Happy birthday, Ashlyn Flynn!
@SOURaiders @RaiderVB @ashlynflynn0216
Ashland Daily Photo - A picture a day from beautiful Ashland, Southern Oregon USA in the Rogue Valley
| The above will search Ashland Daily Photo. |
Archive for only in ashland
Raiders up to #8, with little hope of much more regular-season advancement
Matt Boudreaux
@SOURaiders @SOU_Football
As expected SOU rose to #8 in today’s coaches’ poll. A team must get into the top two to be guaranteed home field throughout the playoffs. Top four gets you home field through at least the quarterfinals. The Raiders have virtually no chance of making the coaches’ top four. “What?!?!” you say. How can this be with five games remaining, including #5 Montana Tech on the road?
This is another reason why the coaches’ poll should not be used as the basis for figuring out who goes to the playoffs and where those games happen. Five of the teams in front of the Raiders have no more difficult games remaining on their schedules (Morningside, Lindsey Wilson, and Reinhardt never had a decent opponent to begin with). They aren’t going to drop in the coaches’ poll without a loss (i.e. unless a major upset occurs).
Massey gives St. Francis better than 90% odds to win each of their final five games, has Reinhardt at over 98%, Morningside at over 87%, Baker at over 89%, and Lindsey Wilson at over 76%. Grand View, too, is favored to win the rest of their games. Even if the Raiders win out, and Lindsey Wilson and Grand View are upset, the Raiders will likely find themselves undefeated but with a #5 ranking. (If the Raiders win out, Massey will certainly have the Raiders in the top three).
Like 2014 and 2015, the Raiders will only receive one home game in the playoffs in a best case scenario. Should the Raiders lose one game, even if it is to #5 (Massey’s #3) Montana Tech on the road, they probably won’t get any home games in the playoffs.
October in Ashland
Ashland, Oregon (October 2017)
@NHGoregon
Raiders back to #5 on Massey, should be #8 with coaches
5-0 Southern Oregon slid one spot on Massey to #5 after yesterday’s narrow victory over Rocky. Massey had the Raiders as 11-point favorites. Rocky moved up to #12 on Massey, but the biased coaches will keep them out of the top 25.
Marian lost, for the second time this year, so the coaches will drop them (even though they lost to the #1 team), and the Raiders will move up in tomorrow’s coaches’ poll to #8.
SOU has a bye this coming weekend and will travel to Eastern Oregon on October 14. Massey has the Raiders as 4-point favorites in that one.
Gameday!
Hall of Fame Weekend kicks off this morning with the 2017 inductees banquet. The new members of the SOU Sports Hall of Fame will be recognized at halftime at the Raiders’ 1 p.m. game. There is only one entrance (due to construction) so arrive to the game early if you still need to purchase a ticket.
Tomorrow’s timeline
@SOURaiders @SOU_Football
Happy birthday Kendra Madaras-Kelly and Kelsey Randall!
Kelsey Randall and Kendra Madaras-Kelly
@SOUWomensSoccer @SOURaiders @kendra_mk13 @Kelsee_R
Happy birthday, Craig Chaquico!
@CraigChaquico
The new #9
Jason Shelley
@SOURaiders @SOU_Football @jasonshelley_
The coaches were finally wise enough to realize that the Raiders 4-0 (with the 7th most difficult strength of schedule in the NAIA) was worth a bit more than Arizona Christian’s 4-0 (with the 82nd most difficult strength of schedule in the NAIA) in today’s rankings. The Raiders moved from #13 to #9 and will face the coaches’ #26 this Saturday.
Massey has Rocky Mountain at #13. Get your tickets early. You don’t want to be stuck in line when the Raiders are scoring early on (like some of the nearly 4,000 in attendance last Saturday).