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Top 25
# Team FPV Record Points Prv Conference
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1. Southeast Missouri State (48) 11-2 1732 2 Ohio Valley Conference
2. Florida Gulf Coast (14) 11-1 1715 4 Atlantic Sun Conference
3. Boston University (8) 10-1 1631 1 America East Conference
4. Illinois (1) 10-1 1545 8 Big Ten Conference
5. Temple 11-1 1520 10 Atlantic 10 Conference
6. Richmond (1) 10-1 1493 3 Atlantic 10 Conference
7. Georgia Tech 10-1 1413 6 Atlantic Coast Conference
8. Harvard 8-1 1324 13 Ivy League
9. Marist 10-3 1195 14 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference
10. Texas A&M 9-2 1130 11 Big 12 Conference
11. Portland 9-2 1079 9 West Coast Conference
12. USC 8-2 1024 12 Pacific-12 Conference
13. Oklahoma State 8-2 949 7 Big 12 Conference
14. Wyoming 8-2 880 NR Mountain West Conference
15. Utah 8-2 792 NR Pacific-12 Conference
16. Virginia 9-3 508 NR Atlantic Coast Conference
17. Gardner Webb 9-3 436 NR Big South Conference
18. James Madison 8-3 378 17 Colonial Athletic Association
19. SIU Edwardsville 9-3 375 15 Ohio Valley Conference
20. St. Francis-PA 7-3 263 NR Northeast Conference
21. North Carolina 8-3 243 NR Atlantic Coast Conference
22. Oklahoma 7-3 218 NR Big 12 Conference
23. Memphis 8-3 146 NR Conference USA
24. Akron 8-3 137 NR Mid-American Conference
25. Houston Baptist 9-3 87 NR Great West Conference
Others Receiving Votes:
San Francisco 7-3 87 West Coast Conference
Maryland-East Shore 8-4 81 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
Northern Colorado 7-3 80 Big Sky Conference
Youngstown State 9-3 80 Horizon League
Middle Tennessee 9-3 77 Sun Belt Conference
Texas-Arlington 8-4 72 Southland Conference
Maryland 8-3 64 Atlantic Coast Conference
Hawaii 6-3 63 Big West Conference
Pacific 7-3 63 Big West Conference
Coastal Carolina 9-3 61 Big South Conference
Connecticut 7-3 46 Big East Conference
UAB 8-3 46 Conference USA
# Team FPV Record Points Prv Conference
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Texas 8-3 45 Big 12 Conference
Mount St. Mary's 7-3 44 Northeast Conference
Oregon 7-3 42 Pacific-12 Conference
Dartmouth 6-4 40 Ivy League
Creighton 8-3 40 Missouri Valley Conference
VCU 8-3 31 Colonial Athletic Association
Michigan State 8-3 29 Big Ten Conference
Butler 7-3 19 Horizon League
Samford 8-3 19 Southern Conference
Colorado 6-4 15 Pacific-12 Conference
Texas State 7-3 13 Western Athletic Conference
Colorado State 7-3 12 Mountain West Conference
Northwestern 7-3 9 Big Ten Conference
George Mason 7-3 7 Colonial Athletic Association
Mississippi State 6-4 2 Southeastern Conference
Things are starting to smooth out now as of the New Year.
Boston University is the first All-Red team in the Top 25, and like a lot of teams in the Top 25, they have yet to play a conference game.
Southeast Missouri State is 3-0 in conference,
Florida Gulf Coast is 5-0.
7 of the top scorers in the country are seniors and the only one averaging 20+ points is a chucker at sub-40% shooting (he's at 21.5 points by the way).
Sure wish I could see where the top recruits committed, but there's no way for me to access that information without a human coach, so on we go to February.
