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womens · season 2018

The season's top 25 going into the tournament, by AdjPace — 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 possessions per game.

end state cutoff 2018-04-01 teams rated 350 cutoffs in the walk 94
womens 2018: AdjPace for the top 25 teams across the season's walk-forward cutoffsstart of the NCAA tournament — left of this line is pre-tournament1. Troy 2. Alcorn State 3. Jackson State 4. DePaul 5. Saint Francis1. Troy 2. Jackson State 3. San José State 4. Saint Francis 5. DePaul1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. Jackson State 4. DePaul 5. San José State1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. DePaul 4. Jackson State 5. San José State1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. DePaul 4. Jackson State 5. San José State1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. Jackson State 4. DePaul 5. San José State1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. DePaul 4. Jackson State 5. San José State1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. Jackson State 4. San José State 5. Alcorn State1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. Jackson State 4. Houston 5. Alcorn State1. Troy 2. Jackson State 3. Saint Francis 4. Alcorn State 5. DePaul1. Troy 2. Jackson State 3. Saint Francis 4. DePaul 5. Houston1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. DePaul 4. Jackson State 5. Houston1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. Houston 4. Jackson State 5. DePaul1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. Houston 4. DePaul 5. Jackson State1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. Houston 4. DePaul 5. San José State1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. Houston 4. Jackson State 5. DePaul1. Troy 2. Houston 3. Saint Francis 4. Northern Illinois 5. Jackson State1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. Houston 4. Jackson State 5. Prairie View A&M1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. Houston 4. San José State 5. Jackson State1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. Houston 4. Prairie View A&M 5. Alcorn State1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. Houston 4. Alcorn State 5. San José State1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. Prairie View A&M 4. San José State 5. Houston1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. Houston 4. Prairie View A&M 5. Jackson State1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. Houston 4. Jackson State 5. San José State1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. Houston 4. San José State 5. Prairie View A&M1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. Houston 4. Prairie View A&M 5. San José State1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. Houston 4. Prairie View A&M 5. Jackson State1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. Jackson State 4. Houston 5. Buffalo1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. Buffalo 4. Houston 5. Jackson State1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. Jackson State 4. Houston 5. Buffalo1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. Houston 4. Buffalo 5. Jackson State1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. Houston 4. Buffalo 5. Jackson State1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. Jackson State 4. Houston 5. Buffalo1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. Houston 4. Jackson State 5. Buffalo1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. Houston 4. Jackson State 5. Buffalo1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. Houston 4. Jackson State 5. Buffalo1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. Jackson State 4. Houston 5. Buffalo1. Troy 2. Jackson State 3. Saint Francis 4. Houston 5. Oakland1. Troy 2. Jackson State 3. Saint Francis 4. Houston 5. Buffalo1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. Jackson State 4. Houston 5. Prairie View A&M1. Troy 2. Jackson State 3. Saint Francis 4. Houston 5. East Carolina1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. Jackson State 4. Houston 5. Oakland1. Troy 2. Jackson State 3. Saint Francis 4. Houston 5. East Carolina1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. Jackson State 4. Houston 5. San José State1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. Jackson State 4. Houston 5. San José State1. Troy 2. Jackson State 3. Saint Francis 4. Houston 5. Howard1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. Jackson State 4. Houston 5. Howard1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. Jackson State 4. Houston 5. Howard1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. Jackson State 4. Houston 5. Howard1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. Jackson State 4. Houston 5. Howard1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. Jackson State 4. Houston 5. East Carolina1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. Jackson State 4. Houston 5. East Carolina1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. Jackson State 4. Houston 5. San José State1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. Jackson State 4. Houston 5. East Carolina1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. Jackson State 4. Houston 5. Howard1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. Jackson State 4. Houston 5. Howard1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. Jackson State 4. Houston 5. Howard1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. Jackson State 4. Houston 5. Howard1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. Jackson State 4. Houston 5. East Carolina1. Troy 2. Saint Francis 3. Jackson State 4. Houston 5. Howard
AdjPace (possessions per game) across train_cutoff_at — 94 cutoffs from 2017-12-14 to 2018-04-01. Axis spans 71.15 to 86.39. 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: shown · hide
  • Troy
  • Saint Francis
  • Jackson State
  • Houston
  • East Carolina
  • 20 more, drawn as grey context

The top 25 going into the tournament

#TeamAdjPace Cutoffs ratedPostseason
1 Troy Trojans 81.93 81 —
2 Saint Francis Red Wolves 78.64 81 Round of 64 (out)
3 Jackson State Lady Tigers 78.22 81 —
4 Houston Cougars 76.85 81 —
5 East Carolina Pirates 76.18 81 —
6 Howard Bison 75.85 81 —
7 San José State Spartans 75.76 81 —
8 Oakland Golden Grizzlies 75.75 81 —
9 Prairie View A&M Lady Panthers 75.72 81 —
10 Western Illinois Leathernecks 75.30 81 —
11 Buffalo Bulls 75.23 81 Final Four (out)
12 Ball State Cardinals 75.08 81 —
13 Lamar Cardinals 74.80 81 —
14 Minnesota Golden Gophers 74.77 81 Round of 32 (out)
15 Florida Atlantic Owls 74.62 81 —
16 Brown Bears 74.56 81 —
17 Alcorn State Lady Braves 74.37 81 —
18 Cal Poly Mustangs 74.28 81 —
19 New Mexico Lobos 74.21 81 —
20 DePaul Blue Demons 74.18 81 Round of 32 (out)
21 Northern Illinois Huskies 74.05 81 —
22 North Carolina Central Eagles 74.05 81 —
23 Sacramento State Hornets 73.99 81 —
24 Ohio State Buckeyes 73.97 81 Round of 32 (out)
25 UC Irvine Anteaters 73.97 81 —

Ranked and valued at the pre-tournament cutoff (2018-03-16) — the last one whose ratings had seen no NCAA tournament game. 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.