1955-56 Men's College Basketball School Ratings

The SRS columns are SRS broken up into offensive and defensive components.
The Adjusted columns are adjusted for strength of opposition.
Non-Division I games are excluded from the ratings.

166 Schools

166 Schools Table
									SRS			Adjusted
Rk	School	Conf	W	L	Pts	Opp	MOV	SOS	OSRS	DSRS	SRS	ORtg	DRtg	NRtg
1	Illinois	Big Ten	18	4	90.7	76.3	14.45	6.68	19.98	1.16	21.14
2	Dayton	Ind	25	4	78.3	62.2	16.10	4.04	4.76	15.03	19.79
3	San Francisco	CBA	29	0	72.2	52.2	19.97	-1.34	0.73	17.31	18.03
4	Duke	ACC	19	7	80.6	69.8	10.77	3.64	8.32	6.93	15.26
5	NC State	ACC	24	4	82.8	70.5	12.32	3.38	9.28	5.95	15.23
6	Kentucky	SEC	20	6	84.5	69.3	15.19	-0.05	10.48	4.48	14.95
7	Louisville	Ind	26	3	86.0	72.9	13.10	4.54	12.17	2.51	14.67
8	Iowa	Big Ten	20	6	77.7	69.9	7.77	6.84	7.95	6.66	14.61
9	Utah	MSAC	22	6	81.1	67.3	13.82	0.04	8.35	5.58	13.92
10	Cincinnati	Ind	17	7	84.8	72.4	12.38	3.19	11.64	2.01	13.65
11	Southern Methodist	SWC	25	4	78.5	67.4	11.10	3.83	8.00	5.45	13.45
12	Ohio State	Big Ten	16	6	84.0	77.2	6.86	5.87	12.84	-0.11	12.73
13	Saint Louis	MVC	18	7	82.7	76.7	6.00	7.06	12.62	-0.26	12.37
14	North Carolina	ACC	18	5	80.0	71.0	8.96	3.39	6.33	6.01	12.35
15	Kansas State	Big 7	17	8	75.4	67.6	7.80	4.27	6.69	5.38	12.07
16	Missouri	Big 7	15	7	75.4	68.3	7.09	5.65	7.64	4.24	11.88
17	Oklahoma State	MVC	18	9				4.54	-9.98	21.81	11.83
18	UCLA	PCC	22	6	78.6	68.8	9.82	1.99	9.82	2.00	11.81
19	Brigham Young	MSAC	18	8	77.2	67.0	10.12	1.63	5.50	6.17	11.67
20	Iowa State	Big 7	18	5	72.8	65.1	7.70	4.60	3.76	7.70	11.46
									SRS			Adjusted
Rk	School	Conf	W	L	Pts	Opp	MOV	SOS	OSRS	DSRS	SRS	ORtg	DRtg	NRtg
21	Xavier	Ind	17	11	79.9	69.6	10.25	6.09	8.21	3.20	11.41
22	Houston	MVC	19	7	73.4	64.6	8.81	5.09	7.81	3.47	11.27
23	Holy Cross	Ind	22	5	79.9	65.6	14.33	-1.44	8.55	2.59	11.14
24	Indiana	Big Ten	13	9	81.8	78.5	3.32	7.35	10.11	0.56	10.67
25	Alabama	SEC	21	3	87.9	72.3	15.67	-3.33	10.50	-0.11	10.39
26	Wake Forest	ACC	19	9	80.7	75.2	5.50	4.47	7.72	2.25	9.97
27	Canisius	WNY3	19	7	79.5	70.3	9.15	1.66	6.73	3.01	9.74
28	Temple	Ind	27	4	78.5	65.6	12.94	-1.34	3.13	6.28	9.41
29	Wichita State	MVC	14	12	73.2	70.5	2.69	6.87	5.56	3.43	8.99
30	Rice	SWC	19	5	78.9	66.5	12.42	-1.03	5.68	2.59	8.27
31	Purdue	Big Ten	16	6	70.5	68.7	1.73	6.48	-1.47	9.68	8.21
