Who all six models predicted the top 25 teams would be after the 1987-88 NCAA champion tournament completed.
Who all six models predicted the top 25 teams would be after the 1987-88 NCAA champion tournament completed.
Commentary: Once again, there was an apparently strong concensus, according to the first five models listed below, regarding who the top 20 or so teams should be, though small discrepancies about particular ranks can be observed inside the table below. The models disagreed about a few team's ranks: the NIT Champion (UCONN) varied from #24 to #44, and Wyoming's predicted rank had a relatively large varance as well (from #24 to #35). NCAA Champion Kansas, who entered the NCAA tournament as a #6 seed, did not have a strong enough regular season for the MCB model to put them atop the predicted final rankings it generated.
| TeamName | Wins | ZP2 | PR2 | 50T | LN2 | ZPF | MCB |
| Kansas | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Arizona | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| Duke | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
| Temple | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| NorthCarolina | 3 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 |
| Purdue | 2 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 |
| Kentucky | 2 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 9 |
| KansasSt | 3 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 10 |
| Michigan | 2 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 8 |
| Villanova | 3 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 13 |
| Pittsburgh | 1 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 17 |
| Syracuse | 1 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 12 |
| Iowa | 2 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 11 |
| UNLV | 1 | 15 | 16 | 16 | 19 | 15 | 14 |
| Louisville | 2 | 16 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 16 | 16 |
| Vanderbilt | 2 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 16 | 17 | 21 |
| RhodeIsland | 2 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 17 | 18 | 19 |
| Richmond | 2 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 18 | 19 | 30 |
| Illinois | 1 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 15 |
| Loyola(CA) | 1 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 18 |
| BYU | 1 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 20 |
| Bradley | 0 | 23 | 23 | 23 | 27 | 23 | 27 |
| GeorgiaTech | 1 | 24 | 24 | 25 | 25 | 27 | 26 |
| SMU | 1 | 25 | 25 | 26 | 23 | 25 | 22 |
| DePaul | 1 | 26 | 26 | 27 | 24 | 26 | 26 |
| Wyoming | 0 | 27 | 30 | 24 | 34 | 35 | 24 |
| NCState | 0 | 32 | 32 | 30 | 35 | 36 | 23 |
| Connecticut | "5" | 35 | 35 | 32 | 34 | 24 | 44 |