NCAA rankings: Morgan sitting 5th in points per game, 4th in season points, and 9th in FT made.

Sidenote: Megan Gustafson (Iowa) is a beast.

In women's Mid-Major Top 25 poll news, UCD is still "ORV"--up to 40 votes from 7 last week. UCI just fell out of the top 25 and received 53 votes. St. Mary's is ranked 22nd.

NCAA RPI-wise: UCD is at 91, Irvine at 171, and St. Mary's at 45. Loyola Marymount is a few spots away from Davis. Riverside is actually a few spots ahead of Irvine...interesting.

ESPN Bracketology has "UCD/Big West" as a 13.

Not that the team needs any extra motivation, but continuing to be behind 2nd place UCI in the mid-major poll should ensure that the Ags play with a chip on their collective shoulders.

Indeed. They know that they are still lacking a BWT title and dance invite.

I don’t know how these polls are really done, but the fact that we beat both UCI and St Marys and they are higher ranked just makes the fairness of these polls very suspect. But like my buddies above say, it sure gives Jen some good stuff to talk about in practice and the huddle. Big CHIP coming at you!

UCD moves up (slightly) to ORV-43, UCI drops to ORV-1 after losing to UCSB.

Just saw that. :up: At least Davis is trending the right direction...

No change in the Braketology predictions--UCD/Big West still projected as a 13 seed.

Aggie women up to 23rd in the College Insider Mid-Major top 25. No change to the Bracketology.

Twin Peaks (the Eatons) are on the top of their game. Look out, these girls are on fire and no one apparently can even begin to stop them.

Another week, another POW for Bertsch: https://ucdavisaggies.com/news/2019/3/4/womens-basketball-another-record-for-big-west-player-of-the-week-bertsch.aspx

Bracketology now predicting the Aggies at a 14 seed. *shrug*

College Insider Mid-Major rankings haven't updated yet today.

Aggies up one spot to 22nd in the mid major poll.

The problem with the bracketology in the women's bracket is that I think there is bias towards regional pairings in the first round than their true seed.

I'm still somewhat bitter the year when UC Davis was paired with Stanford for a #1 vs. #16 match up when UC Davis was clearly better than a #16 seed that year.

Yeah, there have been some rumblings about that around the Internet; a few folks noting that the women's field is getting deep enough that the NCAA needs to start paying more attention to the seeding outside the top 8-10 teams or so.

ESPN bracketology was updated this morning. No change, still a 14 seed. On the men's side, Irvine moved up one spot to a 13 seed.

WBB RPI is too low to expect a semi-favorable seeding, imo.

Morgan has moved into 4th on the Big West career scoring list, 83 points short of 3rd. :fire:

She could move into 3rd in 2 games! :smirk: