AP Top 25 Week 14: Top 4 remain the same

[Centerstream]

Vandy moves up 2, Duke leaps up 6, Princeton down 2 to 24.

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[HuskyNan]

 

[sun]

UCLA's 3 point margin of victory over Michigan yesterday was the same as UConn's MOV over them.
Michigan missed the last shot of the game to tie it, and UCLA missed 2 foul shots which would have made it a 2 possession game.
Both teams seem capable of cracking under pressure.

SCar's 43 point MOV over Tennessee was greater than UConn's 30 point MOV over them with Blamca out.

 

[Vowelguy]

Duke is the power mover of the week: up 6 to #11. BDs now in contention for a 2 seed.
But not all joy in @triaddukefan land as that "other" team was the 2nd biggest mover -- up 4 to #21.

Meanwhile that injury has killed Iowa -- down another 5 this week, and in danger of falling out of hosting. I hope Jan Jensen still gets conference COY -- they were clearly #2 in the B1G -- but it's probably Close's now.

 

[triaddukefan]

Vandy moves up 2, Duke leaps up 6, Princeton down 2 to 24.

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[ucmiami2]

And it was only a few weeks ago, when we were all complaining about the really bad TOs the team was making! (I hope Blanca is learning something during her forced absence from the line-up! 😎 )

 

[sun]

And it was only a few weeks ago, when we were all complaining about the really bad TOs the team was making! (I hope Blanca is learning something during her forced absence from the line-up! 😎 )

Actually, Strong has the most turnovers on the team with 48. Williams has 43, Blanca has 38 & Azzi has 36.
And Strong also sat out the last game.

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[ucmiami2]

Duke needed a signature win to force voters to re-evaluate them. Beating Louisville provided that.

The bottom 5+/- are in a musical chairs competition week to week - none have great records, so they switch seats amongst themselves based on a win or loss each week, and will continue to do so through conference tournaments, with no one in the 'also receiving votes' really applying any pressure to replace them. A signature win could move them up out of the chatter, TN has the most chances, but also the highest chance of losing 5 games. MD playing Mich/MichSt/tOSU might have the best chance. NC has a H/H with Duke - a split would certainly help them.

 

[MilfordHusky]

UCLA's 3 point margin of victory over Michigan yesterday was the same as UConn's MOV over them.
Michigan missed the last shot of the game to tie it, and UCLA missed 2 foul shots which would have made it a 2 possession game.
Both teams seem capable of cracking under pressure.

SCar's 43 point MOV over Tennessee was greater than UConn's 30 point MOV over them with Blamca out.

Michigan's last shot was an airball by Swords. Remember her?

UCLA's missed FTs were by Jacquez, who was shooting 89%.

 

[ucmiami2]

Actually, Strong has the most turnovers on the team with 48. Williams has 43, Blanca has 38 & Azzi has 36.
And Strong also sat out the last game.

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Post players generally lead teams in TO as they operate in the most crowded area of the floor and are double/triple teamed at a higher rate. On the other hand, they seldom lead the team in assists as Strong currently does, nor do they sport her 2.25 A/TO ratio, but she also isn't a traditional post. Serah is more typical, but she still has a better than 1.00 A/TO. In fact Jana's 16/19, and Ayanna's 3/7 A/TO are the only two at less than 1.00 in their limited minutes.

 

[HuskyNan]

Actually, Strong has the most turnovers on the team with 48. Williams has 43, Blanca has 38 & Azzi has 36.
And Strong also sat out the last game.

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Sarah and Azzi have the ball in their hands more often than other players

 

[Centerstream]

Sarah and Azzi have the ball in their hands more often then other players

And much of the time that they are handling the ball, they have more than one player trying to defend them.

 

[sun]

Sarah and Azzi have the ball in their hands more often then other players

To be honest, we should look at when during the season were the most TO's made by a player.
Were the TO's mostly made earlier in the seaosn soon after Blanca arrived or more recently such as in Strong's
case?
Fans should realize when patterns emerge, & not refer to them as current after TO patterns could have changed.
Thus it becomes more of a matter of when did the pattern occur and not that it occcurred in the more distant past.
Geno has addressed this already anyway regarding Blanca which was the post that I replied to.

