Talisman Red's College Basketball Computer Ratings

Division I Conferences, Ranked

The rating shown for each conference is the simple average of all of its teams. Other raters (Sagarin, for example) advocate for slightly different calculations, but in my experience this one works well enough.

Rank Conference                Mean Rating
---- ------------------------- -----------
   1 SEC                            3.30
   2 Big Ten                        2.89
   3 Big 12                         2.73
   4 ACC                            2.07
   5 Big East                       1.92
   6 Mountain West                  1.02
   7 WCC                            0.70
   8 A-10                           0.58
   9 MVC                            0.49
  10 American                       0.07
  11 CUSA                          -0.11
  12 Big West                      -0.27
  13 Ivy                           -0.36
  14 MAC                           -0.52
  15 CAA                           -0.65
  16 WAC                           -0.73
  17 SoCon                         -0.79
  18 Southland                     -0.80
  19 Sun Belt                      -0.80
  20 Big South                     -0.89
  21 Summit                        -0.92
  22 Big Sky                       -0.94
  23 Horizon                       -1.02
  24 MAAC                          -1.11
  25 ASUN                          -1.30
  26 Patriot                       -1.55
  27 OVC                           -1.63
  28 Am. East                      -1.83
  29 NEC                           -1.88
  30 SWAC                          -2.14
  31 MEAC                          -2.26
  32 NOND1                         -6.45