College basketball rankings: RPI, NET, KenPom, AP, Coaches Top 25 on Jan. 11
College basketball rankings: RPI, NET, KenPom, AP, Coaches Top 25 on Jan. 11

The college basketball season is in full swing, and as the nitty-gritty sheets of the NCAA Men's Basketball Committee begin to take shape, we have all the rankings they'll be using on Selection Sunday.

Below we've taken some of the most popular ways to rank college basketball teams, and we'll update them each day between now and March 12, the day the 2023 NCAA Tournament field will be set. While the RPI is no longer a metric used by the committee, it's a popular one that's familiar to fans of college basketball. KenPom isn't either, but as the dominant ranking system used by most diehard fans and data geeks, it's accepted as a strong way to rate the 363 eligible teams in Division I.

The NET was added to the committee inputs in 2018, and has been slightly tweaked along the way. It rewards teams for winning games over strong teams, while also factoring in where the game was played. A “Quad 1” win in the NET is beating a Top 30 team at home, a Top 50 team on a neutral floor, or a Top 75 on the road.

The AP and Coaches Polls provide perspective that comes from the narrative around the sport. In addition to the Top 25, we've added the teams that are “Also Receiving Votes” (ARV in the lexicon of the sport) and in the descending order of the votes they've received. While these are purely subjective, it shows what the media and sports information directors think about teams as the season continues.

Here are the KenPom, NET, RPI, as well as AP and Coaches Polls for NCAA Division I college basketball as of January 11:

