Feb 4, 2023
in Lawrence

"Down 67-62 with 15.6 seconds remaining, KU's Holly Kersgieter drained a three-pointer from the left corner to make the game 67-65 with 10.7 seconds on the clock. After a pair of missed UT free throws, Kansas called timeout yet had an entry pass stolen, ending the scoring threat. The Jayhawks would not get a shot off on its final two possessions with the clock winding down."

RECAP Texas 68
https://texassports.com/news/2023/2/4/womens-basketball-no-24-25-womens-basketball-secures-68-65-victory-at-kansas.aspx

RECAP Kansas 65
https://kuathletics.com/kansas-falls-to-no-24-texas-68-65/

Feb 4, 2023
in Ames

RECAP Baylor 76
https://baylorbears.com/news/2023/2/4/womens-basketball-wbb-downs-no-12-iowa-state-in-ames-76-70.aspx

RECAP Iowa State 70
https://cyclones.com/news/2023/2/4/womens-basketball-no-12-cyclones-fall-to-baylor-76-70.aspx

Feb 5, 2023
in Lubbock

RECAP Texas Tech 78
https://texastech.com/news/2023/2/5/womens-basketball-tech-closes-out-sweep-of-k-state.aspx

RECAP Kansas State 68
https://www.kstatesports.com/news/2023/2/5/womens-basketball-third-quarter-run-not-enough-for-k-state-on-sunday.aspx

2022-23 AP TOP 25 Poll
Released Feb 6, 2023

01 South Carolina (28)
02 Indiana
03 LSU
04 UConn
05 Iowa
06 Stanford
07 Utah
08 Maryland
09 Duke
10 Notre Dame
11 Virginia Tech
12 Michigan
13 Ohio State
14 North Carolina
15 Villanova
16 Oklahoma
17 Arizona
18 UCLA
19 Florida State
20 Texas
21 Iowa State
22 North Carolina State
23 Gonzaga
24 USouth Florida
25 Colorado

Others receiving votes
Baylor 29, Illinois 18, UNLV 14, Tennessee 13,
USouthern Cal 8, Middle Tennessee 8,
Florida Gulf Coast 2, Louisville 2 & Cleveland State 1

slimecap said:

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2022-23 AP TOP 25 Poll
Released Feb 6, 2023

01 South Carolina (28)
02 Indiana
03 LSU
04 UConn
05 Iowa
06 Stanford
07 Utah
08 Maryland
09 Duke
10 Notre Dame
11 Virginia Tech
12 Michigan
13 Ohio State
14 North Carolina
15 Villanova
16 Oklahoma
17 Arizona
18 UCLA
19 Florida State
20 Texas
21 Iowa State
22 North Carolina State
23 Gonzaga
24 USouth Florida
25 Colorado

Others receiving votes
Baylor 29, Illinois 18, UNLV 14, Tennessee 13,
USouthern Cal 8, Middle Tennessee 8,
Florida Gulf Coast 2, Louisville 2 & Cleveland State 1

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Well polls are so weird and they seem weirder this year than ever. So much more parity no one knows what to do. Baylor beat both ISU and OU yet they ranked we not. We also have a win over Villanova.

Eball said:

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slimecap said:

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2022-23 AP TOP 25 Poll
Released Feb 6, 2023

01 South Carolina (28)
02 Indiana
03 LSU
04 UConn
05 Iowa
06 Stanford
07 Utah
08 Maryland
09 Duke
10 Notre Dame
11 Virginia Tech
12 Michigan
13 Ohio State
14 North Carolina
15 Villanova
16 Oklahoma
17 Arizona
18 UCLA
19 Florida State
20 Texas
21 Iowa State
22 North Carolina State
23 Gonzaga
24 USouth Florida
25 Colorado

Others receiving votes
Baylor 29, Illinois 18, UNLV 14, Tennessee 13,
USouthern Cal 8, Middle Tennessee 8,
Florida Gulf Coast 2, Louisville 2 & Cleveland State 1

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Well polls are so weird and they seem weirder this year than ever. So much more parity no one knows what to do. Baylor beat both ISU and OU yet they ranked we not. We also have a win over Villanova.

