Totals | W | L | W% | |
1 | Simon Fraser | 123 | 14 | 89.8% |
2 | Laval | 89 | 11 | 89.0% |
3 | Memorial | 104 | 24 | 81.3% |
4 | UBC | 105 | 32 | 76.6% |
5 | Cape Breton | 99 | 31 | 76.2% |
6 | McMaster | 106 | 35 | 75.2% |
7 | Laurentian | 103 | 36 | 74.1% |
8 | Western | 101 | 40 | 71.6% |
9 | Brock | 95 | 46 | 67.4% |
10 | Regina | 90 | 44 | 67.2% |
11 | Toronto | 94 | 46 | 67.1% |
12 | Winnipeg | 89 | 45 | 66.4% |
13 | York | 89 | 50 | 64.0% |
14 | Dalhousie | 78 | 50 | 60.9% |
15 | Queen's | 82 | 57 | 59.0% |
16 | Bishop's | 58 | 41 | 58.6% |
17 | Guelph | 82 | 60 | 57.7% |
18 | Calgary | 74 | 60 | 55.2% |
19 | Saskatchewan | 73 | 61 | 54.5% |
20 | Alberta | 72 | 62 | 53.7% |
21 | UNB | 69 | 60 | 53.5% |
22 | Laurier | 74 | 67 | 52.5% |
23 | Manitoba | 69 | 65 | 51.5% |
24 | Victoria | 69 | 68 | 50.4% |
25 | Ottawa | 61 | 78 | 43.9% |
26 | Saint Mary's | 56 | 72 | 43.8% |
27 | Fraser Valley | 16 | 21 | 43.2% |
28 | Concordia | 41 | 59 | 41.0% |
29 | Waterloo | 57 | 84 | 40.4% |
30 | StFX | 46 | 82 | 35.9% |
31 | UPEI | 43 | 85 | 33.6% |
32 | Ryerson | 41 | 98 | 29.5% |
33 | McGill | 29 | 70 | 29.3% |
34 | Carleton | 40 | 98 | 29.0% |
35 | Lethbridge | 38 | 95 | 28.6% |
36 | Windsor | 38 | 102 | 27.1% |
37 | Lakehead | 37 | 104 | 26.2% |
38 | UQAM | 17 | 52 | 24.6% |
39 | TWU | 30 | 106 | 22.1% |
40 | Acadia | 18 | 108 | 14.3% |
41 | TRU | 4 | 52 | 7.1% |
42 | Brandon | 4 | 129 | 3.0% |
43 | RMC | 0 | 98 | 0.0% |
Still ranked No. 1 in the country, the Clan are looking to win their fourth national title in seven years, which isn't quite Carleton territory (on the men's side), but still pretty impressive.
And what on earth is going on at Brandon and RMC?
Something to keep in mind is that Canada West is the conference to beat each and every year, as they've won the national title the past 16 years in a row. (Something that makes Simon Fraser's record all the more daunting.)
Greater minds than I would have to tackle that one, but it probably speaks to the size of the student body at those schools.
ReplyDeleteStudent life at RMC is pretty demanding too; they've only had a program for a few years. RMC really got into the university league for the men's team, and the women's program was kind of pulled along.
The latter might be true of BU... they had a women's team b/c they were required to, but never have put a ton into it and no one seems compelled to change that.
Bottom line, there's no good explanation for being almost winless across several seasons.
It's not just women's basketball: RMC sports teams are almost uniformly bad (except for fencing), and their women's teams tend to be even worse than the men. In fact, when their women's soccer team upset Queen's in the first round this year, the Queen's athletics staff told me it was the first time an RMC women's team had ever made the playoffs in any sport. When I talked to their athletic director (Darren Cates) earlier this year, he said their struggles are mostly due to their small student body, claiming that more women try out for the University of Toronto's women's soccer team than attend RMC. They have a full slate of full-time coaches, which should help with recruiting, but they also can't offer any athletic scholarships, which hurts. Personally, I think school size is probably the main issue for them, but the rigours of military training may play a part as well: at most schools, athletics are a break from studies, and the long practice hours required for interuniversity sports might be a tougher sell when you're already doing a lot of physical work during the day.
ReplyDeleteGuys, the reason why RMC struggles so mightily is because of one very obvious reason: You're trying to recruit to a military college, so the challenges of recruiting there are completely unlike any other school in the nation. You're not just going out to high schools and recruiting kids like York or Guelph (hypothetically) would. I would also argue that, as it relates to this topic, recruiting for the women's team is even that much tougher than recruiting for the men. Finding women who want military careers or jobs as pilots is likely tougher than scrounging together males who do.
ReplyDeleteAs for Brandon, the team took strides under Les Berry (2003-04) then the program was set back at least 10 years by the mind-blowing hire of Cheryl Kryluk who had three key players quit because of her coaching style (or lack thereof) and alienated two other significant starters and basically didn't ask them back. Try telling a kid to come play for that program. It's baby steps for sure.