3/8 Ranking Projections - Cal Women #1

North Carolina stays at No. 1 for another week while Ohio State jumps up from No. 4 to No. 2 after a nice road win over Oklahoma on Sunday. TCU stays at No. 3 while Virginia falls from No. 2 to No. 4 due to a few of its best wins falling the previous week.

This week's rankings take into account each teams five best wins just as last week's ranking did and just as next week's rankings will.

Kentucky was the big mover inside the top 20 with the Wildcats expected to rise from No. 22 to No. 12 after picking up wins over Arkansas and Ole Miss.  Tulane will move up from No. 35 to No. 22 after picking up nice ranked wins over Memphis and LSU. NC State's road win over No. 7 Wake Forest will be enough to propel the Wolfpack back inside the top 30 after dropping down to No. 40 last week.

25 of the 40 schools in my projected top 40 have five wins over current top 75 opponents. Schools that have an * beside the school name have less than five ranked wins so I had to do some guesswork on where the unranked wins fall in the rankings.

The Cal women have retaken the top spot moving past Ohio State by .60 points. Georgia had a nice weekend picking up a pair of top 30 road wins so they'll jump up from 7 to 3. North Carolina drops one spot from 3 to 4 while Vanderbilt comes up 3 spots from 8 to 5.

Miami made a nice jump from 21 up to 9 after beating Florida State and Notre Dame and Auburn jumps up from 29 to 11 after beating #9 LSU and #14 Texas A&M.

21 of the 40 schools in my projected top 40 have five wins over current top 75 opponents.

3/8/16 Men's Ranking Projections

Rank	School	Points	Previous
1	North Carolina	89.24	1
2	Ohio State	74.14	4
3	TCU	71.45	3
4	Virginia	70.74	2
5	Oklahoma State	66.55	5
6	UCLA	65.00	6
7	Texas A&M	61.56	8
8	Illinois	56.55	11
9	Wake Forest	55.98	7
10	Texas Tech	54.57	10
11	Northwestern	49.87	9
12	Kentucky	47.36	22
13	Oklahoma	46.69	13
14	California*	42.40	18
15	USC*	41.73	12
16	South Florida	41.67	17
17	Georgia	41.61	16
18	Baylor	36.07	14
19	Texas*	33.71	15
20	Oregon	32.83	21
21	Ole Miss*	31.79	26
22	Tulane*	31.35	35
23	Penn State	30.98	24
24	Michigan	30.60	19
25	Florida*	29.60	30
26	Tulsa	27.31	20
27	NC State*	26.94	40
28	San Diego	24.83	31
29	Princeton	24.78	38
30	Columbia*	24.69	25
31	Memphis*	24.00	23
32	Arkansas*	22.87	27
33	Rice*	21.96	29
34	Old Dominion*	20.89	28
35	Drake	20.58	36
36	Washington*	20.13	45
37	Virginia Tech*	19.71	53
38	Georgia Tech	19.62	34
39	SMU*	19.39	NR
40	Denver	19.01	48

3/8/16 Women's Ranking Projections

Rank	School	Points	Previous
1	Cal	79.50	2
2	Ohio State	78.90	1
3	Georgia	73.00	7
4	North Carolina	71.08	3
5	Vanderbilt	62.50	8
6	Michigan	56.19	4
7	Texas Tech	52.12	5
8	Duke	51.69	6
9	Miami	47.18	21
10	Virginia*	46.21	16
11	Auburn*	45.69	29
12	South Carolina	42.56	12
13	Oklahoma State	41.54	10
14	Wichita State	39.56	13
15	LSU	39.46	9
16	Texas A&M	38.57	14
17	Pepperdine*	37.35	11
18	Florida	36.22	15
19	Kentucky	34.81	17
20	Fresno State	34.22	22
21	Tulsa	32.56	18
22	Wake Forest	32.21	44
23	Stanford	32.08	20
24	UCLA*	27.46	27
25	Kansas	27.37	23
26	Ole Miss*	25.27	26
27	Arizona State*	24.60	36
28	Mississippi State*	22.11	25
29	Virginia Tech*	21.85	39
30	Denver*	20.74	58
31	Texas*	20.43	T73
32	Syracuse*	20.22	24
33	Georgia Tech*	20.09	33
34	William & Mary*	19.95	30
35	Oregon*	19.73	28
36	NC State*	19.49	55
37	Arkansas*	19.17	35
38	Northwestern*	18.97	42
39	Columbia*	18.81	32
40	Clemson*	17.16	19

* means this school has less than 5 top 75 wins