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All college basketball rankings and data as of February 27

We’ve got everything you need to judge a college basketball team all in one place.

The college basketball season is in full swing, and as the nitty-gritty sheets of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Committee begin to take shape, we have all the rankings they’ll be using on Selection Sunday.

Below we’ve taken some of the most popular ways to rank college basketball teams, and we’ll update them each day between now and March 12, the day the 2023 NCAA Tournament field will be set. While the RPI is no longer a metric used by the committee, it’s a popular one that’s familiar to fans of college basketball. KenPom isn’t either, but as the dominant ranking system used by most diehard fans and data geeks, it’s accepted as a strong way to rate the 363 eligible teams in Division I.

The NET was added to the committee inputs in 2018, and has been slightly tweaked along the way. It rewards teams for winning games over strong teams, while also factoring in where the game was played. A “Quad 1” win in the NET is beating a Top 30 team at home, a Top 50 team on a neutral floor, or a Top 75 on the road.

The AP and Coaches Polls provide perspective that comes from the narrative around the sport. In addition to the Top 25, we’ve added the teams that are “Also Receiving Votes” (ARV in the lexicon of the sport) and in the descending order of the votes they’ve received. While these are purely subjective, it shows what the media and sports information directors think about teams as the season continues.

Update Feb 27: Houston maintains the top spot in all the rankings that matter, as the Cougars are overwhelming favorites to not lose a game until at least Selection Sunday.

For seeding purposes, Saint Mary’s being two spots ahead of Gonzaga in the NET means they will be the No. 1 seed in the West Coast Conference Tournament next week in Las Vegas.


Here are the KenPom, NET, RPI, as well as AP and Coaches Polls for NCAA Division I college basketball as of February 27:

College Basketball Rankings 2022-23

Ranking KenPom NET RPI AP Poll Coaches Poll
Ranking KenPom NET RPI AP Poll Coaches Poll
1 Houston Houston Alabama Houston Houston
2 UCLA Alabama Kansas Alabama Alabama
3 Alabama Tennessee S. Diego St. Kansas Kansas
4 Tennessee UCLA Nevada UCLA UCLA
5 Connecticut Purdue Houston Purdue Purdue
6 Purdue Kansas Gonzaga Marquette Marquette
7 Kansas Saint Mary's (CA) UCLA Baylor Texas
8 Saint Mary's UConn Purdue Arizona Baylor
9 Texas Gonzaga Baylor Texas Arizona
10 Gonzaga Texas Texas Gonzaga Gonzaga
11 Arizona Arizona St. Mary's Kansas State Kansas State
12 Marquette Baylor Florida Atlantic Tennessee Virginia
13 Baylor Marquette Kansas St. Virginia Indiana
14 Creighton Arkansas Indiana UConn Tennessee
15 Arkansas San Diego St. Tennessee Indiana Miami-Florida
16 San Diego St. Creighton Virginia Miami Saint Mary's
17 Maryland Kansas St. Memphis Saint Mary's Xavier
18 Xavier Indiana Boise St. San Diego State Connecticut
19 Kansas St. Fla. Atlantic Duke Xavier San Diego St.
20 West Virginia Kentucky Miami (FL) Providence Providence
21 Indiana Maryland Arizona Maryland Texas A&M
22 Kentucky TCU Utah St. TCU Texas Christian
23 TCU Iowa St. Arkansas Kentucky Creighton
24 Iowa St. Duke Marquette Texas A&M Maryland
25 Texas A&M Xavier North Texas Pittsburgh Pittsburgh
26 Boise St. West Virginia Connecticut Creighton Northwestern
27 Providence Texas A&M Oral Roberts Duke Kentucky
28 Michigan St. Virginia N. Carolina Oral Roberts NC State
29 Auburn Boise St. Xavier Northwestern Iowa State
30 Florida Atlantic Nevada Creighton Florida Atlantic Duke
31 Rutgers Utah St. Auburn Iowa State Florida Atlantic
32 USC Rutgers Missouri Nevada Oral Roberts
33 Nevada Michigan St. Liberty Missouri USC
34 Duke Illinois Kentucky Arkansas Nevada
35 Illinois Miami (FL) VCU Charleston Toledo
36 Utah St. Auburn Texas A&M NC State Clemson
37 Miami FL Providence Bradley Clemson Kent State
38 Virginia Memphis N.C. State Memphis Boise State
39 Memphis Mississippi St. Southern Miss Boise State
40 Mississippi St. Liberty Maryland USC
41 Michigan Northwestern USC VCU
42 Oklahoma St. NC State Michigan St. West Virginia
43 Liberty Iowa Providence
44 Iowa Oral Roberts Drake
45 North Carolina Southern California Charleston
46 Oregon Oklahoma St. Iowa St.
47 Northwestern North Carolina Pittsburgh
48 New Mexico New Mexico La Lafayet.
49 Penn St. Missouri New Mexico
50 N.C. State North Texas Sam Houston St.
51 Texas Tech Col. of Charleston Kent St.
52 Oklahoma Oregon West Virginia
53 Missouri Pittsburgh Mississippi St.
54 North Texas Texas Tech Santa Clara
55 Pittsburgh Michigan Northwestern
56 Colorado Bradley Saint Louis
57 Washington St. UAB Vanderbilt
58 UAB Iona Iowa
59 Utah Penn St. Marshall
60 Oral Roberts Clemson Iona
61 Arizona St. Arizona St. Wake Forest
62 Villanova Sam Houston Utah Valley
63 UCF Ohio St. Hofstra
64 Florida Florida Vermont
65 Ohio St. Oklahoma Illinois
66 Cincinnati Yale TCU
67 Charleston Kent St. Oklahoma St.
68 Wisconsin VCU Wisconsin
69 Clemson Utah Arizona St.
70 Yale Drake San Jose St.
71 Sam Houston St. UCF Middle Tenn. St.
72 Iona Wisconsin Yale
73 Dayton Colorado Kennesaw St.
74 Seton Hall Virginia Tech Oregon
75 VCU Washington St. Rutgers
76 Kent St. Dayton Michigan
77 BYU Marshall Toledo
78 Bradley Villanova UAB
79 Marshall Cincinnati Clemson
80 Drake Seton Hall Southern Ill.
81 Virginia Tech Santa Clara Fordham
82 Santa Clara Utah Valley Virginia Tech
83 Wake Forest Southern Miss. Oklahoma
84 Vanderbilt Wake Forest Penn St.
85 Utah Valley Toledo Belmont
