womens · season 2025
The season's top 100 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 2025-04-06
teams rated
362
cutoffs in the walk
100
AdjPace (possessions per game)
Walk-forward cutoff, season 2025
- other ranked teams
- NCAA tournament starts
- warm-up (shaded)
- D-I average
train_cutoff_at — 100 cutoffs from
2024-12-07 to 2025-04-06.
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 2025-01-24, 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
- Oklahoma
- North Carolina Central
- Niagara
- Tennessee
- Oral Roberts
- 95 more, drawn as grey context
The top 100 going into the tournament
| # | Team | AdjPace | Cutoffs rated | Postseason |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oklahoma Sooners | 78.88 | 86 | Sweet 16 (out) |
| 2 | North Carolina Central Eagles | 77.18 | 86 | — |
| 3 | Niagara Purple Eagles | 76.05 | 86 | — |
| 4 | Tennessee Lady Volunteers | 76.00 | 86 | Sweet 16 (out) |
| 5 | Oral Roberts Golden Eagles | 75.99 | 86 | — |
| 6 | Troy Trojans | 75.96 | 86 | — |
| 7 | Florida State Seminoles | 75.59 | 86 | Round of 32 (out) |
| 8 | Murray State Racers | 74.62 | 86 | Round of 64 (out) |
| 9 | Northern Arizona Lumberjacks | 74.61 | 86 | — |
| 10 | Notre Dame Fighting Irish | 74.47 | 86 | Sweet 16 (out) |
| 11 | Bellarmine Knights | 74.28 | 86 | — |
| 12 | Duquesne Dukes | 74.04 | 86 | — |
| 13 | Grambling Lady Tigers | 74.03 | 86 | — |
| 14 | Arkansas State Red Wolves | 73.97 | 86 | Round of 64 (out) |
| 15 | Indiana State Sycamores | 73.89 | 86 | — |
| 16 | Chicago State Cougars | 73.83 | 86 | — |
| 17 | LSU New Orleans Privateers | 73.68 | 86 | — |
| 18 | Tulane Green Wave | 73.64 | 86 | — |
| 19 | Utah State Aggies | 73.57 | 86 | — |
| 20 | Michigan State Spartans | 73.40 | 86 | Round of 32 (out) |
| 21 | LSU Tigers | 73.25 | 86 | Elite 8 (out) |
| 22 | Ohio State Buckeyes | 73.20 | 86 | Round of 32 (out) |
| 23 | Sam Houston Bearkats | 73.16 | 86 | — |
| 24 | Stephen F. Austin Ladyjacks | 73.12 | 86 | Round of 64 (out) |
| 25 | Saint Louis Billikens | 73.10 | 86 | — |
| 26 | Long Beach State Beach | 73.09 | 86 | — |
| 27 | USC Trojans | 73.07 | 86 | Elite 8 (out) |
| 28 | UT Arlington Mavericks | 73.06 | 86 | — |
| 29 | Vanderbilt Commodores | 73.03 | 86 | Round of 64 (out) |
| 30 | Tennessee State Lady Tigers | 72.94 | 86 | — |
| 31 | Mercyhurst Lakers | 72.82 | 86 | — |
| 32 | Evansville Purple Aces | 72.79 | 86 | — |
| 33 | Cal State Northridge Matadors | 72.67 | 86 | — |
| 34 | New Mexico Lobos | 72.65 | 86 | — |
| 35 | Coastal Carolina Chanticleers | 72.57 | 86 | — |
| 36 | Arizona State Sun Devils | 72.57 | 86 | — |
| 37 | Pacific Tigers | 72.56 | 86 | — |
| 38 | Tulsa Golden Hurricane | 72.40 | 86 | — |
| 39 | Omaha Mavericks | 72.33 | 86 | — |
| 40 | Maryland Terrapins | 72.33 | 86 | Sweet 16 (out) |
| 41 | Mississippi Valley State Devilettes | 72.32 | 86 | — |
| 42 | Boston College Eagles | 72.28 | 86 | — |
| 43 | Longwood Lancers | 72.22 | 86 | — |
