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 this year are again courtesy of Ken Pomeroy. Scores for D-II and D-III games are courtesy of Dr. Kenneth Massey. 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 07-Jan-2026 07 AM EST.

 Rank Team                   W  L   Rating   Points  BCS   Top50   51-100  101+ 
    1 Duke                  14  1     5.47    80.06    3    5  1    2  0    7  0 
    2 Houston               14  1     5.07    75.65    2    3  1    4  0    7  0 
    3 Michigan              14  0     4.93    73.75    1    6  0    5  0    3  0 
    4 Arizona               14  0     4.66    73.51    4    5  0    2  0    7  0 
    5 Alabama               11  3     4.54    73.69    6    5  3    1  0    5  0 
    6 Purdue                13  1     4.50    72.13    5    4  1    5  0    4  0 
    7 Gonzaga               16  1     4.43    74.29   10    7  1    1  0    8  0 
    8 Iowa St.              14  0     4.37    72.80    9    6  0    1  0    7  0 
    9 Florida               10  5     4.31    74.80   17    1  5    2  0    7  0 
   10 Auburn                 9  6     4.26    74.29   18    2  6    1  0    6  0 
  
 Rank Team                   W  L   Rating   Points  BCS   Top50   51-100  101+ 
   11 Michigan St.          13  2     4.25    70.95    7    5  2    1  0    7  0 
   12 Tennessee             11  4     4.04    72.84   20    2  3    2  1    7  0 
   13 BYU                   13  1     4.03    69.32    8    3  1    3  0    7  0 
   14 Texas Tech            11  4     3.92    70.72   16    1  4    3  0    7  0 
   15 Connecticut           14  1     3.88    69.32   13    4  1    4  0    6  0 
   16 Kansas                11  4     3.85    69.22   14    3  4    3  0    5  0 
   17 Illinois              11  3     3.84    71.61   25    4  3    1  0    6  0 
   18 Louisville            11  4     3.73    70.30   23    2  3    3  1    6  0 
   19 Vanderbilt            14  0     3.62    66.60   12    4  0    3  0    7  0 
   20 North Carolina        13  2     3.61    67.56   15    3  2    1  0    9  0 
  
 Rank Team                   W  L   Rating   Points  BCS   Top50   51-100  101+ 
   21 St. John's            10  5     3.59    70.05   27    2  4    1  0    7  1 
   22 Clemson               12  3     3.51    67.31   19    2  2    4  0    6  1 
   23 Texas A&M             12  3     3.46    67.25   22    1  2    3  1    8  0 
   24 Nebraska              15  0     3.40    64.08   11    7  0    1  0    7  0 
   25 Kentucky               9  5     3.37    69.77   37    2  5    0  0    7  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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