32	Kansas	Big 7	14	9	68.0	66.8	1.17	6.92	0.64	7.45	8.09
33	Minnesota	Big Ten	11	11	77.6	78.5	-0.82	8.89	7.15	0.93	8.07
34	Oklahoma City	Ind	20	7	71.6	66.4	5.22	3.01	1.27	6.44	7.71
35	DePaul	Ind	16	8	80.1	72.8	7.33	9.26	4.68	3.01	7.69
36	Memphis	Ind	20	7	88.3	75.6	12.78	-0.60	10.53	-3.18	7.35
37	Michigan State	Big Ten	13	9	78.7	77.3	1.45	7.08	6.49	0.78	7.28
38	Niagara	WNY3	20	7	75.5	67.2	8.26	1.72	0.81	5.42	6.22
39	Southern California	PCC	14	12	68.1	62.7	5.46	0.72	-1.05	7.19	6.14
40	Washington (MO)	Ind	17	5	69.0	60.6	8.41	0.99	-4.86	10.85	5.99
									SRS			Adjusted
Rk	School	Conf	W	L	Pts	Opp	MOV	SOS	OSRS	DSRS	SRS	ORtg	DRtg	NRtg
41	Colorado	Big 7	11	10	65.1	65.4	-0.29	6.26	-2.81	8.79	5.98
42	Duquesne	Ind	17	10	67.1	63.4	3.70	4.85	-2.92	8.86	5.94
43	Washington	PCC	15	11	67.5	64.0	3.50	2.29	-2.16	7.95	5.79
44	Morehead State	OVC	19	10	95.9	86.1	9.83	1.72	16.43	-10.67	5.76
45	Vanderbilt	SEC	19	4	76.7	65.8	10.96	-3.99	0.17	5.52	5.70
46	Arkansas	SWC	11	12	70.3	67.4	2.83	1.43	-3.60	9.12	5.52
47	Tulsa	MVC	16	10	59.6	59.1	0.46	4.95	-10.50	15.89	5.39
48	Miami (OH)	MAC	12	8	78.9	76.5	2.35	2.94	4.51	0.78	5.29
49	Maryland	ACC	14	10	66.7	64.8	1.88	3.67	-8.00	13.13	5.13
50	Detroit Mercy	MVC	13	12	79.2	76.7	2.52	6.02	8.58	-3.56	5.02
51	Stanford	PCC	18	6	65.7	61.3	4.38	0.56	-3.10	8.04	4.94
52	Marshall	MAC	18	5	93.3	82.9	10.39	-3.06	13.75	-8.87	4.88
53	Western Kentucky	OVC	16	12	77.9	76.5	1.46	4.99	1.86	2.87	4.73
54	Notre Dame	Ind	9	15	76.4	77.2	-0.83	5.28	4.31	0.19	4.50
55	George Washington	Southern	19	7	80.4	71.8	8.54	-3.98	4.24	0.24	4.48
56	Marquette	Ind	13	11	72.1	66.0	6.13	4.27	2.89	1.59	4.47
57	California	PCC	17	8	65.3	60.5	4.80	-0.42	-4.97	9.35	4.38
58	Seton Hall	Ind	20	5	78.0	69.6	8.44	-1.50	4.02	0.10	4.11
59	Wisconsin	Big Ten	6	16	69.5	72.5	-2.95	7.01	-0.89	4.95	4.06
60	Bradley	MVC	13	13	72.3	71.0	1.35	4.46	0.49	3.47	3.96
									SRS			Adjusted
Rk	School	Conf	W	L	Pts	Opp	MOV	SOS	OSRS	DSRS	SRS	ORtg	DRtg	NRtg
61	Tennessee Tech	OVC	14	7	32.2	77.4	-45.19	1.41	6.08	-2.52	3.56
62	Saint Joseph's	Ind	23	6	79.0	70.6	8.45	-0.42	0.68	2.29	2.96
63	Syracuse	Ind	14	8	79.9	74.4	5.45	-2.78	5.18	-2.59	2.59
64	St. Francis (NY)	Metro NY	21	4	85.5	72.4	13.04	-0.09	8.04	-5.52	2.52
65	Michigan	Big Ten	9	13	73.2	76.4	-3.18	5.61	2.84	-0.41	2.43
66	Seattle	Ind	18	11	76.1	72.0	4.07	-1.00	3.96	-1.76	2.20
