College Sports Madness Top 44

[12au]

#38 Princeton
#37 Gonzaga
#36 TCU
#35 Creighton
#34 Colorado
#33 Oregon State
#32 Michigan State

Shocked to see Oregon St in here. The talent level has plummeted significantly. Might be more accurate to put them at like 60-70 (or worse). We'll see if Rueck can work some magic.

TCU seems like a Top 25 team.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Shocked to see Oregon St in here. The talent level has plummeted significantly. Might be more accurate to put them at like 60-70 (or worse). We'll see if Rueck can work some magic.

Yeah, hard to see what they are basing this on.

 

[TerpWomenFan]

A little surprised Maryland was this low.

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[Stagnant]

Kentucky at 30 also surprises me.

 

[12au]

#31 Illinois
#30 Kentucky
#29 Maryland
#28 Alabama
#27 Mississippi State
#26 Utah
#25 Auburn
#24 Ole Miss
#23 Florida State
#22 Arizona

Bullish on: Kentucky, Maryland, Utah

Bearish on: Mississippi State, Auburn

 

[jdote33]

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Is anyone as high on Arizona as this ranking is. Are they a top 5 big 12 team?

 

[Stagnant]

They could be 5th best. I am not sold on either Utah or TCU. And Kansas state could crumble imo.

Like West Virginia, Baylor, and Iowa State though.

 

[12au]

Arizona has a good young core. Losing Pueyo and Martinez hurts tho.

I'd say they're definitely in top 7 B12. Difficult to order all these teams:

Arizona
Baylor
Iowa State
Kansas State
TCU
West Virginia
Utah

 

[nwhoopfan]

Utah will of course miss Pili a lot, but they bring back most of the rest of their core from the last couple years. Will be interesting to see how well Kneepkens has recovered from her injury early last season.

 

[12au]

#21 West Virginia
#20 Texas A&M

A&M being this high is kinda baffling. What is the argument? Coulibaly leveling up?...

 

[12au]

#19 Nebraska
#18 North Carolina
#17 Indiana
#16 Oklahoma
#15 Kansas St

19-17 seem about right. Could see arguments for Oklahoma and Kansas St being higher. We'll have to see who's above them

 

[FanInNC]

Meh. I’ll believe it when I see it with Carolina.

 

[12au]

#14 Louisville
#13 Stanford

Louisville is adding 9 freshmen apparently. That has to be close to the record--at least for P5

 

[Stagnant]

both of those teams seem like they are getting too much respect to me. Respect for being good historically.

The big 10 coaches didn’t even vote for Stanford as being a top 5 team in the conference.

 

[nwhoopfan]

The big 10 coaches didn’t even vote for Stanford as being a top 5 team in the conference.

ACC?

I know, it's hard to keep track of where all the former Pac 12 schools scattered to.

 

[Stagnant]

*ACC

Thanks. They were picked 7th in the ACC.

 

[12au]

#12 Ohio State
#11 Duke
#10 NC State
#9 Iowa State

Ohio State is interesting since they're projected to be about the same despite heavy turnover. I expect there to be a onboarding period, though maybe they can impose their athleticism to offset that

 

[Stagnant]

People are expecting a lot out of Cambridge. They expect her to be impactful the same way Hidalgo was I guess.

 

[FanInNC]

Maybe it's the pessimist in me, but I think State may be a tad over rated at this stage. With the Weimar injury, State is very much suspect in the post both offensively and defensively. Aziah James was on crutches at the "Red/White" game - supposedly out of an abundance of caution, but still. With the post such a question mark I'm going to hold off on my personal expectations for the Pack. The guard play and wings should be top notch, but if you don't have an answer in the paint I feel like there is a cap on how far you can go. Hopefully someone emerges.

 

[12au]

#8 Baylor
#7 UCLA
#6 Notre Dame
#5 Texas

A Cori Close truther I see

 

[12au]

#4 LSU
#3 UConn
#2 USC
#1 South Carolina

I kind of like the maverick quality to this list. No one else has LSU that high

 

[Stagnant]

LSU over Texas, Notre Dame, and UCLA. I also have not seen that anywhere else.

I feel like those three teams have more talent than lsu. So, maybe this is a Kim Mulkey bump?

 

[GamecockFam]

LSU is sneaky talented. That #1 recruiting class will be sophomores and Smith should be returning from injury, hopefully back to form. Then you have Flau'jae and Morrow coming back. I think Morrow will excel with Reece out of the picture since they had a ton of overlapping skill sets. Flau'jae, Morrow, and Williams all have 1st Team All-SEC kind of talent.

 

[visitingcock]

LSU over Texas, Notre Dame, and UCLA. I also have not seen that anywhere else.

I feel like those three teams have more talent than lsu. So, maybe this is a Kim Mulkey bump?

Well, 3 of the top 4 have coaches who have been to the game several times. U$C coach has been to the final four, at least, and has, perhaps, the most loaded group of talent

 

[CamrnCrz1974]

Is that really true? Didn't I remember that one year Duke hoisted a banner saying they were #1 in the poll? Maybe because the tourney was cancelled? Don't rightly recall.

Duke has a banner for finishing the regular season (including the conference tournaments) as #1 in the AP Poll.

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