womens · season 2020
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.
The NCAA championship game for womens 2020 has no result in the store, so the Postseason column below shows the furthest completed round and no team is marked a champion. A walk-forward's final cutoff is the morning of the title game, so the season's last rating snapshot precedes the final by design.
train_cutoff_at — 81 cutoffs from
2020-01-27 to 2020-03-12.
Axis spans 73.77 to 80.45.
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: smoothed (causal EWMA).
The shortest drawn line covers
70 of the 81 cutoffs — a team enters the ratings only
after it has played enough games, so early cutoffs have no line for it.
Warm-up:
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- Troy
- Sam Houston
- Denver
- Oklahoma
- DePaul
- 20 more, drawn as grey context
The top 25 going into the tournament
| # | Team | AdjPace | Cutoffs rated | Postseason |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Troy Trojans | 79.24 | 81 | — |
| 2 | Sam Houston Bearkats | 78.32 | 81 | — |
| 3 | Denver Pioneers | 77.53 | 81 | — |
| 4 | Oklahoma Sooners | 77.48 | 81 | — |
| 5 | DePaul Blue Demons | 77.41 | 81 | — |
| 6 | Western Illinois Leathernecks | 77.31 | 81 | — |
| 7 | Howard Bison | 77.30 | 81 | — |
| 8 | New Mexico Lobos | 77.26 | 81 | — |
| 9 | Texas Southern Tigers | 76.78 | 81 | — |
| 10 | Alcorn State Lady Braves | 76.71 | 81 | — |
| 11 | Arkansas-Pine Bluff Golden Lions | 76.28 | 81 | — |
| 12 | California Baptist Lancers | 76.15 | 81 | — |
| 13 | Queens University Royals | 76.12 | 70 | — |
| 14 | Chicago State Cougars | 76.08 | 81 | — |
| 15 | Sacramento State Hornets | 75.58 | 81 | — |
| 16 | San José State Spartans | 75.57 | 81 | — |
| 17 | Texas Tech Lady Raiders | 75.50 | 81 | — |
| 18 | McNeese Cowgirls | 75.46 | 81 | — |
| 19 | Northern Illinois Huskies | 75.26 | 81 | — |
| 20 | Saint Peter's Peacocks | 75.25 | 81 | — |
| 21 | North Dakota Fighting Hawks | 75.24 | 81 | — |
| 22 | Drake Bulldogs | 75.12 | 81 | — |
| 23 | Penn State Lady Lions | 75.01 | 81 | — |
| 24 | Vanderbilt Commodores | 74.90 | 81 | — |
| 25 | Mississippi Valley State Devilettes | 74.61 | 81 | — |
Ranked at the season's last cutoff — this season has no cutoff whose ratings saw no NCAA tournament game. 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.