2025-2026 - NET, Rankings, Polls, Awards

[*23*]

I hope you are right 17. I am sure it is even harder (we know moon man IT IS SO HARD) to scheduel top competition coming off a bad year - but again all these other mid majors get games - we just have to try harder. So maybe a good season will make it a little easier.

 

[Section9_RowD]

That is an impressive 50 plus point jump. Our next 5 games are against 2 Q3 teams and 3 Q4 teams. IF we were to win all of those games, I think we would roll into the conference with a NET probably in the 60's. Which would make the conference season mighty interesting.

The problem is our schedule leaves us zero room for error, one loss and we probably are back around triple digit terrority. Also William and Mary NET right now is at 50, which is obviously unsustainable but my goodness.

Agreed and for a change think our A10 schedule is favorable for both having Q1 games and some of our home/away teams (GW, GMU, VCU, Bonnie, Davidson) being strong teams. @SLU certainly also will likely be Q1 and glad we are playing Dayton at home. Of course this only matters if we keep winning thru December and hopefully with good metrics and nice margins.

 

[97spiderfan]

I think the opposite potentially. What I can see happening is we do well in A10 with maybe a 13-5 record or so with solid wins and no bad losses, but get left out of at large discussion because of our bad OOC strength of schedule. The A10 has done its part this year so far in terms of setting itself up as a multi bid league:

It’ll be a wake up call that had we scheduled even a halfway decent schedule this year - and good likelihood of winning those games since this team seems legit - we could be talking at large.

If this does in fact happen where we get left out of at large after having good A10 record and Richmond schedules yet another awful OOC next year, that’ll be 3 years in a row and will tell me that Richmond actually doesn’t care about making the NCAAs, we just want to feel good about ourselves with a high winning percentage beating up on bad teams.

We have a long way to go for this to even be a discussion point. But assuming we get there to have this discussion, I think every talking head will openly filet our OOC schedule as pathetic and the reason we don't deserve an at large.

 

[fan2011]

People are getting a bit ahead of themselves here. The team had a great road win last night, and deserves a lot of praise for that. We are probably going to finish 6th in the A10 and our OOC schedule is not going to have any impact on our post season.

 

[*23*]

People are getting a bit ahead of themselves here. The team had a great road win last night, and deserves a lot of praise for that. We are probably going to finish 6th in the A10 and our OOC schedule is not going to have any impact on our post season.

You may be right, but so far our guards are playing out very much like hoped in the preseason. I mentioned we could possibly have a legit four guard rotation with AJ, Tyne, Will and Thomas. Well AA stepped right into the room and brings an element to his game the others don't quite have and elevated the group. So that gives us a chance.

Daughtry has been very good at times, however I think we are going to need a little step up from the entire front court rotation of Beagle/Daughtry/Walz/Tanner/Jrob in A10 play to out perform your 6th place prediction.

I do have worries how that group will hold up defensively in the A10 - as good as Belmont is I think VCU and some others will have more athletic front lines, and SLU has the Vanilla Thrilla. I like Beagle's play so far too, just very active and getting boards and challenging and finishing inside.

 

[vt4700]

We have a long way to go for this to even be a discussion point. But assuming we get there to have this discussion, I think every talking head will openly filet our OOC schedule as pathetic and the reason we don't deserve an at large.

Agree, and the stupid D3 game just adds to it. The NET and everything else that matters will show 30 games instead of 31 at the end of the year, drawing even more attention to our schedule.

 

[SensibleSpider]

W&M with a NET of 50?!?!? I get that early season NET is a crap shoot but WOW I did not expect to see them that high.

 

[Spide]

Today’s NET Rankings: St. Louis #34, GM #40, GW #48, vcu #54, URI #77, Spiders #78, St. Bona #88 et c.

Looks like our Spiders are #6 in the A10; cross town rival vcu #4. Go Spiders!

 

[fan2011]

W&M with a NET of 50?!?!? I get that early season NET is a crap shoot but WOW I did not expect to see them that high.

They only have played 3 home games, have a top 100 sos, and only have losses to us and a ranked team.

 

[Eight Legger]

This guy has us 29th out right now.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1996979657338388531

 

[gospidersgo]

So he's saying there's a chance...

 

[SFspidur]

This is just absurd. Some say it's never too early for bracketology, but this here is solid evidence that for some people it definitely is.

 

[vt4700]

Our final 5 OOC games are against teams (not in order) that have NETs of 149, 194, 217, 235, and 364.

 

[Section9_RowD]

Fall from 79 to 85 in NET after slightly below expected efficiency metrics yesterday