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 and upcoming games this year are again courtesy of Ken Pomeroy. Scores for D-II and D-III games are imported manually from the NCAA website. 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 14-Dec-2025 07 AM EST.

 Rank Team                   W  L   Rating   Points  BCS   Top50   51-100  101+ 
    1 Duke                  10  0     5.71    80.86    1    4  0    1  0    5  0 
    2 Houston               10  1     5.20    76.12    2    1  1    2  0    7  0 
    3 Auburn                 8  3     4.99    75.25    4    2  3    1  0    5  0 
    4 Michigan              10  0     4.79    72.71    3    4  0    4  0    2  0 
    5 Florida                6  4     4.72    75.04    7    0  3    1  1    5  0 
    6 Alabama                7  3     4.66    74.11    6    4  3    0  0    3  0 
    7 Arizona                9  0     4.49    73.16    8    5  0    0  0    4  0 
    8 Michigan St.           9  1     4.43    71.06    5    4  1    1  0    4  0 
    9 Iowa St.              10  0     4.39    73.14   10    5  0    0  0    5  0 
   10 Gonzaga               10  1     4.33    74.80   15    6  1    1  0    3  0 
  
 Rank Team                   W  L   Rating   Points  BCS   Top50   51-100  101+ 
   11 Purdue                10  1     4.24    70.75    9    3  1    3  0    4  0 
   12 Tennessee              7  3     4.20    72.36   13    1  2    1  0    5  1 
   13 Louisville             9  1     4.01    70.39   12    2  1    2  0    5  0 
   14 St. John's             6  3     3.98    70.72   14    2  3    0  0    4  0 
   15 BYU                    9  1     3.97    69.36   11    2  1    2  0    5  0 
   16 Texas Tech             7  3     3.88    70.26   16    1  3    1  0    5  0 
   17 Kansas                 8  3     3.77    69.37   17    2  3    2  0    4  0 
   18 Illinois               8  3     3.65    70.67   26    3  3    0  0    5  0 
   19 Connecticut           10  1     3.61    68.41   19    4  1    1  0    5  0 
   20 Wisconsin              7  3     3.53    68.35   22    1  2    1  1    5  0 
  
 Rank Team                   W  L   Rating   Points  BCS   Top50   51-100  101+ 
   21 Kentucky               7  4     3.52    70.13   29    1  4    0  0    6  0 
   22 North Carolina         9  1     3.46    67.39   21    2  1    1  0    6  0 
   23 Clemson                8  3     3.42    67.45   23    2  2    0  1    6  0 
   24 Texas A&M              7  3     3.29    66.75   25    0  1    2  2    5  0 
   25 Saint Mary's           9  1     3.26    64.88   18    0  1    1  0    8  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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