Ranking KenPom NET RPI AP Poll Coaches Poll
Ranking KenPom NET RPI AP Poll Coaches Poll
1 Houston Houston Kansas Houston Houston
2 Tennessee Tennessee Alabama Kansas Kansas
3 Connecticut UConn Tennessee Purdue Purdue
4 UCLA Purdue Purdue Alabama Alabama
5 Purdue Kansas Gonzaga Tennessee Tennessee
6 Kansas Alabama Connecticut UConn UCLA
7 Alabama UCLA Kansas St. UCLA Connecticut
8 Texas Texas N. Carolina Gonzaga Gonzaga
9 Saint Mary's Saint Mary's (CA) Nevada Arizona Arizona
10 Arkansas Arizona Florida Atlantic Texas Texas
11 Arizona Iowa St. Houston Kansas State Xavier
12 Ohio St. Gonzaga S. Diego St. Xavier Virginia
13 Virginia Kansas St. Arkansas Virginia Kansas State
14 Gonzaga Fla. Atlantic Charleston Iowa State Iowa State
15 Marquette Ohio St. Duke Arkansas Miami-Florida
16 Rutgers Arkansas Iowa St. Miami Arkansas
17 Iowa St. Virginia Arizona TCU Texas Christian
18 Creighton San Diego St. Auburn Wisconsin Wisconsin
19 Auburn Xavier Miami (FL) Providence Providence
20 Xavier West Virginia UCLA Missouri Missouri
21 San Diego St. Rutgers Utah St. Auburn Duke
22 North Carolina Marquette Xavier Charleston Auburn
23 Kansas St. Duke North Texas San Diego State Marquette
24 West Virginia Utah St. UNLV Duke Charleston
25 Indiana Illinois Michigan St. Marquette San Diego St.
26 Illinois Creighton Memphis Baylor Illinois
27 Duke Indiana Texas Clemson Baylor
28 Baylor NC State Virginia FAU Clemson
29 Oklahoma Auburn Wake Forest Indiana Michigan State
30 Providence Baylor Missouri Michigan State Ohio State
31 Oklahoma St. TCU West Virginia Saint Mary's Saint Mary's
32 TCU North Carolina St. Mary's Northwestern Indiana
33 N.C. State Missouri Providence Rutgers Northwestern
34 Maryland Providence Wisconsin Illinois Maryland
35 UCF Nevada N.C. State Mississippi State FAU
36 Memphis Boise St. Oral Roberts Ohio State Kentucky
37 Florida Atlantic UCF Boise St. NC State North Carolina
38 Missouri North Texas Pittsburgh Creighton Rutgers
39 Utah St. Sam Houston Creighton North Carolina New Mexico
40 Iowa Miami (FL) UCF LSU LSU
41 Virginia Tech Maryland Kent St. New Mexico Pittsburgh
42 Michigan St. Iowa Fla Gulf Coast Nevada Iowa
43 Miami FL Mississippi St. New Mexico Mississippi State
44 Kentucky Oklahoma St. Mississippi St. Texas Tech
45 Dayton Northwestern Clemson Nevada
46 Mississippi St. Oklahoma Santa Clara Texas A&M
47 Utah Utah Maryland Boise State
48 Boise St. Michigan St. Ohio St.
49 Colorado New Mexico Marquette
50 Florida Kent St. Sam Houston St.
51 Northwestern Virginia Tech Arizona St.
52 Michigan UNLV Oklahoma
53 Clemson Col. of Charleston Northwestern
54 Penn St. Clemson Saint Louis
55 North Texas Dayton N.C. Wilmington
56 Seton Hall Iona Colorado
57 Wisconsin Memphis USC
58 Oregon Arizona St. La Lafayet.
59 Nevada Florida Baylor
60 UAB Colorado Virginia Tech
61 Washington St. Wisconsin Iowa
62 Texas Tech Kentucky Southern Miss
63 Arizona St. Southern Miss. Iona
64 USC Pittsburgh San Jose St.
65 Pittsburgh Oregon Nebraska
66 Iona Oral Roberts Drake
67 New Mexico Penn St. LSU
68 Villanova Liberty Penn St.
69 Kent St. UAB Indiana
70 Texas A&M Washington St. Washington St.
71 Liberty Seton Hall Oklahoma St.
72 St. John's Bradley Illinois
73 UNLV Texas Tech Dayton
74 Cincinnati Southern California Bradley
75 BYU Utah Valley Rutgers
76 Saint Louis Marshall Mississippi
77 Sam Houston St. Michigan Hofstra
78 Bradley Butler Florida
79 Oral Roberts Santa Clara Old Dominion
80 Marshall UC Irvine Oregon
81 Charleston Wake Forest VCU
82 Santa Clara Yale UMass
83 Wake Forest Texas A&M Utah Valley
84 Mississippi UNCW UCSB