86 UNLV Hofstra Cincinnati
87 Tulane Vanderbilt N.C. Asheville
88 Toledo Furman Washington St.
89 Furman BYU Furman
90 St. John's UNLV Southern Utah
91 Hofstra James Madison Old Dominion
92 Southern Miss Nebraska Tulane
93 Nebraska Louisiana Dayton
94 Stanford Tulane Seattle
95 James Madison UC Irvine Loyola Marymount
96 Louisiana Indiana St. UNLV
97 Indiana St. St. John's (NY) Texas Tech
98 San Jose St. Saint Louis Florida
99 UC Irvine Colgate Nebraska
100 Washington Akron Seton Hall
101 Loyola Marymount LMU (CA) Duquesne
102 Southern Utah San Jose St. UCF
103 Saint Louis Southern Utah Colorado
104 Akron Charlotte S. Dakota St.
105 South Alabama UNC Greensboro N.C. Wilmington
106 Duquesne Stanford Troy
107 Colorado St. Montana St. James Madison
108 San Francisco Middle Tenn. Temple
109 Wichita St. UC Santa Barbara Princeton
110 UNC Greensboro Colorado St. Akron
111 Syracuse Duquesne Syracuse
112 Charlotte Syracuse UC Riverside
113 Montana St. Belmont Stetson
114 UC Santa Barbara Youngstown St. Mass-Lowell
115 Mississippi Washington Colgate
116 Temple Wichita St. Towson
117 Colgate Princeton Villanova
118 Eastern Washington Eastern Wash. S.F. Austin
119 Stephen F. Austin Southern Ill. Eastern Wash.
120 Middle Tennessee Kennesaw St. E. Kentucky
121 Butler SFA Missouri St.
122 Youngstown St. San Francisco Charlotte
123 Cal St. Fullerton Vermont Cornell
124 Princeton Butler Washington
125 Vermont UMass Lowell Montana St.
126 Hawaii Hawaii N.C. Greensboro
127 Belmont Temple UC Irvine
128 Troy Cornell Youngstown St.
129 Kennesaw St. South Alabama UCSB
130 Samford Ole Miss Davidson
131 Grand Canyon Cal St. Fullerton George Mason
132 Penn Samford BYU
133 Southern Illinois Grand Canyon Utah
134 Seattle Seattle U Georgia
135 UC Riverside Troy San Francisco
136 Davidson George Mason CSU Fullerton
137 Towson UC Riverside Long Beach St.
138 South Florida Fordham Samford
139 Cornell Towson Pennsylvania
140 UMass Lowell UNC Asheville Milwaukee
141 UC Davis Penn Indiana St.
142 George Mason UC Davis Norfolk St.
143 Georgia Old Dominion Ohio St.
144 Ohio Ball St. North. Kentucky
145 DePaul Missouri St. Quinnipiac
146 Fordham Ohio St. John's
147 Air Force Georgia Rice
148 UNC Asheville Davidson Butler
149 Fresno St. South Dakota St. Wichita St.
150 LSU Stetson Morehead St.
151 Old Dominion South Fla. Murray St.
152 Long Beach St. UNCW Lipscomb
153 Ball St. Air Force Ball St.
154 South Dakota St. Harvard Ohio
155 Stetson LSU Tarleton St.
156 Missouri St. Long Beach St. LSU
157 Longwood Longwood Grand Canyon
158 Richmond Lipscomb Colorado St.
159 Cal Baptist Quinnipiac N'western St.
160 Tarleton St. Richmond Cleveland St.
161 Harvard Fresno St. UMass
162 Portland Tarleton St. MD Eastern Shore
163 Montana Louisiana Tech Bryant
164 Lipscomb Montana Boston Coll.
165 Louisiana Tech Boston College Hawaii
166 Wyoming DePaul Brown
167 Quinnipiac Navy W. Kentucky
168 Pepperdine Norfolk St. Mississippi
169 UNC Wilmington Portland South Alabama
170 Western Kentucky Western Ky. Harvard
171 Notre Dame Bryant UC Davis
172 Boston College FGCU Fla Gulf Coast
173 Appalachian St. Northern Ky. Richmond
174 Northern Kentucky Cleveland St. Montana
175 SMU Rice Grambling St.
176 Navy California Baptist Queens
177 Utah Tech Eastern Ky. St. Bonaventure
178 Norfolk St. Brown Radford
179 Wright St. Utah Tech Siena
180 Texas A&M Corpus Chris Radford Navy
181 Florida Gulf Coast Wright St. St. Thomas
182 Abilene Christian St. Bonaventure North Alabama
183 Brown Siena Longwood
184 Radford New Mexico St. North Florida
