Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Stony Brook's schedule is such a joke. Im sick of hearing " They are in a bad league" Loyola is a weak conference too and JA goes out of her way to schedule tough games. Why are they number one if they havent beat a top 10 team? Whoever wins the ACC and Big 10 should be seeded higher than SB, not matter the record. Penn state and Towson are SB's toughest games and PSU is barely ranked. The thing is they are definitely skilled enough to play those teams.


SBU beat USC, Stanford, NU, Towson and Denver. All top 25 teams. They have Penn State, Hopkins and Cornell left. Again, all top 25 teams. Their conference is weak, they can't help it. They have tried to keep Florida and ND on they schedule, those two schools backed out.

SBU has a competitive and challenging schedule. Some of their non-conference scheduled teams are having down years. Can't help it. Schedule was made last year. They are #1 and should hold the spot until they lose. Seeding for tournament ? We will see.


Compare their schedule to any of the top programs.

Maryland
North Carolina
Syracuse
Penn State
Florida
Duke
Virginia
Penn
Princeton
Notre Dame
Boston College
Northwestern


Not sure they would have such an impressive regular season record if they played Northwesterns schedule.

Maybe this is the year they can make a run in the tournament. It would be awesome to see them in the championship.

RPI Strength of Schedule Rankings
NCAA Division I — Tue Mar 27 12:03:44 UTC 2018 Top 40 spots.
Games against Division I teams only. Ten
highest rated games are considered.

No Team SOS (RPI)

1 Maryland 0.7053
2 Penn 0.6871
3 Syracuse 0.6830
4 Albany 0.6714
5 North Carolina 0.6714
6 Villanova 0.6663
7 Marquette 0.6641
8 Notre Dame 0.6604
9 Yale 0.6562
10 Rutgers 0.6540
11 Michigan 0.6538
12 Cornell 0.6480
13 Ohio State 0.6462
14 Penn State 0.6361
15 Johns Hopkins 0.6354
16 Virginia 0.6219
17 Loyola 0.6157
18 Army 0.6122
19 Duke 0.6112
20 Navy 0.6065
21 Denver 0.6054
22 Princeton 0.5959
23 Lehigh 0.5951
24 Brown 0.5929
25 Dartmouth 0.5925
26 Holy Cross 0.5905
27 Fairfield 0.5893
28 Providence 0.5886
29 Boston U. 0.5822
30 UMass 0.5821
31 Drexel 0.5797
32 Bucknell 0.5762
33 Towson 0.5757
34 Georgetown 0.5738
35 Harvard 0.5726
36 Colgate 0.5705
37 High Point 0.5698
38 Stony Brook 0.5666
39 Hofstra 0.5658
40 UMBC 0.5630