Coming up at the half of ND/Tennessee.

Similar to the football playoff deals in the weeks leading up to the actual selection. Should give some insight in the collective mind of the NCAA Selection Committee at this juncture. They'll list their current Top 16, in order.

lol ... BU at #9 overall. Texas at #7

Lady Bears at #9?! Due to our cupcake non con per Charlie Creme.

Unfortunately Creme is right...too many patsys.

Was surprising to me to be 9 and some that were ahead. Is Notre Dame expected to get some players back soon from their injured players?

They made the Maryland comparison, which is accurate to this point, but won't be for long. Last year's Maryland team failed to move up because they only played one game against a ranked team from this point forward, and they lost. We will have at least 5, and maybe as many as 8 more games against ranked opponents, including 2 or 3 matchups with top 10 Texas. If we win our games, we will have no trouble reaching a top seed, but the margin is narrower this year than some past seasons. Charlie Creme's personal ranking has us winning the Big 12 and a 1 seed, FWIW.

Notre Dame's injured players are all out for the year. It is clear they don't have the horses and will be falling down the rankings.I expect them to lose 3-4 more regular season games after this one.

You can call this meaning less but it shows an early bias by the selection committee. They are looking real close at our schedule but probably not considering at all the circumstances of our loss at UCLA.
I don't like it but Kim might use it for motivation.

No sense getting wrapped around the axle. If BU takes care of business, things will work themselves out come March.

If anyone wants some reassurance, the computer rankings love Baylor. It is not out of the question for us to finish the season 30-2 or even 31-1.

https://www.masseyratings.com/rate.php?lg=cbw

http://www.rpiratings.com/womrate.php

At least this selection process supposedly has some criteria. The CFP just makes stuff up to justify their current darlings. I would think we will be okay if we take care of business. As someone said above, we will have ample time to play/beat the ranked conference teams. Better to finish strong beating ranked teams.

Seems like they're trying to encourage tough non conference scheduling to generate more interesting games for television. Sure, come tournament time they'll let the less talented teams maul the better ones and prevent the best teams from playing at the end, but good effort.

Oh, we'll be fine, and my "lol" above was laughing at myself. As already well said, our out of conference body of work is weaker than we'd have expected due to some fall off of teams most would've guessed would be better than they are this year.

We also haven't played a Big XII team with a pulse. Yet. That's about to change.

The Big XII champion will be a #1 seed come March.

I just want to be playing on April 1st.

No worries. This isn't football. In basketball you get your shot.

College: First Reveal, AP Top 25, Coaches, Massey, Sagarin

UCONN: 1,1,1,1,1

Mississippi ST: 2,3,3,3,3

Louisville: 3,2,2,4,5

Oregon: 4,7,6,6,4

Tennessee: 5,6,7,7,10

Notre Dame: 6,5,5,5,7

Texas: 7.9.9.8.8

South Carolina: 8,10,10,11,12

Baylor: 9,4,4,2,2

Ohio St.: 10,8,8,12,11

Florida St.: 11,12,11,10,9

UCLA: 12,13,13,9,6

Missouri: 13,11,12,14,26

TAMU: 14,16,17,25,34

Rutgers: 15,25,21,24,25

Georgia: 16,26,24,13,29

http://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/22145427/baylor-lady-bears-no-3-seed-biggest-shocker-ncaa-first-reveal

The committee makes the decision based on if the tournament started today. Just to get through regular season if WVU, OU, & UT all stay ranked and we beat them all that will 6 top 25 victories us. Not to mention tourney when we would likely face 1-2 more of these teams given we are the No.1 see and have the supposed easier side of the bracket.

Glad our conference this year is better than big ten conference last year, where Maryland failed to beat OSU and thus received a 3 seed at 30-1

fujobear said:

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wouldn't you hate to be the 2 seed - even the 1 seed - placed in the bracket with Baylor as the 3 seed

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^^This

Onward Go said:

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fujobear said:

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wouldn't you hate to be the 2 seed - even the 1 seed - placed in the bracket with Baylor as the 3 seed

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^^This

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Needs another ^^ This

Could someone tell how Baylor fared in the rankings in 2005? I wasn't watching WBB in those days--I was living in New Orleans, and had no idea the Lady Bears were doing so well until someone told me they beat LSU in the NCAA tournament on their way to the NC. Throughout the season, were they consistently ranked high, or did they work their way up? Just curious.

we were a #2 seed in the tourney and beat 3#1's on the way to the NC... North Carolina... LSU... and Michigan State

we were sent to the regional in Arizona... where we took out North Carolina in the final...

Yep, sometimes that is what you have to do.

BUletters said:

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You can call this meaning less but it shows an early bias by the selection committee. They are looking real close at our schedule but probably not considering at all the circumstances of our loss at UCLA.
I don't like it but Kim might use it for motivation.

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It's not a bias. It's actually correct. I totally support Kim and her program, but if you are going to be respected as a top tier program, you have to play the schedule that merits it.
We'll move up the ladder, but the low current rankings are "schedule deserved".

Committee chair

........ Rhonda Bennett senior associate athletics director/SWA University of Nevada

Other Committee Members

• Ceal Barry senior associate athletic director University of Colorado, Boulder
• Jill Bodensteiner senior associate athletics director University of Notre Dame
• DeJuena Chizer senior associate athletics director/SWA University of Houston
• Leslie Claybrook assistant commissioner SEC Conference
• Tamica Smith Jones director of athletics University of California, Riverside
• Jeff Konya director of athletics Oakland University
• Teresa Phillips director of athletics Tennessee State University
• Deborah Richardson senior associate commissioner Atlantic 10 Conference
• Diane C. Turnham senior associate athletics director Middle Tennessee State University