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Message: [QUOTE="Plebe, post: 3335854, member: 6927"] It's interesting to me that elite women's D-I volleyball teams play much tougher nonconference schedules than elite WCBB teams: [TABLE] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD][CENTER][B]% of OOC schedule vs. top 10 (poll)[/B][/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER][B]% of OOC schedule vs. top 25 (poll)[/B][/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER][B]% of OOC scheudle vs. top 75 (RPI)^[/B][/CENTER][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Volleyball top 10 (AVCA poll)[/TD] [TD][CENTER]26% (24 out of 94)[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]40% (38 out of 94)[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]68% (64 out of 94)[/CENTER][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Basketball top 10 (AP poll)[/TD] [TD][CENTER]11% (14 out of 123)[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]24% (30 out of 123)[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]45% (55 out of 123)[/CENTER][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][RIGHT][SIZE=3]^ 2019 season-ending RPI used for basketball here.[/SIZE][/RIGHT][/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] Some notes: [LIST] [*]The NCAA volleyball committee incentivizes better OOC scheduling as part of its "adjusted" RPI. Teams get a bonus for playing 50% of their nonconference schedule against the RPI top 75. I would love to see a similar incentive in effect for WCBB. [*]Volleyball's "standard" OOC season is much shorter and more compressed than basketball's. WCBB has about 8 weeks before most conferences begin play, with most teams playing 10-14 OOC contests. By contrast, VB has about 3-1/2 weeks of OOC play with most teams playing 8-12 OOC contests. [*]This shorter timeline means the tougher scheduling in VB comes across even more acutely because there are more marquee matchups compressed into a shorter period (and that doesn't even take into account that several of the WCBB marquee matchups take place in January and February). [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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