IUWBB AP/Coaches Poll

[Class of '66 Old Fart 83,988]

Slipped 2 spots in the AP poll.

[Class of '66 Old Fart 83,988]

Down 1 in the Coaches Poll

[Class of '66 Old Fart 83,988]

No change.

[Class of '66 Old Fart 83,988]

Up 2 spots this week.

[Class of '66 Old Fart 83,988]

Up 2 spots and this represents our highest ranking ever in the coaches poll.  GO IU.

[LamarCheeks 18,070]

Dang -- a double OT road loss to a 13-3 team and we drop three spots. Tough crowd! ... The good news, if there is any? South Carolina is now No. 1. The Gamecocks are 16-1. Gee, can you guess who dealt them that loss? So, we can say we've beaten the top-ranked team in the land. Which leads me to believe if we're playing our best, we can compete with anybody! 
 

 

[JerryYeagley23 3,073]

3 hours ago, LamarCheeks said:

Dang -- a double OT road loss to a 13-3 team and we drop three spots. Tough crowd! ... The good news, if there is any? South Carolina is now No. 1. The Gamecocks are 16-1. Gee, can you guess who dealt them that loss? So, we can say we've beaten the top-ranked team in the land. Which leads me to believe if we're playing our best, we can compete with anybody! 
 

 

Felt like a “no-movement” stay at #12 would have been warranted right? Especially with Iowa having just beat UM and entering the polls themselves. Double OT Loss on the road to a Top 25 team. Yeah. Harsh. Lot of opportunities to get into the top ten before end of the season. That road win at Rutgers is going to continue to look better and better too. I think if the lady Hoosiers can win the B1G and snag a 2-seed in the NCAA’s and avoid a matchup with Baylor/UCONN/Stanford/South Carolina until the Elite 8, they would be in good shape with the right matchups and upsets to potentially make a Final Four run. 

Edited January 13, 2020 by JerryYeagley23

[Class of '66 Old Fart 83,988]

Regained 2 spots in the AP poll and came in #18.  Missed getting the last couple of weekly AP poll numbers posted.  We had fallen from #15 in mid-January to #20 last week.

 

 

[LIHoosier 25,856]

Women missed out on the top 16 early reveal

Greenville: 1. South Carolina, 7. NC State, No. 11 UCLA, No. 15 Iowa The Gamecocks, with big contributions from their freshmen class, are currently leading the SEC at 9-0. South Carolina was the 2017 NCAA champion.

Dallas: 2. Baylor, 6. Stanford, 12. Gonzaga, 13. Arizona The defending national champion Lady Bears, who've dominated the Big 12 for the past decade, lead the league at 8-0.

Portland: 4. Oregon, 8. Maryland, 10. Mississippi State, 14. DePaul The Ducks are tied atop the Pac-12 with Stanford at 9-1; those teams will meet for the second time this season on Feb. 24. Oregon beat Mississippi State in the Portland Regional final last year.

Fort Wayne: 3. Louisville, 5. UConn, 9. Oregon State, 16. Northwestern The top three seeds here were all in the Albany Regional last year. Northwestern is seeking its second NCAA tournament appearance since 1997; the other was in 2015.

[Aaron 4,265]

17 minutes ago, LIHoosier said:

Women missed out on the top 16 early reveal

Greenville: 1. South Carolina, 7. NC State, No. 11 UCLA, No. 15 Iowa The Gamecocks, with big contributions from their freshmen class, are currently leading the SEC at 9-0. South Carolina was the 2017 NCAA champion.

Dallas: 2. Baylor, 6. Stanford, 12. Gonzaga, 13. Arizona The defending national champion Lady Bears, who've dominated the Big 12 for the past decade, lead the league at 8-0.

Portland: 4. Oregon, 8. Maryland, 10. Mississippi State, 14. DePaul The Ducks are tied atop the Pac-12 with Stanford at 9-1; those teams will meet for the second time this season on Feb. 24. Oregon beat Mississippi State in the Portland Regional final last year.

