January 18 Update: The Six Chart Toppers This Year

The Baylor Lady Bears have become the sixth team to top the College Women's Hoops S-Factor at some point this year. The five others are Connecticut, Stanford, South Carolina, Notre Dame, and Seton Hall.

Now in:
Kansas State
Villanova
Hofstra
Bryant

Now out:
North Carolina State
Northwestern
Elon
Robert Morris

Still out:
South Florida
Duke

Conferences with multiple bids:
SEC: 8
(1) South Carolina
(3) Kentucky
(4) Mississippi State
(5) Florida
(6) Missouri
(7) Tennessee
(8) Georgia
(9) Texas A&M

Pac 12: 7
(2) Stanford
(2) Arizona State
(2) Oregon State
(3) UCLA
(3) Washington
(4) USC
(5) Utah

Big Ten: 6
(3) Ohio State
(4) Maryland
(5) Purdue
(6) Michigan State
(7) Iowa
(8) Rutgers

Big 12: 6
(1) Baylor
(1) Texas
(4) Oklahoma
(5) Oklahoma State
(9) West Virginia
(9) Kansas State

ACC: 5
(2) Notre Dame
(6) Louisville
(7) Florida State
(8) Syracuse
(8) Miami (FL)

Big East: 4
(6) St. John's
(9) Seton Hall
(10) DePaul
(11) Villanova

Atlantic 10: 2
(7) George Washington
(10) Duquesne

West Coast: 2
(10) BYU
(10) San Diego

American: 1
(1) Connecticut

Pick Distribution Charts for 2015 Predictions

I found 33 women's basketball rankings this year and made some charts about the distribution of picks for each team culled from the ranking methods identified in this post.   

Connecticut wasn't predicted as a #1 seed by every list and bracket. Those that did not pick Connecticut first were, like the S-Factor, reliant on RPI data to the exclusion of scoring data.

All 33 rankings had Notre Dame as a #1 seed.

Kentucky was the luckiest team in terms of seeding variation from the average. Only 4 predictions placed Kentucky as high as a 2 seed.

Chattanooga had the widest spread and the most variety of predictions, with ten different predicted seeds from a 3 seed to a 13 seed.

Only one ranking method predicted that Princeton would be as low as an 8-seed, and that was the S-Factor.  No one else was within 1 seed.

LSU had the least consensus. No single seed was picked by more than 4 ranking lists.

Tulane was picked by the fewest number of ranking lists and brackets. Just 12 predicted the Green Wave's inclusion in the field. Sadly the S-Factor was not one of them.

Alabama State was Bizarro Notre Dame.  Every prediction showed them as a 16 seed, yet the NCAA Selection Committee placed the SWAC champs as a 15 seed, likely so the Lady Hornets wouldn't have to travel so far. They play 2-seed Florida State in Tallahassee.