Ranking the top mid majors

[bsmith21]

Where does everyone think valpo ranks compared to the other teamside outside the power 6 conferences (power 5 + Big east). For the purpose of this post American and A-10 are mid majors. Was thinking about this because watching Houston dominate a great power 5 school.

[sliman]

Way too early to make a strong case for where we will rank.  Too many questions about point guard and the middle, as well as overall depth.  We think we'll be o.k., but better to delay strong opinions until mid-January.  Still, I'd be willing to put us among the top 50 now with the hope we'll be much higher by late February.

[wh]

I think we can glean some things from our #70 ranking in the Men's Basketball Top 144. At this point we don't know who the 69 teams ahead of us are, so there's no way of knowing how many are not Power-5 or Big East programs. So, let's look at last year, where we ranked 67th in the same poll. Of the 66 teams ahead of us, 23 (about a third) were non Power-5/BE programs. Assuming the same ratio, there should be 20-25 non Power-5/BE teams ahead of us.