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ST. THOMAS (20-6 overall, 9-2 Summit League, 11-12 ATS)
NET: Tommies remain #109
Torvik (T-Rank): Tommies drop 1 spot to #123
Monday Summit League Results/Highlights
None
Tuesday Summit League Slate
No games
Tuesday Reach the Summit Selections (33-13, 71.7%, 3 exactas)
None
Current Top 5 (NDSU/UST/UND/USD/Omaha) Head-to-Head
Keeping tabs on how the (current) top five teams are faring head-to-head. The league's regular season champion(s) likely finishes with the best record in this group.
Head-to-Head
1. North Dakota State (5-0)
2. North Dakota (3-2)
St. Thomas (3-2)
4. Omaha (1-4)
5. South Dakota State (1-5)
Summit League Best NET (St. Thomas) Resume Snapshot
NET: #109
Torvik (T-Rank): #123
Record vs. DI Opponents: 17-6, 9-2 Summit
True Road Record: 7-4
Projected NCAA Tournament Seed: n/a
Strength of Record: #104
Wins Above Bubble: #94
Overall SOS: #326
Non-Conference SOS: #290
Record/Winning% vs. Quad 1: 0-1 (0%)
Record/Winning% vs. Quads 1 & 2 Combined: 0-3 (0%)
Record/Winning % vs. Quads 1-3 Combined: 5-5 (50%)
Quad 4 (Awful) Losses: 1 (#275 North Dakota)
Record vs. Projected NCAA Qualifiers: 0-2
Dribbles & Scribbles
-- Just spit-balling here. With Denver's move to the West Coast Conference next season, the Summit League will be down to eight members. A round-robin league slate would mean a shift from 16 to 14 games. Starting in 2026-27 teams can schedule 32 games (currently 31), so Summit coaches would need to schedule 18 non-conference games instead of (this season's) 15 if they stick with a standard round-robin slate. Scheduling 15 non-conference games is enough of a headache for Summit coaches, so I can only imagine how difficult it would be this summer to find three additional opponents.
My proposal to help alleviate non-conference scheduling problems for Summit coaches?
Play 20 league games + your 12 non-conference games. Play 6 league opponents three times, and the other one twice. Yes, this summer it would be a challenge for Summit coaches/administrators to come up with/agree upon an equitable league schedule, but it can be done. This season the realignment-ravaged seven-team WAC introduced a similar scheduling format with every member playing each team three times for an 18-game conference schedule. There is precedent. I'll even suggest each member's "two-play" opponents protecting all the Summit's Dakota rivalries:
Kansas City-North Dakota
North Dakota State-Omaha
Oral Roberts-South Dakota State
St. Thomas-South Dakota
Problem solved. MORE league games are better than less, especially when Summit League members are pretty much forced to play three non-Division I opponents in order to have enough home games to help pay the bills. If they so choose (I hope they wouldn't) coaches could still schedule the three empty automatic non-DI wins yet still have at minimum nine Division 1 non-conference opponents on their slate.
Monday Bubblicious Results (bubble teams underlined)
#33 Indiana 92, Oregon 74
Tuesday Bubblicious Tracker
North Carolina @ Miami-Florida, 6 (ESPN)
BYU @ Baylor, 6 (ESPN2)
Notre Dame @ SMU, 6 (ACCN)
Wisconsin @ Illinois, 7 (NBCSN/Peacock)
Iowa State @ TCU, 8 (FS1)
Oklahoma State @ Arizona State, 8 (CBSSN)
Tuesday Game of the Day
North Carolina @ Miami-Florida, 6 (ESPN) -- Miami in dire need of a high-end Quad 1 win
Other Games to Watch
Purdue @ Nebraska, 6 (FS1)
Virginia @ Florida State, 6 (ESPNU)
Vanderbilt @ Auburn, 6 (SECN)
Washington State @ Gonzaga, 10 (ESPN2)
Bubblicious Snapshots (#41, #50, #52, #68)
A daily look at the bubble and watching it evolve & shrink leading up to Selection Sunday:
#41 (Santa Clara) NCAA Tournament Resume (best NET# left out of '25 field)
NET: #41
Torvik (T-Rank): #35
Record vs. DI Opponents: 20-5, 12-1 WCC
True Road Record: 7-2
Strength of Record: #45
Wins Above Bubble: #41
Overall SOS: #101