67	La Salle	Ind	15	10	68.2	63.7	4.52	1.12	-2.44	4.41	1.97
68	Texas	SWC	12	10	76.3	74.8	1.50	-0.18	4.41	-3.09	1.32
69	Murray State	OVC	15	10	84.5	81.6	2.84	1.14	6.11	-5.16	0.95
70	Texas Tech	BIAA	13	12	78.8	71.1	7.72	-3.88	2.88	-1.99	0.89
71	Western Michigan	MAC	11	9	73.2	75.1	-1.85	-2.16	1.27	-0.61	0.66
72	Villanova	Ind	14	12	73.3	72.1	1.27	3.18	0.94	-0.61	0.32
73	Drake	Ind	10	14	73.2	76.5	-3.25	5.53	2.25	-1.96	0.29
74	Lafayette	Ind	20	7	80.6	70.9	9.78	-7.49	2.46	-2.54	-0.08
75	Butler	Ind	14	9	73.4	72.5	0.91	5.58	-3.61	3.36	-0.24
76	Dartmouth	Ivy	18	11	69.4	64.3	5.10	-4.07	-4.52	4.26	-0.27
77	Richmond	Southern	16	13	79.9	73.2	6.66	-4.74	1.43	-1.87	-0.43
78	Wyoming	MSAC	7	19	63.2	66.6	-3.42	2.52	-6.83	6.39	-0.44
79	St. John's (NY)	Metro NY	12	12	79.4	77.5	1.88	2.14	3.10	-3.67	-0.57
80	St. Bonaventure	WNY3	11	12	72.5	71.3	1.22	2.27	-2.98	2.31	-0.67
									SRS			Adjusted
Rk	School	Conf	W	L	Pts	Opp	MOV	SOS	OSRS	DSRS	SRS	ORtg	DRtg	NRtg
81	Oklahoma	Big 7	4	19	62.1	70.9	-8.83	7.77	-4.83	3.78	-1.06
82	West Virginia	Southern	21	9	78.9	74.3	4.53	-5.67	0.70	-1.96	-1.26
83	Eastern Kentucky	OVC	9	16	81.0	83.8	-2.80	4.37	4.78	-6.05	-1.27
84	Valparaiso	Ind	12	14	70.0	71.7	-1.69	5.53	-1.46	-0.02	-1.47
85	Columbia	Ivy	15	9	72.5	65.0	7.50	-8.63	-5.08	3.58	-1.50
86	Muhlenberg	Ind	15	10	82.8	76.5	6.32	-1.94	1.15	-2.92	-1.77
87	Oregon	PCC	11	15	65.7	69.1	-3.35	1.47	-3.16	1.28	-1.88
88	Fordham	Metro NY	11	14	70.5	70.8	-0.32	-1.87	-4.60	2.68	-1.91
89	Portland	Ind	20	8	78.7	68.6	10.11	-4.85	-1.33	-0.79	-2.12
90	Manhattan	Metro NY	16	8	82.0	77.5	4.50	-0.96	3.82	-6.10	-2.27
91	Miami (FL)	Ind	14	12	83.5	81.3	2.12	0.18	5.30	-7.62	-2.32
92	Nebraska	Big 7	7	16	62.3	71.3	-9.00	7.38	-6.93	4.32	-2.62
93	Denver	MSAC	13	12	70.1	70.6	-0.52	0.80	-1.95	-0.80	-2.75
94	Loyola (IL)	Ind	10	14	71.1	72.8	-1.67	2.60	-4.32	1.36	-2.96
95	Oregon State	PCC	8	18	58.7	63.3	-4.62	1.58	-11.32	8.36	-2.96
96	Baylor	SWC	6	17	65.1	70.3	-5.22	2.32	-2.61	-0.62	-3.23
97	Colorado State	MSAC	12	13	49.4	48.4	1.00	0.24	-7.00	3.49	-3.51
98	UTEP	BIAA	12	10	71.4	69.1	2.27	-5.00	-3.05	-0.53	-3.57
99	Kent State	MAC	10	11	83.6	82.7	0.90	-1.21	6.76	-10.39	-3.63
100	South Carolina	ACC	9	14	78.2	79.3	-1.09	-1.53	0.65	-4.49	-3.85
									SRS			Adjusted
Rk	School	Conf	W	L	Pts	Opp	MOV	SOS	OSRS	DSRS	SRS	ORtg	DRtg	NRtg
