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Unbeatens Falling

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A little tracking of number of unbeaten teams remaining:

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trisailin said:
A little tracking of number of unbeaten teams remaining:

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I'll bet if you look at the schedules of most of the "unbeatens", you'll find they began their season in a BAKERY. Now they're beginning to play other teams that are in their class, talent and skill wise.
 
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Scoop said:
I'll bet if you look at the schedules of most of the "unbeatens", you'll find they began their season in a BAKERY. Now they're beginning to play other teams that are at their level talent and skill wise.
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Lol. Baylor and Maryland make sure every year they play a full baker's dozen. Baylor (and Texas) also makes sure that they play little outside the state of Texas.
 
JordyG said:
Lol. Baylor and Maryland make sure every year they play a full baker's dozen. Baylor (and Texas) also makes sure that they play little outside the state of Texas.
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I remember 3 years ago, Baylor had a "Cupcake parade" come through town (Ferrell Center). Aside from playing in a tournament in the Bahamas, (I just checked) they played the rest of their 13 OOC games at home.

Their first road game was a conference tilt against Oklahoma State in Stillwater in late Dec 2015, which they lost 52-45. The Bears were without their starting pg Niya Johnson who was injured. I guess they had a tight travel budget that year, and didn't want to waste it on early season travel. :cool:
 
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New Mexico is 9-0, but they've only played 2 away games.
For some reason they're fairly invincible at The Pit.
 
ochoopsfan said:
The total will be 20 before the nights over as two 7-0 teams face each other out west. USC @ LMU
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USC won this one. I haven't looked at their schedule. They're flying under the radar so far.
 
Baylor did play at UCLA this year and plays Stanford on Sunday. Could be a nice little warm up while you're waiting for the UConn-ND game to start.
 
nwhoopfan said:
USC won this one. I haven't looked at their schedule. They're flying under the radar so far.
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It's amazing how you can stay under the radar when you don't play anybody ;)

Seriously, USC's best wins so far are over Purdue and LMU. Really haven't played anyone else worth mentioning.

They now get a long break (for finals?) until Dec. 15, when they'll host Texas A&M in their only OOC game vs. a currently top-25 team.
 
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Plebe said:
It's amazing how you can stay under the radar when you don't play anybody ;)

Seriously, USC's best wins so far are over Purdue and LMU. Really haven't played anyone else worth mentioning.

They now get a long break (for finals?) until Dec. 15, when they'll host Texas A&M in their only OOC game vs. a currently top-25 team.
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Usc realistically only has 6 players that contribute. It will catch up to them by conference time. If they win half their pac 12 games it would be amazing.
 
ochoopsfan said:
Usc realistically only has 6 players that contribute. It will catch up to them by conference time. If they win half their pac 12 games it would be amazing.
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True! PAC12 is one conference I am waiting to see. In regards to USC I do love watching Minyon Moore play. She is a dynamic PG.
 
Texas travels to Georgia tomorrow so one more unbeaten will be reduced by 1 more.
 
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Two games today with both unbeatens. So at least two fewer tomorrow.
 
Texas hammered Georgia. Scratch GA and ND off the list of unbeatens. West Virginia has a tough game against 1 loss Texas A&M today, so that could be another.
 
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Thanks for keeping this list.

Ball State gets a bit of a test today when they visit Purdue.
UC Davis will be tested on Saturday when they travel to Saint Mary's, another quality mid-major team.
Two matchups of unbeaten teams on Sunday: Texas @ Tennessee, Navy @ New Mexico.
 
Scoop said:
I'll bet if you look at the schedules of most of the "unbeatens", you'll find they began their season in a BAKERY. Now they're beginning to play other teams that are in their class, talent and skill wise.
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Mostly, there just are not enough good teams yet. I mean LMU and USC being unbeaten after 6 is no big deal.
 
Sagarin schedule rank added to the list of unbeatens. (Yeah, I know their numbers are suspect this time of year but still pretty indicative.)
Ball St. - 256
Fl St. - 127
Kansas - 315
Louisville - 9
Miss St - 73
Navy - 342
New Mexico - 218
USC - 206
Syracuse - 220
TN - 99
TX - 126
UC Davis - 251
Villanova - 71
West VA - 94
Uconn - 3

Two schools on this list stand out from the others - no idea how good teams like TX really are and we will not know until they actually play someone - best wins to date - Georgia and LSU neither of which are expected to be better than bottom dwellers in their conferences.

And for those questioning why Louisville is so highly ranked ... they are actually playing and beating other well regarded teams.
 
I cant wait for conference season to start for some of these teams.

Southern Cal has TAMU next (12/15) so that will be a test for them prior to the PAC12. I look for the RPI for the PAC12 to be high again this year. Cant wait to see how they separate themselves as the season progresses.

West Virginia could go to 13-0 because they don't really get a challenge until Texas on 12/31.

As far as Texas they have Tennessee (12/10) and FSU (12/17) before conference season starts. If the Longhorns beat WVU on 12/31 then they could be undefeated when they meet UCONN on 01/15. Interesting.

Villanova is an interesting prospect. Unless they get beat in the BIG East (DePaul or Marquette??) they have no ranked teams on the schedule.

Louisville could go into January undefeated with a match up with ND on 1/11 in Louisville.

Syracuse battles Mississippi State on 12/21. Both could be undefeated on that date.
 
I believe there was only one unbeaten playing yesterday - BALL STATE. They beat Purdue 66-60 so today's list is same as yesterday.
 
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