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Who was good, which conferences were deep, and how the two halves of a
rating trade off against each other.
Everything here describes the last completed season. A team that has not
played cannot be rated, so the board waits for games rather than drawing an
empty axis.
365
Teams rated
5,783
Games in the season
+41.9
Best efficiency margin
2026
Season
0
10
20
30
40
Michigan Wolverines
Duke Blue Devils
Arizona Wildcats
Illinois Fighting Illini
Florida Gators
Houston Cougars
Iowa State Cyclones
Purdue Boilermakers
Gonzaga Bulldogs
UConn Huskies
Michigan State Spartans
Alabama Crimson Tide
Nebraska Cornhuskers
Tennessee Volunteers
St. John's Red Storm
Vanderbilt Commodores
Louisville Cardinals
Virginia Cavaliers
Arkansas Razorbacks
Texas Tech Red Raiders
The top 20, by scoring margin
Adjusted efficiency margin, points per 100 possessions
90
100
110
120
130
Points scored per 100 possessions
120
110
100
90
Points allowed per 100 possessions
Big 12
Big Ten
Other
SEC
Conference
Offence against defence, every team in the country
Up and to the right is good. The defensive axis runs downward, because points allowed is a number
to minimise.
The top 20
Ranked by the model, which has never watched a game
#
Team
Conference
Record
Margin
Offence
Defence
Tempo
Elo
1
Michigan Wolverines
Big Ten
36-3
+41.9
130.7
88.7
70.4
1,959
2
Duke Blue Devils
ACC
34-3
+40.5
129.2
88.7
66.5
1,959
3
Arizona Wildcats
Big 12
35-3
+37.9
126.8
88.9
71.2
1,926
4
Illinois Fighting Illini
Big Ten
26-8
+36.6
133.4
96.8
62.9
1,837
5
Florida Gators
SEC
26-8
+35.1
126.5
91.4
71.6
1,883
6
Houston Cougars
Big 12
29-7
+34.5
123.6
89.1
64.7
1,881
7
Iowa State Cyclones
Big 12
27-8
+33.7
125.1
91.4
68.1
1,819
8
Purdue Boilermakers
Big Ten
28-9
+32.9
132.9
100.0
64.3
1,831
9
Gonzaga Bulldogs
WCC
29-4
+31.6
122.5
90.9
69.8
1,855
10
UConn Huskies
Big East
33-6
+30.3
123.2
93.0
63.5
1,860
11
Michigan State Spartans
Big Ten
26-8
+29.6
122.7
93.1
66.4
1,826
12
Alabama Crimson Tide
SEC
24-10
+28.3
129.2
100.9
73.8
1,815
13
Nebraska Cornhuskers
Big Ten
28-7
+28.1
120.1
92.0
66.2
1,755
14
Tennessee Volunteers
SEC
24-12
+27.8
121.9
94.0
66.9
1,785
15
St. John's Red Storm
Big East
29-7
+27.7
121.6
94.0
69.8
1,840
16
Vanderbilt Commodores
SEC
26-9
+27.5
127.1
99.6
65.7
1,775
16
Louisville Cardinals
ACC
24-11
+27.5
124.1
96.6
70.8
1,760
18
Virginia Cavaliers
ACC
28-6
+26.9
123.4
96.5
66.2
1,761
19
Arkansas Razorbacks
SEC
28-8
+26.7
128.7
102.0
72.0
1,788
20
Texas Tech Red Raiders
Big 12
22-11
+26.3
124.8
98.4
67.6
1,747
Conferences
A conference is only as strong as the teams nobody talks about. Bids reward
the top of a league; average efficiency margin measures the whole of it, and
the two disagree more often than the bracket suggests.
−10.0
+0.0
+10.0
+20.0
SEC
Big Ten
Big 12
ACC
Big East
Mountain West
WCC
A-10
MVC
American
CUSA
Ivy
Big West
CAA
Big Sky
Which league was actually deep
Average efficiency margin across every team in the conference
Conference by conference
Ordered by the model's conference rank
Conference
Teams
Avg Margin
Top 50
Bids
Wins
Best Team
Big Ten
18
+19.5
10
9
17
Michigan Wolverines
SEC
16
+19.9
11
9
11
Florida Gators
Big 12
16
+19.3
9
7
7
Arizona Wildcats
ACC
18
+16.4
8
7
5
Duke Blue Devils
Big East
11
+14.8
4
2
6
UConn Huskies
Mountain West
12
+8.2
2
1
0
Utah State Aggies
MVC
11
+3.7
0
0
0
Belmont Bruins
WCC
12
+6.2
3
2
0
Gonzaga Bulldogs
A-10
14
+5.5
2
2
1
Saint Louis Billikens
American
13
+2.0
1
1
0
South Florida Bulls
Ivy
8
−2.0
0
0
0
Yale Bulldogs
Big West
11
−2.2
0
1
0
Hawai'i Rainbow Warriors
CUSA
12
−1.6
0
0
0
Liberty Flames
Big Sky
10
−2.8
0
0
0
Montana State Bobcats
CAA
13
−2.4
0
0
0
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