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2019 SOU volleyball team (currently ranked #5)
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The Raiders didn’t get an easy pool. Although the coaches have Central Methodist at #12, Massey has them at #9. That said, the top two teams advance so even if the Raiders have trouble with Central Methodist, they’ll be fine if they get past Indiana Kokomo (today) and Bellevue (tomorrow).
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Ashland Festival of Light
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Happening today in Ashland, Oregon:
4:00 p.m.: Entertainment on the Brickroom Restaurant Balcony
5:00 p.m.: Santa’s Parade with Grand Illumination at the Plaza and Caroling
#4 Darius-James Peterson was the 2019 Frontier Conference Player of the Year
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Guess which NAIA football team won by the most points this past weekend in the first round of the playoffs? Was it the coaches’ #1? #2? #3? #4? No. It was Massey’s #1 and the coaches’ #5. Now Massey’s #1 team has to travel for a playoff game because of the screwed up NAIA football ranking system.
Massey predicted a 32-point victory, and the Yotes beat the spread by 15 points. College of Idaho didn’t beat any Frontier Conference teams by 47 points, and yet they were able to beat one of the coaches’ playoff teams by that much. Hmmmm….
The Yotes will now have to travel to Grand View (Iowa) for a chance to make it to the semifinals. The coaches, of course, think Grand View will win. Massey has College of Idaho as the favorite by 24 points. Anyone agree with coaches and want to put some money on this game? Anyone? Anyone?
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Maddie Casey scored early for the Raiders who lead in the first half
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Ruth Hegstad
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Game time is 11 a.m., and, although the coaches give impossible odds, Massey says the Raiders have a decent chance of staying alive.
Sarah Mauk scored the first goal for SOU in the Raiders’ 2-0 victory
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Details here.
Baylee Touey had the second goal
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The NAIA operates the football postseason in a messed up way, as I’ve pointed out many times. This is the time of year when one can very objectively test whether the system (of having coaches do the rankings which determine the postseason) is flawed or whether a better system could be put in place (such as an objective, computer ranking, based on actual results, strength of schedule, etc. like Massey Ratings).
I’ve shown, in prior years, that Massey does a much better job of predicting which team is better and how the coaches have caused superior teams from being either excluded from the playoffs altogether or having to travel to an inferior opponent’s location.
So let’s see a couple predictions before tomorrow’s games even begin.
The coaches are sending their #16 (Ottawa) to play at their #5 (College of Idaho). A #16 at a #5 in football sounds like a 3-10 point victory for the home team, correct? Not according to Massey who sees it not as #16 at #5 but as #30 at #1. Big difference as Massey has the Yotes winning by 32 points!
The coaches are sending their #15 (Baker) to play at their #3 (Kansas Wesleyan). Sounds like another 3-10 point victory for the home team, correct? Not according to Massey (who actually has Baker even lower than the coaches at #17) who predicts a Baker victory by 3.
Massey also predicts that Montana Tech and Montana Western could beat 14 of the coaches’ playoff teams at home and 11 of them on the road. However, neither team is even in the NAIA football playoffs thanks to the way the playoff teams are selected…