 

[packwrap]

Lots of losses at spots 5-25 further solidifying the top 4 ncaa seeds. Vandy now really only team that could still move up...

...but Shea's group faces 5 ranked teams plus #28 Georgia in their last 6 games. Against this gauntlet they could even fall out of top 8.

Tonight Vandy goes up against Oklahoma. Pre season OU would have been favored, but with new Vandy the game is a toss up.

Big game. Will be rooting for Shea and team.

 

[Cuango]

Duke needed a signature win to force voters to re-evaluate them. Beating Louisville provided that.

The bottom 5+/- are in a musical chairs competition week to week - none have great records, so they switch seats amongst themselves based on a win or loss each week, and will continue to do so through conference tournaments, with no one in the 'also receiving votes' really applying any pressure to replace them. A signature win could move them up out of the chatter, TN has the most chances, but also the highest chance of losing 5 games. MD playing Mich/MichSt/tOSU might have the best chance. NC has a H/H with Duke - a split would certainly help them.

I’m not sure what happened but Louisville had to dig out of an 18-1 deficit in the first quarter. They made it competitive but that’s pretty tough against Duke. Still, I think Jeff has done an incredible job this season. As has Kara of course, they looked dead in the water early on.

 

[Vowelguy]

Lots of losses at spots 5-25 further solidifying the top 4 ncaa seeds. Vandy now really only team that could still move up...
.

If LSU beats SC and then makes the SECT final, I think they'd have a good chance. They split with Texas, have close losses to Vandy and Ky, and would have a win over SC plus likely another win over SC/Tex.

I'd say Vandy is a longer shot bc of the 30 pt loss to SC. Still not sure how good they are.

 

[tomcat]

SC is really coming on strong. They destroyed TN and have looked awfully good recently. In terms of the Final Four yes, UCLA will be a contender, but the team UConn should watch for is SC, IMHO.

 

[ucmiami2]

That SEC tournament could conceivably be a preview of the NCAA final four with 2 two seeds playing 2 one seeds! Regardless - it is going to be a tournament stacked with nine top 25 teams!

UCLA and Uconn obvious will be large hurdles to overcome before that happens and a few other teams could toss a spanner in it, but ...

 

[packwrap]

If LSU beats SC and then makes the SECT final, I think they'd have a good chance. They split with Texas, have close losses to Vandy and Ky, and would have a win over SC plus likely another win over SC/Tex.

I'd say Vandy is a longer shot bc of the 30 pt loss to SC. Still not sure how good they are.

Well nice work by Vandy vs Oklahoma.

Vandy now has wins over LSU, MI, OK and KY on the road. The gauntlet keeps going but TX and TN are the biggest remaining hurdles.

True LSU has an outside chance too. They do host SC this season, but a sweep of TX would have really helped them.

 

[hussybulldog]

TTU and TCU were really over ranked .. they are coming down and will prob going south even further . Vandy and Princeton , in my opinion are also over ranked .

 

[ERWUC65]

SC is really coming on strong. They destroyed TN and have looked awfully good recently. In terms of the Final Four yes, UCLA will be a contender, but the team UConn should watch for is SC, IMHO.

They always look good at home. Let's wait on their away game with LSU.

 

[Bigboote]

TTU and TCU were really over ranked .. they are coming down and will prob going south even further . Vandy and Princeton , in my opinion are also over ranked .

Did you see last night's game vs #10 Oklahoma? I don't think #5 is too high, they're 3-1 against the top ten.

 

[hussybulldog]

Did you see last night's game vs #10 Oklahoma? I don't think #5 is too high, they're 3-1 against the top ten.

If #5 is not too high, where would you put them?

 

[Gael]

For the week 14 AP top 25, I will post the top 54 SRCBB Adjusted Net Ratings (last column on right) simply in order to capture all of the AP's top 25. Note that according to SRCBB's computer algorithm, Princeton is the most wildly over-ranked AP team and Minnesota (yet again) is the most under-ranked team.

