Revealed: Aussie is best player on No1 ranked college team

What the rating means. It estimates how many points per 100 possessions better than the opponent a player’s team would be if he were on the court with nine other average Division I players. Off and Def split that between his attacking and defensive value, and a higher number is better in both. The ratings are not ours. They are the Bayesian Performance Ratings published by EvanMiya.com, reproduced as supplied, and the credit for the modelling belongs there. These are PREDICTIONS, not results. Nobody has played a game yet, so every figure here is what the model expects from last season’s form, who has arrived and who has left. The columns that count what actually happens on the floor – minutes, shooting, plus-minus – are empty until the season starts, so we have left them out rather than print a row of zeros that looks like a measurement. Why some rows say “team rating”. Where the model has nothing to go on for an individual player, it gives him his team’s rating instead. Those players share an identical figure with their own team-mates, down to the last decimal place. It is a fair guess about the team and it is not a measurement of the player, so we mark it rather than let it read as a verdict on him. 10 of the 76 Australians here are marked; across the whole list of 5,465 players, 514 are in that position, and none of them are in the top 1,000. Who counts as Australian. The Australians are the men on our own list of every Australian in NCAA Division I men’s basketball, as it stood on 3 September 2026. 76 of them appear in the ratings; 7 do not, either because their school is not settled yet or because the ratings simply do not carry them. So this is the Australians we track who are rated, not a count of every Australian in college basketball.

What the rating means. It estimates how many points per 100 possessions better than their opponent a team is expected to be. Off and Def split that between attack and defence, and a higher number is better in both. These are PREDICTIONS: nobody has played yet, so the columns that count what actually happens – wins, losses, points scored – are empty and we have left them out rather than print zeros that look like results. The ratings are not ours: they are published by EvanMiya.com and we have reproduced them as supplied. ⛔ Why there are two rankings, and why we print both. The source ranks teams twice: once on its headline rating, and once adjusted for players currently injured. THE TWO DISAGREE AT THE TOP. Florida lead on the headline number by 0.26 points, which on a scale this size is a rounding error; on the injury-adjusted ranking Duke come first instead. So the top of this table is genuinely close, and anyone calling one of them the best team in the country is choosing a column. We show you both. The Australians column counts the men on our own list of every Australian in NCAA Division I men’s basketball who also appear in these ratings, as that list stood on 3 September 2026. Only 2 of the 76 Australians we track are on a top-25 team, and all of them are at one club. A dash means no Australian we track, not that the club has none.