Men's College Basketball Top 10, Bubble Team NET Rankings: U-M is No. 1 Once More

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. 9, according to NET.

Not a single team in the top 10 is in the same spot it was a week ago, and one — Nebraska — fell out of it entirely. Granted, just to 11th, but this isn’t a top 11 section, is it? Purdue might have stopped its three-game losing streak, but defeating unranked Oregon by just 4 points in a game in which the Boilermakers scored 68 isn’t exactly filling NET with confidence. Well, an algorithm’s equivalent of confidence, anyway. Purdue, by the way, takes on Nebraska on Feb. 10 on the road, the result of which will likely determine which of the two shows up in these rankings next week.

The reason Nebraska has been ejected from the top 10 is thanks to the rise of Florida.