This is the first in a three part series on non-conference scheduling and some of the challenges schools in the MVC have to deal with. Today, we take a look at some new ideas for scheduling and what things could be versus what is reality

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Each basketball offseason, fans line up trying to find out who their team will play next season. Basketball scheduling is a tricky business. While college football teams have non-conference schedules lined up as far as ten years in advance, college basketball schedules trickle out each year with everyone sitting on pins and needles to see if their team will be welcoming a known powerhouse or if they will be stuck with opponents that are desperate enough to take game on the road. At the same time, coaches are trying to find that right non-conference schedule to make sure their team develops correctly.

The Missouri Valley Conference is no stranger to this frustration. Just over a week ago, Wichita State was the final team in the conference to release their non-conference schedule. This announcement came even after the league released the in-conference schedule a couple weeks before. With only two weeks away from the official start of practice and about a month away from the first exhibition contests, the art of putting together a schedule goes to the last minute.

Across the more than 340 Division I basketball teams in college hoops there are more teams than the Shockers that were releasing their schedules in the past week. The cat and mouse game between all of these schools are causing the schedules to be released later and later. This in turn also draws out the time before television schedules come out as well. In past years, when the MVC would release the conference schedule, it would also release the TV schedule close behind it. With the conference schedule released well over three weeks ago, the TV schedule, at last report, is set to be released some time in this next week. It will be interesting to see what that schedule will look like with the MVC’s newly negotiated contract.

Then to add to the craziness of non-conference scheduling was the announcement last week by ESPN for this year’s BracketBusters. The annual mid-February event that matched up mid-level teams that seemed to be on the bubble each year has, after spending the past two seasons with 100 teams involved, announced that a ridiculous 142 teams are participating in the event this season.

The great idea that started in 2003 with 18 teams has exploded into an event that is almost worthless except for the 26 teams that now are chosen to be featured on the ESPN networks. The reason everyone wants to be a part of it today is not because they have the opportunity to have a game on TV, but to also help them with their scheduling. The rules say that a return game has to be scheduled within 18 months of the BracketBuster game. So many schools give a sigh of relief because it is one less game that they have to schedule. But even that isn’t a given. A game that Creighton was required to return to Loyola-Chicago this season has been pushed back another year due to ominous circumstances.

The bottom line surrounding all of this chaos–the way college hoops non-conference schedules are put together has to be changed.

The ScheduleMatic Solution

One article that came out this summer that did not get as much attention as expected came from Ken Pomeroy. Those familiar with Mr. Pomeroy know him from his kenpom.com web site and the innovative use of statistics along with his own rankings of teams. One additional innovation is the development of a program to help with scheduling he calls ScheduleMatic.

His idea revolves around the fact that the first week or so of college basketball is relatively unpublicized and many people aren’t really compelled to pay attention to college hoops when it starts in early November. I see this myself as football fans are heavily invested into their team’s play with the pigskin and basketball is an afterthought until December or even January. Granted, Duke fans are pretty focused on basketball season year round especially since it is a school with an uninspiring football program. Or others may even be focused on their favorite NFL team.

Granted, ESPN has tried a few different things as it is into its fourth year of a 24-hour hoops marathon, and a couple of new ideas with the Champions Classic games with powerhouses Kansas, Kentucky, Duke and Michigan State matching up at Madison Square Garden along with the first college basketball game on an aircraft carrier with North Carolina vs. Michigan State, but what about the other few hundred teams across the nation? Pomeroy really sums it up best:

My idea is to turn over the first week of the season to my game generator, ScheduleMatic, which will schedule the first two opponents for every Division I team.

What’s ScheduleMatic? It’s an algorithm that finds competitive matchups among nearby teams, the types of games that generate interest among the die-hard and casual fan alike. ScheduleMatic accomplishes this by putting the 344 Division I teams in random order and then conducts an automated draft, matching nearby teams with a small difference in their ranking from the previous season. (In this case, I’ll use my own ratings, but any system will do.) In a matter of seconds, ScheduleMatic produces a complete schedule of one home and one road game for each team.

To me this is a great idea. First of all, it takes the pain out of contacting other schools to try and put these games together. It just sort of happens. Secondly, I know that schools are constantly trying to work out budgets by having enough home games to reach those budgets. On the other end of the spectrum, you have the schools from the SWAC and MEAC who travel like nomads each November and December to get guarantee money from high power schools so they can meet their budgetary concerns. But believe me, these games won’t be taking Kentucky to go play at Alcorn State. Finally, the algorithm is based on regional schools with similar rankings. However, I am sure that Alcorn State fans would enjoy having a home game against a team that isn’t called the Christian Nuns Academy.

In this scenario, every team plays a home and away game. If the concern is about money, then split the gate. Wait, how about something even better? Make it a home and home with games at the opposite schools the following season. So after doing this for two years, there are four games scheduled each year automatically for each team that schools don’t have to worry about. It would be two games at home and two games on the road for the first two weeks of the season. The games would also likely be games that local fans will care about. Then if you throw in your neutral site tournaments that a majority of NCAA schools play in today, that gives more than enough flexibility that schools scheduling the remaining 3 to 4 non-conference games each season, they can be whatever type of game they want and everyone is happy. It gives each team a challenging slate- the home and road games are evenly distributed and every team heads into its conference season knowing they scheduled the best non-conference games they could.

How would ScheduleMatic work for MVC Schools?

Pomeroy ran ScheduleMatic to produce the two games that each school would play for the 2011-12 season based on his rankings at the finish of the 2010-11 season. As part of my research for this series, I liked the idea of the return games the following season. I asked Mr. Pomeroy if he could run this ScheduleMatic for what games would have been generated for 2010-11 based on 2009-10 so that we could account for the return games that would have been scheduled for this season. The other thing I was curious about was whether the same schools would be matched up with each other each season. The results showed that for a majority of schools, there will ultimately be four different schools that come out of the algorithm, not repeat opponents from year one to year two.

