The Lowest Rated Men's Basketball Teams with Winning Records, Last Week of February '25

    Team Rankings has UMass Lowell at 231 overall, out of 364 programs, with a 13-12 record.

    Next is South Dakota at 230, who are 14-12.

    I will figure out how they figure within their respective conferences.

    Then we have #220 Bucknell at 15-14.

   At # 218 is Little Rock 16-11. Five over .500 is okay. For over 200th best, this record is decent.

    Give credit to Manhattan at 227 and Eastern Michigan 219, for being 12-12 and 13-13, respectively. 

    Southern Illinois U - Edwardsville is 16-10, rated in RPI at 214.

    Army is 14-12, (but losing tonight?) at #207.

    Cal Baptist is 13-13, #202. Oh, forgot Drexel at 14-14 and 211. We have a handful of .500 squads.

    Youngstown State is 17-11, but only rated #201. I interchange ranked and rated, which are not the same. Some teams are ranked much higher than their RPI ratings, especially BYU who made the top 25 this past week, but Team Rankings has them higher than my slightly resurgent Hoosiers, which they hav the former at 59 and IU at 50. Brigham Young is 18-9 while IU is 16-11. Indiana played a harder pre-conference schedule... Got pummeled by Louisville and Gonzaga. Indiana had more close losses.

    Who else has winning records but not rated highly? SE Louisiana, 16-11 (198), Longwood 14-12 (196), E. Kentucky 15-13 (195), Texas A&M -CC 13-13 (193, .500 for now), Brown 12-11 (190), UC- Santa Barbara 16-10 (188), and there are more. 

    I will work on the others later. Publishing now.