2014-15 National Rankings

[shock]

Soren Petro's ballot explanation. Has us at 10 for now, but says our strength of schedule won't put us any higher. In fact we will probably drop a spot or two even if we continuing winning. In his eyes are best case seeding is a 4.

Sounds like Seth Davis logic. Don't have a problem with it... Keep winning all they way through...

But on the bright side, there is a nice picture of Tekel on the home page...

http://www.810whb.com/common/more.php?m=49&r=9

I'm not going to post the link, because at this point I don't want to do anything to help their visit count, but I found it interesting that a 2-win week against admittedly bad competition, with an average MoV of 28.5pts earned WSU a 10-spot drop in Andy Katz's power rankings.

I wonder if he was denied an interview or something. Geezpete. He also dropped UNI 5 spots, so I suppose he's really just laying the groundwork for only having to keep 1 team in after the matchup this weekend.

For your amusement I will include that he has the likes of Kstate, Miami, Providence, and Butler ranked ahead of the Shox.

They are so used to making assumptions without watching the games or without taking our scheduling issues into account that I honestly don't think that they know how to handle us. It's funny, because most of the time their ignorance is self inflicted. If every nationally relevant sportswriter didn't insist on watching the exact same set of games every weekend, then maybe they wouldn't suck so much at their jobs.

Well, that is interesting, to say the least. I wonder what his reasons are for the obvious monumental collapse the Shocks are undergoing. Do you think Katz is in bed with Giocoletti and got word of WSU taking it to Drake and didn't like it? Does he still do his weekly chats? Perhaps a flood of inquiries would get those questions answered.

Does KState get a pass now for dropping turds at home to Texas Southern and at Long Beach State? Hmm, interesting.

What I'm concluding is that Katz is just an enormous, ignorant dick.

@SethDavisHoops: 18. Wich St 19. Georgetown 20. WVa 21. Ohio St 22. Texas 23. N.Iowa 24. Providence 25. Dayton

He also jumped 5-loss Indiana up to 13 this week (yes, they lost this week). So, there's that.

Re: WSU moving up, he says "trying not to let them. Not fair beating up on bad teams"

So, at least he doesn't have an hidden agenda, it's right out in the open. When you're saying things publicly like "trying not to let them" you probably should no longer have voting rights.

Interesting that he is not OK with WSU's schedule, but is quite happy with an Indiana team that did not play a road game until conference season (KenPom NCSOS 319).

[Stickboy46]

http://insider.espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/12237095/jay-bilas-john-gasaway-rank-top-68-teams-college-hoops-college-basketball?ex_cid=InsiderTwitter_BilasIndexGasawayEdition

Bilas/Gasaway put WSU at 8 on his index.

Text for non-insiders:

"8. Wichita State ShockersHow perfect would it be if this Wichita State team turned out to be just as strong as the group Gregg Marshall had last season? It could happen, even if the Shockers don't run the table in Missouri Valley play. Which by the way they might not: Ron Baker and company visit Northern Iowa on Saturday. -- John Gasaway"

[ShockerFever]

Between Bilas and Katz, I think I'll trust a guy who's actually played basketball.

[pogo]

I think Katz played soccer. (Thats for you JJ and KW)

[im4wsu]

I took a look at the OOC SOS for the AP Top 20 teams and calculated their MOV in those games:

AP Rank	Team	OOC SOS	SOS Rank	MOV
1	Kentucky	0.59445	4	27.5
2	Virginia	0.56401	24	22.3
3	Gonzaga	0.56617	18	20.9
4	Duke	0.56032	27	23.6
5	Wisconsin	0.55947	28	21.2
6	Arizona	0.54014	63	16.0
7	Villanova	0.53834	45	18.4
8	Notre Dame	0.42313	326	23.9
9	Kansas	0.63745	2	6.8
10	Louisville	0.51983	112	19.9
11	Utah	0.55846	33	17.6
12	Wichita State	0.57969	13	11.0
13	North Carolina	0.58165	12	16.3
14	VCU	0.64347	1	9.4
15	Iowa State	0.49895	181	17.3
16	Maryland	0.51654	121	13.7
17	West Virginia	0.50019	159	18.6
18	Northern Iowa	0.52454	91	10.6
19	Texas	0.53518	76	17.2
20	Baylor	0.51830	120	15.9

[AZ Shocker]

Surprised to see Gonzaga's OOC SOS that high. Lol on the Big-12's (minus kansas) OOC SOS. Lol

[AZ Shocker]

I'm thinking we flip-flop with us falling to #18 and UNI to #12. BUT it wouldn't surprise me at all if the Panthers cruise up all the way to #10 after that beat down today. Geez

[Dave Stalwart]

I'm thinking we flip-flop with us falling to #18 and UNI to #12. BUT it wouldn't surprise me at all if the Panthers cruise up all the way to #10 after that beat down today. Geez

I would bet more money that UNI moves up one spot to 17 with a home win over a similarly ranked MVC school and that WSU actually only drops to about 16. UNI fans will be super mad :)

[DwShock]

Seth davis has the Shockers 17 this week. We lose and move up in his book. UNI at 14

@SethDavisHoops: 17. Wich St 18. Md 19. Okl 20. VCU 21. Gtown 22. Baylor 23. SMU 24. Stephen F. Austin 25. Murray State
@SethDavisHoops: 1. UK 2. Wisc 3. Duke 4. Va 5. Gonz 6. Ariz 7. KU 8. NDame 9. Nova 10. Lou 11. Iowa St 12. UNC 13. Utah 14. N.Iowa 15. WVa 16. Ohio St

[Play Angry]

lol

[AZ Shocker]

Seth davis has the Shockers 17 this week. We lose and move up in his book. UNI at 14

That makes a whole lot of sense. What is he taking pity on us this week? Lol

[MadaboutWu]

He had already priced in the loss.

[Play Angry]

Too lazy to link but lots of ballots so far with us in the 12-17 range. Guessing we'll check in at #15.

I'd be pretty happy with that.

[wuhog]

I'll accept 15 in a heartbeat. As if my acceptance is required. Lol.

[Ricardo del Rio]

I'll accept 15 in a heartbeat. As if my acceptance is required. Lol.

Is that you, Charlie?