Here is a look at each of the Missouri Valley Conference schools on what they actually scheduled for the 2011-12 season for the first four games (not including games created as a result of the exempt/neutral site tourneys) versus what ScheduleMatic would have given to these schools instead.

Creighton

MVC School	SM Projected	Pom Ranking	Actual Sched	Pom Ranking
Creighton	Nebraska	60	@ UAB	63
Own Ranking: 95	@ Iowa State	81	@ San Diego State	8
	@ Nebraska	60	Nebraska	60
	Akron	117	@ St. Joseph's	183
Average Ranks		79.5		78.5

We have to take a look at the hometown Bluejays first. They were the only MVC school that ScheduleMatic generated duplicate matchups with the same school, but it is a good one. Fans have asked for years for Nebraska to play a same season home-and-home with Creighton. To many, it makes sense. Both teams are always looking for challenging games and you know it will put people in the seats creating a near sellout whether it is in Lincoln or Omaha. Doc Sadler may not agree, but let’s face it, Nebraska and Creighton matchup pretty well based on their location and level of play. Nothing against the Bluejays, but if they want to get the matchups with the likes of Missouri or Kansas instead, then there is some ground to make up which they could quickly do with a successful season this year.

(Note-With the home-and-home theory that I am using from what was scheduled the previous year had ScheduleMatic been in place, it would have had both games in Lincoln this season. However, with the scheduling anomalies this might create, a home-and-home is created instead of two road games for the one school at the same place.)

Interestingly enough check out the other two schools, Akron and Iowa State. The Bluejays did end up playing both of them last season. Creighton met Iowa State in Des Moines as part of a Multi-Team Event (MTE) and the Bluejays were matched up with a game at the Zips due to the BracketBuster event. So really, ScheduleMatic was not too far off from that standpoint.

However, for this season, Creighton has done a good job with the actual schedule based on last season’s Pomeroy rankings. It appears to me that they are doing the right thing as far as their scheduling goes.

Bradley

MVC School	SM Projected	Pom Ranking	Actual Sched	Pom Ranking
Bradley	Loyola-Chicago	142	SEMO	287
Own Ranking: 177	@ Ball State	169	North Dakota	301
	@ IUPUI	138	@ Wyoming	215
	Wisconsin-Milwaukee	140	@ Northeastern	186
Average Ranks		147.25		247.25

Bradley is sort of an interesting case. For them, ScheduleMatic could have really helped their early non-conference schedule. With new coach Geno Ford coming in and the Braves finishing last in the Valley last season, the actual schedule is a light to start the season.

Loyola-Chicago, Ball State, IUPUI and Wisconsin-Milwaukee may not be the most attractive on paper, but Bradley fans are smart and they would probably rather see the games from ScheduleMatic than Southeast Missouri State, North Dakota, Wyoming and Northeastern. Wyoming is a result of the MVC/MWC Challenge for this season. Northeastern is from the CAA, but they are not George Mason or Old Dominion. In the end, their early schedule is below what they could have had with ScheduleMatic games.

Drake

MVC School	SM Projected	Pom Ranking	Actual Sched	Pom Ranking
Drake	Arkansas-Little Rock	211	Upper Iowa	N/A
Own Ranking: 200	@ Virginia Military Institute	199	Iowa State	81
	@ Iowa	80	Cal State-Northridge	230
	North Texas	175	@ Boise State	85
Average Ranks		166.25		132

Initially, it looks like Drake did a pretty good job this season with their annual game against Iowa State and playing at Boise State. However, scheduling a non D-1 like Upper Iowa as a regular season game is a no-no. That would have made for a good exhibition, but not a regular season game. But scheduling the Non-D1 school is something we’ll take a look at in Part II of this series.

ScheduleMatic does create some interesting games for Drake–probably games that they would not actually happen with the likes of VMI or North Texas. Drake does get Iowa every year anyway, so that isn’t too far off. I’m sort of surprised that Arkansas-Little Rock hasn’t been on the schedule in recent years. Seems like a decent regional matchup to me.

Evansville

MVC School	SM Projected	Pom Ranking	Actual Sched	Pom Ranking
Evansville	Ball State	169	Butler	41
Own Ranking: 166	@ Middle Tennessee	179	Indiana	75
	@ Arkansas State	190	Oakland City	n/a
	Eastern Illinois	299	Illinois-Chicago	253
Average Ranks		209.25		200.33

Evansville has scheduled for themselves pretty well to start the season. One thing to their advantage is the new downtown Ford Center Arena. Historical hoops schools Butler and Indiana have agreed to help the Aces open things up as the first couple games of the season. And Illinois-Chicago is probably a nice regional matchup. We’ll ignore Oakland City for now, but again, a school close enough to help open the new arena.

As for ScheduleMatic, the matchups aren’t too far off from what Evansville has done in the past. In fact, last season, the Purple Aces played a same season home-and-home with Middle Tennessee which were both pretty good battles. Evansville has played Ball State and Eastern Illinois in the past. They last played each other in the 2008-09 season. A few regional matchups that would be great to revive once again.

Illinois State

MVC School	SM Projected	Pom Ranking	Actual Sched	Pom Ranking
Illinois State	Winthrop	229	@ Fresno State	165
Own Ranking: 226	@ Depaul	202	Bethune Cookman	294
	@ St. Louis	122	Chicago State	344
	Northwestern	49	UNC-Wilmington	205
Average Ranks		150.5		252

Since Tim Jankovich has arrived in Normal, the fans have not taken much of a liking to his scheduling techniques. It has been the yearly league joke that the Redbirds schedule the worst non-conference schedule in the conference. This year, they might have actually done a little better than one of their conference brethren, but not by much. It is hard to believe that a man that was once associated with Bill Self would have so much trouble scheduling non-conference games. Bethune Cookman, UNC-Wilmington and Chicago State just isn’t going to cut it.