101	Princeton	Ivy	11	13	73.8	70.6	3.17	-7.62	-2.13	-1.80	-3.93
102	Ohio	MAC	13	11	82.1	81.5	0.63	0.25	-0.04	-4.05	-4.09
103	Pittsburgh	Ind	15	10	77.2	77.2	0.04	-2.55	0.74	-4.84	-4.10
104	New Mexico State	BIAA	16	7				-7.64	-16.46	12.23	-4.23
105	Auburn	SEC	11	10	78.1	76.0	2.14	-2.89	0.30	-4.58	-4.28
106	Georgetown	Ind	13	11	71.5	70.7	0.79	2.22	-3.59	-1.12	-4.71
107	Northwestern	Big Ten	2	20	69.4	81.1	-11.68	6.74	-0.99	-3.78	-4.77
108	Toledo	MAC	9	13	73.2	79.1	-5.91	2.31	-2.90	-1.93	-4.83
109	San Jose State	CBA	15	10	62.3	59.4	2.92	-6.34	-11.62	6.68	-4.94
110	Colgate	Ind	17	9	75.5	70.3	5.27	-8.03	-3.99	-1.09	-5.08
111	Saint Mary's (CA)	CBA	16	10	66.9	61.1	5.81	-4.65	-7.31	2.06	-5.25
112	Virginia	ACC	10	17	73.8	78.9	-5.11	0.73	-0.34	-4.97	-5.31
113	Loyola (LA)	Ind	10	15	65.1			4.53	-6.26	0.93	-5.32
114	Navy	Ind	10	9	74.8	67.6	7.21	-0.47	-2.39	-3.08	-5.47
115	Utah State	MSAC	13	13				-1.42	-1.10	-4.52	-5.62
116	Tulane	SEC	12	12	75.5	72.7	2.88	-4.89	-3.96	-1.74	-5.70
117	Georgia Tech	SEC	12	11	72.1	75.4	-3.30	-1.98	-4.30	-1.54	-5.84
118	Iona	Ind	8	14	71.3	74.9	-3.59	1.13	2.16	-8.03	-5.87
119	Yale	Ivy	15	11	78.2	74.3	3.88	-6.68	1.72	-7.66	-5.94
120	Clemson	ACC	9	17	86.0	90.8	-4.77	-0.47	9.87	-15.85	-5.97
									SRS			Adjusted
Rk	School	Conf	W	L	Pts	Opp	MOV	SOS	OSRS	DSRS	SRS	ORtg	DRtg	NRtg
121	Montana	MSAC	14	12	67.8	69.2	-1.38	-2.26	-5.30	-1.17	-6.46
122	Connecticut	Yankee	17	11	78.9			-5.48	2.80	-9.50	-6.70
123	Florida	SEC	11	12	78.7	76.3	2.39	-4.24	-2.20	-4.51	-6.71
124	Cornell	Ivy	11	13	71.3	72.0	-0.63	-4.79	-3.87	-2.97	-6.84
125	Pennsylvania	Ivy	12	13	71.7	73.6	-1.96	-3.81	-3.84	-3.27	-7.11
126	Idaho	PCC	6	19	61.6	71.0	-9.36	2.21	-7.29	0.13	-7.16
127	Loyola Marymount	CBA	13	12	64.7	66.3	-1.56	-2.89	-10.51	3.35	-7.17
128	Siena	Ind	7	13				-1.28	-11.68	4.23	-7.45
129	New Mexico	MSAC	6	16	65.7	72.1	-6.45	-0.69	-4.43	-3.16	-7.58
130	Virginia Tech	Southern	14	11	76.2	69.2	7.08	-11.84	-8.78	0.91	-7.88
131	Saint Francis (PA)	Ind	10	14	78.2	82.1	-3.88	2.95	0.98	-9.30	-8.32
132	Furman	Southern	12	16	89.0	85.8	3.25	-8.42	7.59	-16.13	-8.55
133	Pacific	CBA	15	11	63.0	63.4	-0.46	-4.90	-10.10	1.35	-8.75
134	Bowling Green State	MAC	4	19	73.6	76.7	-3.17	0.45	-3.65	-5.55	-9.20
135	Gonzaga	Ind	13	15	74.7	75.1	-0.39	-3.29	-1.21	-8.72	-9.93
