College Sports Journal Sagarin Mid-Major Men’s Basketball Top 25 – Dec. 13
Below are the Top 25 Mid-Major rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Dec. 13th, 2020. Furman takes over the top spot this week despite a close loss at Cincinnati, followed by a win over DII Flagler (Fla.).
New Mexico State moves down from the top spot to #2. The Aggies have yet to play a Division I opponent and did not play any opponent last week. NMSU is not scheduled currently to play again until Jan. 8th against Dixie State.
Liberty moves up from the #4 position to the #3 position this week following its close loss at Missouri and its win over NAIA Columbia International (S.C.).
The Mid-Major conferences include America East, Atlantic Sun, Big Sky, Big South, Big West, Colonial, Horizon, Independents, Ivy, Metro Atlantic, Mid-American, Mid-Eastern, Northeast, Ohio Valley, Patriot, Southern, Southland, Southwestern, Summit, Sun Belt, and Western Athletic conferences.
Due to COVID-19 reasons, the Ivy League has suspended its play for this season so no teams from that conference will be included in this poll.
Sagarin rankings provide the only rankings that actually ranks all Division I schools but our rankings will show just the Mid-Major side of things and have been used for several years with his own computer ranking system to distinguish strength of schedule and strength of team when comparing teams.
You can see the full Division I Sagarin rankings at The USA Today and at Jeff’s site itself.
In the rankings, you will see the the Mid-Major rankings first and the overall Division I ranking to the right of the the Mid-Major ranking.
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The following are the individual Mid-Major conference rankings highlighted in yellow and the overall rankings within overall ranking in Division I.
Originally from LaMoure, North Dakota, Kent is a 1996 graduate of North Dakota State University. His prior writing experience is over 15 years having previously worked with D2football.com, I-AA.org, and College Sporting News before coming to College Sports Journal in 2016. His main focus is college football is the Missouri Valley Football Conference within the Division I FCS. And in 2017, he began also to look at the FBS Group of Five conferences of the American Athletic, Conference USA, Mid-American, Mountain West, and Sun Belt.
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