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                            3.19
   2 Big 12                         3.06
   3 Big 10                         2.88
   4 ACC                            2.30
   5 Big East                       2.15
   6 Mountain West                  1.03
   7 West Coast                     0.67
   8 Atlantic 10                    0.57
   9 Missouri Valley                0.38
  10 American                       0.13
  11 Conference USA                -0.28
  12 Ivy League                    -0.34
  13 WAC                           -0.35
  14 Big West                      -0.43
  15 Mid-American                  -0.43
  16 Coastal                       -0.45
  17 Horizon                       -0.71
  18 Southland                     -0.79
  19 Sun Belt                      -0.86
  20 Big Sky                       -0.92
  21 Big South                     -0.95
  22 Southern                      -0.96
  23 Summit                        -1.13
  24 MAAC                          -1.17
  25 Atlantic Sun                  -1.34
  26 Ohio Valley                   -1.55
  27 Patriot                       -1.73
  28 America East                  -2.12
  29 Northeast                     -2.15
  30 SWAC                          -2.21
  31 MEAC                          -2.54
  32 Non-Division I                -6.69