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 29-Mar-2026 08 AM EDT.

 Rank Team                   W  L   Rating   Points  BCS   Top50   51-100  101+ 
    1 Michigan              34  3     6.04    81.07    2   19  3    6  0    9  0 
    2 Arizona               36  2     5.87    78.99    1   19  2    7  0   10  0 
    3 Duke                  35  2     5.87    79.73    3   17  2    7  0   11  0 
    4 Florida               27  8     4.79    77.38    9   12  7    6  1    9  0 
    5 Illinois              28  8     4.73    76.24    7   10  8    6  0   12  0 
    6 Houston               30  7     4.61    75.17    8    9  7   10  0   11  0 
    7 Purdue                30  9     4.55    74.12    6   13  9    7  0   10  0 
    8 Connecticut           32  5     4.53    72.22    4   10  3   16  2    6  0 
    9 St. John's            30  7     4.39    71.77    5    5  6   20  1    5  0 
   10 Iowa St.              29  8     4.38    75.81   16    8  7   10  1   11  0 
  
 Rank Team                   W  L   Rating   Points  BCS   Top50   51-100  101+ 
   11 Michigan St.          27  8     4.24    72.25   11   11  7    3  1   13  0 
   12 Alabama               25 10     4.19    72.15   13   11  9    6  1    8  0 
   13 Arkansas              28  9     4.16    70.90   10    8  9    9  0   11  0 
   14 Gonzaga               31  4     4.15    72.53   14    7  3    3  0   21  1 
   15 Vanderbilt            27  9     4.02    72.01   17   12  7    5  2   10  0 
   16 Virginia              30  6     3.98    69.93   12    9  4    8  2   13  0 
   17 Nebraska              28  7     3.91    70.57   15    8  7    7  0   13  0 
   18 Tennessee             25 11     3.87    71.98   20   12  9    3  2   10  0 
   19 Kansas                24 11     3.74    69.45   18    9  8    6  3    9  0 
   20 Texas Tech            23 11     3.66    70.02   21    5 10    9  1    9  0 
  
 Rank Team                   W  L   Rating   Points  BCS   Top50   51-100  101+ 
   21 Louisville            24 11     3.55    71.53   29    7 10    6  1   11  0 
   22 Wisconsin             24 11     3.36    68.11   24    8  8    7  2    9  1 
   23 Utah St.              29  7     3.36    65.69   19    6  3    8  2   15  2 
   24 North Carolina        24  9     3.31    67.54   23    7  7    6  2   11  0 
   25 BYU                   23 12     3.22    69.05   33    7  9    6  3   10  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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