Jankovich would probably appreciate having ScheduleMatic to schedule some games. They would definitely be solid ones. DePaul, Northwestern, St. Louis and Winthrop would be some games rabid Redbird fans would definitely care about. They would also be a lot nicer for their strength of schedule even though DePaul is towards the bottom of the Big East and Northwestern is a middling team in the Big 10. Anything will help Illinois State.

Indiana State

MVC School	SM Projected	Pom Ranking	Actual Sched	Pom Ranking
Indiana State	Dayton	100	Eastern Illinois	299
Own Ranking: 101	@ Valparaiso	107	@ Louisiana-Monroe	326
	@ Jacksonville	164	Ball State	169
	IUPUI	138	Wisconsin-Green Bay	156
Average Ranks		127.25		237.5

The Sycamores are coming off of a high after winning the MVC Tournament and getting to the NCAA’s for the first time in several years. That hasn’t helped them on the scheduling front. They definitely would benefit from the joys of ScheduleMatic. The actual games with Louisiana-Monroe were scheduled for senior Dwayne Latham to be able to play games close to his hometown. So that is nice, but having Dayton, Valpo and IUPUI would be interesting games.

Indiana State can hope to meet Dayton at the Old Spice Classic in late November this season.

Missouri State

MVC School	SM Projected	Pom Ranking	Actual Sched	Pom Ranking
Missouri State	Indiana	75	@ Nevada	159
Own Ranking: 71	@ Baylor	77	@ Arkansas State	190
	@ Iowa State	81	Emporia State	n/a
	Colorado	56	Tulsa	90
Average Ranks		72.25		146.33

If you are a Missouri State fan, you are likely drooling over the schedule had ScheduleMatic been in place. Indiana, Baylor, Iowa State and Colorado probably sound a whole lot better than Nevada, Arkansas State and Emporia State. However, with a team rebuilding with new head coach Paul Lusk and several holes to fill on the team, they played it safe and went that route instead. One plus that isn’t a part of the first four games however, is a home matchup against Oklahoma State.

The Bears have actually done a pretty good job from a scheduling standpoint over the past few years since the opening of JQH Arena.

Northern Iowa

MVC School	SM Projected	Pom Ranking	Actual Sched	Pom Ranking
Northern Iowa	Valparaiso	107	@ Old Dominion	48
Own Ranking: 106	@ Iowa	80	@ St. Mary's	50
	@ Minnesota	57	@ Iowa State	81
	Purdue	9	Colorado State	79
Average Ranks		63.25		64.5

The Panthers have been able to ride on their performances and name brand the past few seasons to schedule some pretty decent games. They haven’t been afraid to go places like Syracuse and this season make the trip out to St. Mary’s just to be part of the ESPN 24-hour hoops marathon. In this case, you could say ESPN set this game up, it wasn’t likely Northern Iowa.

Cedar Falls is right is somewhat in the middle of Big 10 country. Although they get to play Iowa yearly, it would be a pretty sweet deal if Northern Iowa got to play the likes of other nearby Big 10 teams in Minnesota or Purdue. However, Northern Iowa scheduled for themselves pretty well this season with the first four games even though many of those are on the road.

Southern Illinois

MVC School	SM Projected	Pom Ranking	Actual Sched	Pom Ranking
Southern Illinois	Charleston Southern	219	Ohio Dominican	N/A
Own Ranking: 217	@ Arkansas-Little Rock	211	St. Louis	122
	@ Wisconsin-Milwaukee	140	@ Northeastern	186
	Louisiana Tech	252	Chicago State	344
Average Ranks		205.5		217.33

The Salukis are starting to run out of gas scheduling on name recognition and success alone. They are now concerned with just trying to win some games. They will start off the season with what could basically be another exhibition against non-D1 Ohio Dominican, have to return the 24-hoops marathon game against Northeastern and have Chicago State on the schedule.

The ScheduleMatic schedule that includes Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Louisiana Tech, Charleston Southern and Arkansas-Little Rock, may not sound too appetizing either, but let’s face it. Southern Illinois hoops is not what it once was. So maybe their actual scheduling for this season is about right.

Wichita State

MVC School	SM Projected	Pom Ranking	Actual Sched	Pom Ranking
Wichita State	Kansas	3	Charleston Southern	219
Own Ranking: 26	@ Kansas State	30	UAB	63
	@ Tulsa	90	Cal State-Fullerton	260
	Iowa State	81	UNLV	27
Average Ranks		51		142.25

We have lamented already how Wichita State took so long to release their non-conference schedule. And with good reason. The past few years, they have struggled to make a name for themselves basically because their non-conference schedule was pretty weak and the games they needed to win to get some national recognition didn’t happen. Creighton, Drake, and Northern Iowa get the benefits of being able to play their other in-state Division I counterparts while the Shockers wish they could play Kansas or Kansas State. The best they can do is get a scrimmage against Kansas State before the season, not an actual game.

The Shockers would likely welcome the ScheduleMatic idea. They would actually get the chance to play Kansas and Kansas State, even in the same season. Then throw in a little Iowa State as well. Luckily Wichita State got a four-year agreement with Tulsa already a couple of years ago restarting that regional rivalry again. In reality, with having to settle for Charleston Southern and Cal-State Fullerton as well as a crosstown “neutral” game with UAB, it appears to be a tough sell in Wichita for teams to stop by.

One Additional Note:

• One team that would likely get tired of playing MVC competition would be Iowa State. Through using ScheduleMatic, the Cyclones would end up playing Wichita State, Missouri State, and Creighton along with their normal non-conference games against Drake and Northern Iowa. Maybe if the conference realignment does continue on, Iowa State could become part of the MVC. They are at the level that they would be playing a lot of the MVC teams already.

