2013-14 Statistical College Basketball Rankings, Vol. IV

Below are my Top 50 rankings through games played on Monday, 12/9. Thanks to the schizophrenic start to the North Carolina basketball season, I noticed a flaw in how harsh I penalize teams for bad losses. The end result had Carolina rated 51st. Yes they lost home to Belmont and away to UAB, but they beat Louisville home and Michigan State away. Surely that means they are better than 51st. Before, a good win home/away was worth 'x'/'2x'; respectively. Conversely, a bad loss home/away was worth '-2x'/'-x'. Now the bad losses are basically worth '-x'/'-x/2'; respectively for home/away. So after invoking the 'Carolina Rule' I feel these rankings are a more accurate representation. The side affect is that a team may move up, despite having an average week, or not even playing at all. Also, I continue the trend of decreasing the weights of last year's ranks as well as offseason recruiting rankings, and increasing the value of this year's metric rank - which is now 52% of the weighted metric. Overall, the Top 50 is showing signs of stabilization with only two new teams this week. North Carolina and Charlotte replaced Stanford and Arizona State. Meanwhile, Maryland remains unable to flirt with the Top 50, currently rated 66th.

Rank	Prev. Rank	TEAM	Record	Weighted Metric	2013-14 Metric Rank	AP Rank
1	10	Louisville	(8-1, 0-0)	6.643	8	6
2	1	Arizona	(9-0, 0-0)	11.755	10	1
3	5	Memphis	(6-1, 0-0)	12.313	5	16
4	12	Florida	(6-2, 0-0)	16.169	9	19
5	6	Oklahoma St	(8-1, 0-0)	16.28	2	7
6	4	Pittsburgh	(9-0, 0-0)	16.61	14	28
7	2	Ohio State	(8-0, 0-0)	16.85	17	3
8	3	Syracuse	(9-0, 0-0)	17.265	24	2
9	11	Wisconsin	(10-0, 0-0)	18.45	21	4
10	7	Villanova	(9-0, 0-0)	20.53	3	10
11	8	Kansas	(6-2, 0-0)	20.679	31	13
12	20	UCLA	(8-1, 0-0)	22.355	11	26
13	16	Wichita St	(9-0, 0-0)	24.13	7	12
14	22	Colorado	(9-1, 0-0)	24.548	4	21
15	9	Iowa State	(7-0, 0-0)	24.727	26	17
16	13	Michigan St	(7-1, 0-0)	26.095	22	5
17	24	Iowa	(10-1, 0-0)	27.07	1	23
18	26	Baylor	(8-1, 0-0)	27.342	34	14
19	14	Duke	(7-2, 0-0)	27.794	60	8
20	21	Oregon	(8-0, 0-0)	29.805	30	15
21	40	Missouri	(9-0, 0-0)	29.81	32	24
22	19	Kentucky	(7-2, 0-0)	30.415	16	11
23	29	Minnesota	(8-2, 0-0)	31.585	19	NR
24	17	Indiana	(7-2, 0-0)	33.014	46	35
25	15	San Diego St	(7-1, 0-0)	34.565	23	25
26	28	Marquette	(5-4, 0-0)	34.779	41	NR
27	42	New Mexico	(7-1, 0-0)	35.561	13	27
28	NR	N Carolina	(6-2, 0-0)	35.653	6	18
29	18	Connecticut	(9-0, 0-0)	35.671	64	9
30	27	Arkansas	(6-2, 0-0)	35.805	15	NR
31	32	Gonzaga	(8-1, 0-0)	37.983	29	20
32	39	U Mass	(8-0, 0-0)	38.302	36	22
33	25	Michigan	(6-3, 0-0)	38.338	12	30
34	30	BYU	(7-3, 0-0)	39.03	33	NR
35	23	Dayton	(7-2, 0-0)	41.331	37	32
36	33	Cincinnati	(7-1, 0-0)	41.555	47	33
37	37	VCU	(8-2, 0-0)	43.162	58	31
38	38	Butler	(7-2, 0-0)	44.224	45	NR
39	34	Virginia	(7-3, 0-0)	44.964	18	NR
40	44	Belmont	(8-2, 0-0)	45.808	77	NR
41	46	LSU	(5-2, 0-0)	47.749	39	NR
42	41	St Marys	(7-0, 0-0)	48.415	55	35
43	31	California	(6-3, 0-0)	49.929	25	NR
44	48	Mississippi	(6-2, 0-0)	50.654	48	NR
45	36	Saint Louis	(8-2, 0-0)	51.57	57	NR
46	35	Oklahoma	(8-1, 0-0)	52.29	51	39
47	50	George Washington	(8-1, 0-0)	54.377	40	37
48	47	Florida St	(6-3, 0-0)	55.35	27	NR
49	NR	Charlotte	(7-2, 0-0)	55.357	94	NR
50	43	Texas	(8-1, 0-0)	57.175	43	NR