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Mid-Major Top 25 Poll

And our RPI is way down at 132. Big Sky affiliation definitely doesn't help with that. Portland is above us at 122, so it must be the conference. I notice that WSU has dropped entirely out of the Mid-Major standings....
 
pdxfan said:
And our RPI is way down at 132. Big Sky affiliation definitely doesn't help with that. Portland is above us at 122, so it must be the conference. I notice that WSU has dropped entirely out of the Mid-Major standings....
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I know everyone is tracking this stuff. That's fine but the only thing that matters is winning the BSC championship and the BSC tourney. We have very tough games remaining and Weber has already proven that we can be beat.
 
VikThunder said:
pdxfan said:
And our RPI is way down at 132. Big Sky affiliation definitely doesn't help with that. Portland is above us at 122, so it must be the conference. I notice that WSU has dropped entirely out of the Mid-Major standings....
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I know everyone is tracking this stuff. That's fine but the only thing that matters is winning the BSC championship and the BSC tourney. We have very tough games remaining and Weber has already proven that we can be beat.
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You're right, but we're tracking it because it is the biggest thing impacting our seed if and when we do win the conference tourny autobid. We need the following to get a 12-15 seed instead of a 16 seed:
1) Solid RPI (Realistically between 80-100)
2) Solid conference RPI (around 20)
3) Nice non-conference win or two (Gonzaga, bracketbuster)
 
In 2003 WSU went 14-0 and 16-0 including the conf tourney and 26-5 going into the NCAA tourney.

Weber was in the MidMajor top 5 and got a 12 seed.

Notable wins: BYU - was also a 12 seed
Notable loss: Alaska Fairbanks Division II team

WSU lost by 6 to 5 seed Wisconsin to finish 26-6

If PSU finished 15-1 that would be an overall 26-5 with a win against #7 and bad losses at least being DI schools.

I could see PSU getting a 12 seed for sure. Also, don't forget to factor in that the Big Sky is better this year that it has in quite a few years.


In the Sagarin, the Big Sky is #17, and has been like 21-23 the last few years. The Big West is #18, the WAC is like 14th.

I believe the highest seed the Big Sky has had is 7, i'll have to look it up. Our last 12 seed was UM in 2006 when they beat Nevada.



Personally I'm hoping WSU can beat PSU of course in Ogden on Feb 14th! Anybody coming?
 
#7 this week. This doesn't get us in the tourney, but damn, top 10 in the mid-major poll after 20 games. :-|

1. Butler (28) 18-1 770 1
2. St. Mary's (2) 18-1 737 2
3. Gonzaga (1) 14-4 711 3
4. Davidson 16-3 695 4
5. Siena 15-5 585 7
6. VCU 15-5 583 9
7. Portland State 15-5 568 11
8. Illinois State 17-3 515 5
9. George Mason 14-5 501 6
10. College of Charleston 15-4 491 8
11. Northern Iowa 14-6 465 18
12. VMI 16-3 429 14
13. Wisconsin-Green Bay 15-6 368 13
14. Stephen F. Austin 12-5 357 12
15. Creighton 15-6 340 10
16. Western Kentucky 13-7 297 15
17. Buffalo 12-5 195 NR
18. Northeastern 13-6 154 NR
19. Liberty 14-7 141 16
20. Arkansas-Little Rock 14-6 127 19
21. Bradley 12-8 118 NR
22. Niagara 14-6 101 21
23. Cleveland State 12-8 92 17
24. Cornell 12-6 91 NR
25. North Dakota State 14-5 81 NR

OTHERS RECEIVING VOTES: San Diego 79, Miami (OH) 63, East Tennessee State 54, Wisconsin-Milwaukee 53, Navy 42, Vermont 40, Wright State 38, Austin Peay 35, Portland 33, Evansville 24, Middle Tennessee 24, Robert Morris 21, Long Beach State 13, Hofstra 12, Arkansas State 11, Weber State 10, Belmont 7, Jacksonville 7, Ball State 3, Tennessee-Martin 3, Illinois Chicago 2, Boston University 1, Morgan State 1.
 
dystopiamembrane said:
Grant H said:
That's our highest ever rating in the mid major poll, it's turning out to be a pretty sweet season.
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We still need to beat that team that got 10 votes.
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Oh, we've still got work to do, just saying it's been fun so far.
 
Next Top 25: March 2


Record
Points
Previous

1. Gonzaga (29) 21-5 773 1
2. Butler (2) 23-4 739 2
3. Siena 22-6 699 4
4. St. Mary's 22-5 664 5
5. Creighton 23-6 657 6
6. Davidson 22-6 627 3
7. Wisconsin-Green Bay 21-8 572 9
8. Western Kentucky 19-8 539 10
9. Illinois State 22-6 455 8
10. Northern Iowa 18-10 448 7
11. VCU 19-9 437 11
12. Niagara 22-7 354 12
13. North Dakota State 21-6 408 22
14. Weber State 18-8 406 17
15. Arkansas-Little Rock 20-7 333 13
16. College of Charleston 20-7 288 16
17. American 19-7 280 24
18. Cleveland State 19-9 264 14
19. George Mason 18-9 221 18
20. Northeastern 17-10 201 19
21. Old Dominion 18-9 127 NR
22. Vermont 22-7 91 25
23. Radford 17-10 69 NR
24. VMI 20-7 63 15
25. Tennessee-Martin 19-7 57 NR

