http://www.ragincajuns.com/news/2016/12/...-poll.aspx

3 SBC Schools are in the CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Top 25 Poll

7. UTA
20. Louisiana
21. Arkansas State

29. USA
39. Little Rock

LAFAYETTE - The Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns men's basketball team entered the CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Top 25 Poll for the first time this season when they were ranked No. 20 in the weekly poll released on Monday.

Louisiana, one of three Sun Belt Conference teams in the poll, increased its winning streak to six games last Saturday with a 92-72 win at McNeese State. The Ragin' Cajuns, ranked ninth in the nation in scoring offense (89.5), received votes in last week's poll for the first time in the 2016-17 season and is joined in the Dec. 5 poll by Sun Belt Conference schools UTA (No. 7) and Arkansas State (No. 21). West Coast Conference schools Gonzaga and St. Mary's were ranked 1-2 in the poll with Valparaiso, Wichita State and UNCW rounding out the top five.

The poll is conducted by a vote of 31 head coaches at mid-major Division I programs across the country. The voting panel is chaired by Southern head coach Roman Banks with Louisiana head coach Bob Marlin joined by fellow Sun Belt Conference coaches James Fox (Appalachian State) and Danny Kaspar (Texas State) on the voting panel.

The Mid-Major Poll is made up of teams from the following conferences: America East, Atlantic Sun, Big Sky, Big South, Big West, Colonial, Horizon, Independents, Ivy, Metro Atlantic, Mid-American, Mid-Eastern, Missouri Valley, Northeast, Ohio Valley, Patriot, Southern, Southland, Southwestern, Summit, Sun Belt, West Coast, Western Athletic.

Louisiana (6-2) will return to action on Wednesday when it plays host to Loyola of New Orleans in a 7 p.m. contest at the Cajundome.

CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Top 25 Poll

1. Gonzaga (26) 8-0 770 1 West Coast
2. Saint Mary's (5) 6-0 748 2 West Coast
3. Valparaiso 7-1 696 3 Horizon
4. Wichita State 7-2 692 4 Missouri Valley
5. UNCW 7-1 649 5 Colonial
6. Fort Wayne 7-2 566 7 Summit
7. UT Arlington 6-3 530 11 Sun Belt
8. Chattanooga 6-2 502 8 Southern
9. ETSU 7-1 474 9 Southern
10. Monmouth 6-2 473 10 Metro Atlantic
11. Ohio 5-1 447 6 Mid-American
12. Oakland 8-1 386 25 Horizon
13. Illinois State 4-2 368 13 Missouri Valley
14. Belmont 3-3 338 18 Ohio Valley
15. BYU 5-3 297 14 West Coast
16. Florida Gulf Coast 5-3 295 19 Atlantic Sun
17. Tennessee State 7-1 278 17 Ohio Valley
18. New Mexico State 7-2 212 NR Western Athletic
19. Loyola (Chicago) 7-2 183 NR Missouri Valley
20. UL Lafayette 6-2 138 NR Sun Belt
21. Arkansas State 7-2 129 20 Sun Belt
22. Akron 6-2 126 21 Mid-American
23. Elon 6-2 105 23 Colonial
24. North Dakota State 6-3 83 22 Summit
25. Utah Valley 5-2 77 24 Western Athletic


OTHERS RECEIVING VOTES: Northern Iowa 65, Vermont 49, Princeton 39, South Alabama 36, Stephen F Austin 35, Eastern Michigan 33, Yale 31, UMBC 25, Central Michigan 22, Hofstra 20, San Francisco 18, Eastern Washington 17, Charleston 17, Little Rock 14, Iona 12, Texas A&M Corpus Christi 12, South Dakota 10, UC Irvine 10, UT Martin 10, Harvard 9, Winthrop 8, Lehigh 7, UNC Asheville 6, CSU Bakersfield 5, Grand Canyon 5, Albany 2, Siena 2, Buffalo 1, Bucknell 1, UMKC 1, UNC Greensboro 1.

So ASUs loss to TCU on the road last Saturday night only dropped them one spot.

Understandable. TCU is looking like a pretty darned good BKB team right now.

Might want to take a picture of the NCAA RPI numbers released today because we won't see this often:

AState is at 19
Georgia State at 38
UTA at 43

Thanks for the link. How is Middle Tennessee State not on this list? They have a #9 RPI and #4 SOS

(12-06-2016 01:53 PM)MobileBama1 Wrote:  Thanks for the link. How is Middle Tennessee State not on this list? They have a #9 RPI and #4 SOS

Idiots at College Insider don't consider CUSA as Mid Major. They had it that way when Memphis was in the league, and never switched it back because they were lazy.

(12-06-2016 01:53 PM)MobileBama1 Wrote:  Thanks for the link. How is Middle Tennessee State not on this list? They have a #9 RPI and #4 SOS

We arent either. I think we are major programs now.

Link to Massey composite rankings.

College Basketball Rankings

Massey only ratings.

Massey Ratings

(12-06-2016 01:48 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  Might want to take a picture of the NCAA RPI numbers released today because we won't see this often:

AState is at 19
Georgia State at 38
UTA at 43

uta is at #12 saint mary's tomorrow.

What an insult! We should refuse to be on this list!!!

(12-07-2016 02:42 PM)Pounce FTW Wrote:  What an insult! We should refuse to be on this list!!!

Mid Major rankings are so subjective. Somehow Gonzaga is a mid major but UTSA is not.

There's no exact science to classifying teams, they just sort of do it at random.

3. UT Arlington
19. Louisiana
21. Arkansas St
22. Little Rock

ARV 43. South Alabama

(12-13-2016 12:18 AM)FoUTASportscaster Wrote:  3. UT Arlington
19. Louisiana
21. Arkansas St
22. Little Rock

ARV 43. South Alabama

I'm absolutely LOVING this. GO SBC!!!

Again, Mid Major polls fail me because the qualifications are ridiculous. Western Kentucky is not mid major, but Gonzaga is...such things make no sense.

I prefer RPI.

(12-13-2016 01:50 AM)chiefsfan Wrote:  Again, Mid Major polls fail me because the qualifications are ridiculous. Western Kentucky is not mid major, but Gonzaga is...such things make no sense.

I prefer RPI.

yes, what are they going by. some of the perennial top finishers are schools like gonzaga and wichita state and valpo. cant be school size because many majors arent large, so must be budget or coaches salary that determines major/mid major.

THey're living in the past. CUSA at one time was not considered a mid major because they got multiple bids. But that ended quite some time ago. They just never adjusted the poll to reflect it.

Aside from Middle Tennessee State, who else would be in there? Rice with their cupcake schedule? Charlotte with a 5-3 record v DI? Maybe Marshall at 6-3.