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womens · season 2021

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 2021-04-04 teams rated 345 cutoffs in the walk 78
womens 2021: AdjPace for the top 25 teams across the season's walk-forward cutoffsstart of the NCAA tournament — left of this line is pre-tournament1. DePaul 2. Sam Houston 3. Towson 4. Troy 5. North Carolina Central1. DePaul 2. Sam Houston 3. Troy 4. North Carolina Central 5. Seattle U1. DePaul 2. Sam Houston 3. Troy 4. North Carolina Central 5. Towson1. DePaul 2. Sam Houston 3. Troy 4. North Carolina Central 5. Seattle U1. DePaul 2. Sam Houston 3. Troy 4. North Carolina Central 5. Towson1. Sam Houston 2. Troy 3. DePaul 4. North Carolina Central 5. Towson1. Sam Houston 2. DePaul 3. Troy 4. Towson 5. North Carolina Central1. Sam Houston 2. DePaul 3. Troy 4. North Carolina Central 5. Towson1. Sam Houston 2. Troy 3. DePaul 4. North Carolina Central 5. Towson1. DePaul 2. Sam Houston 3. Troy 4. North Carolina Central 5. Towson1. DePaul 2. Sam Houston 3. Troy 4. North Carolina Central 5. Towson1. DePaul 2. Sam Houston 3. Troy 4. North Carolina Central 5. Towson1. DePaul 2. Sam Houston 3. Troy 4. Towson 5. North Carolina Central1. Sam Houston 2. DePaul 3. Troy 4. Towson 5. North Carolina Central1. Sam Houston 2. DePaul 3. Troy 4. Towson 5. North Carolina Central1. DePaul 2. Sam Houston 3. Troy 4. Towson 5. North Carolina Central1. DePaul 2. Sam Houston 3. Troy 4. Towson 5. North Carolina Central1. Sam Houston 2. DePaul 3. Troy 4. Towson 5. North Carolina Central1. DePaul 2. Sam Houston 3. Troy 4. North Carolina Central 5. Towson1. DePaul 2. Sam Houston 3. Troy 4. Towson 5. North Carolina Central1. DePaul 2. Sam Houston 3. Troy 4. North Carolina Central 5. Towson1. DePaul 2. Sam Houston 3. Troy 4. North Carolina Central 5. Towson1. DePaul 2. Sam Houston 3. Towson 4. Troy 5. North Carolina Central1. DePaul 2. Sam Houston 3. Towson 4. Troy 5. North Carolina Central1. DePaul 2. Sam Houston 3. Towson 4. Troy 5. North Carolina Central1. Sam Houston 2. DePaul 3. Troy 4. Towson 5. North Carolina Central1. Sam Houston 2. DePaul 3. Troy 4. Towson 5. North Carolina Central1. DePaul 2. Sam Houston 3. Troy 4. Towson 5. Vanderbilt1. Troy 2. DePaul 3. Sam Houston 4. Towson 5. North Carolina Central1. DePaul 2. Troy 3. Sam Houston 4. Towson 5. North Carolina Central1. Sam Houston 2. Troy 3. DePaul 4. Towson 5. Vanderbilt1. DePaul 2. Troy 3. Sam Houston 4. Towson 5. Niagara1. Troy 2. Sam Houston 3. DePaul 4. Towson 5. Vanderbilt1. DePaul 2. Sam Houston 3. Troy 4. Towson 5. Vanderbilt1. DePaul 2. Sam Houston 3. Troy 4. Towson 5. North Carolina Central1. Troy 2. Sam Houston 3. DePaul 4. Towson 5. Vanderbilt1. DePaul 2. Troy 3. Sam Houston 4. Towson 5. Vanderbilt1. Troy 2. Sam Houston 3. DePaul 4. Towson 5. North Carolina Central1. Troy 2. Sam Houston 3. DePaul 4. Vanderbilt 5. Towson1. Sam Houston 2. Troy 3. DePaul 4. Vanderbilt 5. North Carolina Central1. Sam Houston 2. Troy 3. DePaul 4. North Carolina Central 5. Howard1. Troy 2. Sam Houston 3. DePaul 4. North Carolina Central 5. Vanderbilt1. Troy 2. DePaul 3. Sam Houston 4. North Carolina Central 5. Vanderbilt1. Troy 2. DePaul 3. Sam Houston 4. North Carolina Central 5. Vanderbilt1. Troy 2. DePaul 3. Sam Houston 4. North Carolina Central 5. Vanderbilt1. Troy 2. DePaul 3. Sam Houston 4. North Carolina Central 5. Vanderbilt1. Troy 2. DePaul 3. Sam Houston 4. North Carolina Central 5. Vanderbilt1. Troy 2. DePaul 3. Sam Houston 4. North Carolina Central 5. Vanderbilt1. Troy 2. DePaul 3. Sam Houston 4. North Carolina Central 5. Vanderbilt1. Troy 2. DePaul 3. North Carolina Central 4. Sam Houston 5. Vanderbilt1. Troy 2. DePaul 3. Sam Houston 4. North Carolina Central 5. Vanderbilt1. Troy 2. North Carolina Central 3. DePaul 4. Sam Houston 5. Vanderbilt1. Troy 2. North Carolina Central 3. DePaul 4. Sam Houston 5. Vanderbilt1. Troy 2. North Carolina Central 3. DePaul 4. Vanderbilt 5. Sam Houston1. Troy 2. DePaul 3. Sam Houston 4. Vanderbilt 5. North Carolina Central1. Troy 2. DePaul 3. Sam Houston 4. North Carolina Central 5. Vanderbilt1. Troy 2. DePaul 3. North Carolina Central 4. Sam Houston 5. Towson1. Troy 2. North Carolina Central 3. DePaul 4. Sam Houston 5. Vanderbilt1. Troy 2. North Carolina Central 3. DePaul 4. Sam Houston 5. Towson1. Troy 2. DePaul 3. Sam Houston 4. North Carolina Central 5. Vanderbilt
AdjPace (possessions per game) across train_cutoff_at — 78 cutoffs from 2021-01-07 to 2021-04-04. Axis spans 57.45 to 92.11. 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 2021-02-23, 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
  • DePaul
  • North Carolina Central
  • Vanderbilt
  • Sam Houston
  • 20 more, drawn as grey context