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Top 25
# Team FPV Record Points Prv Conference
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1. Temple (71) 18-1 1799 2 Atlantic 10 Conference
2. Boston University 17-4 1664 1 America East Conference
3. Southeast Missouri State (1) 18-4 1628 3 Ohio Valley Conference
4. Georgia Tech 14-5 1553 8 Atlantic Coast Conference
5. Portland 15-5 1462 7 West Coast Conference
6. Illinois 15-4 1402 9 Big Ten Conference
7. Richmond 14-5 1400 10 Atlantic 10 Conference
8. James Madison 17-4 1285 12 Colonial Athletic Association
9. Florida Gulf Coast 17-5 1206 14 Atlantic Sun Conference
10. Virginia 13-6 1135 6 Atlantic Coast Conference
11. Oklahoma State 14-6 1079 5 Big 12 Conference
12. Southeastern Louisiana 13-6 985 16 Southland Conference
13. Hawaii 14-5 922 18 Big West Conference
14. Creighton 16-4 867 19 Missouri Valley Conference
15. Houston Baptist 15-4 813 15 Great West Conference
16. USC 13-6 751 22 Pacific-12 Conference
17. Elon 17-5 594 NR Southern Conference
18. Texas 14-6 459 11 Big 12 Conference
19. Northern Colorado 14-6 372 4 Big Sky Conference
20. Sacred Heart 13-7 357 NR Northeast Conference
21. St. Francis-PA 15-5 276 NR Northeast Conference
22. Texas A&M 15-5 230 NR Big 12 Conference
23. Mount St. Mary's 14-6 227 NR Northeast Conference
24. Florida A&M 15-5 218 NR Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
25. Louisiana Tech 13-6 118 NR Western Athletic Conference
Others Receiving Votes:
Michigan State 13-6 89 Big Ten Conference
Alabama 13-6 80 Southeastern Conference
LSU 14-5 66 Southeastern Conference
Mississippi Valley State 13-7 66 Southwestern Athletic Conference
Wyoming 14-5 59 Mountain West Conference
Oregon 13-6 48 Pacific-12 Conference
High Point 15-7 38 Big South Conference
Akron 15-6 37 Mid-American Conference
Harvard 11-6 28 Ivy League
Arizona 14-5 22 Pacific-12 Conference
Oklahoma 13-7 17 Big 12 Conference
Missouri 12-8 15 Big 12 Conference
# Team FPV Record Points Prv Conference
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New Mexico State 12-7 15 Western Athletic Conference
Cal Poly 13-6 11 Big West Conference
South Alabama 15-6 4 Sun Belt Conference
Middle Tennessee 16-6 2 Sun Belt Conference
Sam Houston State 12-7 1 Southland Conference
Boston University takes the #1 spot and then January 15th,
they have two starters go out over 40 days with injury in the same game. The Terriers have now lost 3 of their last 4 games. Hard to feel bad for them though -
they literally have an all-100s 34 year old coach. That's one thing I've noticed is somewhat annoying about this game - how many wunderkind young coaches there are who will win everything and gobble up all the records so no one else has any shot at beating them.
Temple? 100 Coaching Offense/100 Coaching Defense and a much more reasonable 48 years old.
Irony:
Albert Hamlin, that senior from
Michigan State whom I mentioned was a chucker? He finally is shooting north of 40% (barely at 40.4).. annnd... he drops below 20 PPG, now at 19.4. Still good enough to lead the country, but the lack of overall talent is indeed showing itself on the national stage.
Year 1 seems to literally be about "Did you get lucky in the random coach distribution?" If yes, HAWK TUAH! JUST SPIT ON THOSE THANGS! That makes it a much less interesting exercise. I've moved on to March 1st, and
6 of the Top 25 teams have a coach who is not rated 80 or higher in coaching on one side of the ball or the other - many with both - which is 24%.
I'm not going to zero out the coaches, though. That would take literally hours and hours of work, and I'd have to zero out the new coaches as they came in each year and that would be just too much hassle.
But who knows? We'll see what the tournament brings when we get there.