Merit Rankings and Bracket Projections – Dec 8th (From the Puppet)

Posted on December 8, 2020 by David Griggs

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Before you go any further, it is important to know what you are looking at.  This is merely a CHECKPOINT of CURRENT MERIT.  It is NOT a ranking of how good I think the teams actually are, nor is it a forecast of how I think the NCAA Tournament will look in March.  If that is what you are looking for, then you need to look somewhere else.  If you don’t understand that then this will look utterly ridiculous.  Even if you do understand that, it still may look utterly ridiculous.

I do not believe that Mercer is better than Duke or Iowa.  I do think that beating Georgia Tech on the road is harder to do than winning home buy games.  Since this is a ranking of merit, that is why Mercer is so far ahead.  As the season progresses and the better teams get better opportunities at better wins, this ranking will begin to look more and more like a ranking of how good the teams actually are.

This only reflects games played before December 8th.  Anything on or after December 8th is not factored in.

There are some (probably) good teams that have not yet played.  This is a merit ranking, so teams that have not yet played have amassed no merit and are therefore not yet ranked.

  1. GONZAGA – unbeaten with wins vs Kansas and West Virginia
  2. BAYLOR – Unbeaten with a win over Illinois
  3. VIRGINIA TECH – Unbeaten with a over Villanova
  4. VILLANOVA – good win at Texas
  5. MICHIGAN STATE – unbeaten with a win at Duke
  6. Texas – wins vs North Carolina and Indiana, only loss to Villanova
  7. HOUSTON – unbeaten with a win vs Texas Tech
  8. MISSOURI – 3-0 with a win vs Oregon
  9. North Carolina – win vs Stanford, only loss to Texas
  10. SAN DIEGO STATE – unbeaten with a win over UCLA
  11. WESTERN KENTUCKY – wins over Northern Iowa and Memphis
  12. WINTHROP – 2 good UTR wins
  13. RICHMOND – unbeaten and won at Kentucky
  14. Kansas – win vs Kentucky
  15. ARIZONA STATE – 3-1 with a win vs Rhode Island
  16. West Virginia – 3 decent wins, only loss to Gonzaga
  17. Connecticut – unbeaten with a win vs USC
  18. Indiana – wins vs Stanford and Providence, only loss to Texas
  19. Oregon – win vs Seton Hall, loss vs Missouri
  20. Saint Louis – home win vs LSU
  21. Marquette – home win vs Wisconsin, loss to Oklahoma State
  22. MERCER – unbeaten with wins over Georgia Tech and Georgia State
  23. Smu – unbeaten with a win at Dayton
  24. Clemson – unbeaten with win vs Purdue
  25. Louisville – unbeaten with a home win vs Seton Hall
  26. Xavier – unbeaten with a win at Cincinnati
  27. Saint Mary’s – wins vs South Dakota State, only loss to Memphis
  28. SOUTH DAKOTA STATE – wins at Iowa State and Bradley
  29. Usc – win vs BYU, only loss to Connecticut
  30. Byu – wins @ Utah State and vs Saint John’s, only loss to USC
  31. Oklahoma – unbeaten with a win at TCU
  32. Tcu – wins vs Tulsa and Liberty, loss to Oklahoma
  33. Purdue – win vs Liberty, loss to Clemson
  34. LIBERTY – wins vs South Carolina, Mississippi State and BC
  35. Florida – unbeaten with a win vs Boston College
  36. Alabama – win vs Providence, only loss to Stanford
  37. Rhode Island – wins vs San Francisco and Seton Hall, loss to Arizona State and BC
  38. GEORGIA STATE – win at Georgia Tech
  39. East Carolina – unbeaten, road win at Charlotte
  40. DRAKE – unbeaten with a win at Kansas State
  41. Chattanooga – 2 road wins
  42. Michigan – okay win against UCF, the rest are buy wins
  43. BOWLING GREEN – only loss at Michigan a road win at App St.
  44. UC SANTA BARABARA – win vs LMU
  45. Marshall – win @ Wright State
  46. Colorado – road win at Kansas State
  47. Furman – unbeaten, road win @ Charleston
  48. Rice – unbeaten with 2 road wins
  49. Nevada – win @ Nebraska, only loss to San Francisco
  50. Saint John’s – win vs Boston College, only loss to BYU
  51. Ucla – wins vs Pepperdine and Cal, only loss to San Diego State
  52. Penn State – win vs VCU, loss to Seton Hall
  53. Vcu – wins vs Memphis and Utah State, losses to West Virginia and Penn St
  54. Iowa – only buy wins
  55. Creighton – only buy wins
  56. Ohio State – only buy wins
  57. Illinois – only buy wins
  58. Maryland – only buy wins
  59. Rutgers – only buy wins
  60. Duke – only buy wins
  61. Texas Tech – only buy wins, loss to Houston
  62. Minnesota – only buy wins
  63. ARMY
  64. UMASS LOWELL – 3 losses, but win vs San Francisco
  65. NC State – only buy wins
  66. Arkansas – only buy wins
  67. Syracuse – only buy wins
  68. MONTANA STATE
  69. EASTERN KENTUCKY
  70. Washington State – only buy wins
  71. Texas A&M – only buy wins
  72. Georgia – only buy wins
  73. Arizona – only buy wins
  74. Florida State – only buy wins
  75. Wiscnosin – only buy wins, loss @ Marquette
  76. Virginia – only buy wins, loss to San Francisco
  77. ABILENE CHRISTIAN – unbeaten
  78. SAINT PETER’S
  79. UIC – 3 div1 wins
  80. SAINT FRANCIS U
  81. TEXAS SOUTHERN
  82. DREXEL
  83. GRAND CANYON
  84. NORFOLK STATE

 

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