We start the year at #25

[RUClassof67]

time to start moving up.

http://espn.go.com/womens-college-b...top-espnw-preseason-women-basketball-rankings

 

[BeKnighted_rivals]

Interesting that ESPN is doing its own internal poll. RU is RV in the coaches poll, somewhere around 27th or 28th IIRC.

I must say that I find it doubtful that all of those mid-majors will stay in the top 25. GW and South Florida both seem overhyped to me, in particular.

 

[Knight Time Fan_rivals]

I must say that I find it doubtful that all of those mid-majors will stay in the top 25. GW and South Florida both seem overhyped to me, in particular.

At least they seem to be consistently hyped. Don't really know why, although I gather that this might be South Florida's best.
More amazing was the coaches including UNC. Unrealistic I thought. Maybe they didn't want to hurt Sylvia's feelings?

 

[BeKnighted_rivals]

I dunno about whether they really care about Sylvia's feelings, but there is a more than decent chance her team will be ineligible for the tournament this year, so maybe they're being nice to her now.

 

[MADHAT1]

I dunno about whether they really care about Sylvia's feelings, but there is a more than decent chance her team will be ineligible for the tournament this year, so maybe they're being nice to her now.

Considering her program is being the one thrown under the bus ( got that opinion from reading articles I read awhile back ago) I can understand why NC would not be in top 25 and only close to it.

 

[BeKnighted_rivals]

Considering her program is being the one thrown under the bus ( got that opinion from reading articles I read awhile back ago) I can understand why NC would not be in top 25 and only close to it.

We'll see if the NCAA decides that one sacrificial lamb (or two, WCBB and football) is enough or not. There's not much doubt that WCBB players were among the ones involved in the fake courses, and one of the most appalling email threads is about a WCBB player, but I think the real question is whether the NCAA will find a way not to blame Roy Williams (who, to his sort of credit, apparently stopped his players from taking the fake courses at some point before they were discovered, which Sylvia did not do).

 

[ecojew]

So that makes 4 ranked teams for Rutgers at the moment. They have RU as #4 in the B1G. I liked the optimism that newcomers could help this season be an even more promising one than last year.

Did Iowa lose a lot of seniors? They didn't even appear in the ARVs.

I have to say, though, that interest in women's college basketball will not likely grow much if at all so long as it's obvious that the only realistic goal is to finish #2. Until something happens to end UConn's dominance of the sport, the level of excitement will be tempered at best. That's nothing against UConn's women or their coach - just a statement about the reality of the situation. The only thing that comes to mind as comparable during my lifetime would be UCLA's men under Coach Wooden winning something like 9 titles in 10 years. That had a similar sense of inevitability about it.

 

[Colerr]

Iowa lost 3 starters that apparently were the leading scoring trio in B1G history.