Jan 08 2009
Top Teams in College Basketball
In depends on which poll you look at to determine the rankings in college basketball. I think most people use the AP poll to see the college basketball rankings and this is the way they shake out in the AP:
1. Pittsburgh
2. Duke
3. North Carolina
4. Wake Forrest
5. Connecticut
Now if you look at the USA Today poll you will find the same 5 teams and they are ranked exactly the same. The two polls don’t disagree until you get to the 7th spot on the rankings. The AP poll has Texas ranked as the 7th best team in college basketball; while the USA Today poll shows UCLA as the 7th team. The RPI rankings is a better way to gauge the teams in some cases, but they don’t factor in weak competition too much. This is the way the RPI rankings have the top 5:
1. Pittsburgh
2. Duke
3. Butler
4. Xavier
5. Clemson
Not the teams you would expect to see on a top 5 list in college basketball, but that is the current top 5 rankings from the RPI. College basketball should be fun to watch and it’s a wide open race this year and hard to pick which team will come together and win it all this year. March Madness may get really “mad” this year and I can’t wait for the NCAA Tournament to roll around.
