Indiana takes down TOSU!

[JellyBean]

Crazy season. Indiana was the favorite to basically be like Ohio State. Go on a massive undefeated run to start the season. Nobody expected Ohio State to come out the gates like they did. But great win for Indiana. Curious to see how far Ohio State falls in the rankings.

 

[HopJim]

I reposted a Chart from after last weekend that can be used to say Stanford has played a tougher schedule than UConn so far. I wouldn’t be upset if Stanford was the 1st or 2nd #2 seed at this point and they need to show they can finish the PAC12 season with at most one more loss to be a lock as one of the #1 seeds.

Eye test in my opinion is UConn is the #2 and Stanford is the #3 overall seed. But they play the games for a reason.

Ask Stanford in 1997, 1998, 2008, and 2010; Arizona and South Carolina in 2021; and UConn since 2017.

AP Rank Team (Top 25 teams defeated)
1 South Carolina (3,8,10)
2 Ohio State (13, 22)
3 Stanford (8,9,17,19,25)
4 LSU (none)
5 UConn (10,16,20,24)
6 Indiana (10,15,22 twice)
7 Notre Dame (5,12)
8 UCLA (none)
9 Utah (14,25)
T-10 Iowa (13,18)
T-10 Maryland (5,7)

Interesting that Stanford has beaten so many top 25 teams. Understand that losing to SC dimmed their luster a bit, but would think they would be getting more positive PR.

 

[Bone Dog]

Interesting that Stanford has beaten so many top 25 teams. Understand that losing to SC dimmed their luster a bit, but would think they would be getting more positive PR.

I'd qualify that with AP top 25 teams. This is not what the NET would show, and by the beginning of February AP rankings don't mean as much as they did in December and early January.

 

[Bone Dog]

Another way to put this, using Warren Nolan's RPI table, is in terms of Quad wins. For Quad 1 & 2 wins among the top teams, ~13 seems to be the norm. We have 12, Stanford has 11, IU and Duke have 13. But add in Quad 3 wins, and larger differences emerge. UConn has 19 Quad 1-3 wins, Stanford and Duke have 17, IU and SC have 16, and it drops from there. Even more telling is how many Quad 4 games any of these teams has even scheduled.

 

[dabears17]

Another way to put this, using Warren Nolan's RPI table, is in terms of Quad wins. For Quad 1 & 2 wins among the top teams, ~13 seems to be the norm. We have 12, Stanford has 11, IU and Duke have 13. But add in Quad 3 wins, and larger differences emerge. UConn has 19 Quad 1-3 wins, Stanford and Duke have 17, IU and SC have 16, and it drops from there. Even more telling is how many Quad 4 games any of these teams has even scheduled.


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Thanks for the chart. Another data point proving my contention that depending on how you look at the data, Stanford is somewhere between the 3rd and 6th best team in the country.

 

[Gamecockfan77]

If one of you guys want to knock off possibly the 6th best team in the country? Stanford before they play SCar again that would be awesome.