womens · season 2018
The season's top 100 going into the tournament, by AdjDE — the lowest values, since a defence allows points rather than scoring them — each traced across every cutoff of the season's walk. One season is one fit, so these lines share one time axis; a team that only entered the ratings later starts where it entered, not at zero. Values are points per possession.
- other ranked teams
- NCAA tournament starts
- warm-up (shaded)
- D-I average
train_cutoff_at — 94 cutoffs from
2017-12-14 to 2018-04-01.
Hover or tap the chart to name the teams at that point and their
order — every line carries its own hit area, so nothing is read off its color alone.
Series: raw fit.
The faded lead-in on the left is the warm-up: from the season's first
cutoff through 2018-01-21, fewer than half the field had
played 18 games, where a rating (a mean) has not yet settled. It is
faded, not cut — the burn-in is the finding.
Warm-up:
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- UConn
- Baylor
- Green Bay
- Mississippi State
- Louisville
- 95 more, drawn as grey context
The top 100 going into the tournament
| # | Team | AdjDE | Cutoffs rated | Postseason |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | UConn Huskies | 0.64 | 81 | Final Four (out) |
| 2 | Baylor Bears | 0.69 | 81 | Sweet 16 (out) |
| 3 | Green Bay Phoenix | 0.71 | 81 | Round of 64 (out) |
| 4 | Mississippi State Bulldogs | 0.73 | 81 | Title game (out) |
| 5 | Louisville Cardinals | 0.74 | 81 | Final Four (out) |
| 6 | Georgia Lady Bulldogs | 0.74 | 81 | Round of 32 (out) |
| 7 | Stanford Cardinal | 0.76 | 81 | Sweet 16 (out) |
| 8 | Texas Longhorns | 0.76 | 81 | Sweet 16 (out) |
| 9 | NC State Wolfpack | 0.77 | 81 | Sweet 16 (out) |
| 10 | UCLA Bruins | 0.77 | 81 | Elite 8 (out) |
| 11 | Tennessee Lady Volunteers | 0.77 | 81 | Round of 32 (out) |
| 12 | Duke Blue Devils | 0.77 | 81 | Sweet 16 (out) |
| 13 | Arizona State Sun Devils | 0.78 | 81 | Round of 32 (out) |
| 14 | Notre Dame Fighting Irish | 0.78 | 81 | Champion |
| 15 | UCF Knights | 0.78 | 81 | — |
| 16 | West Virginia Mountaineers | 0.79 | 81 | — |
| 17 | South Carolina Gamecocks | 0.79 | 81 | Elite 8 (out) |
| 18 | Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets | 0.79 | 81 | — |
| 19 | Miami Hurricanes | 0.79 | 81 | Round of 64 (out) |
| 20 | USC Trojans | 0.79 | 81 | — |
| 21 | Oregon State Beavers | 0.80 | 81 | Elite 8 (out) |
| 22 | Rutgers Scarlet Knights | 0.81 | 81 | — |
| 23 | Buffalo Bulls | 0.81 | 81 | Sweet 16 (out) |
| 24 | Oregon Ducks | 0.81 | 81 | Elite 8 (out) |
| 25 | Michigan Wolverines | 0.82 | 81 | Round of 32 (out) |
| 26 | LSU Tigers | 0.82 | 81 | Round of 64 (out) |
| 27 | Auburn Tigers | 0.82 | 81 | — |
| 28 | Virginia Cavaliers | 0.82 | 81 | Round of 32 (out) |
| 29 | Maryland Terrapins | 0.82 | 81 | Round of 32 (out) |
| 30 | Utah Utes | 0.82 | 81 | — |
| 31 | St. John's Red Storm | 0.83 | 81 | — |
| 32 | Nebraska Cornhuskers | 0.83 | 81 | Round of 64 (out) |
| 33 | Elon Phoenix | 0.83 | 81 | Round of 64 (out) |
| 34 | Oklahoma Sooners | 0.83 | 81 | Round of 64 (out) |
| 35 | Princeton Tigers | 0.83 | 81 | Round of 64 (out) |
| 36 | Florida State Seminoles | 0.84 | 81 | Round of 32 (out) |
| 37 | Little Rock Trojans | 0.84 | 81 | Round of 64 (out) |
| 38 | Pennsylvania Quakers | 0.84 | 81 | — |
| 39 | Navy Midshipmen | 0.84 | 81 | — |
| 40 | Ball State Cardinals | 0.84 | 81 | — |
| 41 | Michigan State Spartans | 0.84 | 81 | — |
| 42 | Ohio State Buckeyes | 0.84 | 81 | Round of 32 (out) |
