Unless I have tallied them wrong, of the 12 teams ahead of us, UConn is the only school to have played more than 1 "true" away game against a ranked opponent. UConn has played true away games 3 times against ranked teams (2 of our losses). All of the 12 teams ahead of us, have 1 or zero such games. Iowa has lost at home to the single ranked team that visited. A few, impressively, have won such an away game; most have lost.
How would NC State drop below UConn when NC State dropped from 3rd to 6th and UConn was 12th...your explanation doesn't make sense. So we are now a 4 seed...I would think that UConn is going to be the best 4 seed there ever was. I don't have a problem with UConn's ranking because we have 3 losses no one above us has three losses. If you were to ask me if I thought Kansas State, Colorado State, or Texas was a better team than UConn I would be scratching my head.
Interesting stat about no one above us having played more than 1 true road game vs. ranked opponent thus far. Here is the list of such games:
Curious...
Didn’t you just prove their point. None of these are examples of two true road games against ranked opponents.
I'm not disputing that part. I'm addressing the part where they said: “A few, impressively, have won such an away game; most have lost.”
Here's a crazy stat: The 12 teams ranked ahead of UConn have a TOTAL of 10 losses between them. That's about to change:We dropped because of a quirky circumstance. The only team ahead of us that lost was way up at #3, undefeated NCSU, which beat us by double-digits early on. They dropped, but not as far as where we are. The team that edged them at the buzzer was just behind us last week and jumped over us. No other team ahead of us lost last week.
Some other interesting observations:
--Of the 12 teams ahead of us, 3 are undefeated, 8 have only one loss, and only Va Tech has two losses. We, of course, have 3 losses.
--4 previously undefeated teams lost last week. Only 3 remain: SC, UCLA, and Baylor.
--We have 487 points this week and had 469 last week. So, we moved up by 18 points, but Va. Tech moved up by 107 points and, thus, jumped over us. So, we moved up, as measured by points, but moved down, based on relative ranking.
--Creighton is still ranked, despite a 44-point loss to us. Marquette is also still ranked, despite their second loss.
--Shea's Vanderbilt team is #26.
--Maryland is back among the "others receiving votes" with 2 points. They are tied with Fairfield, who also has 2 points.
--Tennessee still has 0 points. No voter thinks they are a top-25 team. They are not in the top 40.
Iowa behind S. Carolina, UCLA atop women's poll
South Carolina remained No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 women's basketball poll and is now one of three unbeaten teams left.www.espn.com
A got it, seems like a quibble over the word most but ok
UConn is not a four seed. The AP has nothing, zilc, nada, zip, zero to do with seeding. NOTHING!
The Committee doesn’t seed directly based on NET either. UConn could very well end up a four seed if the tournament was tomorrow. To think polls don’t influence the opinion of committee members is naive imo.
Minor influence? Sure. Direct influence? No
A quibble? Uh it’s quantitatively inaccurate but ok.
Actually, I heard all 3 of them were upset!
Do you have any evidence for your claim that the committee members (contrary to their stated criteria) are influenced by the polls?
Well, they are human.
They are humans.
Dropping a team 9 spots in the NET to their seed isn’t unheard of. UConn was 2 last year and was the ranked 7ths in the S Curve. LSU finished 3rd in NET last year and was given a 3 seed. A 4 seed wouldn’t be shocking to me considering the rankings and where people clearly have us based on the eye test.
I want to apologize to all boneyard members and guests for asking everyone to give Emily Adams a chance to demonstrate professional objectivity when writing about UConn wbb. Well, she had her chance and blew it. IMHO her ranking UConn as #18 is insulting to all Wbb fans and has an adverse affect on her objectivity/professionalism as a sports writer. Her rankings could be construed as nothing more than ranking the teams based solely on their number of losses.
Yes, I was aware that the committee members are a subset of human beings.
I wouldn't have them ranked myself, but Marquette was #18 prior to playing UConn and thus had a bit of a “cushion” to play with, and multiple teams ranked below them and in the receiving votes category also lost during that period.
