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.

October 14, 2025: Welcome back! I'm in the process of spinning up everything. My D-1 ratings are ready to go. The Wilson pages still need updated conference alignments -- that might take until the first week of November. As always: If you see someone out of place, 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 24-Nov-2025 09 AM EST. 

 Rank Team                   W  L   Rating   Points  BCS   Top50   51-100  101+ 
    1 Duke                   7  0     5.67    81.55    4    2  0    0  0    5  0 
    2 Auburn                 4  1     5.27    76.69    2    0  1    0  0    4  0 
    3 Houston                5  0     5.24    76.29    1    1  0    0  0    4  0 
    4 Florida                4  1     5.14    75.93    3    0  1    1  0    3  0 
    5 Alabama                3  1     4.82    73.94    5    2  1    0  0    1  0 
    6 Tennessee              5  0     4.52    73.01    8    0  0    0  0    5  0 
    7 Michigan State         5  0     4.35    70.23    6    2  0    0  0    3  0 
    8 Purdue                 6  0     4.28    70.69    9    3  0    1  0    2  0 
    9 Gonzaga                5  0     4.23    74.87   20    1  0    2  0    2  0 
   10 Michigan               4  0     4.16    69.06    7    1  0    1  0    2  0 
  
 Rank Team                   W  L   Rating   Points  BCS   Top50   51-100  101+ 
   11 Arizona                5  0     4.13    71.82   12    3  0    0  0    2  0 
   12 Louisville             5  0     4.09    70.53   10    1  0    1  0    3  0 
   13 St. John's             3  1     4.02    71.22   13    0  1    0  0    3  0 
   14 Iowa State             4  0     3.88    71.74   22    1  0    0  0    3  0 
   15 Illinois               5  1     3.80    71.62   25    1  1    0  0    4  0 
   16 Texas Tech             4  2     3.77    69.61   17    1  2    0  0    3  0 
   17 Kentucky               4  2     3.76    70.86   23    0  2    0  0    4  0 
   18 Clemson                6  1     3.69    68.20   15    2  0    0  1    4  0 
   19 Maryland               4  1     3.65    68.89   19    1  0    0  1    3  0 
   20 Wisconsin              4  1     3.63    68.50   18    0  1    0  0    4  0 
  
 Rank Team                   W  L   Rating   Points  BCS   Top50   51-100  101+ 
   21 BYU                    4  1     3.60    68.76   21    1  1    1  0    2  0 
   22 Saint Mary's           6  0     3.51    66.37   14    0  0    1  0    5  0 
   23 Oregon                 4  0     3.46    64.54   11    0  0    0  0    4  0 
   24 Ole Miss               5  0     3.43    66.15   16    1  0    0  0    4  0 
   25 North Carolina         5  0     3.38    67.94   26    1  0    0  0    4  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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