Basketball Prospectus Preseason Rankings 1 to 345


Editor's note: Dan's preseason rankings will be appearing in both the soon to be released College Basketball Prospectus 2012-13, and in the issue of ESPN The Magazine that hits streets this Friday. Support Dan's indefatigable analytical efforts by purchasing several copies of both.

Earlier this month, I revealed my my new methodology for ranking Division I teams. Using 10 years of historical trends, I projected the performance of every D-I player, and then projected lineups for all 345 teams. (Sorry, Northern Kentucky and New Orleans. Get some D-I results I can use, then we'll talk.) Today I share the results, which I think are fun for a number of reasons. Most notably they sometimes depart from conventional thinking. It is also interesting to see how the model evaluates teams that may otherwise fly under the radar.

The Atlantic 10
32 St. Louis
36 Butler
37 Saint Joseph's
39 Temple
48 VCU
75 Massachusetts
96 Richmond
109 Dayton
117 Xavier
118 La Salle
121 St. Bonaventure
148 George Washington
208 Duquesne
223 Fordham
229 Charlotte
254 Rhode Island

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