Bracketology-esque Rankings Week 1

Since I love crunching numbers and the college football season is over, I decided I'd develop my own college basketball rankings. The Top 25 doesn't give you a real idea if your team has a chance to make the tournament, so I expanded it to a Top 65. I know the automatic bids are determined by the conference tournaments (or standings in the case of the Ivy League) but my rankings will contain at least one team from every conference (based on conference record and noted by an asterisk). I considered 4 rankings to come up with my final numbers. The AP and ESPN Top 25s, RPI ranking, and Strength-of-Schedule. The average of those four was my number. For teams not receiving votes in the Top 25 polls, they received a rank based on their RPI. There were 41 teams receiving votes in the AP poll, so the highest RPI team not in the top 41 was rated #42 and so on. The at-large teams (not leading their conference) were picked by Top 25 rank first then highest RPI until there a few more than 34 based on RPI. There ended up being 3 teams left out this time, including Notre Dame, but that's how important these things are. Here it is, debate at will:

1. Duke*

2. Pittsburgh

3. Michigan State*

4. Louisville

5. Xavier*

6. Oklahoma*

7. North Carolina

8. Connecticut

9. Georgetown

10. Memphis*

11. Clemson

12. Syracuse

13. Texas

14. Butler*

15. Illinois

16. Wake Forest

17. West Virginia

18. Washington*

19. Tennessee

20. Baylor

21. Villinova

22. Marquette*

23. Wisconsin

24. Arizona State

25. Siena*

26. Oklahoma State

27. Florida State

28. Purdue

29. Utah*

30. Virginia Tech

31. Ohio State

32. Kansas

33. Northwestern

34. Miami (FL)

35. UCLA

36. Brigham Young

37. Minnesota

38. California

39. Missouri

40. Florida

41. Miami (OH)

42. Michigan

43. UAB

44. Gonzaga

45. Kentucky*

46. Davidson*

47. Virginia Commonwealth*

48. Northern Iowa*

49. Buffalo*

50. Utah State*

51. Saint Mary's*

52. Austin Peay*

53. Texas A&M-Corpus Christi*

54. Cornell*

55. Arkansas-Little Rock*

56. Long Beach State*

57. Jacksonville*

58. Vermont*

59. Portland State*

60. Morgan State*

61. Holy Cross*

62. Robert Morris*

63. North Dakota State*

64. Virginia Military*

65. Alabama State*