Non-Conference SOS: #99
Record/Winning% vs. Quad 1: 1-3 (25%)
Record/Winning% vs. Quads 1 & 2 Combined: 7-4 (63.6%)
Record/Winning% vs. Quads 1-3 Combined: 15-4 (78.9%)
Quad 4 (Awful) Losses: 1 (vs. #309 Loyola-Chicago)
Record vs. Projected NCAA Qualifiers: 1-3 (win #28 Saint Mary's)
#50 (Miami-OH) NCAA Tournament Resume (worst at-large NET# to make '25 field)
NET: #50
Torvik (T-Rank): #79
Record vs. DI Opponents: 21-0, 11-0 MAC
True Road Record: 10-0
Strength of Record: #25
Wins Above Bubble: #34
Overall SOS: #348
Non-Conference SOS: #360
Record/Winning% vs. Quad 1: 0-0
Record/Winning% vs. Quads 1 & 2 Combined: 2-0 (100%)
Record/Winning% vs. Quads 1-3 Combined: 8-0 (100%)
Quad 4 (Awful) Losses: 0
Record vs. Projected NCAA Qualifiers: 1-0 (win @ #132 Wright State)
#52 (Seton Hall) NCAA Tournament Resume (mythical Bubble cutline)
NET: #52
Torvik (T-Rank): #59
Record vs. DI Opponents: 16-8, 6-7 Big East
True Road Record: 4-4
Strength of Record: #55
Wins Above Bubble: #58
Overall SOS: #77
Non-Conference SOS: #250
Record/Winning% vs. Quad 1: 1-4 (20%)
Record/Winning% vs. Quads 1 & 2 Combined: 5-8 (38.5%)
Record/Winning% vs. Quads 1-3 Combined: 9-8 (52.9%)
Quad 4 (Awful) Losses: 0
Record vs. Projected NCAA Qualifiers: 1-5 (vs. #29 NC State)
#68 (Stanford) NCAA Tournament Resume (if field was best NET 68)
NET: #68
Torvik (T-Rank): #67
Record vs. DI Opponents: 15-9, 4-7 ACC
True Road Record: 2-3
Strength of Record: #67
Wins Above Bubble: #64
Overall SOS: #66
Non-Conference SOS: #263
Record/Winning% vs. Quad 1: 4-4 (50%)
Record/Winning% vs. Quads 1 & 2 Combined: 6-6 (50%)
Record/Winning% vs. Quads 1-3 Combined: 10-9 (52.6%)
Quad 4 (Awful) Losses: 0
Record vs. Projected NCAA Qualifiers: 4-4 (wins #14 Louisville, vs. #16 Saint Louis, #22 North Carolina, #121 Portland State)
Tuesday Pick to Click (all season 54-41, 56.8%) (post-Super Bowl 0-1, 0%, L-1 streak)
Iowa State -6.5 @ TCU
Tuesday Outright +7.5 or More ‘Dog (20-75, 21.1%, L-4 streak)
@ Florida State (+7.5) outright over Virginia
Deep Thoughts, by Buzz Studley
What is Darryn Peterson's deal?
ST. THOMAS (20-6 overall, 9-2 Summit League, 11-12 ATS)
NET: Tommies remain #109
Torvik (T-Rank): Tommies drop 1 spot to #123
Monday Summit League Results/Highlights
None
Tuesday Summit League Slate
No games
Tuesday Reach the Summit Selections (33-13, 71.7%, 3 exactas)
None
Current Top 5 (NDSU/UST/UND/USD/Omaha) Head-to-Head
Keeping tabs on how the (current) top five teams are faring head-to-head. The league's regular season champion(s) likely finishes with the best record in this group.
Head-to-Head
1. North Dakota State (5-0)
2. North Dakota (3-2)
St. Thomas (3-2)
4. Omaha (1-4)
5. South Dakota State (1-5)
Summit League Best NET (St. Thomas) Resume Snapshot
NET: #109
Torvik (T-Rank): #123
Record vs. DI Opponents: 17-6, 9-2 Summit
True Road Record: 7-4
Projected NCAA Tournament Seed: n/a
Strength of Record: #104
Wins Above Bubble: #94
Overall SOS: #326
Non-Conference SOS: #290
Record/Winning% vs. Quad 1: 0-1 (0%)
Record/Winning% vs. Quads 1 & 2 Combined: 0-3 (0%)
Record/Winning % vs. Quads 1-3 Combined: 5-5 (50%)
Quad 4 (Awful) Losses: 1 (#275 North Dakota)
Record vs. Projected NCAA Qualifiers: 0-2
Dribbles & Scribbles
-- Just spit-balling here. With Denver's move to the West Coast Conference next season, the Summit League will be down to eight members. A round-robin league slate would mean a shift from 16 to 14 games. Starting in 2026-27 teams can schedule 32 games (currently 31), so Summit coaches would need to schedule 18 non-conference games instead of (this season's) 15 if they stick with a standard round-robin slate. Scheduling 15 non-conference games is enough of a headache for Summit coaches, so I can only imagine how difficult it would be this summer to find three additional opponents.
My proposal to help alleviate non-conference scheduling problems for Summit coaches?
