Category Archives: Rankings

It’s been a while, hasn’t it? In fact, it’s been two weeks, which should be considered a long time for a series I generally do weekly. You’ll have to forgive me; I had to skip last week due to cross-country travel, meaning I didn’t have time to write up a ranking. But that was lastContinue reading “Bauertology Top 25: Week 7”

The Bauertology Top 25, fashionably late this week! College basketball threw a lot of curveballs our way over the past week: numerous losses among my top 10 teams (Gonzaga isn’t as good as we thought?), another handful of teams coming out of the woodwork to surprise us early (Minnesota, anyone?), and other fun wackiness thatContinue reading “Bauertology Top 25: Week 5”

For the first time in a long time, there’s a new face at the top. For the last year and some change (excepting post-championship Baylor), Gonzaga has been the undisputed king of the college basketball polls, sitting on the throne at the top of the rankings basically every single week. But with the Bulldogs’ lossContinue reading “Bauertology Top 25: Week 4”

Let me introduce you to the wonderful stat of the G-Score. The G-Score, or, in the long form, the Game Score, is an analytic devised the by the great Bart Torvik, whose T-Rank site is an invaluable resource for any college hoops junkie. Torvik tracks a number of statistics on his site but the mostContinue reading “Bauertology Top 25: Week 3”

Are you ready for some strange rankings? My early-season rankings are a bit bizarre—they always have been and always will be. That’s because I completely throw my preseason rankings and expectations out the window and focus purely on what we’ve seen on the court so far. After all, that’s how we’re going to be rankingContinue reading “Bauertology Top 25: Week 2”

We made it to 2021, and so did college basketball. Despite a late start and frequent cancellations and postponements, the college basketball season has powered through, and if we keep up this pace, we will have postseason basketball in March: a much-needed reward for all the trouble we collectively went through last year. With conferenceContinue reading “Bauertology Top 25: Week 7”

Never underestimate the ability of college basketball to surprise. In just one month of play, we’ve already seen a number of wild results, and that zaniness has shaped the new Bauertology rankings into something somewhat unfamiliar. There are teams in this week’s rankings that I never would have expected to even sniff the Top 25,Continue reading “Bauertology Top 25: Week 6”

The season only continues to get more ridiculous. In total, 10 of last Monday’s Bauertology Top 25 teams lost a game, with every single team ranked Nos. 12-17 falling in that category. College basketball is often unpredictable, a refreshing reprieve from the constant rote monotony that the College Football Playoff churns out every single year.Continue reading “Bauertology Top 25: Week 5”

You know the college basketball season has been wacky none of Duke, Kentucky or North Carolina appear in my top 25 poll. The former two were easy exclusions for me, as they’ve both played underwhelming basketball through the first three weeks. North Carolina was tougher to leave out, but after losing to Iowa by 13Continue reading “Bauertology Top 25: Week 4”