Keeping an eye on the national rankings

[BCPanther]

Old Dominion has (finally) jumped into Quad 3. Marshall is only 16 spots away so that's reasonable. Northern Colorado isn't quite going to get to Quad 2 but that's a win that is certainly helping numbers.

Also a decent chance that the SIU road game moves into Quad 2 as we go here which softens that blow a little.

Illinois State is starting to flirt with being a Quad 4 road game which is less than ideal.

[CyCarp]

With their thumping of Loyola last night, a Indiana St jumped from 99 to 85 in NET. It's possible that the game at their place in a couple weeks could become a Q1 game.

[sivert]

I found a formula for it. Off Reb % = ORB / ( ORB + Opp DRB )

[sivert]

That's on defensive rebounding, which is still massively important, but I also think that going from "probably last" in o-boards to "above average" is helping us even more. Can't remember the last time we were getting second chance opportunities like we are this year.

Is Off Rebounds based on number of rebounds per game or rebounds per missed shots?
We make a pretty high percentage of shots and have a relatively slow tempo. Those make for few opportunities for Offensive boards.

[sevelev711]

That's on defensive rebounding, which is still massively important, but I also think that going from "probably last" in o-boards to "above average" is helping us even more. Can't remember the last time we were getting second chance opportunities like we are this year.

[anderjao]

A little bit of love from ESPN today:
- still a 10 seed in Lunardi's bracket (right now he has us with potential early matchups against WVU and Colorado again)
- AJ Green is listed as their front-runner for MVC POY: https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...ery-conference
- listed us as a team who could pull off a major upset (because of our rebounding, of all things): https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...sketball-upset

Didn't realize we were 25th in the nation in rebounding

[sivert]

I'm not sure we (in the minds of those who haven't watched us much) have a great claim on respect. We beat Colorado. And we led WVU by 15 30 minutes into that game. And we beat SCaro and a few others. But we lost to ISUr and SIU. So Katz has to decide if Colorado was a fluke or ISUr/SIU.

[orangetennis]

Andy Katz still has yet to put UNI in his power 36

So many voters look to that as a "check/cheat" for their votes. Their assumption is if Katz doesn't have you in the 36 you aren't worth a vote.

That hurts UNI - and other non major schools.

We must not pass the "eye test"

[DownGoesKansas]

This weeks votes:

19--Dave Preston (WTOP Radio, Washington DC)
24--Chad Leistikow (Des Moines Register), Chris Basnett (Lincoln Star Journal, Lincoln, NE), Joe Buettner (Norman Transcript, Norman, OK), John Feinstein (Author, NPR, Washington DC), Seth Davis (CBS/SI, New York)

I, I don't get it....

Meh, I mean we could be ranked but hard to really blame anyone if we are not there. Are we an 8 seed or better in any bracketology? Seems like that is where we should be more upset.

We literally just need to win, win and then win more.

[UNIGrainer]

No mention of UNI in the initial edition of ESPNs bubble watch either. I honestly think they just unintentionally forgot us as they have mid-majors with worse resumes/metrics on there like Liberty.

[Cannic88]

Andy Katz still has yet to put UNI in his power 36

So many voters look to that as a "check/cheat" for their votes. Their assumption is if Katz doesn't have you in the 36 you aren't worth a vote.

That hurts UNI - and other non major schools.

we were earlier in the year

[clenz]

I'm wondering if we are a pandering vote so he doesn't have to deal with backlash of not voting for a team in his state for Leistikow.

[hediondo19]

This weeks votes:

19--Dave Preston (WTOP Radio, Washington DC)
24--Chad Leistikow (Des Moines Register), Chris Basnett (Lincoln Star Journal, Lincoln, NE), Joe Buettner (Norman Transcript, Norman, OK), John Feinstein (Author, NPR, Washington DC), Seth Davis (CBS/SI, New York)

I, I don't get it....

So Vitale and Dave Borges who voted for us last week, don't vote for us this week?

[BCPanther]

This weeks votes:

19--Dave Preston (WTOP Radio, Washington DC)
24--Chad Leistikow (Des Moines Register), Chris Basnett (Lincoln Star Journal, Lincoln, NE), Joe Buettner (Norman Transcript, Norman, OK), John Feinstein (Author, NPR, Washington DC), Seth Davis (CBS/SI, New York)

I, I don't get it....

[rhoho]

Andy Katz still has yet to put UNI in his power 36

So many voters look to that as a "check/cheat" for their votes. Their assumption is if Katz doesn't have you in the 36 you aren't worth a vote.

That hurts UNI - and other non major schools.

Time to start tweeting Andy