Teams better or worse from last season

[thetrinity]

This can really be helpful, especially early.

WORSE: creighton

feel free to add

[DerekMadden]

BETTER: Ole Miss, Arkansas

WORSE: Wichita State

[TPowell]

BETTER (Top 25 teams in order of improvement)

TCU

Cal Davis

Northeastern

Evansville

Colorado State

Charlotte

Northern Illinois

Darmouth

Monmouth

Texas

Texas A&M

Rhode Island

Siena

Old Dominion

Morehead State

SIU Edwardsville

Cornell

Southern Utah

Utah

Northern Iowa

South Carolina

Columbia

Yale

Bowling Green

Sacramento State

Worse (Top 25 in order)

Saint Louis

Mercer

Tennessee

Southern Miss

North Dakota State

Delaware

Towson

Arkansas State

Michigan

Creighton

Oregon

Oregon State

Utah State

Virginia Tech

Uconn

Marquette

Canisius

Tennessee State

Cincinnati

New Mexico

Eastern Kentucky

UCLA

Ohio

Elon

Niagara

[thetrinity]

saint louis was going to be my next team powell, good list

[mrlif1]

I see canisius and Towson on that worse list. I would add manhattan.

[mrlif1]

Better - st johns

worse - North Dakota state, maybe Oakland (if that's possible, but they were one man show anyway)

[312]

I see canisius and Towson on that worse list. I would add manhattan.

Manhattan?! they lost three starters but gain Jermaine Lawrence from Cincy.. I still think they will be a tough team in the MAAC this year..

[TPowell]

Manhattan?! they lost three starters but gain Jermaine Lawrence from Cincy.. I still think they will be a tough team in the MAAC this year..

thought I posted the same thing. Brown was an epic shot blocker and Beamon was a great scorer, but Masiello has them ROLLING. Little concerned about how he left and he came back out of necessity rather than choice. Players could be a little ticked

[312]

thought I posted the same thing. Brown was an epic shot blocker and Beamon was a great scorer, but Masiello has them ROLLING. Little concerned about how he left and he came back out of necessity rather than choice. Players could be a little ticked

I think they will be fine.. He's a Pitino clone in terms of his system and how he runs his program aka guys love playing for him..

Quinnipiac is a team worth looking at.. the team was the strongest rebounding squad in the nation and they return almost everyone worth praising for it.

Illinois State will be a great team this year

[bigdiesel6]

Auburn.... This team has a legit shot at making the big dance. Antoine Mason is the real deal from Niagara and they return a lot.

[RestlessSpirit]

Auburn.... This team has a legit shot at making the big dance. Antoine Mason is the real deal from Niagara and they return a lot.

Plus Pearl... If it's not this year, watch out for them over the next few years. He's a heck of a bball coach.

[THam12]

No dak state much worse.

Texas much better.

[UNMLOBOFAN51]

As a UNM fan this team is going to be significantly worse then last year lost 3 huge players for this team. Last week in the Pit we beat Adams State by 12 and shot 27 percent for the game. No inside game for the Lobos this year and a team full of young guys and they are going to have to make shots which right now it does not look like they can do judging from the exhibition game last week. I would say this team has got significantly worse.

[gwills]

I think VCU is in for a good run this year.

[mrlif1]

Manhattan?! they lost three starters but gain Jermaine Lawrence from Cincy.. I still think they will be a tough team in the MAAC this year..

tough team in the maac this year, bold prediction. this was a list for who will be better/worse then last year yes? i predict manhattan will regress. that is all.

[KRIT]

Yeah lets talk college hoops in here. I never really pay much attention to who leaves and comes, I usually just catch on a month or so into the season. Cmon guys help me out.

[thetrinity]

Yeah lets talk college hoops in here. I never really pay much attention to who leaves and comes, I usually just catch on a month or so into the season. Cmon guys help me out.

me either, feels like dart throwing right now

[thetrinity]

No dak state much worse.

Texas much better.

i agree with nd st but texas im going to take a wait and see approach, they seem to underachieve a lot

[thetrinity]

in general, if mid majors lose a lot, they usually arent nearly as good the next season, hard for those teams to reload.

[KRIT]

me either, feels like dart throwing right now

I can't even really look at the card, shit gives me a headache. Looks like 50 games, all with spreads around 20-30 points. I really can't touch much college hoops until December except for the few games between power conference teams.

[restingbird]

niagara...LOLOL down 32-4 with 7m to go in 1H

[Betman]

If you want to find out if a team is better or worse than last year, all you have to do is compare the team's Sagarin rating at the end of the 2013-2014 season with the team's Sagarin rating at the beginning of the 2014-2015 season before the start of the season.

If 2013-14 Sagarin rating is higher than 2014-15 Sagarin rating, the team is worse

And vice versa.