Table explanation: The Spearman Correlation Coefficients (SCC) below relate to how well the top 15, 25 and 35 teams, in the final coaches' poll, match with the predictions for the models listed. The '0,1,2' column contains how many top 35 team rankings were only off by 0, 1, or 2 places, and this is followed by the average deviation between the actual ranking and the prediction. ("X" in the large table at the bottom represents the number of wins in the NIT tournament that a team earned.)

	SCC15	SCC25	SCC35	0,1,2	Average
ZP2	0.91071	0.94231	0.91589	12,2,9	2.1429
PR2	0.88929	0.94692	0.91786	10,7,5	2.4571
50T	0.88929	0.93269	0.91870	11,7,5	2.3714
LN2	0.90714	0.85731	0.91436	10,5,7	2.6571
ZPF	0.94821	0.89231	0.92962	10,4,7	2.5429
MCB	0.94286	0.93808	0.90357	8,11,6	2.7143
OCC	0.88393	0.91346	0.88039	4,13,3	3.0000

Commentary: The first year of the final coaches' poll (since 1975) exposed some very disparate prediction behavior for the six models included on this page. This was a strong year for MCB (its 4th best SCC-25 value, 7th best SCC-35 value, along with the 6th best average difference) whereas this is the lowest SCC-25 value, and third highest overall average difference for LN2. The 50T model was only a little below its average performance, across most of the metrics in the table above, and ZP2 was slightly more below its average performance (than the 50T model was).

Most of the models didn't rank NIT runner-up Georgetown as highly as the coaches did, but PR2 did have NIT champion Minnesota ranked exactly (as the #25 team); MCB was off by 1, 50T by 2, ZP2 by 3, and the other three were 7, 10 and 13 places away, respectively. This year was MCB's strongest showing when compared with the 50T, LN2, and ZPF; they all performed poorly in 1994-95, and only in 2003-04, and 2007-08, was MCB's overall average difference smaller than one other model's average. Highlighting MCB's proficiency this year are its perfect matches for #9 Duke, #11 Seton Hall, #18 Virginia, #23 Xavier and #30 St. John's. (MCB was also quite close with NIT champion #25 Minnesota.) ZP2, PR2, 50T and MCB predicted #14 Wake Forest close to where they were ranked, and MCB was too generous ranking #16 Western Kentucky.

TeamName	Poll	Wins	ZP2	PR2	50T	LN2	ZPF	MCB	OCC
NorthCarolina	1	6	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Michigan	2	5	2	2	2	2	2	3	2
Kentucky	3	4	3	3	3	3	3	2	3
Kansas	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	5
Indiana	5	3	5	5	5	5	5	4	4
Cincinnati	6	3	6	6	6	6	6	6	6
FloridaSt	7	3	7	7	7	7	7	8	7
Vanderbilt	8	2	8	8	8	8	8	7	8
Duke	9	1	12	13	13	14	11	9	14
Arkansas	10	2	10	11	11	13	13	12	9
SetonHall	11	1	9	10	10	9	9	11	10
Arizona	12	0	14	14	14	12	10	14	16
Temple	13	3	13	9	9	10	14	17	13
WakeForest	14	2	15	15	15	22	22	13	12
Louisville	15	2	11	12	12	11	12	16	11
Wkentucky	16	2	16	16	16	17	19	10	17
California	17	2	20	20	20	20	20	19	20
Virginia	18	2	18	17	17	15	16	18	15
Iowa	19	1	17	18	18	16	15	15	18
Utah	20	1	22	22	22	18	17	22	19
GWashington	21	2	21	21	21	21	21	21	24
Massachusetts	22	1	19	19	19	19	18	20	21
Xavier	23	1	25	25	27	26	26	23	25
UCLA	24	1	31	30	31	29	30	32	29
Minnesota	25	"5"	28	26	23	38	33	26	35
OklahomaSt	26T	1	23	23	24	23	24	24	22
NewMexicoSt	26T	1	24	24	26	24	25	31	23
GeorgiaTech	28	0	30	31	29	31	29	43	31
NewOrleans	29	0	26	28	25	25	23	27	30
StJohn's	30	1	27	27	28	28	28	30	27
BYU	31	1	29	29	30	30	31	25	32
Tulane	32	1	34	34	34	27	27	33	26
Georgetown	33	"4"	40	40	43	42	41	44	40
Chattanooga	34	0	53	53	51	47	47	45	56
Illinois	35	1	33	33	33	32	32	34	33
BallSt	36	0	61	61	58	43	43	67	47
RhodeIsland	37T	1	32	32	32	33	34	37	37
Purdue	37T	0	35	35	35	37	37	40	34
Marquette	39	0	37	37	37	39	39	29	38
JacksonSt	40	"1"	91	94	92	75	75	92	41
Clemson	41T	"1"	73	76	79	81	81	76	63
Nebraska	41T	0	50	49	47	52	52	50	69
Memphis	43	0	41	42	39	45	45	46	49
SantaClara	44	1	39	38	44	35	36	75	43
NewMexico	45T	0	36	36	36	40	40	38	39
UWMilwaukee	45T	NI	97	96	98	98	98	77	98