Men's College Basketball Top 10, Bubble Team NET Rankings: UConn Slips Again

The top 25 rankings are important for understanding just who is killing it in college basketball, but we can go deeper — all the way to the bubble and beyond.

The NCAA Evaluation Tool, or NET, is a rankings system used in Division I basketball to help figure out which teams are going to participate in March Madness. As the NCAA puts it, NET "takes into account game results, strength of schedule, game location, net offensive and defensive efficiency, and the quality of wins and losses," the latter of which is determined by placing every Division I matchup into different quadrants, ranked 1 through 4, with 1 being the strongest teams and 4 the weakest — Quads aren’t just determined by record, but also whether a game was played at home, on the road or at a neutral site.

Using NET, we can get a sense of which teams are the best at a given moment, as well as which ones are on the bubble for selection in March. While updated daily by the NCAA, we’ll track changes weekly.

With that, here are the top 10 men’s college basketball teams through Feb. 16, according to NET.

UConn is still winning, having lost just two games this season, but it’s just not winning by enough to keep its spot in NET, never mind to move up. The Huskies’ adjusted Net Rating, via KenPom, is just 24th: since NET incorporates offensive and defensive ratings as well as strength of schedule, UConn is in a tough spot between facing Big East teams that aren’t particularly well-regarded, and then winning, but usually just by a few buckets. If Nebraska had one more road win or Quad 1 victory, the Husker might even be in this spot instead of the Huskies.

Florida remains in 9th after picking up wins against Georgia and Kentucky since last time in. Florida didn’t do