Records are top 100 games only, with any losses outside top 100 after.
Italicized names did not make the tournament.
1) Duke 18-5 (most top 25 wins, 9)
2) Gonzaga 12-3 (rates as best offense in country, by a large margin)
3) Virginia 19-3 (plays slowest tempo in country, again)
4) Michigan St 21-6 (most top 50 wins, 17)
5) North Carolina 17-6 (8 top 25 wins)
6) Michigan 21-6 (tied with Michigan St for most top 100 wins)
7) Tennessee 17-5
8) Kentucky 17-6 (8 top 25 wins)
9) Texas Tech 16-5-1 (rates as best defense in country)
10) Purdue 18-9
11) Auburn 17-9
12) Virginia Tech 12-8
13) Wisconsin 18-10
14) Iowa St 14-10-1
15) Florida St 15-6-1
16) Houston 12-3
17) Kansas 19-8-1 (16 top 50 wins, toughest schedule overall)
18) Louisville 12-12-1
19) Buffalo 4-1-2
20) LSU 17-6 (lowest rated top 3 seed)
21) Mississippi St 14-10
22) Nevada 6-1-3
23) Villanova 17-8-1
24) Kansas St 14-7-1 (lowest top 4 seed)
25) Marquette 15-9
26) Maryland 14-10
27) Wofford 9-4 (0 top 50 wins)
28) Florida 9-14-1
29) North Carolina St (first team out) 9-9-2
30) Cincinnati 11-5-1
31) Clemson 7-13
32) Texas 9-14-2 (lost three in a row at end of season)
(There is a rather steep drop here between Cincinnati and Syracuse)
33) Syracuse 12-11-2
34) Utah St 5-4-2
35) Oregon 9-9-3
36) St Marys 6-8-3
37) Oklahoma 14-11-2
38) Iowa 14-11
39) Indiana 11-15
40) VCU 7-4-3
41) Nebraska 12-16
42) Ohio St 11-14
43) Ole Miss 9-12
44) Baylor 11-11-2
45) Penn St 9-16-2 (18 losses, still rates as a top 50 team)
46) TCU 10-12-1
47) Washington 12-7-1
48) Central Florida 7-7-1
49) Minnesota 14-12-1
50) New Mexico St 0-2-2 (no top 100 wins)
51) Creighton 9-14
52) Seton Hall 15-11-2
53) Belmont 4-2-3
54) Murray St 1-3-1 (only win is the win that got them in)
55) Arkansas 6-14-1
56) Lipscomb 3-6-1
57) Arizona St 10-5-5 (5 non top 100 losses)
58) Memphis 6-10-3
72) St John's 10-10-2
75) Temple 6-7-2 (these two should be considered the last two in the field)
76) Irvine 2-3-3 (18 road/neutral wins, most in country)
78) Vermont 1-3-3
79) Liberty 2-3-3
81) Northeastern 3-6-4
94) Yale 1-3-4
95) St Louis 6-6-6
97) N Kentucky 0-2-6
104) Old Dominion 5-1-7
109) Georgia St 0-1-8
(nearly every team after this has no top 100 wins, and few such games played)
121) Colgate
127) Montana 1-3-5 (beat South Dakota St)
157) Abilene Christian
158) Bradley 1-0-14 (only win was over Penn St)
170) Gardner-Webb
192) Iona
200) North Dakota St
203) Prairie View
208) Fairleigh Dickinson
292) NC Central
Seeding overall looks a lot smoother now that they're not using the RPI system. A few teams were higher or lower than expected (Wisconsin, perennially), but there are not any embarrassing 5-12 or 6-11 games where the 12 or 11 is obviously better. There was a clear consensus who the top 8-10 teams were, with Houston being the only one much higher in the NET rating system than elsewhere, so there was nothing like "Xavier or Oregon gets a 1 seed as the 12th best team in the country"
Jefferson’s DOGE (that was then, this is now)
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