| Rank | Team | Reason |
|---|
| 1 |   Purdue | Best resume & it’s not close |
| 2 |  Houston | Best metrics. Undefeated |
| 3 |  Arizona | Great metrics, good wins, only L to Purdue |
| 4 |  Kansas | Great wins, not as great metrics |
| 5 |  UConn | Only L @ KU, beat everyone else by double digits |
| 6 |  Marquette | Wins over KU, @Illinois. Only losses to purdue & @ UW |
| 7 |  BYU | Very high metrics, only loss @ utah |
| 8 |  Tennessee | Best defense, only losses to good teams. |
| 9 |  Oklahoma | Undefeated- yet to beat any truly high level teams though |
| 10 |  Florida Atlantic | Collection of nice wins. Calling Bryant loss a fluke |
| 11 |  Baylor | Haven’t beat anyone great yet, but couple of nice wins over Auburn & Florida. |
| 12 |  Memphis | Plethora of nice wins over Texas A&M, Arkansas, Clemson, Mizzou |
| 13 |  Clemson | Only loss versus very good Memphis team, good wins over Bama, TCU |
| 14 |  Wisconsin | Good wins over Marquette, MSU, & Virginia. Has only lost to tournament level teams. |
| 15 |  Creighton | Ugly loss to UNLV, but picked up a good win against Alabama |
| 16 |  Illinois | Nice win over FAU, only losses to good teams |
| 17 |  Virginia | Couple nice wins @ UF, and against A&M, only loss to UW |
| 18 |  Kentucky | Loss to UNCW drags them down, great win over UNC and maybe a good one over Miami?? |
| 19 |  Colorado State | Wins over Creighton, Washington, Colorado, only loss to SMC |
| 20 |  North Carolina | Have a nice win against Tennessee and good computer numbers but questionable defense |
| 21 |  Auburn | Blew out IU & USC fwiw. Very good predictives |
| 22 |  James Madison | Won @ MSU and Kent State. Have not lost |
| 23 |  Ole Miss | Haven’t lost, great looking win over Memphis, but barely skated by multiple times against bad teams |
| 24 |  Utah | Nice win over BYU, have only lost to good teams |
| 25 |  Grand Canyon | Beat SDSU, won @ Liberty. Only loss to improved SC team |
