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Paladins jumped up 11 spots to #46 with last night's win. UNCG fell to #53.

apaladin wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 15, 2019 12:39 pm

Paladins jumped up 11 spots to #46 with last night's win. UNCG fell to #53.

Whew! I'd been looking at NCAA NET this morning and it appeared we'd dropped a spot (from 56 to 57). Thanks for the update.

apaladin wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 15, 2019 12:39 pm

Paladins jumped up 11 spots to #46 with last night's win. UNCG fell to #53.

Awesome!

https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/basketbal ... t-rankings

Its very possible that with wins vs. VMI and vs. Wofford we could move into the 30's range, that would be outstanding!

FWIW, ESPN BPI currently has FU at #64.

But jumping over to their "Projections" tab has FU at #26 http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basket ... rojections

DungeonRealm wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 15, 2019 12:48 pm

Its very possible that with wins vs. VMI and vs. Wofford we could move into the 30's range, that would be outstanding!

Don’t be shocked if we drop a spot or two after beating VMI. That what happened to Woffy.

As of Friday 2/15

Wofford Net #29 Ken Pom #32 Sagarin #47
Furman Net #46 Ken Pom #58 Sagarin #85
UNCG Net #53 Ken Pom #80 Sagarin #90
ETSU Net #71 Ken Pom #71 Sagarin #97

SoCon Ken Pom #10 Sagarin #16

Paul C wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 15, 2019 1:32 pm

As of Friday 2/15

Wofford Net #29 Ken Pom #32 Sagarin #47
Furman Net #46 Ken Pom #58 Sagarin #85
UNCG Net #53 Ken Pom #80 Sagarin #90
ETSU Net #71 Ken Pom #71 Sagarin #97

SoCon Ken Pom #10 Sagarin #16

SoCon is actually 15 in sagarin, for some strange reason they break the 2 MAC divisions into 2 different conferences on sagarin, don't know why

there are a bunch of conferences that if you look at the actual "ratings" are bunched together....in Ken Pom there is big drop after #9 to the SoCon at #10 and then the Mtn West, A10, Ivy, WAC, Sun Belt, MVC and CUSA are in that 7 team bunch....

in Sagarin the Mtn West is #10 and then A10, MVC, Ivy, SunBelt, Southern ,CUSA and WAC form an 8 team tightly grouped bunch....

Interesting that the Colonial is clear cut below those groups in both rankings....in fact Ken Pom has the Horizon and Summit above the Colonial....

Sagarin is clearly biased against East Coast mid-majors....here is a sample of other mid-majors that rank high in Net

ASUN Lipscomb NET #37 Ken Pom #40 Sagarin #59
A10 VCU NET #43 Ken Pom #46 Sagarin #54
WCC St Mary's NET #47 Ken Pom #43 Sagarin #45 (sagarin aligned)
COL Hofstra NET #48 Ken Pom #68 Sagarin #83
ASUN Liberty NET #55 Ken Pom #60 Sagarin #107
WAC NM State NET #60 Ken Pom #56 Sagarin #55 (sagarin aligned)
IVY Yale NET #62 Ken Pom #73 Sagarin #95

If Wofford beats UNCG Saturday that would cement their top 30 rating and would give us a Quad 1 game when we play them the following Saturday. For you historians when was the last time Furman had a home game against a top 25-30 team?

ETSU was #10 in 1993???

edwards555 wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 15, 2019 2:51 pm

If Wofford beats UNCG Saturday that would cement their top 30 rating and would give us a Quad 1 game when we play them the following Saturday. For you historians when was the last time Furman had a home game against a top 25-30 team?

Maybe not all that long ago, 2008-2009 Davidson Steph Curry was around that range (they were 21-4 coming to Greenville, fresh off their elite eight appearance)
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basket ... =290450231

DungeonRealm wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 15, 2019 3:08 pm

edwards555 wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 15, 2019 2:51 pm

If Wofford beats UNCG Saturday that would cement their top 30 rating and would give us a Quad 1 game when we play them the following Saturday. For you historians when was the last time Furman had a home game against a top 25-30 team?

Maybe not all that long ago, 2008-2009 Davidson Steph Curry was around that range (they were 21-4 coming to Greenville, fresh off their elite eight appearance)
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basket ... =290450231

From what I can find...
Davidson was ranked 35th in the AP and 32nd in the Coaches Poll for that game.

apaladin wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 15, 2019 3:07 pm

ETSU was #10 in 1993???

Actually, it was 1991. http://etsuhoops.com/ETSU/top-10-moments. I'm thinking they were ranked #13 when we beat them by 10 points or so at the Brown Box. That was the same season we lost the first game to 4th ranked Michigan State by only 5 points.