185 St. Bonaventure N.C. Central Louisiana Tech
186 New Mexico St. App State Delaware
187 Cleveland St. Gardner-Webb Fresno St.
188 Rice Massachusetts N.C. Central
189 Siena Drexel Alcorn St.
190 Eastern Kentucky Notre Dame Buffalo
191 North Carolina Central Wyoming UTEP
192 Pacific UTEP Bellarmine
193 UTEP Buffalo Appalachian St.
194 Grambling St. A&M-Corpus Christi Georgia Southern
195 Oregon St. Northwestern St. Howard
196 Georgia Tech Chattanooga IPFW
197 Massachusetts Grambling South Florida
198 Georgia Southern Pepperdine Rider
199 Drexel St. Thomas (MN) Geo. Wash.
200 Chattanooga SMU Florida St.
201 St. Thomas Ga. Southern N. Dakota St.
202 Weber St. Abilene Christian Weber St.
203 Gardner Webb Pacific La Salle
204 Florida St. Weber St. SIU Edwardsville
205 Buffalo Georgia Tech N. Mex. St.
206 Detroit Mercy North Dakota St. TAMU Corpus Christi
207 Bryant Queens (NC) Florida Intl.
208 Rider East Carolina Portland
209 North Dakota St. Milwaukee St. Joseph's
210 Northwestern St. George Washington South Carolina
211 East Carolina Rider Lehigh
212 Georgetown Detroit Mercy SMU
213 Saint Joseph's Oregon St. Air Force
214 San Diego Saint Joseph's DePaul
215 Queens Texas St. Northern Iowa
216 George Washington Florida St. Wright St.
217 Texas St. Delaware Utah Tech
218 Northern Colorado Murray St. Cal Baptist
219 Northern Iowa UMES Western Carolina
220 Northern Arizona UNI Jacksonville
221 South Carolina Morehead St. Texas St.
222 Minnesota SIUE Chattanooga
223 FIU San Diego Western Ill.
224 Sacramento St. FIU S.Car. Upstate
225 Delaware Sacramento St. Niagara
226 North Florida Wofford SE Louisiana
227 Wofford Georgetown Gardner-Webb
228 La Salle North Florida Abilene Christian
229 Robert Morris La Salle SE Missouri St.
230 Jacksonville St. North Ala. TX Arlington
231 Milwaukee Purdue Fort Wayne UMBC
232 Portland St. Mercer Pacific
233 Murray St. Jacksonville Georgia Tech
234 Mercer UMBC UTRGV
235 Purdue Fort Wayne Howard Stanford
236 East Tennessee St. Northern Colo. New Hampshire
237 Maryland Eastern Shore Minnesota Drexel
238 Idaho St. South Carolina Tenn-Martin
239 Jacksonville Western Caro. Wyoming
240 Campbell Jacksonville St. Detroit Mercy
241 UT Arlington Western Ill. Nicholls
242 Rhode Island Robert Morris Wofford
243 Northern Illinois UT Arlington Winthrop
244 Morehead St. Winthrop Oakland
245 Winthrop Idaho St. Northern Illinois
246 North Alabama Niagara San Diego
247 Howard Portland St. East Carolina
248 UT Rio Grande Valley Alcorn Southern
249 SIU Edwardsville Campbell Army
250 Western Carolina NIU Stonehill
251 Alcorn St. UT Martin Oregon St.
252 Army Army West Point Boston U.
253 Nicholls St. Northern Ariz. Southern Indiana Screaming Eagles
254 UMBC Rhode Island Fairfield
255 Canisius Southern Ind. Notre Dame
256 Southeastern Louisiana UTRGV Morgan St.
257 Loyola Chicago Nicholls Maine
258 Niagara ETSU Robert Morris
259 Southern Southeastern La. Sacramento St.
260 Fairfield Southern U. Pepperdine
261 Western Illinois Fairfield Merrimack
262 California Bellarmine Tennessee Tech
263 USC Upstate Boston U. Binghamton
264 Southern Indiana Canisius N.C. A&T
265 Prairie View A&M USC Upstate American
266 Bellarmine Southeast Mo. St. Campbell
267 UC San Diego American Northern Colorado
268 Tennessee Martin Lehigh Jacksonville St.
269 Southeast Missouri St. Maine Minnesota
270 Illinois St. Loyola Chicago Rhode Island
271 North Dakota Illinois St. Tennessee St.
272 Valparaiso Oakland Loyola Chicago
273 Oakland New Hampshire Manhattan
274 Dartmouth UC San Diego LA Monroe
275 Chicago St. Prairie View UCSD
