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 09-Mar-2026 08 AM EDT.

 Rank Team                   W  L   Rating   Points  BCS   Top50   51-100  101+ 
    1 Michigan              29  2     6.05    82.28    1   15  2    6  0    8  0 
    2 Duke                  29  2     5.84    81.55    2   13  2    6  0   10  0 
    3 Arizona               29  2     5.47    78.26    3   13  2    7  0    9  0 
    4 Florida               25  6     4.93    77.85    4   11  5    5  1    9  0 
    5 Houston               26  5     4.47    74.29    6    8  5    8  0   10  0 
    6 Illinois              24  7     4.42    75.55   12    7  7    6  0   11  0 
    7 Connecticut           27  4     4.39    72.36    5    8  2   11  1    8  1 
    8 Gonzaga               28  3     4.33    73.84    9    6  2    3  0   19  1 
    9 Michigan St.          25  6     4.28    72.40    7   10  5    3  1   12  0 
   10 Iowa St.              25  6     4.13    74.35   20    6  6    9  0   10  0 
  
 Rank Team                   W  L   Rating   Points  BCS   Top50   51-100  101+ 
   11 Alabama               23  8     4.12    71.74   11   10  8    4  0    9  0 
   12 Purdue                23  8     4.02    73.48   22    9  8    5  0    9  0 
   13 St. John's            25  6     4.02    70.51   10    3  5   12  1   10  0 
   14 Virginia              27  4     3.99    69.62    8    7  2    8  2   12  0 
   15 Arkansas              23  8     3.97    71.59   14    7  8    5  0   11  0 
   16 Nebraska              26  5     3.92    70.66   13    6  5    8  0   12  0 
   17 Texas Tech            22  9     3.86    71.11   18    6  8    8  1    8  0 
   18 Vanderbilt            24  7     3.86    71.70   21   10  5    2  2   12  0 
   19 Kansas                22  9     3.86    70.34   15    8  7    5  2    9  0 
   20 Louisville            22  9     3.67    72.62   27    6  8    5  1   11  0 
  
 Rank Team                   W  L   Rating   Points  BCS   Top50   51-100  101+ 
   21 North Carolina        24  7     3.61    68.18   16    7  5    6  2   11  0 
   22 Tennessee             21 10     3.44    71.15   31    8  8    2  2   11  0 
   23 Saint Mary's          27  4     3.39    65.83   17    2  3    3  1   22  0 
   24 Villanova             24  7     3.37    65.97   19    1  6   11  1   12  0 
   25 BYU                   21 10     3.29    69.06   29    7  8    5  2    9  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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