136	Santa Clara	CBA	8	16	56.3	63.1	-6.79	-2.99	-15.52	5.36	-10.16
137	Mississippi	SEC	10	13	80.7	79.6	1.09	-4.13	-1.41	-8.78	-10.19
138	Tennessee	SEC	10	14	74.6	78.9	-4.25	-4.03	-1.70	-8.57	-10.27
139	New York University	Metro NY	10	8	78.2	74.9	3.28	-6.13	-5.24	-5.06	-10.30
140	Penn State	Ind	12	14	71.3	73.0	-1.77	-7.29	-6.27	-4.07	-10.34
									SRS			Adjusted
Rk	School	Conf	W	L	Pts	Opp	MOV	SOS	OSRS	DSRS	SRS	ORtg	DRtg	NRtg
141	William & Mary	Southern	12	14	75.2	80.5	-5.35	-5.15	-1.83	-8.62	-10.46
142	Texas A&M	SWC	6	18	68.1	79.7	-11.54	2.68	-3.23	-7.39	-10.62
143	TCU	SWC	4	20	63.5	76.4	-12.92	3.15	-9.52	-1.52	-11.04
144	West Texas A&M	BIAA	12	10	78.2	77.5	0.68	-6.34	-1.19	-9.89	-11.09
145	Army	Ind	10	13	72.0	72.7	-0.65	-5.92	-4.47	-6.77	-11.23
146	Washington & Lee	Southern	12	16	74.9	75.9	-1.07	-6.01	-6.46	-4.78	-11.24
147	Mississippi State	SEC	12	12	77.0	78.8	-1.75	-4.54	-2.54	-9.06	-11.60
148	Louisiana State	SEC	7	17	75.4	83.9	-8.50	-2.95	-1.74	-10.85	-12.59
149	Creighton	Ind	11	12	68.5	70.3	-1.78	2.89	-7.74	-5.15	-12.89
150	Arizona State	BIAA	11	15	72.8	78.9	-6.04	-6.23	0.22	-13.45	-13.23
151	Hardin-Simmons	BIAA	7	18	67.1	72.0	-4.88	-4.73	-12.17	-1.85	-14.01
152	Washington State	PCC	4	22	60.0	73.9	-13.92	1.35	-9.60	-4.58	-14.18
153	Arizona	BIAA	11	15	73.3	80.6	-7.35	-2.55	-2.23	-12.32	-14.55
154	Fresno State	CBA	9	17	66.2	70.5	-4.31	-5.11	-4.21	-11.10	-15.31
155	Harvard	Ivy	8	16	67.8	74.3	-6.50	-7.10	-8.22	-9.32	-17.54
156	Rhode Island	Yankee	11	14	80.9	80.2	0.76	-7.06	-1.27	-16.72	-17.99
157	Pepperdine	CBA	2	23	64.5	78.8	-14.28	-2.76	-8.92	-10.08	-18.99
158	Brown	Ivy	7	18	63.5	73.6	-10.04	-7.02	-13.87	-5.26	-19.13
159	Bucknell	Ind	10	14	70.3	76.7	-6.38	-6.84	-9.95	-9.61	-19.56
160	Georgia	SEC	3	21	70.8	83.6	-12.88	-3.47	-7.94	-12.03	-19.97
									SRS			Adjusted
Rk	School	Conf	W	L	Pts	Opp	MOV	SOS	OSRS	DSRS	SRS	ORtg	DRtg	NRtg
161	Davidson	Southern	10	15	72.6	75.6	-2.92	-15.10	-12.73	-8.80	-21.54
162	VMI	Southern	4	19	68.7	81.8	-13.13	-11.24	-9.69	-14.88	-24.57
163	Lehigh	Ind	7	11	62.3	69.2	-6.89	-10.60	-23.86	-1.19	-25.05
164	Boston College	Ind	6	17				-4.13	-14.08	-12.72	-26.80
165	Rutgers	Ind	3	15	68.8	86.2	-17.39	-8.02	-9.27	-22.83	-32.10
166	The Citadel	Southern	2	19	62.9	92.9	-29.95	-11.94	-20.53	-23.48	-44.01

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