276 Georgia St. Tennessee St. Portland St.
277 Bowling Green Mount St. Mary's Dartmouth
278 Boston University Tennessee Tech Wagner
279 Miami OH Bowling Green Ill. Chicago
280 Maine Valparaiso South Dakota
281 Louisville Lafayette Northeastern
282 Lehigh Chicago St. Coastal Car.
283 Lafayette North Dakota Canisius
284 Louisiana Monroe Denver Mercer
285 Coastal Carolina UIC Valparaiso
286 Denver Coastal Carolina Denver
287 Mount St. Mary's Dartmouth Mo. Kansas City
288 American Morgan St. UTSA
289 Tennessee St. High Point Illinois St.
290 Cal St. Bakersfield Georgia St. Georgetown
291 Idaho ULM William & Mary
292 Illinois Chicago Bucknell Lafayette
293 New Hampshire Marist High Point
294 South Dakota Arkansas St. Mount St. Mary's
295 Tennessee Tech CSU Bakersfield Texas A&M-Commerce
296 High Point South Dakota St. Peter's
297 UMKC Miami (OH) Fair. Dickinson
298 Arkansas St. Manhattan North Dakota
299 Marist Binghamton Chicago St.
300 UTSA Tex. A&M-Commerce Texas Southern
301 Texas A&M Commerce Kansas City Jackson St.
302 Manhattan UTSA Monmouth
303 Eastern Michigan Idaho Louisville
304 Charleston Southern Wagner E. Tennessee St.
305 Morgan St. California Prairie View A&M
306 Texas Southern Charleston So. Coppin St.
307 Bucknell Fairleigh Dickinson Nebraska Omaha
308 Jackson St. Louisville Central Arkansas
309 Northeastern Northeastern Bowling Green
310 Alabama A&M Merrimack Stony Brook
311 Binghamton Eastern Mich. Northern Arizona
312 Tulsa Texas Southern Marist
313 Cal Poly N.C. A&T CSU Bakersfield
314 North Carolina A&T William & Mary East. Michigan
315 Wagner Jackson St. Sacred Heart
316 Merrimack Stonehill Austin Peay
317 Saint Peter's Saint Peter's Georgia St.
318 Western Michigan Central Mich. Idaho St.
319 The Citadel Loyola Maryland California
320 Arkansas Pine Bluff Omaha Loyola (MD)
321 Cal St. Northridge Cal Poly Miami (OH)
322 Fairleigh Dickinson Western Mich. Arkansas St.
323 Nebraska Omaha Tulsa Citadel
324 William & Mary Alabama A&M Bucknell
325 Little Rock The Citadel Holy Cross
326 Central Michigan Little Rock St. Francis (PA)
327 Loyola MD Austin Peay Tulsa
328 Austin Peay Ark.-Pine Bluff McNeese St.
329 Elon CSUN St. Francis (NY)
330 NJIT Elon Cent. Michigan
331 Sacred Heart Sacred Heart Hampton
332 Stony Brook Central Ark. Charleston Sou.
333 Stonehill Stony Brook Elon
334 Central Arkansas NJIT Lindenwood
335 Incarnate Word Saint Francis (PA) Columbia
336 McNeese St. Lindenwood New Orleans
337 South Carolina St. Holy Cross Albany
338 New Orleans Coppin St. N.J.I.T.
339 Lindenwood Central Conn. St. Delaware St.
340 Hampton South Carolina St. Central Conn. St.
341 Central Connecticut McNeese AR Little Rock
342 St. Francis PA Columbia S. Carolina St.
343 Holy Cross UAlbany Alabama A&M
344 Eastern Illinois Hampton Evansville
345 Columbia Eastern Ill. W. Michigan
346 Alabama St. UIW Incarnate Word
347 Houston Christian Alabama St. Bethune-Cookman
348 Coppin St. New Orleans Cal Poly
349 Presbyterian Evansville Idaho
350 Albany Bethune-Cookman Eastern Illinois
351 Bethune Cookman Delaware St. AR Pine Bluff
352 Evansville Houston Christian Florida A&M
353 Delaware St. Presbyterian Virginia Military
354 Monmouth St. Francis Brooklyn Houston Christian
355 Mississippi Valley St. VMI Alabama St.
356 VMI Monmouth CSU Northridge
357 Florida A&M Mississippi Val. Miss. Valley St.
358 Lamar Lamar University Lamar
359 St. Francis NY Florida A&M Green Bay
360 IUPUI IUPUI IUPUI
361 Green Bay Green Bay LIU Brooklyn
362 Hartford Hartford Presbyterian
363 LIU LIU Hartford