85 Butler Charlotte UAB
86 Tulane James Madison Seton Hall
87 LSU FGCU Stetson
88 Syracuse BYU TCU
89 Utah Valley UC Santa Barbara Butler
90 James Madison St. John's (NY) Jacksonville
91 Georgia Indiana St. Loyola Marymount
92 Nebraska Nebraska Duquesne
93 Yale Villanova Southern Ill.
94 Vanderbilt Saint Louis Liberty
95 UC Irvine Princeton Seattle
96 Stanford Drake Michigan
97 UC Santa Barbara Cornell Utah
98 Drake Grand Canyon Troy
99 VCU Cincinnati Marshall
100 Furman Ole Miss Kentucky
101 San Francisco LSU SIU Edwardsville
102 Charlotte Vanderbilt Charlotte
103 Richmond LMU (CA) Washington
104 Indiana St. Louisiana Norfolk St.
105 Princeton Hawaii Grand Canyon
106 Grand Canyon Southern Ill. George Mason
107 Loyola Marymount Ball St. Texas A&M
108 Toledo VCU Villanova
109 Washington George Mason Davidson
110 UNC Wilmington Hofstra Georgia
111 George Mason San Francisco Belmont
112 Colgate Georgia Cincinnati
113 Duquesne Montana St. Ball St.
114 Florida Gulf Coast San Jose St. Siena
115 Wichita St. Tulane Queens
116 Southern Illinois Troy Tulane
117 Colorado St. SIUE St. John's
118 Hawaii Toledo BYU
119 Missouri St. Youngstown St. Southern Utah
120 Hofstra Quinnipiac Harvard
121 Cornell Missouri St. Vanderbilt
122 Quinnipiac Longwood Temple
123 Louisiana Colgate Milwaukee
124 Longwood Furman Princeton
125 Southern Miss Duquesne Kennesaw St.
126 Akron Seattle U Towson
127 Youngstown St. Colorado St. Cornell
128 Georgia Tech Richmond UC Irvine
129 Montana St. Washington Middle Tenn. St.
130 San Jose St. Syracuse Mass-Lowell
131 Notre Dame Akron Colorado St.
132 Belmont Middle Tenn. Toledo
133 Troy Wichita St. Furman
134 Middle Tennessee Belmont Indiana St.
135 Davidson UMass Lowell Quinnipiac
136 DePaul Southern Utah San Francisco
137 Temple Old Dominion Syracuse
138 UNC Greensboro Massachusetts N'western St.
139 Ball St. Stanford S. Dakota St.
140 Seattle Harvard N.C. Asheville
141 Chattanooga Air Force Akron
142 Towson Ohio Rice
143 Massachusetts Chattanooga Missouri St.
144 Wyoming American Tarleton St.
145 Louisiana Tech UNC Greensboro Texas Tech
146 Stephen F. Austin UC Davis MD Eastern Shore
147 Southern Utah Georgia Tech S.F. Austin
148 Air Force Siena Notre Dame
149 Pepperdine Utah Tech Richmond
150 Penn SFA Sacramento St.
151 Western Kentucky New Mexico St. Ohio
152 New Mexico St. Louisiana Tech Utah Tech
153 Old Dominion Milwaukee DePaul
154 Samford Purdue Fort Wayne W. Kentucky
155 Cal Baptist Jacksonville Louisiana Tech
156 Vermont Stetson Vermont
157 Ohio Pepperdine IPFW
158 St. Bonaventure Eastern Wash. Yale
159 Purdue Fort Wayne Towson E. Kentucky
160 Florida St. Davidson Bryant
161 Siena St. Thomas (MN) Montana St.
162 Harvard Kennesaw St. Georgia Tech
163 Fresno St. Temple Fordham
164 Portland Samford Pennsylvania
165 East Carolina Rice CSU Fullerton
166 SMU UC Riverside Hawaii
167 Northern Iowa Tarleton St. Portland St.
168 Jacksonville Gardner-Webb Longwood
169 SIU Edwardsville Cal St. Fullerton American
170 UC Davis East Carolina Grambling St.
171 UC Riverside Drexel Coastal Car.
172 Boston College Notre Dame Chattanooga
173 UMass Lowell California Baptist Delaware
174 South Florida Vermont Morgan St.
175 Eastern Washington Sacramento St. SMU
176 Wofford DePaul Eastern Wash.
177 Drexel Queens (NC) St. Bonaventure
178 Gardner Webb Penn Wichita St.
179 Long Beach St. Fordham N.C. Greensboro
180 Murray St. Murray St. South Carolina
181 Rice St. Bonaventure St. Thomas
182 Tarleton St. Montana Austin Peay
183 Montana Bryant North Florida
184 American A&M-Corpus Christi Murray St.