The top 25 going into the tournament

#TeamAdjPace Cutoffs ratedPostseason
1 Troy Trojans 80.86 67 Round of 64 (out)
2 DePaul Blue Demons 78.41 67 —
3 North Carolina Central Eagles 77.95 67 —
4 Vanderbilt Commodores 77.32 67 —
5 Sam Houston Bearkats 77.26 67 —
6 Towson Tigers 77.21 67 —
7 Arkansas-Pine Bluff Golden Lions 75.72 67 —
8 Utah State Aggies 75.63 67 —
9 Howard Bison 75.61 67 —
10 Queens University Royals 75.60 67 —
11 Houston Cougars 75.36 67 —
12 California Baptist Lancers 75.29 67 —
13 Niagara Purple Eagles 75.20 67 —
14 Oral Roberts Golden Eagles 75.10 67 —
15 Western Illinois Leathernecks 74.73 67 —
16 Ohio State Buckeyes 74.57 67 —
17 Seattle U Redhawks 74.33 67 —
18 Charleston Cougars 74.17 67 —
19 SMU Mustangs 74.15 67 —
20 North Alabama Lions 74.07 67 —
21 Arkansas Razorbacks 73.93 67 Round of 64 (out)
22 Florida Atlantic Owls 73.91 67 —
23 East Texas A&M Lions 73.76 67 —
24 Lehigh Mountain Hawks 73.65 67 Round of 64 (out)
25 McNeese Cowgirls 73.59 67 —

Ranked and valued at the pre-tournament cutoff (2021-03-21) — 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.