College Basketball Rankings

The College basketball rankings for this week are in the center of the page. The Top 25 College basketball poll is updated weekly and these changes are reflected on this page once the new college basketball rankings are accessible to the general public. In addition to the rankings, you can see the teams record at the time of the poll, their rank from the previous week, and the total "votes" or points accumulated to determine the top 25 College basketball poll. If you don't understand how they decide the top 25 College basketball rankings we have make it perfectly clear it below.

Top 25 College Basketball Poll

If you are reading this paragraph you are curious how they determine the rankings. We will explain how the top 25 College basketball poll comes about. There are 72 writers that "vote" as we like to say on who the best 25 teams in the country are. Now because everyone doesn't agree on who the best 25 teams are they use a point system. So each writer makes his top 25 list and than points are awarded accordingly. First place votes are in parentheses next to the team name.

For example if one writer thinks Duke is the best team, Duke is than awarded 25 points. if another write thinks Duke is the second best team, Duke is awarded an additional 24 points. This process continues with all 72 writers making their votes on the top 25 teams. At the end the teams are than ranked in chronological order according to the points or votes they received.

To clarify, the maximum number of points you can get is 1800. 72 writers x 25 points for a first place vote equals a max of 1800. Every vote a team gets for being #1 is 25 points, #2 is 24 points, #3 23 points, all the way down to the 25 where the team would get 1 point. That is the general idea of how the top 25 college basketball rankings work.

Now there are 2 different types of college basketball rankings, the Associated Press poll and the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll. The top 25 rankings above are the current AP poll. It is our opinion that the AP poll is a better indication of the teams rank in comparison with the ESPN poll which is why we list the AP College basketball poll at Maddux Sports.