-16 seeds filled in (22 teams), the remaining 46 teams are ranked as I believe the Committee will rank them. When you see my seed lines, they are in the order of my rankings, so that looking at today’s #3 seeds, Marquette is my top 3-seed team. Tennessee has fallen to the last 3-seed team. I do not alter my seed lines to prevent teams from the same conference from playing in the first round. If two Big 12 teams are shown playing in the Round of 64, the Committee will change the S-Curve. I’ll leave the teams where they finish in my rankings.

If I could change one thing in how the Selection Committee chooses the at-large teams, it would be to add conference record into the equation. If the third place team in the ACC beats the sixth place team both times in the regular season and finishes three games ahead in the standings, that should at least mean as much as out of conference results. In my mind, a 13-7 ACC team that sweeps a 10-10 ACC team has proven itself to be the better of the two teams. Yet, every year, the Committee takes one of these teams that finished behind another and that lose to the other team that did not receive a bid. The Committee tends to give more weight to out of conference games in November and December than conference games in January and February.

Championship Fortnight Begins Monday

The greatest five weeks of college basketball action start Monday night when the first conference tournament action begins. The Atlantic Sun Tournament begins with the top 10 finishers in the regular season qualifying. Team #9 will host Team #10 and Team #7 will host Team #8.

The #9 vs. #10 winner will then play the #1 seed, and the #7 vs. #8 winner will then play the #2 seed in the quarterfinals. The #3 seed will play the #6 seed, and the #4 seed will play the #5 seed. Unlike most leagues, this conference will then re-seed the teams, like the NFL Playoffs, in the semifinal round. All A-Sun Tournament games will be played at the home gym of the better seed.

Three more tournaments begin on Tuesday. The Horizon League’s first round will find the #6 through 11 seeds playing to make the quarterfinals, while the top 5 seeds receive first round byes. First Round and Quarterfinal Round games will be played on the better seeds’ home floors, with the semifinals and finals moving to Indianapolis.

The Patriot League will take place exclusively on the better seeds’ home floors. Tuesday’s first round games will see #10 playing at #7 and #9 playing at #8, or a normal first round bracket in a 10-team field.

The Sun Belt Conference features all 14 teams playing in beautiful Pensacola, Florida. The first round begins Tuesday with the #11 seed playing #14 and the #12 seed playing #13. This will be a hotly contested tournament for the one bid, as there are four teams in this league (Marshall, Southern Miss, Louisiana, and James Madison) talented enough to beat a single digit seed in the Round of 64. If Marshall wins the automatic bid, the Thundering Herd’s R+T Rating is going to be high enough to be considered a dark horse for the Sweet 16.

Check back daily once conference tournament action begins. The PiRate Ratings will have daily updates.

PiRate Ratings College Basketball–Thursday, February 23, 2023

Home	Visitor	Spread
Cal St. Fullerton	UC Davis	3.1
Cal St. Northridge	Cal St. Bakersfield	0.2
California	Washington	-6.4
Charleston	Towson	9.1
Charlotte	North Texas	-2.5
Colorado	USC	2.4
Detroit	Northern Kentucky	1.9
Drexel	Northeastern	7.4
Florida Atlantic	UTSA	20.7
Florida Intl.	UTEP	0.6
Gardner-Webb	Longwood	1.3
Gonzaga	San Diego	21.0
Green Bay	Cleveland St.	-13.7
Hampton	Monmouth	3.8
Houston Christian	McNeese St.	0.0
Idaho St.	Idaho	4.2
Illinois	Northwestern	5.5
Incarnate Word	Northwestern St.	-6.8
IUPUI	Robert Morris	-10.2
Lamar	Southeastern Louisiana	-5.0
Lindenwood	Southeast Missouri St.	-3.1
Merrimack	Central Connecticut St.	3.6
Milwaukee	Purdue Ft. Wayne	1.9
Montana	Portland St.	6.3
Montana St.	Sacramento St.	9.6
New Orleans	Nicholls St.	-6.8
North Carolina A&T	Delaware	-1.9
North Dakota	Western Illinois	2.4
North Dakota St.	St. Thomas (MN)	1.5
Oakland	Wright St.	-2.9
Ohio St.	Penn St.	2.8
Rutgers	Michigan	5.9
Sacred Heart	St. Francis (NY)	6.5
Saint Mary’s	Pacific	19.3
Sam Houston	Cal Baptist	8.7
San Francisco	Portland	7.7
Santa Clara	Pepperdine	10.3
SIU Edwardsville	Little Rock	8.1
South Dakota	Oral Roberts	-13.7
South Dakota St.	UMKC	9.1
Southern Indiana	Tennessee Tech	4.5
St. Francis (PA)	Fairleigh Dickinson	1.0
Stanford	Washington St.	0.8
Tarleton St.	Utah Valley	-4.3
Texas A&M-CC	Texas A&M-Commerce	10.2
UAB	Rice	11.5
UC Irvine	UC San Diego	14.6
UC Santa Barbara	Long Beach St.	5.3
UNC Wilmington	Stony Brook	12.2
UT Arlington	Southern Utah	-5.4
UT Martin	Tennessee St.	4.3
UT-Rio Grande Valley	Utah Tech	-1.4
Utah	UCLA	-6.2
Wagner	Stonehill College	4.3
Weber St.	Eastern Washington	-2.5
Western Kentucky	Louisiana Tech	1.3
Wichita St.	Memphis	-5.1
William & Mary	Elon	2.6

