I’ll say this much, if I were a 4 or a 3 seed, I wouldn’t want to see us in the Round of 32!
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There’s still time to have this season be magical but I can’t help but be excited about the years to come. I think Olson is already strong but has the frame to be even stronger. The present is nice but the future is even brighter!
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Awesome effort. Just ran out of steam and so all the shots stopped falling. I think more than anything the death of our ability to put the ball in the hoop broke the game wide open.
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I think we got boned on the 10 second call btw. It looked like Juju pretty intentionally tripped our player, which made the possession take forever to start.
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Us being on our 3rd game in 3 days and them only on their 2nd also was a factor, in my opinion.
A great incentive to be a top-4 seed next year.
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Honestly, I’m not sure why they didn’t think of that before?
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ESPN’s bracketology
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7 seed for a team ranked 20th on Torvik and 18th in WAB seems brutal. Does the women’s committee have the same team sheet style data? MSU is below Michigan on both of those metrics
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No clue
Iowa State would get the 10 seed as #32, and NC State the 3 as #15 (torvik)
At Least NC State is 9th in WAB (which gets them in the 2 seed convo, but in isolation slightly outside of it) Iowa State 39th - so their WAB’s seem to dovetail pretty well. Ours…
Yep, this is the first year they’re using the NET, though the quads are defined slightly different.
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Wild that top 50 neutral court games aren’t Q1. Michigan is missing out on 2 extra Q1 wins.
Even more wild is that away Q1 only goes to 45. Michigan didn’t miss out on any wins in that category, but insane that you could beat a top 50 team on the road and have it not be Q1.
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I think it makes sense in WBB world which is much more top heavy
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Yeah, I suppose road environments are a lot less spicy in women’s hoops too.
Those two neutral court wins may wind up being over teams that make the tournament though so it’s unfortunate that they aren’t credited more for them.
took me way too long staring at this to realize which thread I’d clicked on. “wow, dropping to a 7 would be really, really rough…wait, msu as a SIX?”
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Poor Greta on the potential matchup against Crooks.
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KBA
7 seed for a team ranked 20th on Torvik and 18th in WAB seems brutal. Does the women’s committee have the same team sheet style data? MSU is below Michigan on both of those metrics
I saw this, too, and thought…that’s rough. Maybe that Wisconsin loss is just really tanking things? It’s their only loss outside of Quad 1.
The rest of their losses are pretty much “good losses.” The Home losses must be really hurting.
- #1 overall South Carolina (N)
- 1 seed USC (A, N)
- 1 seed UCLA (A)
- 3 seed Oklahoma (N)
- 4 seed Ohio State (H)
- 5 seed Maryland (A)
- 6 seed Michigan State (H)
- 6 seed to Iowa (H)
Six – over half – of their losses this season were to protected seeds.
Of the remaining four losses, only one came to anyone worse than a projected 6 seed. And they have road (MSU) and neutral site (Maryland) wins against two of those teams to help offset the losses.
4-3 on neutral sites (with all three losses to top 10 teams) and 6-4 on the road is pretty dang good in what is clearly the top conference this year.
Those Oregon, Washington, and Indiana Home wins are all top 50 wins and top 4 Torvik teams, but still considered Quad 2. Tough.
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Reminder that the women’s selection show is tonight as well, 8 PM on ESPN.
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What are the projections saying for them? I haven’t checked recently but since the women finished their season a week ago I assume most bracket projections have stabilized.
6 or 7 seed