185 Abilene Christian N.C. Central Youngstown St.
186 George Washington Portland N. Mex. St.
187 Texas A&M Corpus Chris Western Ky. Fresno St.
188 St. Thomas Long Beach St. UC Davis
189 Radford Radford UC Riverside
190 Fordham Norfolk St. Pepperdine
191 Norfolk St. UNC Asheville South Alabama
192 Minnesota Fresno St. Buffalo
193 San Diego Grambling James Madison
194 Cal St. Fullerton George Washington S.Car. Upstate
195 Texas St. Texas St. Southern
196 South Alabama Portland St. Colgate
197 Kennesaw St. Cleveland St. Georgia Southern
198 Utah Tech UNI Montana
199 Queens South Fla. Niagara
200 Buffalo Northwestern St. Nicholls
201 UTEP Southern U. Long Beach St.
202 North Carolina Central UTEP Mo. Kansas City
203 Bryant Buffalo Alcorn St.
204 California South Alabama Appalachian St.
205 South Carolina Wyoming Florida Intl.
206 Rhode Island SMU East Carolina
207 Stetson Wofford Boston Coll.
208 UNC Asheville Ga. Southern TAMU Corpus Christi
209 Appalachian St. Navy SE Missouri St.
210 Detroit Mercy San Diego UCSD
211 Lipscomb South Dakota St. UMBC
212 Georgia Southern Delaware Nebraska Omaha
213 Loyola Chicago UMBC Stanford
214 Rider Pacific North. Kentucky
215 Pacific Boston College Portland
216 South Dakota St. App State Cal Baptist
217 Delaware Eastern Ky. San Diego
218 Sacramento St. Detroit Mercy Navy
219 Cleveland St. Lipscomb Stonehill
220 UMBC Kansas City Texas St.
221 Oregon St. Western Caro. Morehead St.
222 Brown Florida St. Ill. Chicago
223 Navy Oregon St. Detroit Mercy
224 Grambling St. Boston U. Rhode Island
225 Weber St. Niagara UTEP
226 Wright St. Southeast Mo. St. Bellarmine
227 Austin Peay Idaho St. Northern Iowa
228 Northern Kentucky Morgan St. Lehigh
229 UMKC Abilene Christian Florida St.
230 Coastal Carolina Brown Samford
231 Georgetown Nicholls Georgetown
232 Saint Joseph's Weber St. South Dakota
233 Portland St. Bowling Green N.C. A&T
234 Milwaukee Northern Ky. Cleveland St.
235 Southern Minnesota Wofford
236 High Point High Point N.C. Central
237 Mercer Southern Ind. Northern Colorado
238 Niagara Wright St. Coppin St.
239 Eastern Kentucky Rider Air Force
240 FIU Austin Peay TX Arlington
241 Nicholls St. FIU William & Mary
242 Georgia St. South Carolina McNeese St.
243 Western Carolina Mercer Boston U.
244 Bowling Green Rhode Island High Point
245 Army Mount St. Mary's N. Dakota St.
246 Northeastern Western Ill. Brown
247 Boston University USC Upstate Oakland
248 North Florida Army West Point Southern Indiana Screaming Eagles
249 Tulsa Coastal Carolina South Florida
250 Campbell Denver Western Carolina
251 Northwestern St. Campbell Lipscomb
252 Idaho St. California La Salle
253 Northern Colorado Illinois St. Minnesota
254 Mount St. Mary's Robert Morris Oregon St.
255 Southeast Missouri St. UMES North Alabama
256 Winthrop Saint Joseph's UTRGV
257 North Dakota St. Alcorn Northeastern
258 Illinois St. Georgetown St. Joseph's
259 Canisius Georgia St. Geo. Wash.
260 Bellarmine North Dakota St. Albany
261 Robert Morris Southeastern La. Northern Illinois
262 East Tennessee St. Canisius Wyoming
263 USC Upstate UT Martin Rider
264 La Salle Northeastern Radford
265 Southern Indiana Bellarmine Weber St.
266 Morgan St. Prairie View Pacific
267 Oakland Loyola Chicago Citadel
268 North Carolina A&T UIC Illinois St.
269 Illinois Chicago North Florida Denver
270 Bucknell Winthrop Western Ill.
271 Fairfield Cal Poly Winthrop
272 Cal Poly Oakland Wright St.
273 Alcorn St. Omaha Prairie View A&M
274 South Dakota UC San Diego Jackson St.
275 Western Illinois Bucknell Robert Morris
276 Denver Maine California
