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ORU Bracketology and rankings for 2023


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6 hours ago, TrueBlue82 said:

We’re easily forgotten up here in “Eastern Washington Country”.  🤣

Speaking of which:  the Samford Bulldogs fell to Furman last night, with Dixie now ruled by Alabama and College of Charleston from The Big Muddy all the way to the Atlantic Ocean.

Curious to see if Elilandia can take care of business at home and consolidate its western holdings this weekend with Eastern Washington and Saint Mary's both facing stern tests.  #ManifestDestiny

 

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4 hours ago, Old Titan said:

Speaking of which:  the Samford Bulldogs fell to Furman last night, with Dixie now ruled by Alabama and College of Charleston from The Big Muddy all the way to the Atlantic Ocean.

Curious to see if Elilandia can take care of business at home and consolidate its western holdings this weekend with Eastern Washington and Saint Mary's both facing stern tests.  #ManifestDestiny

 

NICE!!!

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7 hours ago, Old Titan said:

 

The folks at 11th and Harvard are certainly wishing that ORU had only posted the NET rankings for the top three Oklahoma D-1 schools.  Cue the Sesame Street jingle of “one of these things is not like the others”.  

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Alabama gets hammered by Oklahoma Saturday afternoon in the Big XII-SEC Challenge; since it’s non-conference play the Crimson Tide will maintain their Deep South territorial holdings…for now. 

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1 hour ago, Old Titan said:

Alabama gets hammered by Oklahoma Saturday afternoon in the Big XII-SEC Challenge; since it’s non-conference play the Crimson Tide will maintain their Deep South territorial holdings…for now. 

Alabama will pick up territory despite the non conference loss, as College of Charleston loses at home to Hofstra. 

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Trying to figure out why Liberty keeps getting ranked higher than ORU in most mid-major polls.  The Flames' best win is over KenPom #89 Bradley back in November on a neutral court; they have five losses on the year including one in conference play to KenPom #185 Eastern Kentucky.

ORU by comparison has their win over #47 Liberty, has only four losses overall to no one with a KenPom ranking of worse than #48 and all on the road, and remains undefeated in conference action.

 

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ORU’s NET ranking moves from 47 to 52 while Liberty goes from 46 to 47. I think the relative strength of our conferences is what is impacting the NET rankings. 

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Hard to believe that the worst loss we have is Utah State, who is 17-5 and which we had a chance to win at the end.  That was one that got away from us after tying them 77-77.  The only blowout loss we have experienced so far is with Houston.  Hopefully we meet them in the Final Four.

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22 hours ago, Old Titan said:

Trying to figure out why Liberty keeps getting ranked higher than ORU in most mid-major polls.  The Flames' best win is over KenPom #89 Bradley back in November on a neutral court; they have five losses on the year including one in conference play to KenPom #185 Eastern Kentucky.

ORU by comparison has their win over #47 Liberty, has only four losses overall to no one with a KenPom ranking of worse than #48 and all on the road, and remains undefeated in conference action.

 

I've never seen this poll before and have no idea who "KC" is but, that having been said, I wonder how well informed he is.  He has Liberty ranked above us despite our win against them.  He has us ranked above New Mexico even though we lost to them.  Wouldn't head to head inform a ranking unless a win turned out to look like a fluke?

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That photo of the ORU team above isn't from 1974....looks like perhaps the 70-71 team or maybe 71-72.....:circle-logoi:

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