Play 20 league games + your 12 non-conference games. Play 6 league opponents three times, and the other one twice. Yes, this summer it would be a challenge for Summit coaches/administrators to come up with/agree upon an equitable league schedule, but it can be done. This season the realignment-ravaged seven-team WAC introduced a similar scheduling format with every member playing each team three times for an 18-game conference schedule. There is precedent. I'll even suggest each member's "two-play" opponents protecting all the Summit's Dakota rivalries:
Kansas City-North Dakota
North Dakota State-Omaha
Oral Roberts-South Dakota State
St. Thomas-South Dakota
Problem solved. MORE league games are better than less, especially when Summit League members are pretty much forced to play three non-Division I opponents in order to have enough home games to help pay the bills. If they so choose (I hope they wouldn't) coaches could still schedule the three empty automatic non-DI wins yet still have at minimum nine Division 1 non-conference opponents on their slate.
Monday Bubblicious Results (bubble teams underlined)
#33 Indiana 92, Oregon 74
Tuesday Bubblicious Tracker
North Carolina @ Miami-Florida, 6 (ESPN)
BYU @ Baylor, 6 (ESPN2)
Notre Dame @ SMU, 6 (ACCN)
Wisconsin @ Illinois, 7 (NBCSN/Peacock)
Iowa State @ TCU, 8 (FS1)
Oklahoma State @ Arizona State, 8 (CBSSN)
Tuesday Game of the Day
North Carolina @ Miami-Florida, 6 (ESPN) -- Miami in dire need of a high-end Quad 1 win
Other Games to Watch
Purdue @ Nebraska, 6 (FS1)
Virginia @ Florida State, 6 (ESPNU)
Vanderbilt @ Auburn, 6 (SECN)
Washington State @ Gonzaga, 10 (ESPN2)
Bubblicious Snapshots (#41, #50, #52, #68)
A daily look at the bubble and watching it evolve & shrink leading up to Selection Sunday:
#41 (Santa Clara) NCAA Tournament Resume (best NET# left out of '25 field)
NET: #41
Torvik (T-Rank): #35
Record vs. DI Opponents: 20-5, 12-1 WCC
True Road Record: 7-2
Strength of Record: #45
Wins Above Bubble: #41
Overall SOS: #101
Non-Conference SOS: #99
Record/Winning% vs. Quad 1: 1-3 (25%)
Record/Winning% vs. Quads 1 & 2 Combined: 7-4 (63.6%)
Record/Winning% vs. Quads 1-3 Combined: 15-4 (78.9%)
Quad 4 (Awful) Losses: 1 (vs. #309 Loyola-Chicago)
Record vs. Projected NCAA Qualifiers: 1-3 (win #28 Saint Mary's)
#50 (Miami-OH) NCAA Tournament Resume (worst at-large NET# to make '25 field)
NET: #50
Torvik (T-Rank): #79
Record vs. DI Opponents: 21-0, 11-0 MAC
True Road Record: 10-0
Strength of Record: #25
Wins Above Bubble: #34
Overall SOS: #348
Non-Conference SOS: #360
Record/Winning% vs. Quad 1: 0-0
Record/Winning% vs. Quads 1 & 2 Combined: 2-0 (100%)
Record/Winning% vs. Quads 1-3 Combined: 8-0 (100%)
Quad 4 (Awful) Losses: 0
Record vs. Projected NCAA Qualifiers: 1-0 (win @ #132 Wright State)
#52 (Seton Hall) NCAA Tournament Resume (mythical Bubble cutline)
NET: #52
Torvik (T-Rank): #59
Record vs. DI Opponents: 16-8, 6-7 Big East
True Road Record: 4-4
Strength of Record: #55
Wins Above Bubble: #58
Overall SOS: #77
Non-Conference SOS: #250
Record/Winning% vs. Quad 1: 1-4 (20%)
Record/Winning% vs. Quads 1 & 2 Combined: 5-8 (38.5%)
Record/Winning% vs. Quads 1-3 Combined: 9-8 (52.9%)
Quad 4 (Awful) Losses: 0
Record vs. Projected NCAA Qualifiers: 1-5 (vs. #29 NC State)
#68 (Stanford) NCAA Tournament Resume (if field was best NET 68)
NET: #68
Torvik (T-Rank): #67
Record vs. DI Opponents: 15-9, 4-7 ACC
True Road Record: 2-3
Strength of Record: #67
Wins Above Bubble: #64
Overall SOS: #66
Non-Conference SOS: #263
Record/Winning% vs. Quad 1: 4-4 (50%)
Record/Winning% vs. Quads 1 & 2 Combined: 6-6 (50%)
Record/Winning% vs. Quads 1-3 Combined: 10-9 (52.6%)
Quad 4 (Awful) Losses: 0
Record vs. Projected NCAA Qualifiers: 4-4 (wins #14 Louisville, vs. #16 Saint Louis, #22 North Carolina, #121 Portland State)
Tuesday Pick to Click (all season 54-41, 56.8%) (post-Super Bowl 0-1, 0%, L-1 streak)
Iowa State -6.5 @ TCU
Tuesday Outright +7.5 or More ‘Dog (20-75, 21.1%, L-4 streak)
@ Florida State (+7.5) outright over Virginia
Deep Thoughts, by Buzz Studley
What is Darryn Peterson's deal?
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