Ladies’s volleyball committee high 16 breakdown and takeaways

The DI volleyball choice committee unveiled its high 16 rankings. These can be the highest 16 seeds if the season had ended at present, earlier than Sunday’s Pitt vs. Louisville matchup. 

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Here are my ideas on the highest 16 and the largest takeaways, in addition to notes from the committee on the largest choice makers.

The committee appears to be like on the win/loss report, RPI and KPI, frequent opponents, head-to-head, important wins and the regional advisory committees, which takes into consideration the attention check. 

First and foremost, the committee put Nebraska over Texas. I used to be very on this, contemplating Texas does have extra ranked wins this season, and I believe you very properly might justify them at No. 1.

But after speaking to committee chair Jennifer Saxon this morning, they cited Nebraska has a greater general report with two further matches, and extra high 10 RPI wins than Texas, not AVCA. Then, when it got here to splitting hairs, the regional advisory committee got here in with the attention check, in addition to the truth that Texas has needed to go to 5 much more this season. 

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Pittsburgh received the nod over Kentucky, by which their head-to-head win was a extremely massive issue. Plus, the committee cited Pitt is 4-1 in opposition to high 10 groups, whereas Kentucky sits at 2-2. The Panthers do have extra losses, so some might argue that path, however the direct win over Kentucky early within the season gave them the sting right here. 

SMU at No. 5 was actually solidified by its win over Louisville on Friday evening. So it is sensible to place the Mustangs simply forward of the No. 6 Cards. Arizona State is available in simply after them at No. 7, and I agree that these are the highest 7 groups within the nation proper now. 

Purdue felt a bit excessive to me at No. 8, however its win over SMU now appears to be like rather a lot higher, now standing as a high 5 win in line with the committee’s rankings.

TCU at No. 9 felt proper.

Then there may be Creighton at No. 10, and Stanford at No. 11. This was maybe one of many largest surprises to me after I first regarded on the rankings. I anticipated Creighton to be rather a lot decrease and Stanford to be rather a lot larger, at the very least within the high 10, the place I’ve them in my very own rankings. 

The committee cited that they spent lots of time on Creighton’s placement, and finally discovered that they’re 2-2 in opposition to RPI high 25 groups, 7-0 vs. RPI 25-50 ranked groups, whereas Stanford is 0-3 within the RPI high 10, and has no matches exterior of that within the high 25. However, Stanford has lots of youth and positively the flexibility to maneuver up because the season progresses within the ACC. 

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Wisconsin, Indiana, Texas A&M at No.12, 13 and 14.

Then I believe the second head turner right here was a seven-loss Penn State staff and Minnesota to shut out the highest 16. Committee chair Jennifer Saxon mentioned these final two groups in consideration have been most likely one of many hardest selections made. 

Ultimately, they discovered Penn State had 4 RPI high 25 wins, a high 10 win over Creighton and their metrics helped them out. Same factor with an injury-ridden Minnesota staff, the committee checked out what they’ve, in contrast it to groups under, and finally went with the Gophers. 

Other groups in dialogue have been BYU, Colorado, Miami and Illinois. So after at present’s launch, we’ve got a good suggestion of how the committee is valuing all of it; in fact, these will proceed to alter.