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 14-Oct-2025. 

 Rank Team                   W  L   Rating   Points  BCS   Top50   51-100  101+ 
    1 Duke                   0  0     5.84    79.87    5    0  0    0  0    0  0 
    2 Auburn                 0  0     5.43    77.78    1    0  0    0  0    0  0 
    3 Houston                0  0     5.33    77.26    3    0  0    0  0    0  0 
    4 Florida                0  0     5.26    76.92    2    0  0    0  0    0  0 
    5 Alabama                0  0     4.80    74.58    4    0  0    0  0    0  0 
    6 Tennessee              0  0     4.59    73.48    6    0  0    0  0    0  0 
    7 Maryland               0  0     4.38    72.41   20    0  0    0  0    0  0 
    8 Gonzaga                0  0     4.33    72.17   28    0  0    0  0    0  0 
    9 Texas Tech             0  0     4.26    71.79   14    0  0    0  0    0  0 
   10 Arizona                0  0     4.26    71.78   22    0  0    0  0    0  0 
  
 Rank Team                   W  L   Rating   Points  BCS   Top50   51-100  101+ 
   11 Iowa St.               0  0     4.18    71.39   23    0  0    0  0    0  0 
   12 Michigan St.           0  0     4.16    71.30    7    0  0    0  0    0  0 
   13 Illinois               0  0     4.02    70.58   26    0  0    0  0    0  0 
   14 St. John's             0  0     3.98    70.35    9    0  0    0  0    0  0 
   15 Kentucky               0  0     3.94    70.17   10    0  0    0  0    0  0 
   16 Purdue                 0  0     3.85    69.68   13    0  0    0  0    0  0 
   17 Wisconsin              0  0     3.84    69.65   18    0  0    0  0    0  0 
   18 Michigan               0  0     3.70    68.95    8    0  0    0  0    0  0 
   19 Kansas                 0  0     3.70    68.94   29    0  0    0  0    0  0 
   20 Missouri               0  0     3.64    68.62   34    0  0    0  0    0  0 
  
 Rank Team                   W  L   Rating   Points  BCS   Top50   51-100  101+ 
   21 UCLA                   0  0     3.61    68.45   27    0  0    0  0    0  0 
   22 Texas A&M              0  0     3.56    68.22   15    0  0    0  0    0  0 
   23 BYU                    0  0     3.52    68.00   24    0  0    0  0    0  0 
   24 Mississippi            0  0     3.46    67.69   16    0  0    0  0    0  0 
   25 Baylor                 0  0     3.42    67.52   47    0  0    0  0    0  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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