Men and women are a combined 27-9 in hoops this year. The men are 14-5 and the women are 13-4. At Tudor, we're 17-4 combined.

I did a quick glance to see how many schools have a better or comparable record, and it's more than I would have expected. Maybe about 30 schools are either right there with Rice or have a better record. The best schools combined include (not in the correct order necessarily)

Gonzaga 34-5
UCLA 31-5
Alabama 31-6
LSU 30-6 (although their men are really struggling so that number will go down)
UConn 31-7
Florida Gulf Coast 32-8
Tennessee 31-9
Duke 29-7
Kansas 28-6

Most of the other teams (Arizona, Virginia, NC State, Kansas State, Iowa State, Texas, St. John's, San Diego State, etc.) are pretty much about the same as Rice, within 1 game or so. FAU is tops in CUSA at 29-7, and MTSU and Rice are tied at 27-9.

Hopefully, this is a fun stat that we can continue to track as the season progresses.

(01-19-2023 11:24 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  Men and women are a combined 27-9 in hoops this year. The men are 14-5 and the women are 13-4. At Tudor, we're 17-4 combined.

I did a quick glance to see how many schools have a better or comparable record, and it's more than I would have expected. Maybe about 30 schools are either right there with Rice or have a better record. The best schools combined include (not in the correct order necessarily)

Gonzaga 34-5
UCLA 31-5
Alabama 31-6
LSU 30-6 (although their men are really struggling so that number will go down)
UConn 31-7
Florida Gulf Coast 32-8
Tennessee 31-9
Duke 29-7
Kansas 28-6

Most of the other teams (Arizona, Virginia, NC State, Kansas State, Iowa State, Texas, St. John's, San Diego State, etc.) are pretty much about the same as Rice, within 1 game or so. FAU is tops in CUSA at 29-7, and MTSU and Rice are tied at 27-9.

Hopefully, this is a fun stat that we can continue to track as the season progresses.

I believe Creighton is up there, as well.

(01-19-2023 11:32 PM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  

(01-19-2023 11:24 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  Men and women are a combined 27-9 in hoops this year. The men are 14-5 and the women are 13-4. At Tudor, we're 17-4 combined.

I did a quick glance to see how many schools have a better or comparable record, and it's more than I would have expected. Maybe about 30 schools are either right there with Rice or have a better record. The best schools combined include (not in the correct order necessarily)

Gonzaga 34-5
UCLA 31-5
Alabama 31-6
LSU 30-6 (although their men are really struggling so that number will go down)
UConn 31-7
Florida Gulf Coast 32-8
Tennessee 31-9
Duke 29-7
Kansas 28-6

Most of the other teams (Arizona, Virginia, NC State, Kansas State, Iowa State, Texas, St. John's, San Diego State, etc.) are pretty much about the same as Rice, within 1 game or so. FAU is tops in CUSA at 29-7, and MTSU and Rice are tied at 27-9.

Hopefully, this is a fun stat that we can continue to track as the season progresses.

I believe Creighton is up there, as well.

Nope-Creighton is 23-13 combined. Their men’s team had a VERY difficult non-conference schedule.

(01-20-2023 12:47 AM)ExcitedOwl18 Wrote:  

(01-19-2023 11:32 PM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  

(01-19-2023 11:24 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  Men and women are a combined 27-9 in hoops this year. The men are 14-5 and the women are 13-4. At Tudor, we're 17-4 combined.

I did a quick glance to see how many schools have a better or comparable record, and it's more than I would have expected. Maybe about 30 schools are either right there with Rice or have a better record. The best schools combined include (not in the correct order necessarily)

Gonzaga 34-5
UCLA 31-5
Alabama 31-6
LSU 30-6 (although their men are really struggling so that number will go down)
UConn 31-7
Florida Gulf Coast 32-8
Tennessee 31-9
Duke 29-7
Kansas 28-6

Most of the other teams (Arizona, Virginia, NC State, Kansas State, Iowa State, Texas, St. John's, San Diego State, etc.) are pretty much about the same as Rice, within 1 game or so. FAU is tops in CUSA at 29-7, and MTSU and Rice are tied at 27-9.

Hopefully, this is a fun stat that we can continue to track as the season progresses.

