After beating #4 Utah (and Harvard) has there been a new poll?

Baylor at #14 and Utah dropped to #10

So the pollsters are not convinced that we are the better team.

fredbear said:

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So the pollsters are not convinced that we are the better team.

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Well, we played them at home. That should be a factor.

https://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/38942065/womens-ncaa-basketball-power-rankings-south-carolina-pac-12

ESPN Power Rankings
#9 Baylor
#10 Utah

Moving on up

Let's go with the power rankings. Key is to keep winning.

11/27 rankings.

My prediction is Baylor moves up 1 spot to 13.

Other ideas?

You don't need to tell me that none of this matters. I know. This is just for fun.

UConn should drop-out of Top 10 with 2 losses. Should.

#3 Colorado lost to #10 NC State, will drop, but probably stay in Top 10

#10 NC State will move up, was tied with Utah.

#12 Texas 7-0 but hasn't played anybody. Hopefully not move up to Top 10. Would love to jump them, but not holding breath.

#13 FL State lost to #4 Stanford, they should drop with 1 loss

NC State moves up, Utah will be alone at #10, Texas #11, we'll move to #12.

We move up one to #13, down from 9 to 13 in power rankings.

https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-womens-college-basketball-poll

There is no reasonable logic to place Utah, whom we beat, ahead of us. The game was played.

fredbear said:

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There is no reasonable logic to place Utah, whom we beat, ahead of us. The game was played.

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My thought for reasoning is that the game was played in Waco and their big girl sat on the bench for basically a half....plus they started out higher than us.

Poll inertia.

Espn power rankings have us ahead of Utah.
And the half that the Utah big did play, as good as she was, did not go any differently than when she was on the bench. If head to head competition is secondary to gut feelings and intuition, there is no need to play the games.

Power rankings. Other stuff, too
https://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/38989054/womens-ncaa-basketball-power-rankings-nc-state-south-carolina

fredbear said:

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Espn power rankings have us ahead of Utah.
And the half that the Utah big did play, as good as she was, did not go any differently than when she was on the bench. If head to head competition is secondary to gut feelings and intuition, there is no need to play the games.

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Thing is, most voters don't look at the games in detail enough to know get your observation. They only hear that the girl didn't play half the game. Just trying to throw out some reasons why voters who probably just look at scores and read the headlines vote the way they do. We better than a lot of people should know that head-to-head doesn't matter at times (Baylor-TCU football, for example)

I Agree with all that Blackie.

These are reasons that polls are often flawed, especially early in the season. If our team continues to win, we will move into the top 10, especially with wins over other ranked teams. They will be more accurate the closer we get to March & that's when they will matter more.

I don't mind us staying behind texas until December 30, unless they lose before then and drop below us. So we can show all the voters we are the best big 12 team, and better than texas.

Baylorbearsupporter said:

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I don't mind us staying behind texas until December 30, unless they lose before then and drop below us. So we can show all the voters we are the best big 12 team, and better than texas.

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Yes - not that I think we will need it but a little dressing room material might help the motivation of the team.

Baylorbearsupporter said:

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I don't mind us staying behind texas until December 30, unless they lose before then and drop below us. So we can show all the voters we are the best big 12 team, and better than texas.

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They play UCONN this Sunday; first game vs ranked team.

Agreed

Best possible scenario. Let Texas beat UConn, then we beat Texas. That is the best fuel for our upward engine.

We'll know so much more about this team at the end of December. Texas is the only ranked team (currently) on the schedule, but SMU, Oregon, Miami, Providence, and South Florida are all worthy opponents, and we need the competition for this team to develop. Can't wait!

Polarbear said:

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We'll know so much more about this team at the end of December. Texas is the only ranked team (currently) on the schedule, but SMU, Oregon, Miami, Providence, and South Florida are all worthy opponents, and we need the competition for this team to develop. Can't wait!

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I agree. I am hopeful we come out of those games still undefeated. Then we get Texas and we should be ready for them!

Baylor Girls with 6 seniors on the roster.. who can play one more year ?

Andrews
Edwards
Blackwell
Bartley
Ferriera
Van Gytenbeek

????

Leading scorers against SMU were both Sophomores.

LIttlePage Buggs with 24
Fontleroy with 17

and our Free Throw % is vastly improved over the last 2 years..

tonight at 77 %

I believe all can return except edwards. Not sure blackwell and Sarah will return though.

Look at Ashley Hodge post "Wingspan Wednesday". He lays it all out.