LADY RAIDER BB NET Rankings
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Latest net rankings update thru 12-05 has MT one spot higher at #25 nationally today. Notable comparisons: Tennessee #31, Memphis #45, Rice #53, Texas Tech #61, & Kentucky #90.
I remember seeing Kentucky dropped us from coming to Murfreesboro before the year began. They have been traditionally a top 20 team in recent years. Their coach must have seen the writing on the wall & couldn't handle the embarrassment of a G5 road loss to the Raiders. Also great to see MT & Rice both getting votes in top 25 consideration for CUSA! Watched the TCU vs Rice espn plus replay last night. They are well coached, athletic, & undefeated so far
I think I saw something about how they had a couple of starters go down with season ending injuries so that might help explain some of it. Even so they have an SEC roster so they should be winning games like UTM and ETSU.
Speaking of losing records, has anyone noticed wku? They are sitting at 1-5. Wonder if the Hayes sister is poisoning the team chemistry already?
I love seeing us get some respect but I also see Memphis ranked at #45, 16 spots higher than a Texas Tech team we lost to on a neutral floor. This weekends game is not a must win but if we want to get a higher seed and stay in the rankings we need this one.
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Lady Raiders climb 2 more spots to #23 nationally today without even trying
Just checked latest net rankings, the Ladies are up to #22 as of today. Memphis is at #58. A Saturday victory would be another nice feather in the cap come selection committee time. You have to wonder where would the ladies net ranking be if not for that Mercer loss. They are officially 3-5 now after a 40 point loss to Georgia with a net ranking of #261. Yikes
Hopefully. Louisville is on the road at Kentucky (7-1) today and UL leads 42-25 at halftime! We'll have to root for them the rest of the year, make our win look great
Similar to Houston's record, I think Rice's undefeated is also a little bit of an illusion. The best team they've played this year was SF Austin (6-2, NET 59) who they beat by 12... the next best team they played was Texas A&M (4-4, NET 156) who they beat by 8. We should have a height advantage on Rice too, their tallest is one 6'4" player (who doesn't play much).
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I don't believe so. Understand the streaming format is based on the home team's selection request. It appears for some reason the Rice administration went with CUSATV for this game. Which if correct is pretty crappy. These are this year's 2 best teams & Rice just cut down possible viewership tremendously. If I'm mistaken about this anyone is more than welcome to correct me
Yes I think this is correct. Really weird choice, but it is what it is at this point sadly
Just a theory about CUSATV VS ESPN+ administration game selections. Just reviewed some of the schools whom I would imagine have a lower than average game viewership & attendance level. I noticed schools such as FIU, FAU, & Rice seem to have a higher propensity for selecting the CUSATV pkgs compared to MT, UNT, & WKU for example. This is just a theory, but I propose the administration's that feel they have a lower than normal fan base interest are opting out for more of a conference kickback come game day.
I would assume that, despite potential upcoming victories, we will continue to slip. Most of our conference mates will be ranked pretty low so we just need to keep winning and hope to climb in the polls. I can't remember if it was a press conference or post game show, but CRI recently blasted unnamed CUSA teams for padding their schedules. He commented on how we might play a D2 team in an exhibition, but never in season. Yet several conference mates have multiple D2 games on their schedules. So the deeper we get into the conference games, our strength of schedule will weaken. We can't control that but we can keep winning and let the chips fall where they do. If this team puts 4 complete quarters together - which I don't think they've done yet - they can play with anyone.
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Agreed. In all the post game comments I've heard from coach thru the years his comments towards weak scheduling of fellow conference schools were some of his most angry I've ever picked up on. I think the team is starting to develop more chemistry. If the game at Rice had been played earlier in the year they may have stumbled, such as with Mercer & Texas Tech. Whitson seems to be taking on more of that vocal leader role that successful teams need. I agree with you that if or when we get to full 4 quarters of quality play we're there with anyone.
Latest Bracketology note: MT is currently listed as a 9 seed vs Florida St. Winner would go up against South Carolina. If we could come in brimming with confidence for 4 quarters that could be very entertaining.
I think we are on track for a great shot at an at large assuming we do very well in conference play. But yes, it is HIGHLY upsetting that most teams in our conference schedule horribly in OOC play. Really terrible, as Insell has indicated, if we're being honest.
11 votes today in the coaches poll, good for 31st.
Forgot to include 2 factors assisting our ranking. Louisville is now 11-4 with a string of impressive victories after we clobbered them, & Memphis is up to 8-5. Both teams turning things around after our wins over them is having residual benefits on how Raiders are being viewed. Haven't checked any of our other opponents updated records yet, but here's to hoping those 2 keep it up. Until tournament time anyway.
Those two wins are gonna be huge come March.
Opponents so far this year with records and NETs:
- #230 Mercer (3-8) L
- #225 Southern Illinois (4-6) W
- #88 Belmont (4-7) W
- #77 Texas Tech (12-1) L
- #132 Missouri State (6-4) W
- #203 Tennessee Tech (5-4) W
- #34 Louisville (11-4) W
- #68 Memphis (8-5) W
- #145 Houston (3-10) W
- #81 Rice (9-2) W
- #195 Charlotte (5-6) W
12 votes in the AP Poll. Ranking the ladies at #30, their highest AP of the year. On the flip side, dropped 3 spots to #26 on net rankings. Looking forward to next Bracketology.
#8 is great, but 7 would be better. Not much we can do about the net rating going forward. let’s win the regular season championship and see what happens next. We have a very talented team with a high basketball IQ. Teams in our league know that the only way to beat us is be more physical with us and hope the refs will let them get away with it.
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Most net ranking movements are usually 1 spot, but last night's blowout of UTSA helped push the ladies up a whopping 3 spots in 1 night to #23 in the Net!
Looking forward to see if Boldyreva continues coming out of her slump in Denton. Looked very good with 16 points & multiple rebounds against UTSA. With her height Boldyreva's short jumper when clicking can not be stopped by anyone in women's basketball. Coach mentioned in post game he is expecting Wheeler back by Tuesday hopefully. Not saying the ladies will go undefeated the rest of the year, but Boldyreva didn't start excelling last year till end of season. If she can continue building her confidence from last game the parts are all their for an excellent January-March. With CAB's development in the backcourt with Wheeler & Gregory this is an excellent backcourt to team up with what Boldyreva, Malashka, & Whitson are capable of on the front end. When going up against a scoring monster come tourney time we can't forget about defensive specialist Whitson as a great counter. This team is starting to round into what we were hoping for in the preseason.
I agree with everything you said, but we don't need to forget about our long range bomber Jaylen Gregory. I always compare teams to the one that had Alysha Clark, Brandi Brown, Jackie Pickel, Chelsea Lymon, Ann Marie Lanning, and whole host of great freshman. I think this team with all its parts, could compete in most areas and with the addition of Anastasia Boldyreva, could exceed that team.
We thought we could be a Top 25 team this year and by the main metric, NET Rankings, that's exactly what we are. I echo everything the rest of y'all said -- the pieces are there for this to be one of our most special seasons ever. And we've hit a great stretch even with Savannah out with injury