Fort Wayne: 3. Louisville, 5. UConn, 9. Oregon State, 16. Northwestern The top three seeds here were all in the Albany Regional last year. Northwestern is seeking its second NCAA tournament appearance since 1997; the other was in 2015.

We're close and probably first or second five seed and tonight's win goes a long way. That NW loss continues to be a killer though that could cost team Big Ten title and top 4 seed if it comes down to those two, unless we beat them in Big Ten Tournament. 

[Class of '66 Old Fart 83,988]

After a 2-1 week, #iuwbb dropped two spots to no. 20 in this week's AP Poll.

[Aaron 4,265]

36 minutes ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

After a 2-1 week, #iuwbb dropped two spots to no. 20 in this week's AP Poll.

Seems harsh. You beat two tournament teams on the road and lose at home to the one team who is actually BETTER then you and beating everyone in their way home and road recently. 

Obviously RPI much more important then these polls but it does show how stupid they are and way to much focus in them and if you lost that week. I already knew that though.

[TheWatShot 13,658]

I wonder if our hilariously awful second half yesterday cost us a spot or two. 

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich 8,619]

I wonder if our hilariously awful second half yesterday cost us a spot or two. 

Yup. We are now behind not just Maryland, but Iowa and Northwestern.


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[Aaron 4,265]

15 hours ago, TheWatShot said:

I wonder if our hilariously awful second half yesterday cost us a spot or two. 

Doubt it. 99% of voters only see the final score and never look at the box score so they have no idea we had that huge lead and doubt they would of changed their vote if they saw we had won by more.

Most voters just look at our record and because we lost this week they move us down without looking or thinking who it was against. That's the system with polling and its hilariously bad.

Assuming we knock off a terrible Illinois team and a mediocre OSU team we will move up next week even though those are far less impressive then two road over probable tournament teams.   

[Class of '66 Old Fart 83,988]

1 hour ago, Aaron said:

Doubt it. 99% of voters only see the final score and never look at the box score so they have no idea we had that huge lead and doubt they would of changed their vote if they saw we had won by more.

Most voters just look at our record and because we lost this week they move us down without looking or thinking who it was against. That's the system with polling and its hilariously bad.

Assuming we knock off a terrible Illinois team and a mediocre OSU team we will move up next week even though those are far less impressive then two road over probable tournament teams.   

In that same vein it will be interesting to see what happens to UConn now that they've lost 2 of their last 3.

[Class of '66 Old Fart 83,988]

Final AP women's basketball poll today saw Indiana remain at No. 20. Hoosiers entered the season having been ranked six weeks all-time. In 2019-20, #iuwbb ranked in all 19 polls, peaking at a program record No. 12 three times with an average ranking of No. 18.

[Class of '66 Old Fart 83,988]

IUWBB #17 in ESPN's way-too-early pre-season poll.

The Hoosiers already know they will have Ali Patberg back for a sixth year, the star guard having lost one season to knee injury at Notre Dame, much of another to illness and a third to the transfer that took her south to Bloomington. That alone is just about enough to keep Indiana in these rankings after Patberg earned first-team all-conference honors. But the Hoosiers return another first-team all-conference pick in guard Grace Berger, along with conference honorees Jaelynn Penn (honorable mention all-conference) and Mackenzie Holmes (all-freshman). The lone starter lost is Brenna Wise, but that's a far bigger subtraction than her stats might indicate. The Hoosiers will have to replace the former Pitt transfer's substantial leadership qualities. 

https://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/28944536/south-carolina-tops-women-college-basketball-way-too-early-top-25-2020-21

[LamarCheeks 18,070]

My friend -- a South Carolina alum and big fan -- pointed out to me that the Gamecocks trailed at the end of a quarter only three times this season. Two were against us -- including the all-important fourth quarter. 

Just gives an indication of how dominant that team was. And how huge our win over them was. 

[LamarCheeks 18,070]

I have to admit, when Teri Moren first came aboard, I did not like the hire. I was adamantly opposed to hiring another Purdue grad. But I think we got the best person we possibly could have. Hope she and the ladies see continued success.