Women's College Basketball Top 10, Bubble Team NET Rankings: A Top-15 Shakeup

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 women’s college basketball teams through Feb. 16, according to NET.

There wasn’t all that much movement in the top 10 itself this week, as much of what did go down occurred just outside of it. Michigan State went from 11th to 15th. TCU moved up from 13th to 11th. Iowa climbed from 15th to 12th. Duke did slip to 10th, however, owing to two things: the Blue Devils played just one game in the past week, a 72-68 win over North Carolina, while the team that overtook them in the rankings played two games that were not close. 

Minnesota is finally ranked, at No. 23, but NET is much more into the Golden Gophers than the voters. Minnesota defeated a top-30 Nebraska team, 84-67, before knocking around bubble-hopeful Wisconsin by 23