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I agree. The only poll that matters however, comes out in April.

Eball said:

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slimecap said:

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2022-23 AP TOP 25 Poll
Released Feb 6, 2023

01 South Carolina (28)
02 Indiana
03 LSU
04 UConn
05 Iowa
06 Stanford
07 Utah
08 Maryland
09 Duke
10 Notre Dame
11 Virginia Tech
12 Michigan
13 Ohio State
14 North Carolina
15 Villanova
16 Oklahoma
17 Arizona
18 UCLA
19 Florida State
20 Texas
21 Iowa State
22 North Carolina State
23 Gonzaga
24 USouth Florida
25 Colorado

Others receiving votes
Baylor 29, Illinois 18, UNLV 14, Tennessee 13,
USouthern Cal 8, Middle Tennessee 8,
Florida Gulf Coast 2, Louisville 2 & Cleveland State 1

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Well polls are so weird and they seem weirder this year than ever. So much more parity no one knows what to do. Baylor beat both ISU and OU yet they ranked we not. We also have a win over Villanova.

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We lost to Oklahoma State, West Virginia and Texas in of two weeks. 2 of those three losses are considered bad losses. Can't lose multiple games you should win - especially back-to-back - and expect to be ranked. We beat #12. Let's see if we can also beat #16. Win two this week and we'll be ranked.

CONFERENCE STANDINGS
as of February 7, 9:28 AM CT

9 - 2 Texas
8 - 3 Oklahoma
7 - 3 Baylor
7 - 4 Iowa State
6 - 5 Oklahoma State
5 - 5 West Virginia
4 - 6 Kansas
4 - 6 Texas Tech
3 - 8 Kansas State
0 - 11 TCU

2022-23 USA TODAY/COACHES TOP 25 Poll
Released Feb 7, 2023

01 South Carolina (32)
02 LSU
03 Indiana
04 UConn
05 Stanford
06 Iowa
07 Utah
08 Maryland
09 Virginia Tech
10 Notre Dame
11 Duke
12 Ohio State
13 Oklahoma
14 Michigan
15 Arizona
16 North Carolina
17 UCLA
18 Villanova
19 Iowa State
20 North Carolina State
21 USouth Florida
22 Gonzaga
23 Texas
24 Florida State
25 Colorado

Others receiving votes
Florida Gulf Coast 37, Illinois 30, UNLV 23, Baylor 22, USouthern Cal 17,
Oregon 8, Middle Tennessee State 7, Tennessee 5, Mississippi 4,
Rhode Island 1, Purdue 1, Massachusetts 1 & Alabama 1

Dropped out of Top 25 from previous poll
# 23 Middle Tennessee State
# 24 Illinois

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Feb 7, 2023
in Stillwater

3rd consecutive win for Oklahoma State

RECAP Oklahoma State 76
https://okstate.com/news/2023/2/7/cowgirl-basketball-cowgirls-run-winning-streak-to-three-with-victory-over-west-virginia.aspx

RECAP West Virginia 65
https://wvusports.com/news/2023/2/7/womens-basketball-cowgirls-outlast-mountaineers-in-stillwater.aspx

Feb 8, 2023
in Lawrence

RECAP Kansas 73
https://kuathletics.com/prater-leads-jayhawks-past-tcu-73-55/

RECAP TCU 55
https://gofrogs.com/news/2023/2/9/womens-basketball-tcu-falls-on-the-road-at-kansas.aspx

Feb 8, 2023
in Austin

Down by 22 points in the 4th quarter
Texas Tech cut the deficit to 73-63 with 1:15 to play

