Quote:ESPN 2 information
The maps below display home market-protected games for Friday's and Saturday's first-round games. These are areas that will see their home market-protected game in its entirety.

The rest of the country (black areas) will be part of ESPN's national telecast, which will allow the viewer to see the most compelling action from multiple games.

You can see the full game on the ESPN App.

http://www.espn.com/womens-college-baske...s-channels

Quote:After watching two of her older sisters play in multiple Final Fours, Rice’s Erica Ogwumike is eager to begin her own NCAA Tournament experience.

Ogwumike is the Conference USA player of the year and a big reason why No. 21 Rice (28-3) carries a 21-game winning streak into the NCAA Tournament. She’s the younger sister of WNBA No. 1 overall draft picks Nneka Ogwumike and Chiney Ogwumike.

“It’s really awesome to be in this position right now,” the Rice junior said. “Growing up, I’ve seen my sisters go through the NCAA Tournament and I kind of shockingly thought it was normal. When I became a D1 player, I didn’t realize how much work you have to put in to get there.”

Rice faces Marquette (26-7) on Friday at College Station, Texas.

Other notable women’s basketball players from one-bid leagues include Quinnipiac’s Jen Fay and Princeton’s Bella Alarie. Fay has helped Quinnipiac advance beyond the first round each of the last two years, while Alarie is the daughter of former Duke star and NBA first-round draft pick Mark Alarie.

Erica Ogwumike is a different type of player from her sisters who starred at Stanford. While Chiney is 6-foot-4 and Nneka is 6-2, Erica’s a 5-9 guard. Though she rebounds like her siblings, leading Conference USA with 10.8 boards per game.

“I just deal with what I have,” said Ogwumike, who also averages 16.3 points for Rice. “I’m fortunate to be 5-9 because I think in the regular world that’s pretty tall, but in the basketball world (it’s not) and of course in my household, other than my mom, I’m the shortest. I always make jokes and say my sisters stole my meals as a kid or something, and that’s the only reason they got that tall.”

There actually are two Ogwumike sisters on Rice’s roster. Olivia Ogwumike is a 5-11 senior forward who has played nine games while battling injuries this season. Both started their careers at Pepperdine before transferring to Rice.

The older Ogwumikes — to no surprise — have given their siblings a bit of tournament advice.

“The main things they’re saying is just to enjoy the moment and to really just focus on the moment because it’s an experience not a lot of people get to experience,” Erica Ogwumike said.

Rice's Erica Ogwumike eager to begin her NCAA experience

(03-20-2019 07:05 PM)dragon2owl Wrote:  

Quote:ESPN 2 information
The maps below display home market-protected games for Friday's and Saturday's first-round games. These are areas that will see their home market-protected game in its entirety.

The rest of the country (black areas) will be part of ESPN's national telecast, which will allow the viewer to see the most compelling action from multiple games.

You can see the full game on the ESPN App.

http://www.espn.com/womens-college-baske...s-channels

I thought you could also watch the full game at ESPN3?

Here's the link: http://www.espn.com/watch/player?bucketI...0c1718a204

(03-20-2019 07:27 PM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  

(03-20-2019 07:05 PM)dragon2owl Wrote:  

Quote:ESPN 2 information
The maps below display home market-protected games for Friday's and Saturday's first-round games. These are areas that will see their home market-protected game in its entirety.
The rest of the country (black areas) will be part of ESPN's national telecast, which will allow the viewer to see the most compelling action from multiple games.

You can see the full game on the ESPN App.
http://www.espn.com/womens-college-baske...s-channels

I thought you could also watch the full game at ESPN3?
Here's the link: http://www.espn.com/watch/player?bucketI...0c1718a204

I think that's more or less functionally equivalent of the ESPN app, or one of them.

FiveThirtyEight's projection for Rice is so bad, in part, because of Rice's low seed.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how...ns-work-2/

Quote:The NCAA doesn’t publish 68-team S-curve data for the women. So we use the teams’ seeds instead, with the exception of the four No. 1 seeds, which the selection committee does list in order.

They use three power rankings as well.

This site, https://herhoopstats.com/stats/leaderboard/, also has its own rankings. They have Rice at #31, but Marquette at #6 (!). By their measure, Rice really did get screwed with its bracket placement. A&M is at #26.

(03-20-2019 09:45 PM)Seventyniner Wrote:  FiveThirtyEight's projection for Rice is so bad, in part, because of Rice's low seed.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how...ns-work-2/

Quote:The NCAA doesn’t publish 68-team S-curve data for the women. So we use the teams’ seeds instead, with the exception of the four No. 1 seeds, which the selection committee does list in order.

