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Monday, November 30, 2009
UD women ranked in Top 25 poll
The University of Dayton women’s basketball team broke into the AP Top 25 this week. The Flyers check in at No. 25 in the poll, which was released today.
It marks the first time UD has been ranked.
UD is one of two teams that were unranked last week to break into the Top 25. Georgia Tech, previously unranked, is No. 23.
UD (5-1) plays tonight, Nov. 30, at Illinois-Chicago.
Connecticut was a unanimous choice at No. 1, followed by Stanford, Ohio State, North Carolina and Notre Dame.
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Early RPI ratings have UD 51st
The RPI ratings are extremely volatile early in the season, which means we ought not to read too much into them, but they tell us at least which teams are off to a good start.
Dayton is rated 51st out of 347 teams with a 3-2 record while playing the 31st-toughest schedule in the nation.
The Flyers are third among Atlantic 10 teams, behind Temple (12th) and Richmond (20th).
The Owls (4-2) have beaten Virginia Tech of the ACC and Siena, which was a preseason Top-20 team in Sports Illustrated. Their losses were at Georgetown (by one point) and to St. John’s in the Philly Classic.
The Spiders (6-1) have impressive wins over Mississippi State, which was picked to win the SEC West Division, and Missouri of the Big 12.
Xavier, meanwhile, is slogging along at 167th. The Musketeers are 4-2 with a win over Creighton and losses to Marquette and Baylor in the Old Spice Classic. They have a brutal upcoming stretch after hosting Kent this week, playing at Kansas State then facing Cincinnati, playing at Butler, hosting Miami and LSU and then traveling to Wake Forest. Whew!
I caught some of Musketeers’ game against Marquette, and they looked like a team still trying to assemble the pieces of the puzzle this year.
And what’s happened to Creighton? UD’s victory in the season-opener looked like a quality win, but the Bluejays went 0-3 in the Old Spice Classic, losing in overtime to Michigan and then falling to Xavier (by 13) and Iona to drop to 2-4. They’re 293rd in the RPI.
