Talisman Red's College Basketball Computer Ratings

Welcome to 2025-26!

This will be the 23rd year of my website. Wow, how time flies. Small screen? There's a menu at the bottom.

D-I game scores this year are again courtesy of Ken Pomeroy. Scores for D-II and D-III games are courtesy of Dr. Kenneth Massey. As always, if you see something out of place, please drop me a line.

Greetings to my loyal D-II and D-III followers...

As I say every year: thank you so much for your continued support. Click over on the menu under the Wilson section, or go directly to the D-II or D-III "everything pages" to get everything you need. Glad you are here.

In '25-'26 I'll again be producing almost the same content for the D2 & D3 women's teams that I produce here -- head over to check out those rankings & standings if you'd like.

Division I Top 25

For any hypothetical matchup, use the Points column to estimate a margin of victory and add 2.5 for home advantage, if necessary. Early in the season, ratings rely heavily on last year's results. A description of the other columns is below the top 25.

Direct links to other items: list of all teams rated  •  conference standings  •  a list of the conferences ranked  •  game predictions for the next few days

Ratings last updated 16-Feb-2026 07 AM EST.

 Rank Team                   W  L   Rating   Points  BCS   Top50   51-100  101+ 
    1 Michigan              24  1     6.00    83.14    1   11  1    5  0    8  0 
    2 Duke                  23  2     5.27    78.80    2    9  2    5  0    9  0 
    3 Arizona               23  2     5.13    77.91    3    8  2    6  0    9  0 
    4 Houston               23  2     4.67    74.36    5    5  2    9  0    9  0 
    5 Connecticut           24  2     4.67    73.03    4    7  2    9  0    8  0 
    6 Purdue                21  4     4.57    74.62    6    8  4    3  0   10  0 
    7 Illinois              21  5     4.56    75.83   10    7  5    4  0   10  0 
    8 Florida               19  6     4.48    76.48   15    8  4    5  2    6  0 
    9 Iowa St.              22  3     4.47    75.99   12    5  1    9  2    8  0 
   10 Gonzaga               25  2     4.44    74.39    8    6  1    3  0   16  1 
  
 Rank Team                   W  L   Rating   Points  BCS   Top50   51-100  101+ 
   11 Kansas                19  6     4.22    71.78    7    6  5    6  1    7  0 
   12 Vanderbilt            21  4     4.18    73.09   14    8  3    3  1   10  0 
   13 Texas Tech            19  6     4.18    71.56    9    4  6    9  0    6  0 
   14 Nebraska              22  3     4.12    71.57   11    6  3    6  0   10  0 
   15 Michigan St.          20  5     4.01    71.95   17    7  4    2  0   11  1 
   16 Arkansas              19  6     4.00    72.24   19    5  6    5  0    9  0 
   17 Louisville            19  6     4.00    74.15   25    4  5    6  1    9  0 
   18 Alabama               18  7     3.97    71.58   18    6  7    5  0    7  0 
   19 St. John's            20  5     3.93    70.81   16    3  4    8  1    9  0 
   20 Virginia              22  3     3.85    69.43   13    5  1    7  2   10  0 
  
 Rank Team                   W  L   Rating   Points  BCS   Top50   51-100  101+ 
   21 Saint Louis           24  1     3.84    70.75   20    2  0    3  1   19  0 
   22 BYU                   19  6     3.67    70.46   24    4  5    6  1    9  0 
   23 North Carolina        20  5     3.60    68.65   23    5  3    5  2   10  0 
   24 Tennessee             18  7     3.57    70.87   28    7  6    2  1    9  0 
   25 Villanova             20  5     3.46    66.71   21    3  4    6  1   11  0 

The columns you see above...

• Rank, Team, W-L, and Rating: hopefully self-explanatory
• Points: the column to use if you want to calculate a hypothetical margin of victory for any matchup. Just subtract. Adjust for home court if you need to, about 3 points
• BCS: a ranking system that uses only margin of victory, with no consideration of score margin. The old-timers would call this a more "politically-correct" system, like the ones used in the Bowl Championship Series for many years (hence the title "BCS")
• Top 50, 51-100, 100+: a team's won-loss record against teams in each of those ranking groups

 

 

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