{"id":14604,"date":"2015-12-01T14:59:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T21:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/?p=14604"},"modified":"2015-12-01T14:58:11","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T21:58:11","slug":"naia-mens-basketball-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2015\/12\/naia-mens-basketball-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"NAIA Men&#8217;s Basketball Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14605\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/15O_1383-RAW-sou-mens-basketball-Joel-Spear-1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14605\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/15O_1383-RAW-sou-mens-basketball-Joel-Spear-1-800x408.jpg\" alt=\"sou men&#039;s basketball Joel Spear (1)\" width=\"800\" height=\"408\" class=\"size-large wp-image-14605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/15O_1383-RAW-sou-mens-basketball-Joel-Spear-1-800x408.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/15O_1383-RAW-sou-mens-basketball-Joel-Spear-1-250x127.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14605\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joel Spear<\/p><\/div>\n<p>@SOURaiders @joelspear<\/p>\n<p>I <a href=https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2015\/11\/one-month-until-the-national-championship\/>previously mentioned<\/a> how Carroll College was going to begin feeding computer rankings to NAIA voting coaches (for men&#8217;s basketball) in order to improve the coaches&#8217; poll. That process has begun. You can see the results by comparing the <a href=http:\/\/carrollathletics.com\/sports\/2015\/11\/24\/MBB_1124150634.aspx?path=mbb target=_new>Sagarin Ratings<\/a> with the <a href=http:\/\/www.naia.org\/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=27900&#038;ATCLID=210548782 target=_new>latest coaches&#8217; poll<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the football rankings (in which the coaches will frequently put teams in the top 20&#8211;and even the top 10&#8211;that Massey Ratings doesn&#8217;t have in their top 40), these are fairly close. I&#8217;m not sure how much of it has to do with Carroll&#8217;s efforts. SOU is ranked #13 by the coaches and #11 by Sagarin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@SOURaiders @joelspear I previously mentioned how Carroll College was going to begin feeding computer rankings to NAIA voting coaches (for men&#8217;s basketball) in order to improve the coaches&#8217; poll. That process has begun. You can see the results by comparing the Sagarin Ratings with the latest coaches&#8217; poll. Unlike the football rankings (in which the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,11],"tags":[127,412,245,198],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14604"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14611,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14604\/revisions\/14611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}