NET Rankings

[keane1]

Initial NET Ranking Released:

25 - LUC
43 - Belmont
64 - Murray St
87 - DU
128 - MSU
135 - SIU
148 - INST
215 - Valpo
240 - BU
246 - UNI
262 - UTA
266 - UIC
272 - ILST
280 - UE

[smidge34]

172 - Kansas City

[TheDrake]

UNI at 246 is the surprise of the year.

[RacerJoeD]

Some looks at Murray State's schedule in the first NET rankings.

Auburn is 16 (upcoming)
UT Chattanooga is 29 (upcoming)
Belmont is 43 (upcoming) x2
Memphis is 65 (Next game)
Morehead is 79 (upcoming) x2
ETSU is 100 (only loss of the year so far)
MTSU is 116 (Win)
James Madison is 167 (Win)

[Kyle_Saluki_17]

These NET numbers are a disaster. This has to be the worst as a conference in several years. Everyone needs to win games in December.

[SalukiWorld]

The Bradley loss kind of invalidates this but I hate that Northern Iowa was the team that stepped up and played a tough non-con schedule out of all the teams in the Valley. They could have benefitted from playing a weaker schedule with AJ Green coming back after missing nearly the entire 2020-21 season. There's no way they're in the 200's though.

[keane1]

Initial NET Ranking Released:

25 - LUC
43 - Belmont
64 - Murray St
87 - DU
128 - MSU
135 - SIU
148 - INST
172 - KC
215 - Valpo
240 - BU
246 - UNI
262 - UTA
266 - UIC
272 - ILST
280 - UE

Compared to Kenpom:

28 - LUC
58 - Belmont
69 - DU
78 - MSU
95 - Murray
129 - UNI
135 - SIU
179 - INST
185 - BU
212 - Valpo
222 - KC
239 - ILST
261 - UTA
273 - UIC

[Bulldog4life24]

The Bradley loss kind of invalidates this but I hate that Northern Iowa was the team that stepped up and played a tough non-con schedule out of all the teams in the Valley. They could have benefitted from playing a weaker schedule with AJ Green coming back after missing nearly the entire 2020-21 season. There's no way they're in the 200's though.

I don't disagree, but Drake and ISUb also playing schedules ranked in top 50


5 Valley teams below 200 is, frankly, embarrassing. Its pretty pathetic that the teams we've been ragging on the most for expansion in terms of quality (UIC, UT-Ar, KC) would all finish ahead of current Valley teams.

[racernation]

The "other valley" has five teams below 300... so you see why Belmont bolted and we're over here like

I mean Murray's automatically in the top fourth of the MVC and those other "candidates"... well...

[BCPanther]

As long as the formula is secret, it's nothing more than another tool to take care of the big boys. It's bullshit but we shouldn't be surprised.