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Creighton Bluejays at #12 Kansas State Wildcats

Tip-Off: 6:30 PM ET - Thursday, November 14, 2024

Venue: Bramlage Coliseum, Manhattan, KS

TV: ESPN2

Streams: ESPN+, The ESPN App

Line (as of 4 PM ET): KSU -11.5

Total (as of 4 PM ET): 136.5

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Did you know that we have 50 teams who received votes to be included in this week's Top 25? Eighteen of them are in action today, including some sneaky good matchups. Creighton, who was ranked in our preseason poll but didn't receive a single vote after week one, will try to defend its home court against Kansas State. Harvard, who received one single vote after upsetting Indiana (even though they also lost to Quinnipiac in week one), will look to add to its resume by playing host to a veteran BC team. In the nightcap, Cal will head to Gonzaga in a battle of programs with potential who are trying to find their identities in a world where the Pac-12 is transient and nebulous at best. If you want to start your day off right, you can watch a Penn State team with a lot to prove face off against Niagara at 11:30.

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The 6'2" wing picked the Cats over the like of South Carolina, Virginia Tech, and Minnesota.

Kenny Brooks is him, that is all.

Hey, Sports Reference here! We are thrilled to announce that we have released a huge update to the women's college basketball statistics appearing on College Basketball Reference.

With this update, we now have player, team and opponent statistics going all the way back to 1981-82, which was the first season of NCAA-sanctioned women's basketball. This exciting update now gives us statistics for legends such as Cheryl Miller, Anne Donovan, Yolanda Laney, Teresa Edwards, Katrina McClain, Wanda Ford, Cynthia Cooper and Doris Burke.

The last major update to the site, back in February, featured expanded player and team statistics back to 1987-88. This update tacks an additional six seasons of statistics for players and teams, while also adding over 20 seasons of new opponent statistics. It includes coverage of games played, points, rebounds, assists, field goals made and attempted, and free throws made and attempted. Additionally, it includes biographical data such as height, class and position.

This update does not include minutes played, games started, personal fouls, turnovers, offensive/defensive rebounds, blocks or steals. NCAA women's basketball did not officially track blocks or steals before 1987-88, but we have a lot of this data directly from schools that we hope to add in the future. Similarly, assists were not officially tracked in NCAA women's basketball before 1985-86, but we hope to add more of this data, directly from the schools, in the future. In fact, our assists coverage is already comprehensive back to 1984-85, one season before the NCAA considers it official. 1987-88 was the first season in which all NCAA women's basketball games had a 3-point shot. Most team scoring sheets from before 1987-88 inconsistently handled how experimental 3-pt shots were handled, but we have done our best to include all of the made 3-pointers we were able to tease out.

Our work here is far from done. Please keep your eyes peeled for future updates with things like expanded school schedules/results, all-time NCAA Tournament box scores, women's NCAA Tournament buzzer-beaters, and hopefully one day even AIAW-era statistics.

To get a full breakdown of this data addition, you can read our blog post here.

Also, please let us know if you have any questions! We'll be around to answer them.

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We’ve got some early games this morning, but later on, we get some decent matchups on the menu. Join in with us and catch a potential upset or two.

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Hi, I'm a huge basketball fan that lives in the UK, I love watching NBA/WNBA, but recently became interested in college basketball. It's do different to the way British and most European countries do college sport, which intrigued me. Slight problem, I cannot figure out how to watch almost all of the D1 games. Most of them seem to be hidden away on ESPN+ which is inaccessible for those outside America (there's probably a VPN solution but I can't be bothered spending money on a VPN on top of the subscription to ESPN+). A lot of the D2 and D3 conferences have their own free to watch networks, but I really want to watch the best college basketball has to offer. Any solutions, even places with extended highlights would be sufficient?

This is not the main NCAAW user poll, for that poll go here

Top 20 rankings of teams in all conferences excluding the ACC, B10, B12, BE & SEC

The "+" in the poll name is a nod to the varied usage of the term "mid-major", as there are teams in this poll sometimes discussed as outliers, high or low majors etc. and the scope of this poll includes ALL teams outside of the 5 conferences mentioned above. Mid-Major is not an official term used by the NCAA and is not interpreted the same by all. The primary purpose of this poll is for starting conversations about the teams themselves, not the concept of a mid-major. Remember have fun and be courteous to others!

