College Sports Madness Top 44 countdown

[triaddukefan]

I was just thinking earlier in the afternoon that it was about time for this to drop. Lo and Behold... they are already up to #30

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TOP 44 PREVIEWS

A few notables.... Rutgers # 32 LSU #31 Duke #30

 

[TerpWomenFan]

I have been reading this for the past week or so. I read the Duke one yesterday. I'm not surprised that you caught up with this. Hopefully you guys can stay healthy this season.

 

[JonathanXIV]

Understandably, UConn fans don't start paying attention to this list for another month.

 

[Coler]

I believe Rutgers is going to just build off the success of the last year. We still have a ton of talent in Guirantes, Broughton, Sanders, & Mack, and Morris(for B1G play). Not to mention the addition of Davenport which will get a lot of playing time from the start.

I also look forward to how Noga Peleg Pelc has grown her game over the summer. I'm just super excited.

 

[Shades]

A few notables.... Rutgers # 32 LSU #31 Duke #30

I think Duke’s a little underrated at #30, and I’m sure these two would agree.

 

[triaddukefan]

I think Duke’s a little underrated at #30, and I’m sure these two would agree.
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Those two (particularly Lambert) are the key to the season. I'll know more about them in the next few weeks..... but yeah.... they will be underrated..... which is a good thing in my book.

 

[SECbbfan24]

LSU

Scoring Offense: 61.7 (243rd in nation, 12th in conference)

Hopefully its much better this year

 

[Dwilliams02]

Hopefully its much better this year

Gotta credit their defense though. They held almost every offense under their average point total. Has it benefit us... Ehh nay. But can't get any worse

 

[nwhoopfan]

Nice to see Boise St. get some love, at #28. I still can't believe they were a #13 seed in the Tourney last year and Oregon St. had to play them in the first round. That was right up there for most mis-seeded first round game in the bracket. At the same site Little Rock was #12 and might have been the worst team in the Tourney, had #15 or #16 written all over them.

 

[meyers7]

Understandably, UConn fans don't start paying attention to this list for another month.

Yea, I'll have to come back and check this thread later. Much later. Hope I can remember.

 

[dws3665]

Fairly surprised to see Oklahoma on there at all, even at #43.

 

[TerpWomenFan]

Tennessee is #24 in the CSM

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[stwainfan]

Tennessee is #24 in the CSM

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About what I expected.

 

[Plebe]

Nice to see Boise St. get some love, at #28. I still can't believe they were a #13 seed in the Tourney last year and Oregon St. had to play them in the first round. That was right up there for most mis-seeded first round game in the bracket. At the same site Little Rock was #12 and might have been the worst team in the Tourney, had #15 or #16 written all over them.

I'm not sure on what factual basis we can say they were mis-seeded. In the regular season, Boise State:

• Got crushed (by 24 points) by Washington State.
• Barely beat Washington (by 4 points).
• Suffered losses to Wyoming and Utah State.
• Scored zero wins that would be considered quality wins for NCAA tournament seeding.

Just because they almost beat Oregon State doesn't mean they were underseeded. Maybe it was Oregon State who played much worse than their seed.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Just because they almost beat Oregon State doesn't mean they were underseeded. Maybe it was Oregon State who played much worse than their seed.

OSU was struggling at the end of the year, that was clear. My biggest issue is that somehow a Little Rock team w/ 21 wins, none of them quality, was seeded higher than Boise St. w/ 28 wins. Maybe BSU was about where they were supposed to be, looking at all of the seedings by region there are other AQ with similar records seeded around the same. But there's no possible way Little Rock should've been anything other than a 15 or 16. If they were going to be in Corvallis, they should've been OSU's first round opponent. The only thing I can figure is the committee was throwing Gonzaga a bone since they didn't get to host. The other #12 were 28-4 Bucknell, 28-3 Rice and 26-6 UCF (2 of which nearly won their first round game). Little Rock was an obvious outlier in that group.

 

[Plebe]

OSU was struggling at the end of the year, that was clear. My biggest issue is that somehow a Little Rock team w/ 21 wins, none of them quality, was seeded higher than Boise St. w/ 28 wins. Maybe BSU was about where they were supposed to be, looking at all of the seedings by region there are other AQ with similar records seeded around the same. But there's no possible way Little Rock should've been anything other than a 15 or 16. If they were going to be in Corvallis, they should've been OSU's first round opponent. The only thing I can figure is the committee was throwing Gonzaga a bone since they didn't get to host. The other #12 were 28-4 Bucknell, 28-3 Rice and 26-6 UCF (2 of which nearly won their first round game). Little Rock was an obvious outlier in that group.

Little Rock was #61 in the RPI. That is definitely not 15 or 16 seed territory.

Boise State had fewer losses than Little Rock but also played a MUCH weaker schedule, and the committee has a bit of a tendency to punish teams that play the vast majority of their games against teams with triple-digit RPIs.

I think BSU should've been a 13 instead of a 12, but hey the committee routinely makes more bizarre decisions than this one. Giving Mississippi State a 1 seed despite their lack of quality wins was far worse.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Little Rock was #61 in the RPI.

How? 17 of their 21 wins were against Sun Belt teams. OOC had some good opponents but they didn't beat any of those, 4 wins against middle to bottom teams from C-USA and AAC. Anyway Little Rock definitely didn't pass the eye test, they looked horrid for most of their first round game. A brief flurry made the final score look closer than the game really was, Gonzaga had them doubled up most of the way.

 

[nwhoopfan]

I think BSU should've been a 13 instead of a 12

BSU was a 13, Little Rock was a 12.

 

[Plebe]

BSU was a 13, Little Rock was a 12.

Oops sorry I meant to say LR should’ve been a 13.

 

[Plebe]

How? 17 of their 21 wins were against Sun Belt teams. OOC had some good opponents but they didn't beat any of those, 4 wins against middle to bottom teams from C-USA and AAC. Anyway Little Rock definitely didn't pass the eye test, they looked horrid for most of their first round game. A brief flurry made the final score look closer than the game really was, Gonzaga had them doubled up most of the way.

Well maybe that was one bad game. If we cherry-picked certain games of Oregon State's for eye testing, we might think they didn't deserve to be in the tournament at all.

Criticize the Sun Belt all you want, but the Sun Belt gave Little Rock 6 top-100 wins (including 2 true road wins), which is more than Boise State got all season. Again, I would've switched LR's seeding with BSU's, but it's not like there was a huge gap between the two on paper.

Interestingly, both of them rated much worse in Massey than in RPI: Boise State finished the season at #83, Little Rock at #101.

 

[LoTrader]

Seeding aside: I was at the Corvallis Regional and watched all the games. Boise State would have crushed LR. No comparison.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Interestingly, both of them rated much worse in Massey than in RPI: Boise State finished the season at #83, Little Rock at #101.

That is interesting. I know RPI gets a lot of criticism. That's a huge difference for Little Rock between RPI and Massey.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Seeding aside: I was at the Corvallis Regional and watched all the games. Boise State would have crushed LR. No comparison.

That's what I thought as well.

 

[TerpWomenFan]

#15 Notre Dame Women's Basketball 2019-2020 Preview

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Notre Dame is #15.

 

[Lorcan]

Isn’t that a bit high for Notre Dame? Marta Sneizek is good, but not THAT good. I guess Muffet gets some respect and rightfully so.