BPI—College Basketball’s Power Index, invented by ESPN, is a statistic that measures how far above or below average every team is, and projects how well the team will do going forward. The index uses two measurements to do this: BPI Offense (measure of a team’s offensive strength compa...
The NCAA released the initial NET rankings for the 2020-21 men's basketball season on Monday, Jan. 4. The NET, which stands for the NCAA Evaluation Tool, replaced the RPI after the 2017-18 season and it is used as the primary sorting tool for selection and seedin...
Coach Rick Pitino backed his team's résumé Sunday. It ranked 24th in the Basketball Power Index (BPI), best of any squad that did not make the NCAA tournament. It also had a NET ranking of 32nd, second best among teams to miss the tournament behind Indiana State (28th). "First of...
The ESPN Basketball Power Index (BPI) says Stanford has a 71% chance to beat Arizona for the championship. Which team are you picking? Andrea Adelson: Stanford Katie Barnes: Stanford Charlie Creme: Stanford D'Arcy Maine: Arizona Kevin Pelton: Sta...
UC Irvine is one of 17 remaining undefeated teams in men's college basketball, and it has done so against a kind of respectable schedule. UCI debuted at No. 24 in the NET rankings on Monday, thanks to six solid wins away from home. No games yet against a NET Top 90 foe...
derived using logistic regression analysis, which lets us plug the current state of a game into a model to produce the probability that either team wins the game. Specifically, we used play-by-play data from the past five seasons of Division I NCAA basketball to fit a model that ...
Note, however, that Elo is still just one of six computer rankings that we use for the men’s tournament. The other five are ESPN’s BPI, Jeff Sagarin’s “predictor” ratings, Ken Pomeroy’s ratings, Joel Sokol’s LRMC ratings, and Sonny Moore’s computer power ratings. In addition,...
The Madness of March isn’t just confined to what happens on the basketball court. When discussing teams, there are a bevy of statistics, terms, and acronyms thrown out. There’s a team’s NET rankings, KPI, and BPI. The SOS and the SOR. The automatic bid and the at-large b...
“It’ll be absolutely fascinating. I can’t imagine they’ve been together very much, if ever. There’ll be a lot of brain power in the room,” said Dan Gavitt, the NCAA senior vice president of basketball. “I’m going to have to strap on in the meetings to stay up with al...