They use three power rankings as well.

This site, https://herhoopstats.com/stats/leaderboard/, also has its own rankings. They have Rice at #31, but Marquette at #6 (!). By their measure, Rice really did get screwed with its bracket placement. A&M is at #26.

There is no way Marquette should be #6 in a power ranking. They didn't even win their tournament, losing to Depaul which according to their own ranking is #33, ie lower than Rice

(03-20-2019 10:40 PM)owl95 Wrote:  

(03-20-2019 09:45 PM)Seventyniner Wrote:  FiveThirtyEight's projection for Rice is so bad, in part, because of Rice's low seed.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how...ns-work-2/

Quote:The NCAA doesn’t publish 68-team S-curve data for the women. So we use the teams’ seeds instead, with the exception of the four No. 1 seeds, which the selection committee does list in order.

They use three power rankings as well.

This site, https://herhoopstats.com/stats/leaderboard/, also has its own rankings. They have Rice at #31, but Marquette at #6 (!). By their measure, Rice really did get screwed with its bracket placement. A&M is at #26.

There is no way Marquette should be #6 in a power ranking. They didn't even win their tournament, losing to Depaul which according to their own ranking is #33, ie lower than Rice

Shhhhh.

The higher they are ranked, the better the potential of a fall. Let's just win and the higher they are on paper, even better

(03-20-2019 10:40 PM)owl95 Wrote:  

(03-20-2019 09:45 PM)Seventyniner Wrote:  FiveThirtyEight's projection for Rice is so bad, in part, because of Rice's low seed.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how...ns-work-2/

Quote:The NCAA doesn’t publish 68-team S-curve data for the women. So we use the teams’ seeds instead, with the exception of the four No. 1 seeds, which the selection committee does list in order.

They use three power rankings as well.

This site, https://herhoopstats.com/stats/leaderboard/, also has its own rankings. They have Rice at #31, but Marquette at #6 (!). By their measure, Rice really did get screwed with its bracket placement. A&M is at #26.

There is no way Marquette should be #6 in a power ranking. They didn't even win their tournament, losing to Depaul which according to their own ranking is #33, ie lower than Rice

Looking at those rankings, I suspect they weren't updated after the conference tournaments.

(03-20-2019 07:05 PM)dragon2owl Wrote:  

Quote:ESPN 2 information
The maps below display home market-protected games for Friday's and Saturday's first-round games. These are areas that will see their home market-protected game in its entirety.

The rest of the country (black areas) will be part of ESPN's national telecast, which will allow the viewer to see the most compelling action from multiple games.

You can see the full game on the ESPN App.

http://www.espn.com/womens-college-baske...s-channels

Our game's dedicated zone may have the smallest area ... but contain the highest population.

(03-21-2019 01:04 AM)Almadenmike Wrote:  

(03-20-2019 07:05 PM)dragon2owl Wrote:  

Quote:ESPN 2 information
The maps below display home market-protected games for Friday's and Saturday's first-round games. These are areas that will see their home market-protected game in its entirety.

The rest of the country (black areas) will be part of ESPN's national telecast, which will allow the viewer to see the most compelling action from multiple games.

You can see the full game on the ESPN App.

http://www.espn.com/womens-college-baske...s-channels

Our game's dedicated zone may have the smallest area ... but contain the highest population.

I *think* KSU-Michigan edges us out but we're #2.

(03-21-2019 01:13 AM)ExcitedOwl18 Wrote:  

(03-21-2019 01:04 AM)Almadenmike Wrote:  

(03-20-2019 07:05 PM)dragon2owl Wrote:  

Quote:ESPN 2 information
The maps below display home market-protected games for Friday's and Saturday's first-round games. These are areas that will see their home market-protected game in its entirety.

The rest of the country (black areas) will be part of ESPN's national telecast, which will allow the viewer to see the most compelling action from multiple games.

You can see the full game on the ESPN App.

http://www.espn.com/womens-college-baske...s-channels

Our game's dedicated zone may have the smallest area ... but contain the highest population.

I *think* KSU-Michigan edges us out but we're #2.

Thanks for the correction. We certainly have the smallest area, but when I went to check the numbers just now, Michigan's population (10 million!) is a lot more than I'd expected.

Greater Houston's population is ~6.5 million and Greater Milwaukee's is ~1.5 million. So it's not that close in population, after you take into account the populations of Kansas (3 million) and the Missouri-metro side of KC (at least another million).

