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	0.95357	0.98077	0.91485	11,11,4	2.1714
PR2	0.92321	0.96462	0.89762	5,12,6	2.6000
50T	0.93214	0.96923	0.84384	8,9,9	2.7143
LN2	0.92143	0.96615	0.96050	8,11,7	1.9429
ZPF	0.93571	0.97231	0.95392	11,11,4	1.9429
MCB	0.91071	0.96038	0.92997	7,8,7	2.6286
OCC	0.91071	0.93462	0.89986	9,9,9	1.9714

Commentary: All models were fairly accurate with regards to the top 15 teams, and even more so with the top 25. However, UtahSt, who lost its conference championship by 1 point, and then lost its opening NIT game (on the road in Hawaii), and was ranked #33, after garnering 12 votes in the final coaches' poll (possibly for its outstanding 25-3 pre-tourney record), was ranked #62 by 50T, which seriously impacted its SCC-35 result. (This is the lowest SCC-35 for the 50T model so far.) ZP2 and PR2 ranked UtahSt as #52 and #51, respectively, which lowered their SCC-35 values - but not by as much (as that same statistic for the 50T model). The ZPF model, matched 11 of the top 35 exactly, and was off by one for another 11 teams, and matched the LN2 model for the lowest average difference (this year), but it ranked UtahSt as #44 whereas LN2 placed them as the #39 team. The OCC model did predict fairly accurately where Utah St. would be ranked - at #30. NIT Champion Michigan was ranked as the #32 in the final coaches' poll, and ZPF and ZP2 agreed with that assessment exactly; PR2 ranked them 31st, and the other four models disagreed with the coaches' poll between four and six positions (in both directions).

Even though the average difference for the MCB model is much higher than that same metric, evaluated for the LN2, ZP2 and ZPF models, the MCB average is the third lowest seen so far (and so it is not surprising that the SCC-35 metric for MCB is also its third best as well). Regarding the average differences reported above, this is the fourth highest for the 50T model; however, this year was also the fourth lowest difference for the OCC model. The SCC-25 values, for the MCB and ZPF models, are also the third and fourth highest values seen so far.

TeamName	Poll	Wins	ZP2	PR2	50T	LN2	ZPF	MCB	OCC
Connecticut	1	6	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Duke	2	4	4	4	4	4	4	2	3
GeorgiaTech	3	5	2	2	2	2	2	4	4
OklahomaSt	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	2
StJoseph'sPA	5	3	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
Stanford	6	1	8	8	8	8	6	9	6
Pittsburgh	7	2	7	7	7	7	7	6	9
Kentucky	8	1	9	10	10	11	9	12	10
Kansas	9	3	6	6	6	6	10	7	8
Texas	10	2	11	9	9	9	11	10	11
Illinois	11	2	12	14	13	12	12	11	12
Gonzaga	12	1	10	11	11	10	8	8	7
MississippiSt	13	1	13	15	15	16	13	14	15
Xavier	14	3	14	12	12	13	17	13	14
WakeForest	15	2	15	16	16	15	16	15	13
Wisconsin	16	1	17	17	17	17	14	16	16
Alabama	17	3	16	13	14	14	18	19	19
Cincinnati	18	1	18	18	18	18	15	17	18
Syracuse	19	2	19	19	19	19	19	21	17
NCState	20	1	20	21	21	22	20	22	20
Nevada	21	2	22	22	22	21	22	18	22
NorthCarolina	22	1	24	24	24	24	24	23	23
UAB	23	2	23	23	23	23	23	24	25
Maryland	24	1	25	25	25	25	25	26	24
Vanderbilt	25	2	21	20	20	20	21	20	21
SIllinois	26	0	36	36	36	35	36	33	36
Memphis	27	1	26	26	27	26	27	25	26
Providence	28	0	33	33	32	30	28	34	33
Arizona	29	0	35	35	34	28	26	36	31
BostonCollege	30	1	27	27	28	31	31	32	29
TexasTech	31	1	28	28	29	29	30	27	28
Michigan	32	"5"	32	31	26	36	32	38	37
UtahSt	33	"0"	52	54	62	39	44	46	30
DePaul	34	1	30	30	31	27	29	37	27
Pacific	35	1	34	34	35	34	35	40	35
Manhattan	36T	1	31	32	33	33	34	29	34
WMichigan	36T	0	38	38	38	38	39	30	40
SetonHall	38	1	29	29	30	32	33	28	32
AirForce	39T	0	46	46	46	43	42	47	43
UCF	39T	0	56	55	54	48	48	61	58
MichiganSt	41T	0	40	41	40	37	37	50	38
SouthCarolina	41T	0	45	45	44	49	49	45	59
LALafayette	43	0	60	59	57	56	56	62	96