I believe Creighton is up there, as well.

Nope-Creighton is 23-13 combined. Their men’s team had a VERY difficult non-conference schedule.

(01-19-2023 11:24 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  Men and women are a combined 27-9 in hoops this year. The men are 14-5 and the women are 13-4. At Tudor, we're 17-4 combined.

I did a quick glance to see how many schools have a better or comparable record, and it's more than I would have expected. Maybe about 30 schools are either right there with Rice or have a better record. The best schools combined include (not in the correct order necessarily)

Gonzaga 34-5
UCLA 31-5
Alabama 31-6
LSU 30-6 (although their men are really struggling so that number will go down)
UConn 31-7
Florida Gulf Coast 32-8
Tennessee 31-9
Duke 29-7
Kansas 28-6

Most of the other teams (Arizona, Virginia, NC State, Kansas State, Iowa State, Texas, St. John's, San Diego State, etc.) are pretty much about the same as Rice, within 1 game or so. FAU is tops in CUSA at 29-7, and MTSU and Rice are tied at 27-9.

Hopefully, this is a fun stat that we can continue to track as the season progresses.

The first team on your list, #6 Gonzaga, took a hit last night when they had their 76-game home winning street snapped by Loyola Maramont, 68-67. 76 straight home wins was impressive. Unfortunately for the Bulldogs, their current streak is 1 loss in a row. LMU had lost 25 in a row to Gonzaga going into the game.

Auburn now has the nation's longest home win streak among the men's teams. I doubt that lasts the SEC season though.

UCLA should be #1 on my list after beating Tina Langley's Washington squad last night in Seattle. They were down 27-15 right before half but then one of their guards hit a half court shot (actually a few feet longer than half the court) at the buzzer to make it 27-18. Langley's UW squad didn't score for the 1st 7 minutes of the 3rd quarter either and before you knew it, the score was 34-27 in favor of UCLA.

I may try to update the list a bit tomorrow. Rice doesn't play today so we probably will climb a bit in the overall standings.

Come on. This is ridiculous. Why dont you compare the competition each team played also?

FAU drops to 29-8 with a womens team loss this afternoon. Their men play on the road in El Paso tonight.

It's just easier to keep track of this looking at total losses only. I think this is an interesting stat just because there are so few programs where both the men and women are doing well at the same time, regardless of the conference affiliation (UCLA and Gonzaga are the only two probably after this week who will be ranked in both polls). All of the 0 and 1 losses teams on both the men's or women's side feature the opposite program struggling. Anyway, here is the update prior to today's games.

6 losses
Alabama, Gonzaga, UCLA

7 losses
Arizona, Connecticut, Duke, Indiana, LSU, Purdue

8 losses
Florida Atlantic, Iowa State, Kansas, Ohio State, UCSB, UVA

9 losses
Charleston, Kansas State, Kent State, Middle Tennessee, Rice, San Diego State, Tennessee, Texas, UC Irvine, Utah

Conference ratings for CUSA - 10th on the men's side (ahead of A-10 and MVC), 9th on the women's side

(01-22-2023 12:54 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  It's just easier to keep track of this looking at total losses only. I think this is an interesting stat just because there are so few programs where both the men and women are doing well at the same time, regardless of the conference affiliation (UCLA and Gonzaga are the only two probably after this week who will be ranked in both polls). All of the 0 and 1 losses teams on both the men's or women's side feature the opposite program struggling. Anyway, here is the update prior to today's games.

6 losses
Alabama, Gonzaga, UCLA

7 losses
Arizona, Connecticut, Duke, Indiana, LSU, Purdue

8 losses
Florida Atlantic, Iowa State, Kansas, Ohio State, UCSB, UVA

9 losses
Charleston, Kansas State, Kent State, Middle Tennessee, Rice, San Diego State, Tennessee, Texas, UC Irvine, Utah

Conference ratings for CUSA - 10th on the men's side (ahead of A-10 and MVC), 9th on the women's side

Interesting to see that five of our nine losses are to other schools who also both have nine total losses (MTSU, UT)

So to whoever was implying we played a weak schedule, I say: “HA”.

Conveniently you have exactly 25 schools listed with 9 or fewer losses. That’s your “top 25” right there.