The MRI
2026–27 · Week 3
MRI Champion · 2 basketball titles 2009–10, 2024–25

Duke

ACC · 2–1

Power+31.7#1 of 365
Résumé+0.33#111 · wins above average
Movement—unchanged from #1 last week
Best winCoastal Carolina (113–52)
Worst lossMichigan State (73–79)
Schedule faced+2.9 avg opponent
Schedule ahead+11.3 avg opponent
Returning production37% of last season's win shares · #83 of 364
Incoming production9.8 win shares from other schools' players
Recruiting class#2 in the country

How this rating is built

Power = w × (average margin counted + average opponent rating) + (1 − w) × preseason prior, where w = games ÷ (games + 8). After 3 games, w is 27%, so the preseason prior is 73% of this rating — mostly preseason, for now. Every game played shrinks that share.

PartValueWeightAdds
Margin counted+21.4 avg× 27%+5.8
Opponents faced+2.9 avg× 27%+0.8
Preseason prior+34.4× 73%+25.1
Power+31.7

This explains how the model reached the number. The opponent ratings come out of the same fitted model, so it is not independent proof that the rating is right.

Results

Expected is the margin the model's ratings imply for that matchup and site. Perf is how far the actual margin beat it — the result against expectation. Adds is a different question: how many points of Power the game contributes, counting its margin and the strength of the opponent together. A game can beat expectation and still add little, or the reverse. Adds, plus the preseason prior, sum to Power (figures are rounded so the column adds up). Hover an Adds figure for its arithmetic.

WkOpponentResult ExpectedPerfAdds
2 vs Army W 84–50 +45.0 -11.0 +1.9
2 vs Coastal Carolina W 113–52 +43.6 +17.4 +3.0
3 N Michigan State L 73–79 +3.7 -9.7 +1.7
Preseason prior (73% of the rating)+25.1
Power+31.7

Remaining schedule

WkOpponent ProjectedWin prob
3 vs SIU Edwardsville +39.4 100%
4 vs Illinois +5.6 70%
4 N Washington State +35.4 100%
5 N UConn +4.1 65%
6 at Florida -0.1 50%
6 vs Harvard +32.8 100%
7 N Georgia +17.9 95%
8 vs Campbell +41.8 100%

Season by season

Best finish: #1 in 2024–25. 22 seasons rated. The two columns' numbers are not comparable; the rank within each is. Season links open that year's game log.

25 1 50 2004–05 (MRI Classic): #8 of 326 (26-6)2005–06 (MRI Classic): #4 of 326 (32-4)2006–07 (MRI Classic): #15 of 326 (22-11)2007–08 (MRI Classic): #7 of 328 (28-6)2008–09 (MRI Classic): #6 of 330 (30-7)2009–10 (MRI Classic): #1 of 335 (35-5)2010–11 (MRI Classic): #3 of 346 (32-5)2011–12 (MRI Classic): #19 of 345 (27-7)2012–13 (MRI Classic): #6 of 347 (27-5)2013–14 (MRI Classic): #9 of 351 (26-9)2014–15 (MRI Classic): #4 of 351 (35-4)2015–16 (MRI Classic): #24 of 351 (25-11)2016–17 (MRI Classic): #21 of 351 (28-9)2017–18 (MRI Classic): #4 of 351 (28-8)2018–19 (MRI Classic): #2 of 353 (32-6)2019–20 (MRI Classic): #4 of 353 (25-6)2020–21 (MRI 2.0): #35 of 347 (13-11)2021–22 (MRI 2.0): #10 of 358 (32-7)2022–23 (MRI 2.0): #11 of 363 (27-9)2023–24 (MRI 2.0): #10 of 362 (27-9)2024–25 (MRI 2.0): #1 of 364 (35-4)2025–26 (MRI 2.0): #2 of 365 (35-3) MRI 2.0Classic 2004–05 2025–26

Finishing rank, best at the top, on an axis running to 50 — this team's own range, not the size of the field. Two lines where both ratings cover a season - MRI 2.0 in red, Classic in grey. Hover a point for the season.

SeasonRec MRI 2.0MRI Classic
2025–26 35–3 #2 of 365 · 32.40 –
2024–25 35–4 #1 of 364 · 32.19 –
2023–24 27–9 #10 of 362 · 21.11 –
2022–23 27–9 #11 of 363 · 17.55 –
2021–22 32–7 #10 of 358 · 19.68 –
2020–21 13–11 #35 of 347 · 12.12 –
2019–20 25–6 – #4 of 353 · 176.04
2018–19 32–6 – #2 of 353 · 219.66
2017–18 28–8 – #4 of 351 · 200.72
2016–17 28–9 – #21 of 351 · 149.67
2015–16 25–11 – #24 of 351 · 139.88
2014–15 35–4 – #4 of 351 · 237.23
2013–14 26–9 – #9 of 351 · 171.00
2012–13 27–5 – #6 of 347 · 177.57
2011–12 27–7 – #19 of 345 · 143.02
2010–11 32–5 – #3 of 346 · 217.96
2009–10 35–5 – #1 of 335 · 260.24
2008–09 30–7 – #6 of 330 · 192.47
2007–08 28–6 – #7 of 328 · 176.51
2006–07 22–11 – #15 of 326 · 140.99
2005–06 32–4 – #4 of 326 · 189.67
2004–05 26–6 – #8 of 326 · 161.52