College Basketball Rankings through 2/28/2010

The computer's college basketball ratings and rankings have been updated on the web-site through games played Sunday the 28th.

With today being the first day of March, we know that March Madness is near so it is interesting to see how teams are positioning themselves in the rankings.  The top-25 are below and there is a little jockeying at the top as Purdue drops after the narrow win over Minnesota and the loss to Michigan State, and that win correspondingly moves Michigan State up 5 spots but so do Texas A&M and Cal.

If the season ended today the computer says the four #1 seeds should be Duke, Kansas, Syracuse, and Kansas State, but most probably have Kentucky, my #5 team as the 4th #1 in lieu of Kansas State.

Look for a more detailed bracket analysis shortly.

Rank	Team	Rating	Record	Schedule	Change
Rank	Team	Rating	Record	Schedule	Change
1	Duke	94.955	25-4	81.868	+1, +0.410
2	Kansas	94.819	27-2	80.625	-1, -1.225
3	Syracuse	94.241	27-2	80.562	+0, +0.930
4	Kansas St	92.797	23-4	81.943	+1, +0.681
5	Kentucky	91.276	27-2	79.678	+2, -0.488
6	West Virginia	91.074	22-6	83.092	+0, -1.032
7	Purdue	90.952	24-4	81.108	-3, -1.179
8	Villanova	90.729	23-5	81.959	+0, -0.143
9	Ohio State	90.633	23-7	79.980	+0, -0.010
10	Missouri	90.344	21-8	79.618	+3, +0.288
11	Baylor	90.217	21-6	80.684	+0, -0.066
12	Brigham Young	90.186	25-4	77.863	-2, -0.382
13	Wisconsin	89.720	21-7	81.529	+2, +0.340
14	Maryland	89.625	20-7	80.520	+2, +0.520
15	Texas	89.513	22-7	80.956	-3, -0.691
16	Georgetown DC	89.180	19-8	82.900	-2, -0.296
17	Marquette	88.802	19-9	80.469	+2, +0.051
18	Xavier OH	88.756	21-7	81.151	-1, -0.276
19	Texas A&M	88.727	19-8	82.181	+5, +0.877
20	California	88.631	20-9	81.520	+5, +0.905
21	Michigan St	88.579	22-7	81.303	+5, +0.876
22	Pittsburgh	88.390	22-7	81.836	-4, -0.585
23	Clemson	88.192	20-8	80.912	+0, +0.300
24	Vanderbilt	88.143	21-6	81.343	-3, +0.170
25	Butler	88.030	26-4	79.260	-5, -0.064