Bulls softball #18

[Cubanbull]

new poll comes out Ladies move up two spots to #18 right behind the Gators.

[Velcro]

USA Today/NFCA Division I Top 25 Poll

The USA Today/National Fastpitch Coaches Association Division I Top 25 is voted on by 25 NCAA Division I head coaches representing different conferences. Records are as of March 28. First place votes are in parenthesis.

Rank Team Record Pts Pvs

1 Arizona (25) 36-1 625 1

2 UCLA 26-1 600 2

3 California 33-3 575 NR

4 Florida State 37-4 547 4

5 Georgia 32-6 523 5

6 LSU 31-7 495 8

7 Washington 24-7 466 6

8 Louisiana-Lafayette 30-4 445 10

9 Michigan 25-6 408 11

10 Alabama 28-9 376 7

11 Stanford 27-7 375 13

12 Tennessee 34-8 349 12

13 Oklahoma 26-11-1 318 9

14 Fresno State 25-10 272 14

15 Oregon 25-9 236 17

16 Oregon State 30-9 218 16

17 Florida 31-6 212 19

18 South Florida 39-7 189 20

19 Baylor 31-6 156 21

20 Pacific 21-9 145 18

21 Nebraska 22-11 127 22

22 Auburn 26-4 126 NR

23 South Carolina 17-8 114 15

24 Arizona State 30-14 54 23

25 Georgia Tech 29-7 44 24

Others receiving votes:

Long Beach State 33, Texas State 25, Florida Atlantic 25, Northwestern 14, Texas A&M 9, Illinois 6, Notre Dame 6. Three other teams received votes but only appeared on one ballot.  

Dropped out:

No. 25 Northwestern  

In red... next highest win total compared to us

In blue... teams with more losses that ahead of us in the poll, despite only having 7 losses

[Velcro]

there aren't many teams ahead of us with less losses and no team ahead of us has more wins

[FLIPSTYLE]

dumb question, but can i ask why we have a lot more wins than everyone else? does our season end earlier or something?

[Velcro]

not sure, but i think we just play more games... the same thign happened last year... maybe there isn't a rule regarding # of games allowed?

We play in alot of tournaments, and advance... such as the speedline where we played an something like 8 games.

[FLIPSTYLE]

thanks for the fill in

Thats interesting. They r doing really well, i hope that they can keep up their streak

[Guest S. Bien]

What's more amazing is the number of wins we have against teams on that list, versus losses to teams on that list.

Our losses include:  FAU, MSU, OKST, Boston U, Arizona, and two to Louisville (explain this one to me).   Arizona we lost to 2-1 and they are #1!!!!  OKST beat us 3-2 and they are good, and FAU is receiving lots of votes.

Wins in that group: UF #17, FAU, Stanford #11, Baylor #19, Illini (receiving votes)

We've beaten some good teams, and lost to some good ones but our weak conference slate will hurt us.

[Jewbull]

I wonder if playing all these weak C-USA Teams (Nobody ranked in the top 25) hurts in the rankings as well, Is there an RPI or something for softball