# Team (1st votes) Score

1 South Dakota St (4) 173

2 Middle Tennessee (3) 165

3 Saint Joseph’s 135

4 Richmond (1) 131

5 Drake 121

6 UNLV (1) 120

7 Fairfield 107

8 Gonzaga 91

9 Columbia 85

10 Princeton 74

11 George Mason 65

12 Colorado St 63

13 FGCU 62

13 N. Iowa 62

15 Norfolk St 57

16 James Madison 44

17 Ball St 34

17 South Florida 34

19 Washington St 31

20 Harvard 29

Others Receiving Votes:

Oregon St 22, Grand Canyon 20, Quinnipiac 20, Davidson 19, Duquesne 19, Belmont 18, Boise St 17, Toledo 16, Missouri St 11, VCU 11, North Texas 9, Cleveland St 8, Texas A&M-CC 7, Santa Clara 4, Liberty 3, Memphis 1, Portland 1, Vermont 1

9 voters this week

Last week's poll

Additional comments from voters:

"This is my first time filling out the mid-major poll and I'm using the same model to assist that I use for the main poll. I expect some early-season variability but if you ever notice something that seems really out of place that I didn't catch, please let me know/discard my rankings for that week!"

"I foresee a lot of big shifts in my own rankings in the coming weeks. I wasn't able to watch much this week, especially mid-major games, so I placed a lot of value on resume and head to head, which lead me to leave out some potential contenders like USF and Ball State. Thanks as always for this poll!"

"21. Columbia 22. Washington St 23. South Florida 24. Gonzaga 25. Rice 26. Harvard 27. Belmont 28. Texas A&M CC 29. Temple 30. North Texas 31. Princeton 32. Quinnipiac"

We've got quite a few ranked teams in action today, but they all seem to outmatch their opponents on paper. Will anybody falter? That's the question of the day as we can watch team after team compete from noon to midnight.

Sneakily, the games of the day are probably Stephen F. Austin vs. Abilene Christian, Tennessee vs. Middle Tennessee, and Arizona vs. UNLV. Two of those games are sure to be hotly contested, and although Tennessee is an overwhelming favorite, MTSU does have their number a bit. Whatever you're watching, we'll be here to discuss it!

• The rankings in the above table are from the r/NCAAW poll, not the AP poll.
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Thanks to everybody who voted! We had 29 ballots this week, up from 21 last week. As a reminder, anybody is welcome to vote in future installments!

• Our voters came from 18 different fanbases, spanning nine conferences. There was one computer poll submitted, with two other voters altering the output of their computer polls, and still three others referencing their computer polls when composing their ballot.
• We asked voters who they currently believe will win this season's national championship. 11 said South Carolina, 6 said UConn, 4 said Notre Dame, 3 said UCLA, 1 said USC, 1 said Stanford, and 3 did not have an answer.
• We also asked voters to predict the score of two different games this week. My data collection was poor, so I tossed any predictions who did not indicate a winner (mea culpa). Of the predictions I could discern, the median predicted score between UConn and UNC is 80.5-62.5, UConn (22 predictions). None of the 22 predictions predicted a UNC victory.
• Meanwhile, the median predicted score between Louisville and Kentucky is 71-65, Louisville. There were 23 predictions for this one, and only two picked a Kentucky victory.

Without further ado, the Top 25 for this week!

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Thanks for voting/reading, and have a great week!

Week 2

• Preseason
• MBB Version
• Football Version

This is a series I've been doing on /r/CollegeBasketball and /r/CFB for quite a while now, and I'm doing for WBB for the first time. The post attempts to visualize consistency between voters in the AP Poll in a single image. Additionally it sorts each AP voter by similarity to the group. Notably, this is not a measure of how "good" a voter is, just how consistent they are with the group. Especially preseason, having a diversity of opinions and ranking styles is advantageous to having a true consensus poll. Polls tend to coalesce towards each other as the season goes on.

This week's poll has 31 voters: Stu Durando and Danny Davis are not voting (unclear if they are sitting out this week or have left the poll), and Chantel Jennings, Eden Laase, and Terrika Foster-Brasby have all joined the poll.

Meghan McKeown was the most consistent voter this week. Matt Dowell, Rebecca Lobo, Marisa Ingemi, Meghan McKeown, and Christy Winters Scott are the 5 most consistent on the season.

Jeff Linder was the biggest outlier this week by a wide margin. He's also the biggest outlier on the season, followed by Mitchell Northam, Percy Allen, Emily Adams, and Kim Adams.

havent seen anyone talking about hvl and tcu, but they’ve been looking good so far!!! hope to see them enter the top 25 soon. real test will be their game against nc state on sunday.

how about madison conner going 9/17 from 3 😱

the cheers in the arena when ella hamlin went in were so awesome, definitely a fan favorite being one of the walk ins from last season. cant wait to see where they go!

Just listened and really enjoyed it! I was missing the queens of Cassell podcast and hope they keep this up and feature other players. It’s fun to get to know the team outside of the court. https://youtu.be/FxkcrHTW2aA