277 Louisville Northern Colo. SE Louisiana
278 UT Arlington N.C. A&T Drexel
279 Maryland Eastern Shore New Hampshire Loyola Chicago
280 Prairie View A&M Northern Ariz. Canisius
281 Tennessee St. Morehead St. Northern Arizona
282 Miami OH Tex. A&M-Commerce Bowling Green
283 Howard Coppin St. Abilene Christian
284 Lafayette William & Mary Texas A&M-Commerce
285 Central Michigan Tennessee St. LA Monroe
286 The Citadel Charleston So. Howard
287 Northern Arizona Central Mich. Mercer
288 Morehead St. La Salle Maine
289 Southeastern Louisiana UTRGV Gardner-Webb
290 Cal St. Bakersfield South Dakota Campbell
291 Nebraska Omaha Fairfield Stony Brook
292 UC San Diego Stonehill Lafayette
293 Jacksonville St. North Ala. Tenn-Martin
294 Louisiana Monroe Tulsa Charleston Sou.
295 Charleston Southern Lafayette New Hampshire
296 Texas A&M Commerce Chicago St. UTSA
297 Texas Southern NIU Army
298 Dartmouth UT Arlington Georgia St.
299 New Hampshire Idaho Fairfield
300 Northern Illinois ETSU Fair. Dickinson
301 Tennessee Martin CSU Bakersfield Mount St. Mary's
302 Maine The Citadel St. Francis (PA)
303 Coppin St. Fairleigh Dickinson Texas Southern
304 Jackson St. Arkansas St. W. Michigan
305 Saint Peter's Lehigh Miami (OH)
306 UT Rio Grande Valley Howard S. Carolina St.
307 William & Mary Tennessee Tech Sacred Heart
308 Wagner ULM St. Peter's
309 Lehigh Dartmouth Wagner
310 North Alabama UTSA Cal Poly
311 Western Michigan Miami (OH) Central Arkansas
312 Chicago St. Lindenwood Tennessee St.
313 Valparaiso Jackson St. Monmouth
314 Idaho UAlbany AR Pine Bluff
315 Arkansas St. Wagner Dartmouth
316 Fairleigh Dickinson North Dakota Lindenwood
317 Albany Texas Southern Idaho St.
318 Eastern Michigan Stony Brook Tulsa
319 UTSA Western Mich. N.J.I.T.
320 Stonehill Jacksonville St. Valparaiso
321 Stony Brook McNeese Tennessee Tech
322 Sacred Heart Saint Peter's Louisville
323 Tennessee Tech Marist Chicago St.
324 VMI Eastern Mich. Arkansas St.
325 Central Connecticut Sacred Heart CSU Bakersfield
326 Binghamton Valparaiso East. Michigan
327 Marist NJIT Evansville
328 NJIT Saint Francis (PA) Jacksonville St.
329 Presbyterian Holy Cross Hampton
330 North Dakota VMI Holy Cross
331 Cal St. Northridge Evansville North Dakota
332 Manhattan Ark.-Pine Bluff Binghamton
333 McNeese St. Central Ark. Merrimack
334 Lindenwood Central Conn. St. Virginia Military
335 Holy Cross Eastern Ill. Cent. Michigan
336 St. Francis PA CSUN Marist
337 Alabama A&M Binghamton Alabama St.
338 New Orleans South Carolina St. Bucknell
339 Central Arkansas Alabama A&M Columbia
340 Evansville Little Rock E. Tennessee St.
341 Little Rock Presbyterian Loyola (MD)
342 South Carolina St. Alabama St. Miss. Valley St.
343 Loyola MD Manhattan Manhattan
344 Elon Louisville St. Francis (NY)
345 Alabama St. UIW Eastern Illinois
346 Merrimack Columbia Delaware St.
347 Columbia Loyola Maryland Florida A&M
348 Eastern Illinois Merrimack Incarnate Word
349 Bethune Cookman Bethune-Cookman Central Conn. St.
350 Arkansas Pine Bluff New Orleans Green Bay
351 Hampton Hampton New Orleans
352 Incarnate Word Elon LIU Brooklyn
353 Houston Christian St. Francis Brooklyn Idaho
354 St. Francis NY Green Bay Alabama A&M
355 Monmouth Mississippi Val. Bethune-Cookman
356 Green Bay Lamar University Presbyterian
357 Florida A&M Delaware St. AR Little Rock
358 Mississippi Valley St. Monmouth Houston Christian
359 Delaware St. Florida A&M Lamar
360 Lamar Houston Christian CSU Northridge
361 LIU IUPUI Elon
362 IUPUI LIU IUPUI
363 Hartford Hartford Hartford
Savannah St.

  
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