12-19-2022, 07:17 PM
(12-19-2022, 07:41 AM)81alum Wrote:(12-19-2022, 05:14 AM)joemontes Wrote: Oregon State got annihilated by LSU at home, 55-87.The game was in Hawaii. Yes, LSU looks good, but this is a seriously down year for Oregon State, I think. They already have 4 losses and none of their wins have been impressive--a net of 64. LSU has a net of 2--ahead of Stanford at 3, behind South Carolina. Yup, LSU is for real, more is the pity.
#12 LSU has been criticized for having a very soft schedule versus cupcake teams,
but if this game was any indication of how good they are, they are definitely
deserving of their current #12 ranking.
In reviewing the Pac 12, the computers give us some interesting rankings with NET.
3 Stanford
5 Utah (ahead of UConn at 6)
9 Oregon
25 UCLA
29 Arizona
39 Colorado
42 SC
53 WSU
64 Oregon State
79 California
115 Washington
122 Arizona State
I suspect that Arizona and UCLA will climb further. Utah is a very dangerous team, and it will be quite interesting to see how they fare in league play. They certainly dispatched Colorado.
No way LSU should be NET 2 ahead of Stanford, Ohio State and Indiana. A 32 point win against a middling Oregon State team does give it ONE meaningful win (on a neutral court) but its schedule so far is laughable compared to Stanford's and the undefeated B1G teams. If LSU finishes its SEC schedule undefeated then it will earn the #2 (or #1) NET but it hasn't yet proven anything other than it can beat cupcakes by 50 to 75 points.
Similarly I don't understand how 7-6 Tennessee gets a NET 22 and 7-4 Texas a NET 23 while UCLA, whose sole loss was by 9 at #1 South Carolina and defeated Tennessee by 17, has a NET 25.