OTHERS RECEIVING VOTES: Stephen F Austin 42, Buffalo 30, Robert Morris 29, Portland State 27, Troy 23, Portland 22, Binghamton 20, Liberty 19, Cornell 16, Morgan State 16, The Citadel 15, Montana 13, Hofstra 12, Miami (OH) 7, Bradley 6, Wright State 3, Wisconsin-Milwaukee 2, Sam Houston State
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Here's this week's poll, the coaches that vote in this obviously don't pay that close attention to what's going on. We we're still something like 14th when we weren't playing well at all, now we when two games this week including a quality win over Boise State who would likely be ranked in this poll if the were eligible and we actually move back a spot. Plus Tennessee-Martin who lost to a horrible Missouri State team in their Bracket Buster gets ranked for the first time
 
First poll for the year is out.

http://www.collegeinsider.com/mmpoll/

9 votes for us. Both UP, Wright State, and Saint Mary's are top 25.
 
3 votes this week.

http://www.midmajortop25.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Probably due to the two teams that we lost to being 6-2 and 8-1.

Rough stretch coming up...
 
Next week we should have maybe 6-7 votes -assuming we beat Southern Utah and lose to Oregon. Weber's going to come down a little, having dropped another game.
 
Looks like some folks on the mid-major voting panel took note of our weekend.

"OTHERS RECEIVING VOTES: New Mexico State 70, Harvard 58, UNC Asheville 54, Bradley 44, Evansville 40, Toledo 44, Portland State 38, Buffalo 36, South Dakota 33, Grand Canyon 32, North Carolina A&T 31, Central Michigan 29, Illinois State 27, Tennessee Tech 26, Kent State 22, Stephen F. Austin 21, Princeton 19, Milwaukee 13, Rider 13, Monmouth 12, Akron 10, Bowling Green 9, Jacksonville State 8, UC Irvine 8, UC Santa Barbara 8, Drake 7, Iona 6, North Dakota 6, Yale 5, Utah Valley 5, Winthrop 4, ETSU 3, Northern Colorado 3, Navy 2, Wagner 2, Western Michigan 2, Idaho 1, Liberty 1, Murray State 1, San Francisco 1."
 
martymoose said:
Looks like some folks on the mid-major voting panel took note of our weekend.

"OTHERS RECEIVING VOTES: New Mexico State 70, Harvard 58, UNC Asheville 54, Bradley 44, Evansville 40, Toledo 44, Portland State 38, Buffalo 36, South Dakota 33, Grand Canyon 32, North Carolina A&T 31, Central Michigan 29, Illinois State 27, Tennessee Tech 26, Kent State 22, Stephen F. Austin 21, Princeton 19, Milwaukee 13, Rider 13, Monmouth 12, Akron 10, Bowling Green 9, Jacksonville State 8, UC Irvine 8, UC Santa Barbara 8, Drake 7, Iona 6, North Dakota 6, Yale 5, Utah Valley 5, Winthrop 4, ETSU 3, Northern Colorado 3, Navy 2, Wagner 2, Western Michigan 2, Idaho 1, Liberty 1, Murray State 1, San Francisco 1."
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Here is the whole poll that I believe marty was alluding to.

http://www.collegeinsider.com/mens-mid-major-top-25.php

Interesting that, even in the ORV, we are still the highest Big Sky team this week. :thumb:
 
bigskyconf said:
martymoose said:
Looks like some folks on the mid-major voting panel took note of our weekend.

"OTHERS RECEIVING VOTES: New Mexico State 70, Harvard 58, UNC Asheville 54, Bradley 44, Evansville 40, Toledo 44, Portland State 38, Buffalo 36, South Dakota 33, Grand Canyon 32, North Carolina A&T 31, Central Michigan 29, Illinois State 27, Tennessee Tech 26, Kent State 22, Stephen F. Austin 21, Princeton 19, Milwaukee 13, Rider 13, Monmouth 12, Akron 10, Bowling Green 9, Jacksonville State 8, UC Irvine 8, UC Santa Barbara 8, Drake 7, Iona 6, North Dakota 6, Yale 5, Utah Valley 5, Winthrop 4, ETSU 3, Northern Colorado 3, Navy 2, Wagner 2, Western Michigan 2, Idaho 1, Liberty 1, Murray State 1, San Francisco 1."
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Here is the whole poll that I believe marty was alluding to.

http://www.collegeinsider.com/mens-mid-major-top-25.php

Interesting that, even in the ORV, we are still the highest Big Sky team this week. :thumb:
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Thanks. I should have probably provided the link.

Geez, has it really been six years since we've had a post on the Mid-Major poll thread. :-|
 
Looks like a 75 point beat down of Portland Bible earns you one more Mid Major Top 25 vote. We're at 39 votes this week.
 
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