RECAP Texas 80
https://texassports.com/news/2023/2/8/womens-basketball-no-20-23-womens-basketball-takes-down-texas-tech-80-71.aspx

RECAP Texas Tech 71
https://texastech.com/news/2023/2/8/womens-basketball-tech-falls-at-no-20-ut-despite-fourth-quarter-charge.aspx

The road warriors are back this afternoon! ⚔️

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⏰ 2 PM
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Feb 11, 2023
in Morgantown

3rd loss in a row for Iowa State

RECAP West Virginia 73
https://wvusports.com/news/2023/2/11/womens-basketball-wvu-tallies-second-ranked-win-with-victory-over-iowa-state.aspx

RECAP Iowa State 60
https://cyclones.com/news/2023/2/11/womens-basketball-no-21-iowa-state-falls-to-west-virginia.aspx

Feb 11, 2023
in Lubbock

Kansas led by 1 point at halftime

RECAP Kansas 78
https://kuathletics.com/jayhawks-win-in-lubbock-to-complete-season-sweep-of-texas-tech/

RECAP Texas Tech 67
https://texastech.com/news/2023/2/11/womens-basketball-second-half-charge-pushes-ku-past-tech.aspx

Feb 11, 2023
in Austin

RECAP Texas 70
https://texassports.com/news/2023/2/11/womens-basketball-no-20-23-womens-basketball-wins-seventh-straight-conference-game-70-50-over-tcu.aspx

RECAP TCU 50
https://gofrogs.com/news/2023/2/11/womens-basketball-three-frogs-score-double-figures-in-loss-at-no-20-texas.aspx

Feb 12, 2023
in Manhattan

GABBY GREGORY Transfer from OU to KSU
"Gregory's 15th game this season with 20 or more points"

RECAP Oklahoma 85
https://soonersports.com/news/2023/2/12/womens-basketball-scott-dominates-as-sooners-roll-wildcats-in-manhattan

RECAP Kansas State 68
https://www.kstatesports.com/news/2023/2/12/womens-basketball-k-state-stumbles-against-16-13-oklahoma.aspx

CONFERENCE STANDINGS
as of February 13, 11:02 AM CT

11 - 2 Texas
10 - 3 Oklahoma
8 - 5 Oklahoma State
7 - 5 Baylor
7 - 5 Iowa State
6 - 6 Kansas
6 - 6 West Virginia
4 - 8 Texas Tech
3 - 9 Kansas State
0 - 13 TCU

Discusting seeing OUT at the top two positions today.

Interesting in 1st big reveal only one B12 team in top16 teams Texas A lot of talk how much better B12 is top to bottom not sure that is what those in the know think

2022-23 AP TOP 25 Poll
Released Feb 13, 2023

01 South Carolina (28)
02 Indiana
03 Stanford
04 Utah
05 LSU
06 UConn
07 Iowa
08 Maryland
09 Duke
10 Notre Dame
11 Virginia Tech
12 Michigan
13 Ohio State
14 Villanova
15 Oklahoma
16 UCLA
17 Texas
18 Arizona
19 North Carolina
20 Gonzaga
21 Colorado
22 Iowa State
23 UNLV
24 Florida State
25 USouthern Cal

Others receiving votes
North Carolina State 30, Middle Tennessee 23,
USouth Florida 19, Oklahoma State 17, Creighton 17, Louisville 11,
Rhode Island 6, Florida Gulf Coast 6, Marquette 5,
Cleveland State 2, South Dakota State 1 & Tennessee 1

Eball said:

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Interesting in 1st big reveal only one B12 team in top16 teams Texas A lot of talk how much better B12 is top to bottom not sure that is what those in the know think

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It's not. Top to bottom it's better than the SEC (which has 2 elite teams, maybe 2-3 ok teams, and 9-10 awful teams), but it's more of a case of no elite teams, a couple of good but not elite, 3-4 ok, and 3-4 awful. They are just bunched together more than in past seasons because the one consistently great one is no more.