The Other Teams

Are you looking to see how your other favorite teams would have fared with a two-year ScheduleMatic? Below is the consolidated table from Ken Pomeroy’s ScheduleMatic post along with the matchups assigned from the year before as if they were a Home/Home matchup for the 2011-12 season. *

Team	Home ('10-11)	Away ('10-11)	Home ('09-10)	Away ('09-10)
Air Force	New Mexico St.	Northern Colorado	UC Irvine	South Dakota
Akron	Wright St.	James Madison	Western Kentucky	Creighton
Alabama	Missouri	UAB	Michigan	Wake Forest
Alabama A&M	Kennesaw St.	Florida A&M	Jacksonville St.	Toledo
Alabama St.	Chattanooga	South Alabama	Charleston Southern	North Florida
Albany	Siena	Wagner	Monmouth	Colgate
Alcorn St.	Louisiana Monroe	Howard	Chicago St.	Florida A&M
American	William & Mary	Loyola MD	Delaware St.	Sacred Heart
Appalachian St.	NC Asheville	Tennessee Tech	South Carolina	Ohio
Arizona	San Diego St.	Nevada Las Vegas	New Mexico St.	Nevada
Arizona St.	Northern Colorado	Northern Arizona	St. Mary's	Nevada Las Vegas
Arkansas	Tulsa	South Dakota St.	Oklahoma	Sam Houston St.
Arkansas Little Rock	Southern Illinois	Drake	McNeese St.	Jackson St.
Arkansas Pine Bluff	Central Arkansas	Louisiana Monroe	Texas St.	Ball St.
Arkansas St.	Miami OH	Tulane	Evansville	Austin Peay
Army	Fordham	New Hampshire	Yale	Long Island
Auburn	Tennessee Tech	Western Carolina	Charlotte	Southern Mississippi
Austin Peay	Lipscomb	St. Louis	Arkansas St.	Central Michigan
Ball St.	Bradley	Evansville	Arkansas Pine Bluff	Texas St.
Baylor	Missouri St.	Texas El Paso	West Virginia	Wisconsin
Belmont	Vanderbilt	Illinois	Oral Roberts	Vermont
Bethune Cookman	Florida Gulf Coast	Stetson	Stetson	Florida Gulf Coast
Binghamton	Colgate	Niagara	Sacred Heart	Navy
Boise St.	Montana	Oregon	Northern Colorado	Oregon St.
Boston College	Connecticut	College of Charleston	Connecticut	Siena
Boston University	Northeastern	Harvard	Harvard	George Washington
Bowling Green	Wake Forest	Elon	Canisius	Loyola MD
Bradley	Loyola Chicago	Ball St.	Wisconsin Milwaukee	IUPUI
Brigham Young	Utah St.	San Diego St.	California	Kansas St.
Brown	Lafayette	Sacred Heart	New Hampshire	Norfolk St.
Bryant	Hartford	Marist	North Carolina Central	Dartmouth
Bucknell	Drexel	North Carolina St.	IUPU Fort Wayne	Yale
Buffalo	Rhode Island	Canisius	Lehigh	George Mason
Butler	Michigan St.	Missouri	Ohio St.	Xavier
Cal Poly	Nevada	San Jose St.	Wyoming	Santa Clara
Cal St. Bakersfield	San Diego	Sacramento St.	Eastern Washington	Pepperdine
Cal St. Fullerton	Eastern Washington	Pepperdine	San Diego	Loyola Marymount
Cal St. Northridge	Loyola Marymount	Lamar	Northern Arizona	San Diego
California	St. Mary's	Santa Clara	Utah St.	Brigham Young
Campbell	NC Wilmington	Liberty	Coastal Carolina	Morgan St.
Canisius	Buffalo	IUPU Fort Wayne	Indiana	Bowling Green
Central Arkansas	Southern	Arkansas Pine Bluff	Missouri Kansas City	Grambling
Central Connecticut	Holy Cross	George Washington	Hartford	Southeast Missouri St.
Central Florida	North Carolina St.	South Florida	Mount St. Mary's	La Salle
Central Michigan	St. Francis PA	Southeast Missouri St.	Austin Peay	Manhattan
Charleston Southern	Georgia St.	Southern Illinois	Savannah St.	Alabama St.
Charlotte	Mercer	William & Mary	Southern Mississippi	Auburn
Chattanooga	Missouri Kansas City	Alabama St.	Tennessee St.	Tennessee Tech
Chicago St.	Western Illinois	SIU Edwardsville	Southern	Alcorn St.
Cincinnati	Florida St.	Michigan	Wright St.	South Carolina
Clemson	West Virginia	Florida	Texas	Texas A&M
Cleveland St.	Kent St.	Oakland	Duquesne	Middle Tennessee
Coastal Carolina	South Carolina	Davidson	Western Carolina	Campbell
Colgate	Dartmouth	Binghamton	Albany	Pennsylvania
College of Charleston	Boston College	Miami FL	Jacksonville	East Tennessee St.
Colorado	New Mexico	Texas A&M	Houston	Missouri St.
Colorado St.	Iowa	Iowa St.	Denver	Northern Colorado
Columbia	St. Francis NY	Stony Brook	Fordham	St. Francis NY
Connecticut	Wisconsin	Boston College	Rhode Island	Boston College
Coppin St.	Towson	Navy	MD Baltimore County	St. Francis PA
Cornell	DePaul	Quinnipiac	Wake Forest	Seton Hall
Creighton	Iowa St.	Nebraska	Akron	Nebraska
Dartmouth	Fairleigh Dickinson	Colgate	Bryant	Howard
Davidson	Coastal Carolina	NC Asheville	Lipscomb	Winthrop
Dayton	Murray St.	Indiana St.	Michigan St.	Georgia Tech
