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	0.89107	0.96231	0.94034	14,8,7	1.7714
PR2	0.76250	0.89154	0.93964	12,7,7	2.1714
50T	0.81786	0.90923	0.82815	11,7,7	2.9714
LN2	0.88929	0.94692	0.97017	9,8,8	2.0857
ZPF	0.89286	0.97038	0.98389	16,6,7	1.2286
MCB	0.76964	0.92423	0.66625	6,12,6	3.3143
OCC	0.92727	0.92180	0.95951	11,8,5	2.0857

Commentary: ZPF had its best year, with 16 exact matches and its lowest average difference - almost 0.5 lower than its previous best (in 2016-17). ZP2 also reached a few milestones, with its second highest exact match total (14), and its 3rd lowest average difference. Virginia was the top seed in the NCAA tournament, and #1 in both polls, however, they lost their opening game to a #16 seed (UMBC - by 20 points!) and surprisingly only dropped to the #5 position in the final coaches' poll. (OCC ranked them only two positions higher than that, and ZPF only four; every other model varied from 6 to 14 positions higher.) In 2012-13, Gonzaga was #1, lost their second round game, but plummeted to the #12 position, so perhaps those who cast votes this past year thought more highly of Virginia's strong season (in the ACC) over Gonzaga's run through the West Coast Conference several years ago. UMBC was ranked slightly lower, than in the final poll, by most models; the MCB model ranked them so much lower, that UMBC (by itself) lowered MCB's avg. difference by a full 'point'!

Almost all the systems were only off by 2 or so positions, with regards to NIT champion Penn State, and likewise with NIT runner-up Utah; St. Mary's was actually ranked higher in the final poll (than predicted below) even though they only earned two NIT wins. However, since they were somehow not selected to the NCAA tournament, and were the #24 team before these tournaments began, the voters still thought highly enough to rank them above Utah (#33 versus #36), but the models below had their ranks essentially in the other order.

Team Name	Poll	Wins	ZP2	PR2	50T	LN2	ZPF	MCB	OCC
Villanova	1	6	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Michigan	2	5	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Kansas	3	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Duke	4	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Virginia	5	0	11	15	13	19	9	11	7
TexasTech	6	3	6	6	6	6	6	7	5
Loyola-Chic.	7	4	5	5	5	5	10	6	6
Xavier	8	1	9	9	9	9	8	14	9
Purdue	9	2	8	8	8	8	7	5	10
Gonzaga	10	2	7	7	7	7	5	8	8
MichiganSt	11	1	10	12	11	11	11	9	11
Cincinnati	12	1	12	14	15	16	13	10	18
WestVirginia	13	2	13	13	14	12	14	12	12
NorthCarolina	14	1	14	16	16	15	12	19	16
Clemson	15	2	18	18	18	17	15	16	14
Tennessee	16	1	19	19	19	19	16	21	19
Kentucky	17	2	17	17	17	18	17	15	17
FloridaSt	18	3	15	10	10	13	18	13	13
KansasSt	19	3	16	11	12	14	19	18	15
Nevada	20	2	20	20	20	20	23	17	20
OhioSt	21	1	21	21	21	21	20	20	21
Houston	22	1	24	24	24	24	21	23	22
Auburn	23	1	22	23	23	25	22	22	23
TexasA&M	24	2	23	22	22	22	25	24	24
WichitaSt	25	0	27	27	27	27	27	26	30
Syracuse	26	2	25	25	26	23	26	25	29
Arizona	27	0	26	26	25	26	24	30	28
RhodeIsland	28	1	28	28	29	28	28	29	25
Florida	29	1	29	29	30	29	29	28	26
PennSt	30	"5"	32	30	28	36	30	32	35
Butler	31	1	31	32	32	32	33	31	33
Buffalo	32	1	33	33	33	30	31	34	31
SetonHall	33	1	30	31	31	31	32	27	32
UMBC	33	1	51	44	55	35	36	80	45
StMary'sCA	33	"2"	38	40	57	37	38	33	27
Utah	36	"4"	36	36	38	40	39	46	38
Providence	37	0	50	49	47	42	42	65	40
MiamiFL	37	0	37	37	35	38	37	39	36
Creighton	39	0	41	41	40	41	41	36	39