Women's College Basketball Top 10, Bubble Team NET Rankings: Duke Enters 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. 9, according to NET.

Minnesota still has not made the poll, which, given its placement in the NET rankings, is egregious. If the Golden Gophers keep playing as they have been of late, however — they upset ranked Iowa amid a six-game win streak — then it’s only a matter of time. As is, Minnesota picked up 42 points in the latest poll; No. 25 Washington received a vulnerable 44.

A significant week for Duke, which also surged in the poll to jump from No. 17 to No. 11, and also leapt five spots into the top 10 of NET. The Blue Devils are riding a 14-game winning streak, which in the past week included just getting by ranked Louisville in a 59-58 upset, and absolutely obliterating SMU,