Delaware	Florida Atlantic	Saint Joseph's	Lafayette	Delaware St.
Delaware St.	NJ Inst of Technology	Samford	Delaware	American
Denver	Wyoming	Texas San Antonio	Montana St.	Colorado St.
DePaul	Illinois St.	Cornell	Robert Morris	Illinois Chicago
Detroit	IUPUI	Long Island	George Washington	St. Bonaventure
Drake	Arkansas Little Rock	Virginia Military Inst	North Texas	Iowa
Drexel	Princeton	Bucknell	La Salle	Rider
Duke	Ohio St.	West Virginia	Georgetown	Kentucky
Duquesne	Seton Hall	Virginia Commonwealth	Wisconsin Green Bay	Cleveland St.
East Carolina	Hofstra	Furman	Furman	NC Wilmington
East Tennessee St.	James Madison	Wright St.	College of Charleston	Western Carolina
Eastern Illinois	North Carolina A&T	Northern Illinois	The Citadel	Evansville
Eastern Kentucky	Western Kentucky	Youngstown St.	Valparaiso	Texas A&M Corpus Chris
Eastern Michigan	Niagara	Jacksonville St.	Stony Brook	Indiana
Eastern Washington	UC Davis	Cal St. Fullerton	Lamar	Cal St. Bakersfield
Elon	Bowling Green	Georgia St.	Norfolk St.	South Carolina St.
Evansville	Ball St.	Middle Tennessee	Eastern Illinois	Arkansas St.
Fairfield	Harvard	Providence	Princeton	Harvard
Fairleigh Dickinson	Marist	Dartmouth	Virginia Military Inst	Maryland Eastern Shore
Florida	Clemson	Florida St.	Miami FL	Florida St.
Florida A&M	Alabama A&M	Georgia Southern	Alcorn St.	Stetson
Florida Atlantic	Jacksonville	Delaware	Mercer	James Madison
Florida Gulf Coast	Florida International	Bethune Cookman	Bethune Cookman	North Carolina A&T
Florida International	Stetson	Florida Gulf Coast	Navy	Northwestern St.
Florida St.	Florida	Cincinnati	Florida	Temple
Fordham	New Hampshire	Army	St. Francis NY	Columbia
Fresno St.	UC Santa Barbara	San Francisco	Loyola Marymount	UC Santa Barbara
Furman	East Carolina	Southern Methodist	Radford	East Carolina
Gardner Webb	The Citadel	Savannah St.	Toledo	NJ Inst of Technology
George Mason	Syracuse	Virginia Tech	Buffalo	Robert Morris
George Washington	Central Connecticut	Western Michigan	Boston University	Detroit
Georgetown	Georgia	Maryland	Maryland	Duke
Georgia	UAB	Georgetown	South Florida	Wofford
Georgia Southern	Florida A&M	South Carolina St.	Kennesaw St.	South Carolina Upstate
Georgia St.	Elon	Charleston Southern	Hampton	Troy
Georgia Tech	Marshall	Wofford	Dayton	Tennessee
Gonzaga	Washington St.	Washington	Montana	Washington
Grambling	Texas Pan American	Houston Baptist	Central Arkansas	SIU Edwardsville
Hampton	North Florida	Winthrop	NC Wilmington	Georgia St.
Hartford	Monmouth	Bryant	Marist	Central Connecticut
Harvard	Boston University	Fairfield	Fairfield	Boston University
Hawaii	Pacific	Oregon St.	UC Riverside	Northern Arizona
High Point	NC Greensboro	North Carolina Central	South Carolina Upstate	Idaho St.
Hofstra	Rider	East Carolina	Vermont	Princeton
Holy Cross	Youngstown St.	Central Connecticut	Maine	Youngstown St.
Houston	Stephen F. Austin	McNeese St.	Sam Houston St.	Colorado
Houston Baptist	Grambling	Prairie View A&M	Centenary	Prairie View A&M
Howard	Alcorn St.	MD Baltimore County	Dartmouth	Marist
Idaho	Utah	UC Santa Barbara	UC Santa Barbara	Washington St.
Idaho St.	North Dakota	Norfolk St.	High Point	Lamar
Illinois	Belmont	Kansas	Missouri	New Mexico
Illinois Chicago	Liberty	Texas Arlington	DePaul	NC Greensboro
Illinois St.	Winthrop	DePaul	Northwestern	St. Louis
Indiana	Morehead St.	Missouri St.	Eastern Michigan	Canisius
Indiana St.	Dayton	Valparaiso	IUPUI	Jacksonville
Iona	St. John's	Rutgers	Penn St.	William & Mary
Iowa	Northern Iowa	Colorado St.	Drake	Mount St. Mary's
Iowa St.	Colorado St.	Creighton	Missouri St.	Wichita St.
IUPU Fort Wayne	Canisius	Miami OH	Winthrop	Bucknell
IUPUI	Wisconsin Milwaukee	Detroit	Bradley	Indiana St.
Jackson St.	Tennessee Martin	Troy	Arkansas Little Rock	McNeese St.
Jacksonville	South Florida	Florida Atlantic	Indiana St.	College of Charleston
Jacksonville St.	Eastern Michigan	Texas Southern	North Florida	Alabama A&M
James Madison	Akron	East Tennessee St.	Florida Atlantic	Loyola Chicago
Kansas	Illinois	Wichita St.	Kentucky	Syracuse
Kansas St.	Wichita St.	Michigan St.	Brigham Young	West Virginia
Kennesaw St.	Mississippi Valley St.	Alabama A&M	Western Illinois	Georgia Southern
Kent St.	Virginia	Cleveland St.	Nebraska	Penn St.
Kentucky	Texas	Pittsburgh	Duke	Kansas