BTW, here are Big12 NCAA seedings for the past 10 tournaments:

2022: 2, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9
2021: 2, 4, 6, 7, 8
2020: none
2019: 1, 3, 7, 9
2018: 2, 2, 9, 12
2017: 1, 3, 6, 6, 7, 9
2016: 1, 2, 6, 6, 7, 9
2015: 2, 5, 5, 10, 10
2014: 2, 2, 5, 5, 7, 10
2013: 1, 5, 6, 7, 7, 11, 12
2012: 1, 3, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11


Most recent bracket prediction for Big 12 (which predates Saturday's disaster in Stillwater and IowaSt's continued slide) has:

3 UT
5 IowaSt
6 OU
6 BU
8 KU
9 OkSt

Only UT would host; the only year that only one Big12 team hosted since they went back to playing 1st/2nd round on campus was 2015.

Expect IowaSt and BU to fall and OU/OkSt to rise in the next bracket.

1st Reveal
Top 16 Rankings
NCAA Division-I WBB Committee
Feb 9, 2023

Each team ranked as if the season ended on Feb 9

#1 SEED
01 South Carolina Greenville Regional 1
02 Indiana Greenville Regional 2
03 Stanford Seattle Regional 3
04 UConn Seattle Regional 4

#2 SEED
05 LSU
06 Utah
07 Iowa
08 Duke

#3 SEED
09 Maryland
10 Notre Dame
11 Michigan
12 Texas

#4 SEED
13 Virginia Tech
14 North Carolina
15 Villanova
16 Ohio State

- NCAA press release

Eball said:

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Interesting in 1st big reveal only one B12 team in top16 teams Texas A lot of talk how much better B12 is top to bottom not sure that is what those in the know think

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I don't think the XII has ever gotten much notice from "those in the know". Just because Baylor was winning the league by 3 games didn't mean the other teams were not good. Although, in some years when we got to the SS or Elite8 those in the know might have thought that as it didn't look like we had had enough good competition to be prepared for what we faced. But even there, a loss at that stage is too small a data point to prove anything.

Outside of the Arizona game, we played very competitive games against two on the list (MD and MI) and beat another (Villanova). Don't know about the other XII teams in non-conference. With how parity has taken over it is hard to judge teams across conferences. But history has said that the XII was not thought much of by "those in the know" for some time now.

Feb 13, 2023
in Ames

RECAP Iowa State 66
https://cyclones.com/news/2023/2/13/womens-basketball-fennelly-brings-in-750th-career-victory.aspx

RECAP Texas 61
https://texassports.com/news/2023/2/13/womens-basketball-rori-harmon-scores-a-season-high-19-points-and-ndjakalenga-mwenentanda-tallies-10-points.aspx

slimecap said:

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Feb 13, 2023
in Ames

RECAP Iowa State 66
https://cyclones.com/news/2023/2/13/womens-basketball-fennelly-brings-in-750th-career-victory.aspx

RECAP Texas 61
https://texassports.com/news/2023/2/13/womens-basketball-rori-harmon-scores-a-season-high-19-points-and-ndjakalenga-mwenentanda-tallies-10-points.aspx

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So So Sweet!!

blackie said:

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Eball said:

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Interesting in 1st big reveal only one B12 team in top16 teams Texas A lot of talk how much better B12 is top to bottom not sure that is what those in the know think

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I don't think the XII has ever gotten much notice from "those in the know". Just because Baylor was winning the league by 3 games didn't mean the other teams were not good. Although, in some years when we got to the SS or Elite8 those in the know might have thought that as it didn't look like we had had enough good competition to be prepared for what we faced. But even there, a loss at that stage is too small a data point to prove anything.

Outside of the Arizona game, we played very competitive games against two on the list (MD and MI) and beat another (Villanova). Don't know about the other XII teams in non-conference. With how parity has taken over it is hard to judge teams across conferences. But history has said that the XII was not thought much of by "those in the know" for some time now.

