Basketball Power Rankings

Basketball Power Rankings#470227

By jcmanson - December 2nd, 2014, 11:03 am

- December 2nd, 2014, 11:03 am #470227

Our inaugural rankings for the 2014-15 season
http://www.libertyflamesnation.com/big- ... -week-1-2/

Re: Basketball Power Rankings#471227

By jcmanson - December 9th, 2014, 10:52 am

- December 9th, 2014, 10:52 am #471227

Updated today
http://www.libertyflamesnation.com/big- ... -week-2-2/

Re: Basketball Power Rankings#471228

By TIMSCAR20 - December 9th, 2014, 11:14 am

- December 9th, 2014, 11:14 am #471228

To me Coastal is the best team in the Big South. Josh Cameron and Warren Gillis are tough at both ends of the court and both are willing shot takers at big moments. Coastal is athletic, long and well coached. High Point is up there too because of their NBA prospect John Brown. I like Asheville as a wildcard capable of beating anyone but also losing to just about anyone in the conference with the exception of the bottom two or three teams. I haven't really seen enough of Gardner-Webb and Winthrop yet but I also think Radford will be in the mix at the end. Big program win over Virginia Tech even though they are way down this year. I like Charleston Southern but they live by the three and are a little too guard oriented. But they will win a lot of games with Will Saunders giving them a third scorer to go along with Arlon Harper and Saah Nimley.

Re: Basketball Power Rankings#471230

By jcmanson - December 9th, 2014, 11:25 am

- December 9th, 2014, 11:25 am #471230

There's been a clear line set already between the contenders and the pretenders. Top 7 are contenders and bottom 4 are pretenders.

Re: Basketball Power Rankings#471231

By TIMSCAR20 - December 9th, 2014, 11:29 am

- December 9th, 2014, 11:29 am #471231

jcmanson wrote:There's been a clear line set already between the contenders and the pretenders. Top 7 are contenders and bottom 4 are pretenders.

agreed.

Re: Basketball Power Rankings#471232

By TIMSCAR20 - December 9th, 2014, 11:32 am

- December 9th, 2014, 11:32 am #471232

I would have Campbell 8, Presbyterian 9, Longwood 10 and Liberty 11. I truly believe that loss to St. Francis and the loss to Morgan and the lack of ability to get to 70 and barely 60 is telling. Plus Gielo is week to week now so he could be a question mark going forward.

Re: Basketball Power Rankings#471234

By jcmanson - December 9th, 2014, 11:37 am

- December 9th, 2014, 11:37 am #471234

It's splitting hairs. PC is 0-6 against DI competition. Campbell is 0-5 against DI competition. That's why they're at the bottom.

Longwood & Liberty is tough to choose from. Each have 2 DI wins, but both are against teams at or near 300+ in RPI.

Re: Basketball Power Rankings#471235

By TIMSCAR20 - December 9th, 2014, 11:42 am

- December 9th, 2014, 11:42 am #471235

jcmanson wrote:It's splitting hairs. PC is 0-6 against DI competition. Campbell is 0-5 against DI competition. That's why they're at the bottom.

Longwood & Liberty is tough to choose from. Each have 2 DI wins, but both are against teams at or near 300+ in RPI.

Yep 4 really bad teams.

Re: Basketball Power Rankings#471237

By jcmanson - December 9th, 2014, 11:45 am

- December 9th, 2014, 11:45 am #471237

SCAR wrote:
jcmanson wrote:It's splitting hairs. PC is 0-6 against DI competition. Campbell is 0-5 against DI competition. That's why they're at the bottom.

Longwood & Liberty is tough to choose from. Each have 2 DI wins, but both are against teams at or near 300+ in RPI.
Yep 4 really bad teams.

Yeah, no doubt about that.

Re: Basketball Power Rankings#471247

By Purple Haize - December 9th, 2014, 12:19 pm

- December 9th, 2014, 12:19 pm #471247

I'm not e en sure we are Pretenders.

Re: Basketball Power Rankings#471493

By TheGovernor - December 11th, 2014, 9:58 am

- December 11th, 2014, 9:58 am #471493

As of this morning, Liberty is LAST in RPI according to ESPN.

Re: Basketball Power Rankings#471496

By Dr. Sheh - December 11th, 2014, 10:10 am

- December 11th, 2014, 10:10 am #471496

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketb ... 7/sort/RPI

WOW....

Re: Basketball Power Rankings#471502

By Purple Haize - December 11th, 2014, 10:21 am

- December 11th, 2014, 10:21 am #471502

You guys are so negative! It means a couple of great things
1- We can oh get better
2- Now that NJIT beat Michigan we can have an easier time scheduling games with D1 schools
3 - All we have to do is win the Conference Tourney and we are going to the Dance
4 - We have been ranked this low before or at least close to it. Which means we have experience on our side!

The sky isn't falling

Re: Basketball Power Rankings#471505

By ATrain - December 11th, 2014, 10:41 am

- December 11th, 2014, 10:41 am #471505

For what its worth, Gardner-Webb is at 35 in that report w/ a SOS of schedule of 3 and a 2-4 D-I record. Coastal Carolina is at 130 w/ a win over an SEC school and a winning D-I record, CSU at 229 with the same scenario and Presby w/ no D-I wins is at 329.

Therefore, based on the fact that SOS is overweighted in this formula, I give this ranking little weight.