La Salle	Quinnipiac	Rider	Central Florida	Drexel
Lafayette	Sacred Heart	Brown	Towson	Delaware
Lamar	Cal St. Northridge	North Florida	Idaho St.	Eastern Washington
Lehigh	Pennsylvania	Siena	St. Peter's	Buffalo
Liberty	Campbell	Illinois Chicago	North Carolina A&T	Longwood
Lipscomb	Middle Tennessee	Austin Peay	Troy	Davidson
Long Beach St.	Stanford	UCLA	UCLA	Southern California
Long Island	Detroit	St. Peter's	Army	New Hampshire
Longwood	Norfolk St.	NJ Inst of Technology	Liberty	NC Asheville
Louisiana Lafayette	McNeese St.	Southeastern Louisiana	Texas San Antonio	Tulane
Louisiana Monroe	Arkansas Pine Bluff	Alcorn St.	Texas Southern	Western Illinois
Louisiana St.	Southeastern Louisiana	Stephen F. Austin	Tulane	Southeastern Louisiana
Louisiana Tech	Northwestern St.	Texas St.	Southern Methodist	Southern Illinois
Louisville	Xavier	North Carolina	Mississippi St.	Miami FL
Loyola Chicago	Oral Roberts	Bradley	James Madison	South Dakota St.
Loyola Marymount	UC Irvine	Cal St. Northridge	Cal St. Fullerton	Fresno St.
Loyola MD	American	NC Wilmington	Bowling Green	Mercer
Maine	Massachusetts	Northeastern	Quinnipiac	Holy Cross
Manhattan	Maryland Eastern Shore	Monmouth	Central Michigan	Quinnipiac
Marist	Bryant	Fairleigh Dickinson	Howard	Hartford
Marquette	Michigan	Northwestern	Minnesota	Northwestern
Marshall	Mississippi	Georgia Tech	Virginia	Morehead St.
Maryland	Georgetown	Penn St.	Villanova	Georgetown
Maryland Eastern Shore	MD Baltimore County	Manhattan	Fairleigh Dickinson	Virginia Military Inst
Massachusetts	Yale	Maine	Rutgers	Stony Brook
McNeese St.	Houston	Louisiana Lafayette	Jackson St.	Arkansas Little Rock
MD Baltimore County	Howard	Maryland Eastern Shore	St. Francis PA	Coppin St.
Memphis	Mississippi St.	Morehead St.	Mississippi	Mississippi St.
Mercer	Western Carolina	Charlotte	Loyola MD	Florida Atlantic
Miami FL	College of Charleston	Seton Hall	Louisville	Florida
Miami OH	IUPU Fort Wayne	Arkansas St.	Morehead St.	Oakland
Michigan	Cincinnati	Marquette	Siena	Alabama
Michigan St.	Kansas St.	Butler	Notre Dame	Dayton
Middle Tennessee	Evansville	Lipscomb	Cleveland St.	Stephen F. Austin
Minnesota	Oakland	Tennessee	Northern Iowa	Marquette
Mississippi	Southern Mississippi	Marshall	Murray St.	Memphis
Mississippi St.	Texas Tech	Memphis	Memphis	Louisville
Mississippi Valley St.	South Carolina Upstate	Kennesaw St.	Southeast Missouri St.	Tennessee Martin
Missouri	Butler	Alabama	Wisconsin	Illinois
Missouri Kansas City	Northern Illinois	Chattanooga	Tennessee Martin	Central Arkansas
Missouri St.	Indiana	Baylor	Colorado	Iowa St.
Monmouth	Manhattan	Hartford	Pennsylvania	Albany
Montana	Portland	Boise St.	Washington St.	Gonzaga
Montana St.	Utah Valley	Seattle	South Dakota St.	Denver
Morehead St.	Memphis	Indiana	Marshall	Miami OH
Morgan St.	Wagner	Mount St. Mary's	Campbell	Rutgers
Mount St. Mary's	Morgan St.	Towson	Iowa	Central Florida
Murray St.	St. Louis	Dayton	Vanderbilt	Mississippi
Navy	Coppin St.	St. Francis PA	Binghamton	Florida International
NC Asheville	Davidson	Appalachian St.	Longwood	Savannah St.
NC Greensboro	Troy	High Point	Illinois Chicago	Radford
NC Wilmington	Loyola MD	Campbell	East Carolina	Hampton
Nebraska	Creighton	Washington St.	Creighton	Kent St.
Nevada	San Francisco	Cal Poly	Arizona	Stanford
Nevada Las Vegas	Arizona	Utah St.	Arizona St.	St. Mary's
New Hampshire	Army	Fordham	Long Island	Brown
New Mexico	Southern California	Colorado	Illinois	Texas Tech
New Mexico St.	Northern Arizona	Air Force	Weber St.	Arizona
Niagara	Binghamton	Eastern Michigan	St. Bonaventure	Wisconsin Green Bay
Nicholls St.	Tulane	Tennessee St.	South Carolina St.	Rice
NJ Inst of Technology	Longwood	Delaware St.	Gardner Webb	Wagner
Norfolk St.	Idaho St.	Longwood	Brown	Elon
North Carolina	Louisville	Purdue	Virginia Commonwealth	Richmond
North Carolina A&T	North Carolina Central	Eastern Illinois	Florida Gulf Coast	Liberty
North Carolina Central	High Point	North Carolina A&T	Presbyterian	Bryant
North Carolina St.	Bucknell	Central Florida	UAB	St. John's
North Dakota	South Dakota	Idaho St.	SIU Edwardsville	Southern
North Dakota St.	Western Michigan	Wisconsin Green Bay	South Dakota	Northern Illinois
North Florida	Lamar	Hampton	Alabama St.	Jacksonville St.
North Texas	Rice	Texas Christian	Texas Arlington	Drake
