Women's College Basketball Top 10, Bubble Team NET Rankings: Iowa Joins Top 10

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. 23, according to NET.

Duke would have been bumped from the rankings for losing to Clemson, but lucky for the Blue Devils a different ACC team took the fall here — Louisville being upset by Virginia pushed the Cardinals all the way from 8th in NET to 12th, keeping Duke in place when another team leapfrogged the two of them.

Said team is Iowa, which handled Michigan better than anyone else has this season en route to a 66-44 win in which the Hawkeyes forced the Wolverines into 24 turnovers and played an overall stifling defense that kept Michigan from ever getting consistently good looks. Iowa has Illinois and Wisconsin left on the schedule, and is tied with Michigan for second in the