Top 25 talk

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

I hadn't been paying much attention to Massey yet as he doesn't have a D3 ranking up yet, but I just noticed he has all the teams listed in his big ranking.  Suprisingly, Wooster (at 109 overall), Wittenberg, Hamilton, Augustana and Hope are all above IWU.  I know Massey doesn't work itself out until the end of the year, but pretty good respect for D3 early on.

This puts Wooster ahead of the likes of Missouri and Fresno State and all six of the above schools above Georgia Tech and Purdue.


Interesting.

[smedindy]

Those early season Massey ratings have some, ahem, irregularities in them! I look for them to sort out in mid-January or so.

[sac]

#5 Puget Sound vs Cal Tech tonight.......

whats the over/under on margin of victory for Puget Sound?  I say 45

[Titan Q]

Interestingly, above I said I felt IWU would  fall at about #158 in the Sagarin rating based on where Illinois State is.  Masey has IWU at exactly #158!

http://masseyratings.com/rate.php?lg=cb


Massey has a note on the site: "Early season ratings will fluctuate significantly until a sufficient number of games have been played."  Any computer-based poll like that takes until about late January to really round into shape.

[diehardfan]

#5 Puget Sound vs Cal Tech tonight.......

whats the over/under on margin of victory for Puget Sound?  I say 45

at least...

Though honestly, I 'm not sure Puget Sound should really be a #5 team after the game I saw last night... I guess I'll learn more as the season goes on. 

[Pat Coleman]

Perhaps, but your shoes might tell you something about judging teams on one game.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Perhaps, but your shoes might tell you something about judging teams on one game.

LOL!!  I'd forgotten about that! 

April, did they taste 'just like chicken'?  Or more reminiscent of kimchee and spam?!

[David Collinge]

#5 Puget Sound vs Cal Tech tonight.......

whats the over/under on margin of victory for Puget Sound?  I say 45

I'm thinking closer to 85 than 45.  UPS pressed Behrend right up to the last possession last night, and they were up 18-20 at the time.  I expect their press to result in a 2 or 3 to 1 turnover to shot attempt ratio today, so if they do it for 40 minutes it could be a 100 point margin.

[diehardfan]

Perhaps, but your shoes might tell you something about judging teams on one game.

all my shoes told me is that the NCAA criteria and brackets stink, not that rochester was truly a final four caliber team

[Pat Coleman]

To get there, they still had to win games that you thought they were incapable of.

[David Collinge]

#5 Puget Sound vs Cal Tech tonight.......

whats the over/under on margin of victory for Puget Sound?  I say 45

I'm thinking closer to 85 than 45.  UPS pressed Behrend right up to the last possession last night, and they were up 18-20 at the time.  I expect their press to result in a 2 or 3 to 1 turnover to shot attempt ratio today, so if they do it for 40 minutes it could be a 100 point margin.

Good call, sac.  123-74, a very respectable 49-point margin.  Go Beavers!

[Coach C]

sac -

Great call.  Wish I had a dim on the game.  Oops!  Can't say that.

As for the Massey ratings, it's really hard to look at these on any level until conference play begins, but the d3 rankings are particuarly suspect.  Let's chill for a while.

C

[David Collinge]

sac -

Great call. Wish I had a dim on the game.

If you'd had several of them on the game, would that be a dim sum?

*rim shot*

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Here, here April (boo Rochester).  I thinks UPS lost a lot more than many of the voters realize, but then again they are way out there with no one else around, so it will take a few losses in conference for people to understand... or the game against IWU next week. 

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Here's the new one:


1     Illinois Wesleyan (23)     7-0     623     1
2    Wooster (1)    9-0    598    2
3    Wittenberg    6-1    555    3
4    Amherst (1)    7-0    533    4
5    Puget Sound    5-1    501    5
6    Albion    7-1    462    6
7    Hope    9-0    460    7
8    Lawrence    6-0    445    8
9    Worcester Polytech    9-0    398    9
10    York (Pa.)    6-1    396    10
11    UW-Stout    8-1    335    12
12    Randolph-Macon    7-1    324    11
13    Augustana    7-0    290    13
14    Hanover    6-2    242    14
15    Wartburg    6-1    238    15
16    Elmhurst    7-2    228    16
17    Baldwin-Wallace    8-1    214    18
18    St. John Fisher    5-2    160    20
19    Hampden-Sydney    7-0    152    21
20    Rochester    6-2    150    19
21    Lincoln    8-3    145    17
22    Carnegie Mellon    9-0    90    23
23    St. Thomas    5-1    85    —
24    Ohio Northern    8-1    79    —
25    UW-Oshkosh    5-3    67    25