NCAA WBB Rankings

[hawkod]

Was looking at rankings (this week's poll not yet released). Last week we finally drew 2 votes in the AP poll; still nothing in the Coaches poll.
Was curious as to who actually is voting in the Coaches poll: 31 D1 head coaches, but only 5 were from Power 5 conferences. Must be one coach from each conference? Power 5: Auburn, Clemson, Rutgers, Villanova and Bill Fennelly from ISU. Doesn't matter of course, but seems to confirm how little time these coaches probably devote to this.

 

[Hawkfan_08]

It's insane to me. These girls are a top 20 team in my eyes. Yes, there are some problems which is why I didn't say top 10 but with the right draw these girls can easily get to the sweet 16.

 

[FranklinHawk]

I'd say inconsistency is their biggest issue right now (looking at the entire season). Some days they absolutely look like a top 10 team, others maybe top 30 or so. Thankfully they seem to be progressing more to the good side of that equation in February.

 

[millah_22]

It's insane to me. These girls are a top 20 team in my eyes. Yes, there are some problems which is why I didn't say top 10 but with the right draw these girls can easily get to the sweet 16.

They can prob go toe-to-toe with any 10-20 ranked team.. but those mid season losses hurt. Iowa got the 11 seed in the BTT and there are 3 (possibly 4 if Illinois drops) teams ahead of Iowa in the Big Ten that are not ranked.

 

[jonesy5960]

They can prob go toe-to-toe with any 10-20 ranked team.. but those mid season losses hurt. Iowa got the 11 seed in the BTT and there are 3 (possibly 4 if Illinois drops) teams ahead of Iowa in the Big Ten that are not ranked.

Haven't they gone toe-to-toe with 2 top 5 teams in the past month or so?

 

[BurgHawk87]

Haven't they gone toe-to-toe with 2 top 5 teams in the past month or so?

*1 competent official away from taking down 2 top 5 teams in the past month

 

[jonesy5960]

*1 competent official away from taking down 2 top 5 teams in the past month

That's what I thought. It seems as though they have shown that they can compete and beat anybody on any given day.

 

[millah_22]

Haven't they gone toe-to-toe with 2 top 5 teams in the past month or so?

Toe-to-toe isn't winning, though.

 

[jonesy5960]

Toe-to-toe isn't winning, though.

But they did actually beat one of them.

 

[ichawk24]

The Coaches Poll should be called the "Assistant SID Poll".

Do you think Bill Fennelly is sitting there every Sunday night writing 25 team names down and submitting them? More likely, the Asst SID makes a top 25 list, the coach spends 30 seconds looking at it, and lists a couple changes they want and is done.

 

[Hawkfan_08]

Toe-to-toe isn't winning, though.

We did beat USC.

 

[Matt1nb7]

Kim Adams from Fox Sports has us at 24th and Chantel Jennings from The Athletic has us at 25th.

Those 2 account for our 3 points in this weeks poll.

Sometimes I feel the turnover for the women’s poll takes longer… Iowa should be on more ballots in my opinion.

 

[millah_22]

We did beat USC.

But they did actually beat one of them.

Right we did. Unfortunately, we were a bubble team then and the win didn't move the needle much.

I had my mind on the back-to-back UCLA/OSU games when we came close, but ultimately failed to win both of them.

Unfortunately, at the end of the season we have more unranked losses than we do ranked wins, and that ins't going to be that impressive to the voters.

 

[HawksGoneWild1]

List of AP voters and their votes:

 

[BurgHawk87]

List of AP voters and their votes:

Nothing like getting no love from your own voter. Nice work Jeff.