| 44 | Florida Gators | 72.21 | 86 | — |
| 45 | Memphis Tigers | 72.14 | 86 | — |
| 46 | McNeese Cowgirls | 72.14 | 86 | — |
| 47 | Penn State Lady Lions | 72.08 | 86 | — |
| 48 | Bethune-Cookman Wildcats | 72.07 | 86 | — |
| 49 | Utah Tech Trailblazers | 72.06 | 86 | — |
| 50 | Texas Southern Tigers | 72.04 | 86 | — |
| 51 | Queens University Royals | 72.02 | 86 | — |
| 52 | Detroit Mercy Titans | 71.98 | 86 | — |
| 53 | Arkansas Razorbacks | 71.92 | 86 | — |
| 54 | Morehead State Eagles | 71.91 | 86 | — |
| 55 | Portland Pilots | 71.87 | 86 | — |
| 56 | Eastern Washington Eagles | 71.84 | 86 | — |
| 57 | Jacksonville Dolphins | 71.80 | 86 | — |
| 58 | Seattle U Redhawks | 71.77 | 86 | — |
| 59 | San José State Spartans | 71.54 | 86 | — |
| 60 | Navy Midshipmen | 71.51 | 86 | — |
| 61 | Furman Paladins | 71.50 | 86 | — |
| 62 | Drake Bulldogs | 71.43 | 86 | — |
| 63 | Mississippi State Bulldogs | 71.38 | 86 | Round of 32 (out) |
| 64 | Charleston Cougars | 71.38 | 86 | — |
| 65 | William & Mary Tribe | 71.35 | 86 | Round of 64 (out) |
| 66 | Wichita State Shockers | 71.22 | 86 | — |
| 67 | Samford Bulldogs | 71.20 | 86 | — |
| 68 | North Dakota Fighting Hawks | 71.20 | 86 | — |
| 69 | Virginia Cavaliers | 71.16 | 86 | — |
| 70 | NC State Wolfpack | 71.16 | 86 | Sweet 16 (out) |
| 71 | BYU Cougars | 71.11 | 86 | — |
| 72 | Southeast Missouri State Redhawks | 71.11 | 86 | — |
| 73 | Northwestern Wildcats | 71.10 | 86 | — |
| 74 | Michigan Wolverines | 71.07 | 86 | Round of 32 (out) |
| 75 | North Texas Mean Green | 71.06 | 86 | — |
| 76 | South Alabama Jaguars | 70.97 | 86 | — |
| 77 | Virginia Tech Hokies | 70.94 | 86 | — |
| 78 | Florida International Panthers | 70.92 | 86 | — |
| 79 | SIU Edwardsville Cougars | 70.89 | 86 | — |
| 80 | DePaul Blue Demons | 70.89 | 86 | — |
| 81 | James Madison Dukes | 70.86 | 86 | — |
| 82 | Buffalo Bulls | 70.84 | 86 | — |
| 83 | Mount St. Mary's Mountaineers | 70.80 | 86 | — |
| 84 | Utah Valley Wolverines | 70.76 | 86 | — |
| 85 | Central Michigan Chippewas | 70.72 | 86 | — |
| 86 | Northern Illinois Huskies | 70.68 | 86 | — |
| 87 | Iowa State Cyclones | 70.63 | 86 | Round of 64 (out) |
| 88 | Baylor Bears | 70.60 | 86 | Round of 32 (out) |
| 89 | Northern Iowa Panthers | 70.59 | 86 | — |
| 90 | Syracuse Orange | 70.58 | 86 | — |
| 91 | UAB Blazers | 70.54 | 86 | — |
| 92 | IU Indianapolis Jaguars | 70.53 | 86 | — |
| 93 | UL Monroe Warhawks | 70.49 | 86 | — |
| 94 | Georgia State Panthers | 70.46 | 86 | — |
| 95 | Pittsburgh Panthers | 70.42 | 86 | — |
| 96 | Eastern Kentucky Colonels | 70.40 | 86 | — |
| 97 | UNC Wilmington Seahawks | 70.38 | 86 | — |
| 98 | Maryland Eastern Shore Hawks | 70.37 | 86 | — |
| 99 | Oklahoma State Cowgirls | 70.35 | 86 | Round of 64 (out) |
| 100 | Rutgers Scarlet Knights | 70.34 | 86 | — |
Ranked and valued at the pre-tournament cutoff (2025-03-16) — 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.