So... a computer is saying there’s a chance...
https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/co...story.html

‘Chicago Tribune’ Wrote:Also, twice out of the 64 simulations a double-digit seed made the Final Four, with No. 12 Rice and 10th-seeded Drake doing it once each.

(03-21-2019 03:35 AM)MartelOwl_08 Wrote:  So... a computer is saying there’s a chance...
https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/co...story.html

‘Chicago Tribune’ Wrote:Also, twice out of the 64 simulations a double-digit seed made the Final Four, with No. 12 Rice and 10th-seeded Drake doing it once each.

Somebody’s winning streak is gonna keep going. Might as well be us

(03-21-2019 02:10 AM)Almadenmike Wrote:  

(03-21-2019 01:13 AM)ExcitedOwl18 Wrote:  

(03-21-2019 01:04 AM)Almadenmike Wrote:  

(03-20-2019 07:05 PM)dragon2owl Wrote:  

Quote:ESPN 2 information
The maps below display home market-protected games for Friday's and Saturday's first-round games. These are areas that will see their home market-protected game in its entirety.

The rest of the country (black areas) will be part of ESPN's national telecast, which will allow the viewer to see the most compelling action from multiple games.

You can see the full game on the ESPN App.

http://www.espn.com/womens-college-baske...s-channels

Our game's dedicated zone may have the smallest area ... but contain the highest population.

I *think* KSU-Michigan edges us out but we're #2.

Thanks for the correction. We certainly have the smallest area, but when I went to check the numbers just now, Michigan's population (10 million!) is a lot more than I'd expected.

Greater Houston's population is ~6.5 million and Greater Milwaukee's is ~1.5 million. So it's not that close in population, after you take into account the populations of Kansas (3 million) and the Missouri-metro side of KC (at least another million).

It looks like a small private school gets its metro area, while a large state school gets its entire state. I wonder what the coverage area would be for Notre Dame, Stanford, or a service academy.

(03-20-2019 10:40 PM)owl95 Wrote:  There is no way Marquette should be #6 in a power ranking. They didn't even win their tournament, losing to Depaul which according to their own ranking is #33, ie lower than Rice

I wouldn't assume that. Many solely-data-driven ranking systems take scoring margin into account. Marquette came out 6th in margin per 100 possessions, and Rice 16th. However, opponent's average win% has Marquette at #31 and Rice at #231, and #46 for Marquette vs #108 for Rice in opponents' average opponents' average win%. That means Marquette's scoring margin is much more impressive.

Regular season scoring margin (adjusted for pace) is a very good predictor of postseason performance in the NBA, and it appears that this site does something similar. But the schedule is much more balanced there and the sample size is much larger, so there is much more variation possible in college basketball.

I just meant that, by this site's rankings, Rice got a horrible draw. Still, everyone here (and on the team and coaching staff) is correct, there is nothing to do now except go out and win.

Some Thresher info.
thank u, next: Rice to take on Marquette in first round of NCAA tournament

Owls deserve better than 12-seed

Editors’ column: Rice Athletics must prioritize Langley

Cut class and head to College Station on Friday

(03-21-2019 08:25 AM)georgewebb Wrote:  It looks like a small private school gets its metro area, while a large state school gets its entire state. I wonder what the coverage area would be for Notre Dame, Stanford, or a service academy.

National

(03-21-2019 12:24 PM)Tomball Owl Wrote:  

(03-21-2019 08:25 AM)georgewebb Wrote:  It looks like a small private school gets its metro area, while a large state school gets its entire state. I wonder what the coverage area would be for Notre Dame, Stanford, or a service academy.

National

The link actually shows it for Notre Dame and Stanford.

Notre Dame gets Indiana, the metro Chicago area, and what appears to be a small county or 2 in southwest Michigan.

Stanford gets all of California, but they're playing UC-Davis. Given UC-Davis's location, it's probably minimal impact, so Stanford gets all of California (when not concurrent with a southern California school).

I may have missed it, but where is our game televised?

I have Direct TV with most channels.

Thanks

(03-21-2019 11:31 AM)dragon2owl Wrote:  Some Thresher info.
thank u, next: Rice to take on Marquette in first round of NCAA tournament

Owls deserve better than 12-seed

Editors’ column: Rice Athletics must prioritize Langley

Cut class and head to College Station on Friday

Love that the Editorial Board for the Thresher is telling students to cut class.

I really hope students take the advice - Rice making the NCAA tournament in either men's or women's basketball is not something they should take for granted. And with the drive so short, they could actually create some sort of home court feel. Hoping to see a few hundred students turn out.