Pac-12 on Top of Week 6 Conference Rankings

  0 Braden Keith | October 08th, 2016 | ACC, Big 12, Big Ten, College - Women's Indoor, Division I Mid-Major, News, Pac 12, Rankings, SEC

According to the voting coaches in the AVCA polls, the Big Ten has the 3 best teams in the country. According to the more objective RPI ranking by the NCAA, they have 3 of the 4 best teams in the country.

No matter how one slices it, the top of the Big Ten is better than the top of any other conference in the country.

By measure of top-to-bottom strength, however, there is a better conference in the land: the Pac-12.

Below, we’ve taken the all-334 rankings from the first edition of the 2016 RPI rankings and found an average-ranking per team and ranked the 32 Division I volleyball conferences based on this average rank.

Highlights of the rankings:

  • The West Coast Conference is a volleyball powerhouse, even without sponsoring football. They rank higher than both the SEC and the ACC in average team ranking.
  • The ACC, the biggest college volleyball conference with 15 teams, ranks just 9th. That’s largely because Wake Forests, Syracuse, and Virginia are the 3 lowest-ranked teams among the traditional “Power 5” conferences.
  • The West Coast Conference isn’t just good at the top (BYU, San Diego, Pacific, Loyola Marymount), they’re also deep. Only 1 WCC team is ranked lower than 128th in the NCAA’s Division I.
#Teams Total RPI points Average Rank
1. Pac-12 12 503 41.92
2. Big Ten 14 698 49.86
3. Big 12 9 507 56.33
4. West Coast 10 867 86.70
5. SEC 13 1149 88.38
6. AAC 11 1176 106.91
7. Mountain West 11 1187 107.91
8. ACC 15 1659 110.60
9. Big East 10 1155 115.50
10. Big West 9 1084 120.44
11. Colonial 9 1121 124.56
12. Missouri Valley 10 1374 137.40
13. Horizon 9 1301 144.56
14. Mid-American 12 2069 172.42
15. Big Sky 12 2069 172.42
16. Western Athletic 8 1427 178.38
17. Conference USA 13 2328 179.08
18. ASUN 8 1494 186.75
19. Atlantic 10 10 1913 191.30
20. Ivy League 8 1537 192.13
21. Sun Belt 12 2366 197.17
22. Southern 9 1776 197.33
23. America East 7 1462 208.86
24. Summit League 9 1940 215.56
25. Big South 9 2020 224.44
26. OVC 12 2738 228.17
27. Southland 13 3005 231.15
28. Patriot 9 2176 241.78
29. Northeast 8 2112 264.00
30. Metro Atlantic 10 2801 280.10
31. Mid-Eastern 13 3766 289.69
32. Southwestern 10 3165 316.50

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Braden Keith

Braden Keith is the Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of VolleyMob.com. Braden's first foray into sports journalism came in 2010, when he launched a swimming website called The Swimmers' Circle. Two years later, he joined SwimSwam.com as a co-founder. Long huge fans of volleyball, when Braden and the SwimSwam partners sought an opportunity to …

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