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I am not disagreeing with your premise that we have been ignored in the past and will likely be in the future. I just think there are not many who really understand WBB or follow it enough to have a reasonable opinion on rankings.

Villanova got beat by us and ISU (not to mention Creighton) yet they are up to 14 in the AP poll you can't tell me that is not just an attempt to bump up UCON's WBB's SOS. how you can possibly compare the third through 5th place teams in the major conferences and arbitrarily. rank some but not the others is silly. Pac, SEC B10 B12 and ACC look at those teams' records and they are all comparable. Like pulling out of a hat. SEC and Big 12 teams at that level very comparable...actually us and ACC are the only two conferences without a top one or two that would be considered elite. See SEC, Pac and Big 10 Based on ranked teams you would have to agree this year we are regarded as the weakest conference.

Most likely is that every team in the Big 12 that goes to the NCAA tournament will be under seeded. In the first or second round, many of the 2-6 seeds coaches are going to complain in their post game losing press conference that their Big 12 opponent was way under seeded and wanting to know how that happened.

blairbear said:

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Most likely is that every team in the Big 12 that goes to the NCAA tournament will be under seeded. In the first or second round, many of the 2-6 seeds coaches are going to complain in their post game losing press conference that their Big 12 opponent was way under seeded and wanting to know how that happened.

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Big12 records against nonconference opponents likely to make the tourney (excluding minor conference autobids):

UT: 0-4 (UConn, Marquette, USF, Lville)
OU: 1-1 (L to Utah, W Ole Miss)
IowaSt: 1-2 (W Villanova, L Iowa, L UNC)
OkSt: 1-1 (W FlaSt, L Purdue)
BU: 1-3 (W Villanova, L MD, L Mich, L Ariz)
KU: 1-1 (W Ariz, L Neb)
WV: 1-1 (W UGa, L NCSt)
TT: 1-0 (W Colo)
KSt: 1-2 (W Iowa, L Ark, L SDakotaSt)

That's a combined 8-15; 5-12 by teams likely to make the NCAAs.


The conference's marquee noncon win is KansasSt over #7 Iowa. Creme currently has Iowa as a 2 seed. KSt is not under consideration.

The next best wins are BU and IowaSt over #14 Villanova. Creme currently has Villanova as a 4 seed.

Marquette, Nebraska and Georgia are all currently listed as Last Four In. WV and TT are currently listed as Next Four Out.

whitetrash said:

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Big12 records against nonconference opponents likely to make the tourney ..
The conference's marquee noncon win ..
The next best wins ...
Last Four In ... Next Four Out

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Hi whitetrash,
Appreciate your analysis post.
Most inquiries I have received recently involve NCAA Tournament.
Wishing you a good Wednesday.

slimecap said:

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1st Reveal
Top 16 Rankings
NCAA Division-I WBB Committee
Feb 9, 2023

Each team ranked as if the season ended on Feb 9

#1 SEED
01 South Carolina Greenville Regional 1
02 Indiana Greenville Regional 2
03 Stanford Seattle Regional 3
04 UConn Seattle Regional 4

#2 SEED
05 LSU
06 Utah
07 Iowa
08 Duke

#3 SEED
09 Maryland
10 Notre Dame
11 Michigan
12 Texas

#4 SEED
13 Virginia Tech
14 North Carolina
15 Villanova
16 Ohio State

- NCAA press release

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Responding to a request for information
Seeds by Conference

B12
3 Texas

ACC
2 Duke 3 Notre Dame 4 Virginia Tech 4 North Carolina

B10
1 Indiana 2 Iowa 3 Maryland 3 Michigan 4 Ohio State

P12
1 Stanford 2 Utah

SEC
1 South Carolina 2 LSU

BET
1 UConn 4 Villanova

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