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	0.96429	0.96923	0.96029	8,13,8	1.8571
PR2	0.97857	0.96692	0.95749	14,8,5	1.7714
50T	0.97857	0.96538	0.96450	12,9,6	1.7429
LN2	0.97321	0.95731	0.95623	10,12,4	1.9143
ZPF	0.95536	0.94808	0.95469	7,11,6	2.1143
MCB	0.62321	0.74654	0.78690	6,9,3	4.0857
OCC	0.95000	0.97288	0.96261	10,9,7	1.7429

Commentary: Except for the MCB model, every system matched very closely the final poll this year. The 50T model recorded its second lowest overall average difference. (It was also the third lowest difference for PR2 and ZP2, lowest OCC?) The ZP2 model ranked 29 of the top 35 teams within 2 positions (or less) of where the coaches ranked them; PR2 matched the coaches exactly 14 times, OCC had its second lowest SCC-35 value (and fourth lowest SCC-25 value as well). Five of the seven models listed below had NIT champion Stanford only a few positions from where the coaches thought they should be ranked, but all of the models 'ignored' CBI champion (#38) Pittsburgh; however, the two teams who tied for the 39th position in the final poll were ranked close to that position by the models.

TeamName	Poll	Wins	ZP2	PR2	50T	LN2	ZPF	MCB	OCC
Kentucky	1	6	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Kansas	2	5	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
OhioSt	3	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	4
Louisville	4	4	6	4	4	6	6	6	6
Syracuse	5	3	4	5	5	4	4	4	3
NorthCarolina	6	3	5	6	6	5	5	5	5
MichiganSt	7	2	8	8	8	8	8	8	7
Baylor	8	3	7	7	7	7	7	7	8
Florida	9	3	10	9	9	9	11	9	9
Marquette	10	2	9	10	10	10	9	12	10
Missouri	11	0	13	13	13	12	10	13	12
Wisconsin	12	2	11	11	11	11	12	11	11
Indiana	13	2	12	12	12	14	16	10	13
Duke	14	0	16	16	16	16	15	22	18
FloridaSt	15	1	15	15	15	15	14	26	15
MurraySt	16	1	14	14	14	13	13	17	14
Georgetown	17	1	17	17	17	17	17	16	17
Cincinnati	18	2	18	18	18	18	20	15	16
Vanderbilt	19	1	24	24	25	26	27	23	22
NCState	20	2	19	19	19	19	21	25	19
Creighton	21	1	20	22	22	22	18	18	20
Michigan	22	0	25	25	23	23	19	38	23
NewMexico	23	1	23	23	24	24	25	14	21
Xavier	24	2	22	21	21	21	23	31	27
Ohio	25	2	21	20	20	20	22	24	28
Gonzaga	26	1	27	27	28	28	28	20	24
WichitaSt	27	0	26	26	26	27	26	21	32
StMary'sCA	28	0	33	34	31	25	24	33	29
VACommonwealth	29	1	31	31	33	29	29	29	25
SanDiegoSt	30	0	39	39	36	38	39	45	33
KansasSt	31	1	29	29	30	30	31	28	26
Purdue	32T	1	32	32	34	34	35	32	40
Stanford	32T	"5"	34	33	27	40	30	34	34
NotreDame	34	0	43	43	42	41	41	57	36
UNLV	35	0	37	38	35	39	40	35	35
Temple	36T	0	41	41	41	44	44	41	39
StLouis	36T	1	28	28	29	31	32	19	30
Pittsburgh	38	CBI	102	102	105	115	115	99	87
SouthFlorida	39T	1	35	35	37	36	37	49	41
IowaSt	39T	1	30	30	32	32	33	30	31