Certainly it’s early and there are many variables at play – strength of schedule being perhaps the biggest – but isn’t it interesting to see what’s happening in the PL?
PL Standings /W-L Record / PL Preseason Poll / Today’s Sagarin Ranking / Sagarin SOS
1st Lafayette / 4-1 / 8th / 3rd / 340
2nd Army / 3-1 / 4th / 1st / 275
3rd Lehigh / 3-2 / 2nd / 2nd / 242
4th Bucknell / 3-3 / 3rd / 4th / 276
5th Navy / 2-3 / 7th / 6th / 274
6th Colgate / 0-4 / 5th / 7th / 56
7th Holy Cross / 0-5 / 1st / 5th / 41
8th American/ 0-6 / 6th / 8th / 321
Lafayette………. in for a dose of reality facing both Georgetown and LaSalle in the next few days.
Army…….maybe for real establishing their 3-1 record against teams with a combined 11-7 record
LU, BU and Navy………..about where you’d expect them to be
Colgate………….can’t wait to face the likes of Dartmouth, CCSU and NC Central.
Holy Cross……….took on the toughest OOC schedule of all (closing ’08-’09 Pomeroy ranking) and hopes to stop the bleeding soon with W. Michigan, Marist, and Brown the next three up.
AU……….no help in sight except for games against Md. Eastern Shore and Brown – with G’town, Penn. State, and Florida waiting in the wings.
Today, the Patriot League ranks 28th among the 32 leagues in D-I basketball.