| 43 | Missouri Tigers | 0.84 | 81 | Round of 64 (out) |
| 44 | James Madison Dukes | 0.85 | 81 | — |
| 45 | Oklahoma State Cowgirls | 0.85 | 81 | Round of 32 (out) |
| 46 | Gonzaga Bulldogs | 0.85 | 81 | Round of 64 (out) |
| 47 | DePaul Blue Demons | 0.85 | 81 | Round of 32 (out) |
| 48 | Iowa Hawkeyes | 0.85 | 81 | Round of 64 (out) |
| 49 | Washington State Cougars | 0.86 | 81 | — |
| 50 | Quinnipiac Bobcats | 0.86 | 81 | Round of 32 (out) |
| 51 | South Dakota State Jackrabbits | 0.86 | 81 | Round of 64 (out) |
| 52 | Drexel Dragons | 0.86 | 81 | — |
| 53 | Georgetown Hoyas | 0.86 | 81 | — |
| 54 | South Florida Bulls | 0.86 | 81 | Round of 64 (out) |
| 55 | Northern Iowa Panthers | 0.86 | 81 | — |
| 56 | Clemson Tigers | 0.87 | 81 | — |
| 57 | Colorado State Rams | 0.87 | 81 | — |
| 58 | Fordham Rams | 0.87 | 81 | — |
| 59 | Purdue Boilermakers | 0.87 | 81 | — |
| 60 | Alabama Crimson Tide | 0.87 | 81 | — |
| 61 | California Golden Bears | 0.87 | 81 | Round of 64 (out) |
| 62 | George Washington Revolutionaries | 0.87 | 81 | Round of 64 (out) |
| 63 | Cincinnati Bearcats | 0.87 | 81 | — |
| 64 | SMU Mustangs | 0.87 | 81 | — |
| 65 | Pittsburgh Panthers | 0.87 | 81 | — |
| 66 | Wake Forest Demon Deacons | 0.88 | 81 | — |
| 67 | Iowa State Cyclones | 0.88 | 81 | — |
| 68 | Delaware Blue Hens | 0.88 | 81 | — |
| 69 | Marquette Golden Eagles | 0.88 | 81 | Round of 32 (out) |
| 70 | Kansas State Wildcats | 0.88 | 81 | — |
| 71 | Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders | 0.88 | 81 | — |
| 72 | BYU Cougars | 0.88 | 81 | — |
| 73 | Seton Hall Pirates | 0.88 | 81 | — |
| 74 | Binghamton Bearcats | 0.88 | 81 | — |
| 75 | UAlbany Great Danes | 0.88 | 81 | — |
| 76 | IU Indianapolis Jaguars | 0.88 | 81 | — |
| 77 | Syracuse Orange | 0.88 | 81 | Round of 64 (out) |
| 78 | Jacksonville State Gamecocks | 0.88 | 81 | — |
| 79 | Virginia Tech Hokies | 0.88 | 81 | — |
| 80 | Radford Highlanders | 0.88 | 81 | — |
| 81 | Villanova Wildcats | 0.88 | 81 | Round of 32 (out) |
| 82 | Mercer Bears | 0.89 | 81 | Round of 64 (out) |
| 83 | East Tennessee State Bucs | 0.89 | 81 | — |
| 84 | Texas A&M Aggies | 0.89 | 81 | Sweet 16 (out) |
| 85 | Air Force Falcons | 0.89 | 81 | — |
| 86 | Dayton Flyers | 0.89 | 81 | Round of 64 (out) |
| 87 | Robert Morris Colonials | 0.89 | 81 | — |
| 88 | Maine Black Bears | 0.89 | 81 | Round of 64 (out) |
| 89 | Indiana Hoosiers | 0.89 | 81 | — |
| 90 | North Carolina A&T Aggies | 0.89 | 81 | Round of 64 (out) |
| 91 | Colorado Buffaloes | 0.89 | 81 | — |
| 92 | Louisiana Tech Lady Techsters | 0.89 | 81 | — |
| 93 | George Mason Patriots | 0.89 | 81 | — |
| 94 | Creighton Bluejays | 0.90 | 81 | Round of 32 (out) |
| 95 | UC Davis Aggies | 0.90 | 81 | — |
| 96 | North Texas Mean Green | 0.90 | 81 | — |
| 97 | American University Eagles | 0.90 | 81 | Round of 64 (out) |
| 98 | South Dakota Coyotes | 0.90 | 81 | — |
| 99 | Santa Clara Broncos | 0.90 | 81 | — |
| 100 | Lamar Cardinals | 0.90 | 81 | — |
Ranked and valued at the pre-tournament cutoff (2018-03-16) — the last one whose ratings had seen no NCAA tournament game, best (lowest) first. This is the rating each team carried into the bracket the Postseason column reports, so the two are read on the same information. Hover or click the chart for any other cutoff. A team's value is blank when it had not yet been rated at that cutoff; a line begins where a team entered the ratings, so early-season lines are shorter, not missing.