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	0.96071	0.97154	0.94337	12,6,6	2.1714
PR2	0.97321	0.97231	0.94232	13,6,4	2.2000
50T	0.97321	0.96769	0.93690	10,6,6	2.3429
LN2	0.97500	0.97538	0.97892	14,7,5	1.4286
ZPF	0.93393	0.95462	0.96562	12,7,6	1.8000
MCB	0.97143	0.86923	0.84000	8,7,5	3.3714
OCC	0.97857	0.98673	0.95210	14,7,5	1.8000

Commentary: Every model very accurately predicted the top 15 teams, including MCB's highest such value (and LN2's fourth highest). By 'compensating' for how the first five models disagreed about the final ranks for the two pairs of teams that were tied for 5th and 12th place, in this year's final coaches poll, these five models matched the top 12 teams 'exactly', which helps to explain these high SCC-15 values. LN2 had its best SCC-35 result ever, and its second lowest overall average difference (to date)! The top four models listed (and OCC) in the above table, also matched the top 25 teams quite well, and only slightly less so with regards to the top 35 teams. All the models placed NIT runnerup Clemson quite close to its final rank (#37), but were not so successful with NIT champion West Virginia, who tied for the #33 position. #30 Creighton was predicted to be 5 to 9 places lower in the final poll, and #35 Kentucky was predicted 9 or 10 places higher (except for LN2 and ZPF - who ranked Kentucky only 3 and 2 places higher, respectively, and OCC, which ranked them 4 places lower); the predictions for these three teams directly lowered the models' SCC-35 values. OCC had its best year here, with its top SCC-15 and SCC-25 values as well as matching 14 teams 'exactly', and 26 teams in the top 35 within two or fewer positions of their position in the final coaches' poll!

TeamName	Poll	Wins	ZP2	PR2	50T	LN2	ZPF	MCB	OCC
Florida	1	6	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
OhioSt	2	5	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
UCLA	3	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	4
Georgetown	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	6	5
NorthCarolina	5T	3	6	6	6	6	6	4	6
Kansas	5T	3	5	5	5	5	5	5	3
Memphis	7	3	7	7	7	7	7	7	7
Oregon	8	3	8	8	8	8	8	9	8
TexasA&M	9	2	9	9	9	9	9	8	9
Pittsburgh	10	2	10	10	10	10	10	10	10
SIllinois	11T	2	12	11	11	12	12	13	11
Wisconsin	11T	1	11	12	12	11	11	11	12
Butler	13	2	15	15	15	15	17	12	14
UNLV	14	2	13	13	13	14	16	14	13
USC	15	2	19	18	18	18	19	17	16
Texas	16	1	14	14	14	13	13	20	15
WashingtonSt	17	1	16	16	16	17	15	22	17
Tennessee	18	2	20	19	20	21	21	16	20
Vanderbilt	19	2	21	21	21	20	20	21	19
Louisville	20	1	18	20	19	19	18	19	21
Nevada	21	1	17	17	17	16	14	18	18
Winthrop	22	1	23	23	25	22	22	26	22
Maryland	23	1	22	22	22	23	24	15	23
Virginia	24	1	28	29	29	26	26	35	26
VirginiaTech	25	1	26	27	27	24	25	33	25
Xavier	26	1	29	30	30	30	31	23	30
NotreDame	27	0	24	24	24	25	23	28	29
Marquette	28	0	35	35	33	29	27	42	32
VACommonwealth	29	1	32	32	32	27	28	30	27
Creighton	30	0	39	39	39	36	37	48	35
MichiganSt	31	1	27	28	28	32	33	27	41
BostonCollege	32	1	33	33	34	28	30	37	28
BYU	33T	0	38	38	38	35	36	43	34
WestVirginia	33T	"5"	31	25	23	37	29	29	24
Kentucky	35	1	25	26	26	33	34	25	39
Davidson	36	0	43	43	42	39	39	40	37
Clemson	37	"4"	36	36	37	40	40	36	38
Indiana	38T	1	30	31	31	31	32	24	40
Duke	38T	0	37	37	36	38	38	32	36
Akron	38T	NI	84	80	92	98	98	51	46