Rk ▲	School	Conf		AP Rank	W	L	Pts	Opp	MOV		SOS		OSRS	DSRS	SRS	ORtg	DRtg	NRtg
1	Connecticut	Big East		1	25	0	89.8	50.6	39.28		14.22		30.38	23.13	53.50	129.33	58.91	70.43
2	UCLA	Big Ten		2	23	1	86.0	57.0	29.00		19.20		27.73	20.48	48.20	132.36	67.02	65.34
3	South Carolina	SEC		3	24	2	88.1	55.7	32.46		14.91		28.53	18.85	47.37	126.21	65.08	61.13
4	Texas	SEC		4	23	2	86.9	54.8	32.12		14.97		26.62	20.47	47.09	124.60	64.28	60.33
5	Louisiana State	SEC		6	22	3	96.6	57.8	38.76		8.23		34.34	12.65	46.99	125.20	68.75	56.45
6	Michigan	Big Ten		7	20	4	86.9	62.3	24.63		16.34		26.98	13.99	40.97	119.93	67.91	52.02
7	Oklahoma	SEC		10	17	6	88.0	65.5	22.43		13.70		27.84	8.30	36.14	113.66	70.36	43.30
8	Louisville	ACC		9	22	4	81.7	59.9	21.81		12.91		21.69	13.03	34.72	119.04	73.97	45.07
9	Duke	ACC		11	18	6	75.9	58.3	17.63		16.74		17.02	17.34	34.36	112.49	68.17	44.32
10	Vanderbilt	SEC		5	23	2	85.4	63.2	22.16		11.43		23.81	9.78	33.59	121.81	78.56	43.25
11	Michigan State	Big Ten		13	20	4	85.3	63.3	22.04		11.10		22.99	10.15	33.14	120.09	77.11	42.98
12	Maryland	Big Ten		20	19	6	83.1	61.6	21.52		10.94		22.96	9.50	32.46	116.55	74.04	42.52
13	TCU	Big 12		17	21	4	80.2	55.3	24.96		7.50		16.95	15.51	32.46	114.19	72.13	42.06
14	Iowa	Big Ten		15	18	5	79.9	66.1	13.83		18.28		20.81	11.29	32.11	115.99	74.65	41.34
15	Minnesota	Big Ten			18	6	75.5	55.9	19.63		11.95		14.21	17.37	31.58	115.25	71.99	43.27
16	Ohio State	Big Ten		8	22	3	83.8	64.4	19.40		11.81		22.26	8.95	31.21	113.24	74.83	38.41
17	Southern California	Big Ten			15	9	69.8	59.7	10.08		20.39		11.98	18.50	30.48	107.90	67.69	40.20
18	Kentucky	SEC		18	18	7	76.6	58.7	17.92		12.53		14.88	15.57	30.45	115.04	74.33	40.71
19	Mississippi	SEC		14	19	5	77.5	57.2	20.33		9.39		15.35	14.37	29.72	111.53	73.34	38.19
20	West Virginia	Big 12		19	20	5	76.8	59.4	17.36		12.04		16.01	13.39	29.40	110.52	73.02	37.49
21	Tennessee	SEC		22	15	6	76.6	65.1	11.52		17.20		18.86	9.86	28.72	110.37	73.86	36.51
22	Nebraska	Big Ten			16	8	80.9	66.6	14.33		13.82		18.70	9.45	28.15	117.32	80.31	37.01
23	NC State	ACC			17	7	78.4	66.0	12.42		15.58		19.30	8.70	28.00	113.53	77.60	35.93
24	North Carolina	ACC		21	20	5	75.4	57.9	17.52		10.46		13.67	14.31	27.98	109.30	72.84	36.46
25	Oregon	Big Ten			18	8	76.9	63.4	13.54		14.10		16.85	10.78	27.63	110.39	74.41	35.98
26	Oklahoma State	Big 12			19	6	85.1	62.4	22.68		6.03		20.17	6.56	26.74	117.78	83.97	33.81
27	Notre Dame	ACC			15	9	79.1	66.1	12.96		13.31		18.98	7.29	26.27	113.04	80.24	32.80
