Womens' hoops vs. Sparty on BTN at 4:30

Submitted by Michighen on February 16th, 2021 at 4:34 PM

uncle leo

February 16th, 2021 at 6:16 PM ^

I have not paid much attention this season, so I turned on the game and saw we are 11-1 and ranked #11.

Thinking logically, I assumed we'd be a 2-3 seed. Went to a bracketology, saw we were a 5??? What am I missing?

mGrowOld

February 16th, 2021 at 6:33 PM ^

It's not what your missing, it's what Michigan is missing.

A reputation.

If your old like me you remember the 70's & mid 80's in men's basketball before there was Kenpom, Net rankings and other analytical evaluations of the teams.  Back then, like today, the AP & Coaches poll were largely filled out by either interns or writers who knew little about teams outside of the conference they were paid to cover.  No internet, no nightly tv - just box scores and a name.  Women's bball today isnt far from that.

For example I could only find two rating services for women bball other than the two national polls: RPI (we're 23rd - yes I know it sucks) and Massey Ratings (we're 12th - no clue how good this is)

http://www.realtimerpi.com/rpi_Women.html

https://www.masseyratings.com/cbw/ncaa-d1/ratings

Just keep winning and everything will fall into place.  Nobody really knows us yet.

But they will!

GoBluePhil

February 16th, 2021 at 10:25 PM ^

Michigan Women’s Basketball has not got a lot of respect over the years.  We were left out of the tournament after a 22 win season then won the NIT.  Again this year we have been disrespected again even though we are ranked #11 in the polls.  Strength of schedule is hurting us.  If we continue to win in the next few games I believe the seed will get higher.  I don’t think we are a 2 or 3 seed unless we win out and win the conference tournament.