Northeastern	Maine	Boston University	Seton Hall	Providence
Northern Arizona	Arizona St.	New Mexico St.	Hawaii	Cal St. Northridge
Northern Colorado	Air Force	Arizona St.	Colorado St.	Boise St.
Northern Illinois	Eastern Illinois	Missouri Kansas City	North Dakota St.	Wyoming
Northern Iowa	Valparaiso	Iowa	Purdue	Minnesota
Northwestern	Marquette	Xavier	Marquette	Illinois St.
Northwestern St.	Texas Southern	Louisiana Tech	Florida International	Texas Southern
Notre Dame	Washington	Wisconsin	Xavier	Michigan St.
Oakland	Cleveland St.	Minnesota	Miami OH	Western Michigan
Ohio	Wisconsin Green Bay	Robert Morris	Appalachian St.	Virginia
Ohio St.	Pittsburgh	Duke	Syracuse	Butler
Oklahoma	Southern Methodist	Oral Roberts	St. Louis	Arkansas
Oklahoma St.	Texas El Paso	Tulsa	San Diego St.	Texas El Paso
Old Dominion	Richmond	St. John's	Virginia Tech	Pittsburgh
Oral Roberts	Oklahoma	Loyola Chicago	Tulsa	Belmont
Oregon	Boise St.	Portland	Portland	Utah
Oregon St.	Hawaii	Pacific	Boise St.	Seattle
Pacific	Oregon St.	Hawaii	Stanford	UCLA
Penn St.	Maryland	Villanova	Kent St.	Iona
Pennsylvania	Saint Joseph's	Lehigh	Colgate	Monmouth
Pepperdine	Cal St. Fullerton	UC Irvine	Cal St. Bakersfield	UC Irvine
Pittsburgh	Kentucky	Ohio St.	Old Dominion	Vanderbilt
Portland	Oregon	Montana	Portland St.	Oregon
Portland St.	Seattle	UC Riverside	Seattle	Portland
Prairie View A&M	Houston Baptist	Texas A&M Corpus Chris	Houston Baptist	Texas Pan American
Presbyterian	Savannah St.	The Citadel	Wagner	North Carolina Central
Princeton	Rutgers	Drexel	Hofstra	Fairfield
Providence	Fairfield	Rhode Island	Northeastern	Rhode Island
Purdue	North Carolina	Texas	Texas A&M	Northern Iowa
Quinnipiac	Cornell	La Salle	Manhattan	Maine
Radford	South Carolina St.	Toledo	NC Greensboro	Furman
Rhode Island	Providence	Buffalo	Providence	Connecticut
Rice	Sam Houston St.	North Texas	Nicholls St.	Texas Arlington
Richmond	Virginia Commonwealth	Old Dominion	North Carolina	Virginia Commonwealth
Rider	La Salle	Hofstra	Drexel	Saint Joseph's
Robert Morris	Ohio	St. Bonaventure	George Mason	DePaul
Rutgers	Iona	Princeton	Morgan St.	Massachusetts
Sacramento St.	Cal St. Bakersfield	UC Davis	Utah Valley	Southern Utah
Sacred Heart	Brown	Lafayette	American	Binghamton
Saint Joseph's	Delaware	Pennsylvania	Rider	St. Peter's
Sam Houston St.	Texas Christian	Rice	Arkansas	Houston
Samford	Delaware St.	South Carolina Upstate	Tennessee Tech	South Alabama
San Diego	UC Riverside	Cal St. Bakersfield	Cal St. Northridge	Cal St. Fullerton
San Diego St.	Brigham Young	Arizona	Southern California	Oklahoma St.
San Francisco	Fresno St.	Nevada	UC Davis	San Jose St.
San Jose St.	Cal Poly	Weber St.	San Francisco	UC Davis
Santa Clara	California	Stanford	Cal Poly	UC Riverside
Savannah St.	Gardner Webb	Presbyterian	NC Asheville	Charleston Southern
Seattle	Montana St.	Portland St.	Oregon St.	Portland St.
Seton Hall	Miami FL	Duquesne	Cornell	Northeastern
Siena	Lehigh	Albany	Boston College	Michigan
SIU Edwardsville	Chicago St.	Southern	Grambling	North Dakota
South Alabama	Alabama St.	Tennessee Martin	Samford	Tennessee St.
South Carolina	Vermont	Coastal Carolina	Cincinnati	Appalachian St.
South Carolina St.	Georgia Southern	Radford	Elon	Nicholls St.
South Carolina Upstate	Samford	Mississippi Valley St.	Georgia Southern	High Point
South Dakota	Southeast Missouri St.	North Dakota	Air Force	North Dakota St.
South Dakota St.	Arkansas	Texas Tech	Loyola Chicago	Montana St.
South Florida	Central Florida	Jacksonville	Wofford	Georgia
Southeast Missouri St.	Central Michigan	South Dakota	Central Connecticut	Mississippi Valley St.
Southeastern Louisiana	Louisiana Lafayette	Louisiana St.	Louisiana St.	The Citadel
Southern	SIU Edwardsville	Central Arkansas	North Dakota	Chicago St.
Southern California	Texas A&M	New Mexico	Long Beach St.	San Diego St.
Southern Illinois	Charleston Southern	Arkansas Little Rock	Louisiana Tech	Wisconsin Milwaukee
Southern Methodist	Furman	Oklahoma	Stephen F. Austin	Louisiana Tech
Southern Mississippi	Tennessee	Mississippi	Auburn	Charlotte
Southern Utah	Texas St.	Utah Valley	Sacramento St.	Utah Valley
St. Bonaventure	Robert Morris	Wisconsin Milwaukee	Detroit	Niagara
St. Francis NY	Stony Brook	Columbia	Columbia	Fordham
St. Francis PA	Navy	Central Michigan	Coppin St.	MD Baltimore County
