NCAA Tournament Preview: Consensus Team Rankings

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Published on March 19, 2019

We're typically pretty player focused here at RotoWire, and if you're looking for rankings for an individual player draft, you can view those here. But if you're filling out a bracket and just want to see how Team A vs. Team B stacks up in the metrics, here's the place to do so. We've compiled three predictive methods to choose from: KenPom, ESPN's Basketball Power Index (BPI) and the NCAA's NET rankings system. Plus, to see where the public is, we added an Odds ranking (as of the evening of March 18). The default sort here is by tournament seed, but feel free to pick your favorite metric, or sort by the "consensus" column, which is an average of all four.

Note: These are rankings within the 68 teams of the NCAA Tournament field, NOT the entire NCAA Division 1 pool of teams. So for example, Gardner-Webb has a NET ranking of 173, but they are listed with a ranking of 62 here, meaning they have the 62nd highest NET ranking in the tournament field.

Seed	Team	KenPom	BPI	NET	Odds	Consensus
1	Duke	3	3	3	1	2.500
1	Virginia	1	1	1	4	1.750
1	Gonzaga	2	2	2	2	2.000
1	North Carolina	6	5	7	3	5.250
2	Michigan State	4	4	8	6	5.500
2	Kentucky	7	7	6	5	6.250
2	Michigan	5	6	9	8	7.000
2	Tennessee	8	8	5	7	7.000
3	Texas Tech	9	9	10	9	9.250
3	Purdue	10	10	12	10	10.500
3	Houston	15	13	4	10	10.500
3	LSU	18	23	14	14	17.250
4	Florida State	14	16	16	10	14.000
4	Virginia Tech	11	11	11	20	13.250
4	Kansas	20	19	20	17	19.000
4	Kansas State	23	25	24	18	22.500
5	Auburn	13	12	18	14	14.250
5	Wisconsin	12	14	17	23	16.500
5	Mississippi State	21	22	19	28	22.500
5	Marquette	27	26	28	18	24.750
6	Iowa State	16	15	21	13	16.250
6	Villanova	26	21	26	14	21.750
6	Buffalo	22	24	15	21	20.500
6	Maryland	24	27	27	31	27.250
7	Louisville	17	18	22	23	20.000
7	Nevada	25	20	23	23	22.750
7	Wofford	19	17	13	28	19.250
7	Cincinnati	30	28	25	23	26.500
8	Syracuse	32	30	38	21	30.250
8	VCU	34	32	33	37	34.000
8	Utah St.	31	39	29	37	34.000
8	Mississippi	38	40	34	37	37.250
9	Oklahoma	35	35	35	37	35.500
9	UCF	40	38	30	33	35.250
9	Baylor	36	37	36	43	38.000
9	Washington	43	43	41	37	41.000
10	Florida	28	29	31	28	29.000
10	Iowa	33	34	39	31	34.250
10	Minnesota	41	46	48	37	43.000
10	Seton Hall	46	44	46	33	42.250
11	Saint Mary's	29	31	32	43	33.750
11	Ohio St.	39	36	44	43	40.500
11	Belmont	45	41	42	43	42.750
11	Arizona St.	47	48	49	43	46.750
11	St. John's	51	50	52	43	49.000
11	Temple	50	51	45	43	47.250
12	Oregon	37	33	43	27	35.000
12	Murray St.	44	42	40	33	39.750
12	New Mexico St.	42	47	37	33	39.750
12	Liberty	48	49	47	43	46.750
13	UC Irvine	49	54	50	43	49.000
13	Northeastern	52	53	53	43	50.250
13	Vermont	53	45	51	59	52.000
13	Saint Louis	56	56	56	43	52.750
14	Yale	54	52	54	43	50.750
14	Northern Kentucky	55	55	57	43	52.500
14	Georgia State	57	57	58	43	53.750
14	Old Dominion	58	58	55	43	53.500
15	Montana	60	59	59	43	55.250
15	Colgate	59	60	60	59	59.500
15	Abilene Christian	61	62	61	62	61.500
15	Bradley	62	63	63	62	62.500
16	Gardner-Webb	63	61	62	62	62.000
16	Iona	64	64	64	59	62.750
16	North Dakota St.	65	66	67	62	65.000
16	Fairleigh-Dickinson	66	65	65	62	64.500
16	Prairie View A&M	67	67	66	62	65.500
16	NC Central	68	68	68	68	68.000