Games of interest - March 2

[BeKnighted]

Schedules starting to wind down a bit


Big Ten

none


Other RU opponents

Wagner 66 Robert Morris 60 - ends 4-game losing streak
Temple 56 Houston 45 - Owls end up tied for 3rd in AAC, 4th seed in tournament


Other ranked teams

#1 Connecticut 88 South Florida 65 - Stewart with 29 and 11
#6 Baylor 75 Texas Tech 65 - that's 15-15 Texas Tech


Also

Oklahoma 66 Oklahoma State 56 - @9-9, Cowgirls could finish tied for 3rd in B12
Kansas 68 Iowa State 64 - bad loss for the Cyclones

B12 standings up to the minute

1. Baylor 16-2/27-3
2. Oklahoma 13-5/19-10
3. TCU 9-8/17-11
4t. Oklahoma State 9-9/19-10
4t. Iowa State 9-9/18-11
6. Texas 8-9/19-9
7. West Virginia 7-10/17-12
8. Kansas State 6-11/16-12
9. Kansas 6-12/15-16
10. Texas Tech 5-13/15-15

1st, 2nd and 10th are locked in, but the rest of the spots are not and there's a possibility of a 4-way tie for 3rd. Tomorrow, TCU is at Texas and West Virginia is at K State.



Today:

Other RU opponents 2-0


Year to date:

Big Ten 115-40
Other RU opponents 139-155


There were no palindromic scores in 21 games from today. That makes 37 palindromic scores in 5,036 games this year. It's been two days since the last palindromic score.

 

[ecojew]

Wow. The B12 is a very top-heavy conference. It looks like the Green and Gold giant and the nine dwarfs. Only one 20-win team, unless TX defeats TCU. It will be interesting to see how many of them, if any, have knocked one another out of dance.

 

[BeKnighted]

Add the RPIs, and it gets even more interesting:

1. Baylor 16-2/27-3 - RPI 6
2. Oklahoma 13-5/19-10 - RPI 19
3. TCU 9-8/17-11 - RPI 61
4t. Oklahoma State 9-9/19-10 - RPI 48
4t. Iowa State 9-9/18-11 - RPI 45
6. Texas 8-9/19-9 - RPI 22
7. West Virginia 7-10/17-12 - RPI 62
8. Kansas State 6-11/16-12 - RPI 72
9. Kansas 6-12/15-16 - RPI 98
10. Texas Tech 5-13/15-15 - RPI 121

It's safe to say that Baylor and Oklahoma are in and that K State, Kansas and Texas Tech are out. WVU is hanging by a thread, and a loss to K State probably pushes them out of the picture entirely.

And the TCU-Texas game could decide whether the Horned Frogs or the Longhorns get into the tournament. A loss would drop their RPI into the mid-60s, and this year the B12 doesn't provide the same amount of cover in terms of quality wins as it usually does. (TCU has 1 RPI top 25 win, against Texas, a 3-2 record v. RPI 26-50 and an 8-10 record v. RPI top 100 teams, plus a loss to a sub-RPI 100 Texas Tech.) Texas has the really nice RPI, but they'd end up 8-10 and no better than 6th (and I think a WVU and a Texas loss puts the Longhorns in 7th) in a weak-looking conference with a loss, with a 4-6 record in the last 10 games.

 

[RUgrad]

It's amazing to me that Texas still has a 22 RPI. They should just throw RPI away.