Keeping an eye on the national rankings

[Spathicle]

The Power 6 conferences as a whole are mediocre this year. Because of this you won't see mid major teams get any at large bids. Not that they have been getting them as a whole the past 5-10 years, but when everyone is mediocre the common thought is that it must be that everyone is good, very often that is not the case. No team in the top 15 should ever lose a game by over 30 points.

To an unranked opponent no less.

[achrist70]

The Power 6 conferences as a whole are mediocre this year. Because of this you won't see mid major teams get any at large bids. Not that they have been getting them as a whole the past 5-10 years, but when everyone is mediocre the common thought is that it must be that everyone is good, very often that is not the case. No team in the top 15 should ever lose a game by over 30 points.

[Spathicle]

FFS, Ohio St has lost four in a row and are still top 25.

Michigan St got housed by Purdue and they’re still Top 15.

10 win Texas Tech lost back to back games and dropped one spot.

Sucks, but I feel like the field is already set for the year.

[achrist70]

The AP published the votes again this week. The voter who had us up as high as 17th doesn't even have us in his top 25 now.

[hoopfan]

Moved from 37 to 36 in the AP poll, and a lot of teams in front of us last week lost game/s this past week. We really need to win a ton to even get close to 25. Power conference teams go 1-1 and jump us.

I think Syracuse beat an average Virginia team this weekend to get back to 8-7 on the year. The selection committee immediately slotted Syracuse into a 4-seed because they are over .500 and Syracuse. UNI likely needs to win their next 6 games, maybe more, to break into the top 25.

[UNI Ka-Bullseye]

Isn't it better for our at-large prospects to have other conferences have a few contenders separate from the middle teams, rather than show a big lump of middling teams to the committee?

Unfortunately you are probably right. When I see a ranked P5 team go down I less often think “good, now maybe we can jump them” but instead “oh no, now everyone will think the 0.500 team that beat them is good and will probably jump us.”

[DecadePanther]

collegepolltracker.com lists each voter and their respective picks for the week. You can sort the information as well by team to see who voted for us.

That's pretty pathetic that we went from 37 to 36. People clearly are too hyped about the mediocre B1G and the other power 5 teams. Something like 37 conference games and 5 road wins total in that league. Everyone is saying that's because those teams are so good and they might be right. However I am thinking that because so few of them challenge themselves on the road in the non-conference that they really haven't figured out how to win on the road yet. I suspect quite a few will be knocked out of the tournament in the first weekend as they won't be protected by their own arena.

[UNIGrainer]

Looks like we need more

Q U A L I T Y L O S S E S

The most unfortunate thing about this post is that it is completely true.

[DownGoesKansas]

Isn't it better for our at-large prospects to have other conferences have a few contenders separate from the middle teams, rather than show a big lump of middling teams to the committee?

Yes, mediocrity through the conference is a worst case scenario for us.

I don't have numbers to back this up but as an observer it seems like home court winning % is much higher this year. Could be way off though IDK. But all teams in the money conferences need to do is win a decent amount of their home games and they are in, Crooked system

[DownGoesKansas]

19 in RPI (wonder why they quit using it?)
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How dare we use something mostly fair! A black Box with a P5 bias is obviously the answer

[CyCarp]

Moved from 37 to 36 in the AP poll, and a lot of teams in front of us last week lost game/s this past week. We really need to win a ton to even get close to 25. Power conference teams go 1-1 and jump us.

[BCPanther]

Up to 36th in AP Poll with 10 points this week.

37 in NET
55 in Ken Pom
73 in ESPN BPI
19 in RPI (wonder why they quit using it?)

Also, the AP has stopped releasing individual ballots (mainly to protect incompetent voters that get called out) so we aren't really going to know where those votes are coming from other than the very few that publish their ballots.

['70 Grad]

All five (5!) of the ranked B1G schools lost this weekend. But we must keep in mind that it’s not because any of those teams were overrated or that there are deserving teams in other conferences, rather it’s that ALL Big Ten teams are AWESOME!!!

Isn't it better for our at-large prospects to have other conferences have a few contenders separate from the middle teams, rather than show a big lump of middling teams to the committee?

[UNIAlum2010]

https://twitter.com/haslametrics/status/1216727330938347520

Haslemetrics top 10 offenses.

1. Duke (1.203 ppp) 2. Gonzaga (1.203) 3. Dayton (1.170) 4. Kansas (1.170) 5. Oregon (1.164) 6. Michigan State (1.160) 7. Iowa (1.154) 8. LSU (1.138) 9. Saint Mary's (1.132) 10. Northern Iowa (1.128)

I saw they are also #10 offense on Barttorvik now as well (#30 overall)

[UNI Ka-Bullseye]

Seth Davis moved us down like 6 spots somehow... and he also has 7 Big Ten teams from 18-25. What an idiot.

All five (5!) of the ranked B1G schools lost this weekend. But we must keep in mind that it’s not because any of those teams were overrated or that there are deserving teams in other conferences, rather it’s that ALL Big Ten teams are AWESOME!!!