28	Texas Tech	Big 12		16	22	3	73.8	56.4	17.40		8.15		11.48	14.07	25.55	107.15	74.06	33.09
29	Iowa State	Big 12			19	5	83.6	64.1	19.46		6.00		20.44	5.02	25.46	117.34	84.04	33.30
30	Baylor	Big 12		12	21	4	72.4	57.8	14.60		10.79		11.72	13.67	25.39	105.13	71.72	33.41
31	Alabama	SEC		23	20	5	71.4	58.1	13.24		11.74		11.18	13.79	24.98	110.41	76.85	33.56
32	Washington	Big Ten		25	18	6	74.1	60.9	13.17		11.44		12.94	11.67	24.61	112.26	78.75	33.51
33	Illinois	Big Ten			16	8	77.4	65.5	11.92		12.04		14.58	9.38	23.96	111.55	80.67	30.88
34	Georgia	SEC			19	5	75.5	58.8	16.67		7.21		12.42	11.45	23.87	108.45	77.47	30.98
35	Mississippi State	SEC			16	8	77.8	64.8	13.00		9.00		15.61	6.39	22.00	110.59	82.34	28.25
36	Syracuse	ACC			19	5	75.2	61.9	13.29		7.78		13.68	7.39	21.07	104.92	78.49	26.43
37	Virginia	ACC			17	7	77.0	62.3	14.71		6.29		13.67	7.32	21.00	109.72	81.95	27.77
38	Colorado	Big 12			16	8	68.6	61.0	7.54		12.12		7.76	11.90	19.66	101.79	76.48	25.31
39	Virginia Tech	ACC			18	7	73.9	59.9	13.96		5.63		10.42	9.17	19.59	102.20	77.93	24.27
40	Stanford	ACC			16	9	69.4	60.8	8.52		10.77		7.92	11.37	19.29	103.80	77.78	26.02
41	Villanova	Big East			19	5	72.8	61.9	10.88		8.27		11.50	7.65	19.15	106.17	80.71	25.46
42	Clemson	ACC			17	8	70.1	57.4	12.68		6.15		6.15	12.68	18.83	108.67	83.07	25.60
43	Florida	SEC			15	11	73.8	65.5	8.31		9.49		10.89	6.91	17.80	103.87	82.08	21.79
44	California	ACC			15	10	70.2	63.9	6.36		11.19		9.49	8.05	17.55	105.21	82.90	22.31
45	Miami (FL)	ACC			12	12	70.8	65.5	5.21		12.23		9.72	7.72	17.44	103.92	82.24	21.68
46	Utah	Big 12			16	8	69.2	63.9	5.29		12.93		8.43	8.89	17.32	102.87	80.79	22.08
47	Richmond	A-10			20	4	75.6	61.4	14.21		3.02		12.09	5.14	17.23	111.97	88.89	23.08
48	Kansas	Big 12			15	10	73.8	66.0	7.72		11.92		11.63	5.51	17.13	107.32	85.19	22.12
49	Arizona State	Big 12			19	6	67.0	59.0	8.00		8.90		4.85	12.05	16.90	97.85	76.20	21.65
50	North Dakota State	Summit			22	2	81.4	59.1	22.29		-4.15		12.91	3.54	16.44	109.77	87.40	22.38
51	Brigham Young	Big 12			16	8	70.5	63.3	7.25		8.46		8.41	7.30	15.71	98.79	79.86	18.93
52	James Madison	Sun Belt			18	8	74.7	63.5	11.19		4.41		9.63	5.96	15.60	102.24	82.17	20.07
53	South Dakota State	Summit			18	6	75.8	63.4	12.46		3.10		10.46	5.11	15.56	107.63	86.94	20.70
54	Princeton	Ivy		24	19	2	74.0	63.8	10.19		5.31		11.46	4.04	15.50	109.41	88.91	20.50

 

[Bigboote]

If #5 is not too high, where would you put them?

At #5. Where would you put them, and whom would you put above them?