PiRate Ratings Bracketology

Date	2/20/2023
Seed	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team
1	Alabama	Houston	Kansas	Purdue
2	Texas	Baylor	UCLA	Arizona
3	Tennessee	Kansas St.	Iowa St.	Virginia
4	Gonzaga	Marquette	Xavier	Indiana
5	Connecticut	Saint Mary’s	Iowa	Creighton
6	TCU	San Diego St.	Northwestern	Illinois
7	Providence	Duke	Maryland	Iowa
8	Rutgers	Michigan St.	North Carolina St.	Texas A&M
9	Auburn	Missouri	Arkansas	Boise St.
10	Kentucky	Nevada	Oklahoma St.	Pittsburgh
11	Florida Atlantic	Memphis	Mississippi St.	USC	West Virginia	Wisconsin
12	Oral Roberts	Drake	Southern Miss.	Toledo
13	VCU	Hofstra	Utah Valley	UC-Irvine
14	Kennesaw St.	Iona	Samford	Colgate
15	E. Washington	Penn	Vermont	Youngstown St.
16	UNCA	Texas A&M-CC	Morehead St.	Alcorn St.	Howard	Fairleigh Dickinson

Last 4 Byes: Nevada, Oklahoma St., Pittsburgh, Memphis

Last 4 In: Mississippi St., USC, West Virginia, Wisconsin

First 4 Out: Utah St., New Mexico, North Carolina, North Texas

Next 4 Out: Penn St., Texas Tech, Arizona St., Oregon

PiRate Ratings College Basketball–Saturday, February 18, 2023

Home	Visitor	Spread
Akron	Buffalo	8.2
Alabama	Georgia	19.8
Alabama A&M	Bethune-Cookman	5.7
Alabama St.	Florida A&M	6.2
American	Lehigh	4.1
Appalachian St.	Old Dominion	2.5
Arizona	Colorado	10.1
Arizona St.	Utah	1.8
Arkansas	Florida	5.9
Arkansas St.	Georgia St.	-0.8
Army	Lafayette	3.6
Austin Peay	North Florida	-2.0
Boston U.	Bucknell	2.9
Bowling Green	Toledo	-9.0
Cal St. Fullerton	Cal Poly	11.4
Campbell	Presbyterian	8.3
Central Connecticut St.	Stonehill College	2.3
Central Michigan	Ohio	-7.6
Charleston Southern	Winthrop	-1.2
Chattanooga	UNC Greensboro	-0.3
Coastal Carolina	Texas St.	0.1
Colgate	Holy Cross	16.5
Columbia	Dartmouth	-4.1
Connecticut	Seton Hall	11.1
Coppin St.	Howard	-5.6
Cornell	Harvard	6.5
Davidson	Saint Joseph’s	4.9
Delaware	UNC Wilmington	-1.9
Delaware St.	North Carolina Central	-10.2
Denver	South Dakota	1.9
Eastern Kentucky	North Alabama	6.5
Eastern Washington	Northern Colorado	8.7
Florida Gulf Coast	Stetson	2.8
Florida St.	Boston College	3.1
Fresno St.	Colorado St.	0.2
George Mason	La Salle	6.1
Grambling	Southern U.	4.8
Hampton	Drexel	-7.7
High Point	USC Upstate	-0.5
Houston Christian	Lamar	2.0
Idaho	Northern Arizona	1.1
Indiana	Illinois	3.6
Indiana St.	Illinois St.	12.7
Jackson St.	Alcorn St.	0.2
Jacksonville St.	Liberty	-10.6
James Madison	Louisiana	4.3
Kansas	Baylor	3.9
Kansas St.	Iowa St.	2.0
Kennesaw St.	Queens	7.0
Kentucky	Tennessee	-4.5
Lipscomb	Jacksonville	4.8
Little Rock	Eastern Illinois	3.8
Long Beach St.	Hawaii	1.5
Long Island	St. Francis (PA)	-6.5
Longwood	Radford	3.1
Louisiana Tech	Charlotte	1.9
Louisville	Clemson	-11.0
Loyola Marymount	Pacific	8.6
LSU	South Carolina	9.2
Maine	Albany	8.3
Marshall	Troy	8.1
Maryland Eastern Shore	South Carolina St.	9.3
McNeese St.	Texas A&M-CC	-6.2
Mercer	Western Carolina	3.3
Miami (Fla)	Wake Forest	7.2
Michigan	Michigan St.	0.9
Middle Tennessee	Florida Intl.	7.9
Minnesota	Penn St.	-8.9
Mississippi	Mississippi St.	-2.9
