We beat 3 NAIA teams. Beat that!

December 21 rankings:
78 Western
82 Marshall
97 UAB
104 North Texas
119 Old Dominion
121 La Tech
158 UTEP
169 Charlotte
183 FIU
184 UTSA
198 Middle
214 FAU
261 Rice
281 Southern Miss

December 28 Rankings (+/-)
82 Marshall
84 Western (-6)
97 UAB
100 North Texas (+4)
117 La Tech (+4)
119 ODU
160 UTEP (-2)
173 Charlotte (-4)
176 UTSA (+8)
186 FIU (-3)
199 Middle (-1)
215 FAU (-1)
256 Rice (+5)
290 Southern Miss (-9)

CUSA as a whole had a -5 net spot loss week.

Gotta get FAU, Rice, and USM out of the 200's. That will help us all come conference play with SoS.

(12-28-2020 09:46 PM)Magic95Fan Wrote:  Gotta get FAU, Rice, and USM out of the 200's. That will help us all come conference play with SoS.

Agreed.

I think they can, everyone seems to be winning right now, but we don't own too many landmark key wins.

I think it's interesting that Middle is the only sub .500 team, and they are still above 200.

Will be interesting to see how these back to back games goes in conference play. Example in MVC, Northern Iowa lost by 20 to Missouri St. at home then next night they turn around and win by 10. I have a feeling that's going to happen to even the top teams including WKU, especially on the road.

(12-28-2020 09:50 PM)rileylives Wrote:  

(12-28-2020 09:46 PM)Magic95Fan Wrote:  Gotta get FAU, Rice, and USM out of the 200's. That will help us all come conference play with SoS.

Agreed.

I think they can, everyone seems to be winning right now, but we don't own too many landmark key wins.

I think it's interesting that Middle is the only sub .500 team, and they are still above 200.

We want to be out of the 200s.

(12-28-2020 09:50 PM)rileylives Wrote:  

(12-28-2020 09:46 PM)Magic95Fan Wrote:  Gotta get FAU, Rice, and USM out of the 200's. That will help us all come conference play with SoS.

Agreed.

I think they can, everyone seems to be winning right now, but we don't own too many landmark key wins.

I think it's interesting that Middle is the only sub .500 team, and they are still above 200.

We want to be out of the 200s.

(12-29-2020 09:31 AM)WKUFan518 Wrote:  Will be interesting to see how these back to back games goes in conference play. Example in MVC, Northern Iowa lost by 20 to Missouri St. at home then next night they turn around and win by 10. I have a feeling that's going to happen to even the top teams including WKU, especially on the road.

I think in many of those cases, the team that wins by 10 in the second matchup gets a 1 or 2 place bump. The Ken Pom uses a variety of metrics, one of which would be margin of victory.

Where it gets interesting is if the 10 point win was at home or road. We may have a lot of no contest type results in that aspect.

We're currently 4-3 (should be 5-2 if it wasn't for a buzzer beater 15 rim bounce 3 pointer USA made).

That aside, I still predict we'll be .500 or better at season's end. We'll split quite a few conference games this year.