Note: we apologize for some technical difficulties with certain parts of the site and hope to troubleshoot/fix these issues soon. Here's the updated CS360 Composite National Rankings for this week (accompanying text and detailed listing of each team's various poll spots, etc., to be posted soon), which now includes the official NCAA RPI as the seventh core area in the CNR formula:
1. Stanford (99.84)
2. North Carolina (97.19)
3. Portland (96.57)
4. Florida State (94.96)
5. UCLA (94.62)
6. Boston College (90.63)
7. South Carolina (89.08)
8. Notre Dame (85.65)
9. Virginia Tech (85.60)
10. Louisiana State (84.23)
11. Wake Forest (82.96)
12. Georgia (81.75)
13. USC (81.37)
14. BYU (77.20)
15. Connecticut (77.19)
16. Rutgers (75.52)
17. Santa Clara (75.50)
18. Central Florida (74.86)
19. Maryland (74.79)
20. Michigan State (71.01, bonus)
21. Purdue (74.20; MSU)
22. Texas A&M (72.63)
23. Florida (71.39)
24. Washington (66.39; bonus)
25. Arizona State (70.92; WA)
26. California (70.27)
27. St. John's (69.70)
28. Oregon (67.48)
29. Ohio State (67.03)
30. Washington State (64.16; bns)
31. Oregon State (64.16; WSU)
32. Mississippi (61.80)
33. Virginia (60.14)
34. Kansas (58.38)
35. Penn State (53.70; bonus-3)
36. Illinois (55.37; bonus-2/PS)
37. Minnesota (55.84; bon/IL/PS)
38. Indiana (57.50; MN/IU/PS)
39. Dayton (56.77)
40. Charlotte (55.02)
41. Memphis (53.82)
42. West Virginia (49.58; bns)
43. Marquette (50.50; WVU)
44. Georgetown (46.64; bns)
45. Villanova (48.25; GU)
46. Missouri (47.67)
47. San Diego (47.08)
48. Alabama Birmingham (46.89)
49. Colorado (46.86)
50. Loyola Marymount (46.25)
Note: the following teams bumped ahead of other teams due to current bonus system based on comparative place in preseason conference polls: Michigan St. over Purdue; Washington over Arizona St.; Washington St. over Oregon St.; West Virginia over Marquette; Georgetown over Villanova; and a four-team sequence in the Big Ten (Minnesota jumped over Indiana; Illinois jumped over both of those teams; and preseason favorite Penn State went ahead of all three).
Dropped Out – #35 Oklahoma State, #36 William & Mary, #46 Duke, #48 Denver and #50 Pepperdine.