Missouri	Texas A&M	0.5
Missouri St.	Northern Iowa	4.7
Monmouth	Elon	-0.8
Montana St.	Montana	17.7
Morehead St.	Lindenwood	9.0
Murray St.	Evansville	11.6
Navy	Loyola (MD)	10.9
New Hampshire	UMBC	-0.4
Nicholls St.	Incarnate Word	11.0
NJIT	Vermont	-10.0
Norfolk St.	Morgan St.	9.8
Northeastern	William & Mary	4.2
Northern Illinois	Miami (O)	5.5
Northwestern St.	New Orleans	14.1
Omaha	South Dakota St.	-6.0
Oral Roberts	North Dakota St.	13.6
Penn	Brown	4.0
Pepperdine	Gonzaga	-15.5
Portland	Santa Clara	-2.8
Portland St.	Weber St.	1.4
Prairie View	Arkansas Pine Bluff	6.0
Princeton	Yale	-1.9
Providence	Villanova	6.1
Rhode Island	Massachusetts	1.6
Rice	Western Kentucky	1.5
Robert Morris	Milwaukee	1.2
Sacramento St.	Idaho St.	3.8
Sacred Heart	Merrimack	3.0
Saint Louis	Duquesne	3.7
Saint Mary’s	BYU	10.8
Seattle	Utah Valley	-2.0
South Alabama	Louisiana Monroe	10.2
South Florida	Tulane	-2.1
Southeast Missouri St.	Southern Indiana	2.4
Southern Miss.	Georgia Southern	8.6
St. John’s	Creighton	-5.6
St. Thomas (MN)	Western Illinois	6.9
Stephen F. Austin	UT Arlington	9.9
Stony Brook	Hofstra	-12.2
Syracuse	Duke	-1.8
Tarleton St.	Sam Houston	-5.0
TCU	Oklahoma St.	4.0
Tennessee St.	SIU Edwardsville	-0.7
Tennessee Tech	UT Martin	0.1
Texas	Oklahoma	10.3
Texas A&M-Commerce	Southeastern Louisiana	0.6
Texas Southern	Mississippi Valley St.	9.1
The Citadel	Wofford	-3.0
Towson	North Carolina A&T	12.0
UC Irvine	UC Davis	7.7
UC Riverside	UC Santa Barbara	-0.5
UC San Diego	Cal St. Northridge	4.0
UCLA	California	25.6
UMass Lowell	Binghamton	11.6
UMKC	North Dakota	3.7
UNC Asheville	Gardner-Webb	2.8
USC	Stanford	6.9
Utah St.	Nevada	3.9
UTEP	North Texas	-6.3
UTSA	UAB	-15.0
Vanderbilt	Auburn	-4.5
VCU	Fordham	7.5
Virginia	Notre Dame	15.3
Virginia Tech	Pittsburgh	2.9
VMI	Samford	-10.7
Wagner	Fairleigh Dickinson	5.0
Washington	Oregon St.	9.1
West Virginia	Texas Tech	6.0
Western Michigan	Ball St.	-7.3
Wisconsin	Rutgers	-2.0
Xavier	DePaul	15.1
Youngstown St.	Green Bay	23.2

PiRate Ratings Bracketology

Date	2/17/2023
Seed	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team
1	Alabama	Houston	Kansas	Purdue
2	Texas	Baylor	UCLA	Tennessee
3	Arizona	Marquette	Connecticut	Virginia
4	Iowa St.	Gonzaga	Xavier	Kansas St.
5	Indiana	Miami (Fla)	Saint Mary’s	San Diego St.
6	Creighton	TCU	Northwestern	Michigan St.
7	Iowa	Maryland	Illinois	Providence
8	Missouri	Duke	Auburn	Rutgers
9	Oklahoma St.	Nevada	North Carolina St.	Boise St.
10	West Virginia	Florida Atlantic	Arkansas	Texas A&M
11	Pittsburgh	Kentucky	Mississippi St.	Memphis	Wisconsin	USC
12	Charleston	Oral Roberts	Toledo	Drake
13	VCU	Southern Miss.	Liberty	Utah Valley
14	UCSB	Yale	Samford	Iona
15	Colgate	E. Washington	Vermont	Youngstown St.
16	UNC Asheville	Morehead St.	Alcorn St.	Northwestern St.	Howard	Fairleigh Dickinson

Last 4 Byes: West Virginia, Arkansas, Texas A&M, Pittsburgh

Last 4 In: Mississippi St., Memphis, Wisconsin, USC

First 4 Out: North Carolina, Clemson, Penn St., Oregon

Next 4 Out: New Mexico, Utah St., North Texas, Arizona St.