St. John's	Old Dominion	Iona	North Carolina St.	Wright St.
St. Louis	Austin Peay	Murray St.	Illinois St.	Oklahoma
St. Mary's	UCLA	California	Nevada Las Vegas	Arizona St.
St. Peter's	Long Island	Vermont	Saint Joseph's	Lehigh
Stanford	Santa Clara	Long Beach St.	Nevada	Pacific
Stephen F. Austin	Louisiana St.	Houston	Middle Tennessee	Southern Methodist
Stetson	Bethune Cookman	Florida International	Florida A&M	Bethune Cookman
Stony Brook	Columbia	St. Francis NY	Massachusetts	Eastern Michigan
Syracuse	Temple	George Mason	Kansas	Ohio St.
Temple	Villanova	Syracuse	Florida St.	Villanova
Tennessee	Minnesota	Southern Mississippi	Georgia Tech	Virginia Tech
Tennessee Martin	South Alabama	Jackson St.	Mississippi Valley St.	Missouri Kansas City
Tennessee St.	Nicholls St.	Western Kentucky	South Alabama	Chattanooga
Tennessee Tech	Appalachian St.	Auburn	Chattanooga	Samford
Texas	Purdue	Kentucky	Texas El Paso	Clemson
Texas A&M	Colorado	Southern California	Clemson	Purdue
Texas A&M Corpus Chris	Prairie View A&M	Texas Pan American	Eastern Kentucky	Texas Christian
Texas Arlington	Illinois Chicago	Wake Forest	Rice	North Texas
Texas Christian	North Texas	Sam Houston St.	Texas A&M Corpus Chris	Texas San Antonio
Texas El Paso	Baylor	Oklahoma St.	Oklahoma St.	Texas
Texas Pan American	Texas A&M Corpus Chris	Grambling	Prairie View A&M	Centenary
Texas San Antonio	Denver	Wyoming	Texas Christian	Louisiana Lafayette
Texas Southern	Jacksonville St.	Northwestern St.	Northwestern St.	Louisiana Monroe
Texas St.	Louisiana Tech	Southern Utah	Ball St.	Arkansas Pine Bluff
Texas Tech	South Dakota St.	Mississippi St.	New Mexico	UAB
The Citadel	Presbyterian	Gardner Webb	Southeastern Louisiana	Eastern Illinois
Toledo	Radford	Western Illinois	Alabama A&M	Gardner Webb
Towson	Mount St. Mary's	Coppin St.	Youngstown St.	Lafayette
Troy	Jackson St.	NC Greensboro	Georgia St.	Lipscomb
Tulane	Arkansas St.	Nicholls St.	Louisiana Lafayette	Louisiana St.
Tulsa	Oklahoma St.	Arkansas	Wichita St.	Oral Roberts
UAB	Alabama	Georgia	Texas Tech	North Carolina St.
UC Davis	Sacramento St.	Eastern Washington	San Jose St.	San Francisco
UC Irvine	Pepperdine	Loyola Marymount	Pepperdine	Air Force
UC Riverside	Portland St.	San Diego	Santa Clara	Hawaii
UC Santa Barbara	Idaho	Fresno St.	Fresno St.	Idaho
UCLA	Long Beach St.	St. Mary's	Pacific	Long Beach St.
Utah	Weber St.	Idaho	Oregon	Weber St.
Utah St.	Nevada Las Vegas	Brigham Young	Washington	California
Utah Valley	Southern Utah	Montana St.	Southern Utah	Sacramento St.
Valparaiso	Indiana St.	Northern Iowa	Western Michigan	Eastern Kentucky
Vanderbilt	Virginia Tech	Belmont	Pittsburgh	Murray St.
Vermont	St. Peter's	South Carolina	Belmont	Hofstra
Villanova	Penn St.	Temple	Temple	Maryland
Virginia	Wofford	Kent St.	Ohio	Marshall
Virginia Commonwealth	Duquesne	Richmond	Richmond	North Carolina
Virginia Military Inst	Drake	Yale	Maryland Eastern Shore	Fairleigh Dickinson
Virginia Tech	George Mason	Vanderbilt	Tennessee	Old Dominion
Wagner	Albany	Morgan St.	NJ Inst of Technology	Presbyterian
Wake Forest	Texas Arlington	Bowling Green	Alabama	Cornell
Washington	Gonzaga	Notre Dame	Gonzaga	Utah St.
Washington St.	Nebraska	Gonzaga	Idaho	Montana
Weber St.	San Jose St.	Utah	Utah	New Mexico St.
West Virginia	Duke	Clemson	Kansas St.	Baylor
Western Carolina	Auburn	Mercer	East Tennessee St.	Coastal Carolina
Western Illinois	Toledo	Chicago St.	Louisiana Monroe	Kennesaw St.
Western Kentucky	Tennessee St.	Eastern Kentucky	William & Mary	Akron
Western Michigan	George Washington	North Dakota St.	Oakland	Valparaiso
Wichita St.	Kansas	Kansas St.	Iowa St.	Tulsa
William & Mary	Charlotte	American	Iona	Western Kentucky
Winthrop	Hampton	Illinois St.	Davidson	IUPU Fort Wayne
Wisconsin	Notre Dame	Connecticut	Baylor	Missouri
Wisconsin Green Bay	North Dakota St.	Ohio	Niagara	Duquesne
Wisconsin Milwaukee	St. Bonaventure	IUPUI	Southern Illinois	Bradley
Wofford	Georgia Tech	Virginia	Georgia	South Florida
Wright St.	East Tennessee St.	Akron	St. John's	Cincinnati
Wyoming	Texas San Antonio	Denver	Northern Illinois	Cal Poly
Xavier	Northwestern	Louisville	Butler	Notre Dame
Yale	Virginia Military Inst	Massachusetts	Bucknell	Army
Youngstown St.	Eastern Kentucky	Holy Cross	Holy Cross	Towson

*Listings courtesy of Ken Pomeroy.  Check out his site at http://kenpom.com