#8

[MTBingNinja]

#8

 

[Phoenixhusky]

Nice spot!!!

 

[BugsyCT]

First time UConn has been ranked in the AP Top 10 since the first week of January 2012 (also were ranked #8 then).

 

[CL82]

I’ll take it.

 

[storrsroars]

Iowa St stayed at 23, so one loss to UConn = wins over UNC & Nova. I find that a tad disrespectful

 

[prankster]

Still not understanding how the Creighton Barrels are ranked above us, but, whatever.

We play them twice, later in the season. It will sort itself out.

 

[ClifSpliffy]

i thought that the line was '8, 98.6 it's good to have you back again...'
my bad. it's 'hey, 98.6 ...'
whatever, im sticking with '8.' works for me.

 

[EricLA]

Don't see this every day...

 

[August_West]

Iowa St stayed at 23, so one loss to UConn = wins over UNC & Nova. I find that a tad disrespectful

Iowa State wasnt ranked

 

[August_West]

Still not understanding how the Creighton Barrels are ranked above us, but, whatever.

We play them twice, later in the season. It will sort itself out.

thats ok they started higher and beat some good teams in Maui and lost to Arizona. They are a top 10 team. Its not a bad thing. We want them up when we play them, gives us more stroke.

 

[RayIsTheGOAT]

Still not understanding how the Creighton Barrels are ranked above us, but, whatever.

We play them twice, later in the season. It will sort itself out.

Well we’re virtually even with them. It’s 1100 votes to 1099.

I think they should be ranked above us at this moment in time. They made it to the final and lost narrowly to the now #4 team in the country in a TOUGH Maui invitational.
We’ll see what happens when they play Texas on Thursday. That’s going to be interesting- enormous resume opportunity for them at a tough place to play right now.

 

[RedDog]

I can't believe I'm saying this, but I feel a little disrespected that we don't have any 1st place votes! Why should Purdue, who was ranked lower than us before PK. I understand they beat Gonzaga and Duke. But it isn't our fault that North Carolina can't make it to the finals. I have no doubt we would have won that game.

 

[UConnRock]

Interesting that the top 3 teams, Houston, Texas, and UVA did not play in a T’giving tournament, so they haven’t played the 3 games in 4 days against stiff competition. Houston was less than impressive in a 5 point (49-44) win over Kent St. Can’t complain much #8 is a good feeling. I was curious of the bump the Alabama would get from the 4OT UNC win. Agree that having a bigger name in the finals would have benefitted UConn

 

[HeGotGame]

Iowa St stayed at 23, so one loss to UConn = wins over UNC & Nova. I find that a tad disrespectful

Iowa State wasn't even receiving votes last week let alone ranked.

 

[CTBasketball]

With higher rank comes higher responsibility!

 

[methodology]

Interesting that the top 3 teams, Houston, Texas, and UVA did not play in a T’giving tournament, so they haven’t played the 3 games in 4 days against stiff competition. Houston was less than impressive in a 5 point (49-44) win over Kent St. Can’t complain much #8 is a good feeling. I was curious of the bump the Alabama would get from the 4OT UNC win. Agree that having a bigger name in the finals would have benefitted UConn

UVA played in a 2 game event in Vegas. Beat #5 Baylor and #19 Illinois. Houston been #2 since the start and haven’t lost

 

[uchusky32]

Really wanted NC in final. Maybe gets us another spot or 2.

 

[gsmooth]

I can't believe I'm saying this, but I feel a little disrespected that we don't have any 1st place votes! Why should Purdue, who was ranked lower than us before PK. I understand they beat Gonzaga and Duke. But it isn't our fault that North Carolina can't make it to the finals. I have no doubt we would have won that game.

yeah I think UConn would've beaten UNC and matches up well with them. Put AJax on Caleb Love, who can be really good but is mostly inefficient. Who do they put their best defender Leaky Black on? Jordan Hawkins? It wouldn't matter UConn has more diverse scoring options. Plus, UNC lacks depth.
I am not writing off UNC, they are good, really good, but they have their share of weaknesses and last year they caught lightning in a bottle and lucked out with St. Peter's knocking off tougher teams in their bracket. Purdue or Kentucky would've been a much tougher match up for UNC. Not to mention Baylor was down 2 significant starters by that time, too.

 

[gsmooth]

Really wanted NC in final. Maybe gets us another spot or 2.

me too, bud, me too. I think UConn would've beaten UNC.

 

[dennismenace]

i thought that the line was '8, 98.6 it's good to have you back again...'
my bad. it's 'hey, 98.6 ...'
whatever, im sticking with '8.' works for me.

1967 dress style. They should bring that back.

 

[tzznandrew]

I understand they beat Gonzaga and Duke.

This is why. Alabama is as good as those two teams. Iowa State and Oregon are not. They also beat West Virginia, who is higher in Kenpom than both Iowa State and Oregon.

Given blind resumes, they absolutely should be ranked higher than us.

 

[Senor Blue]

I can't believe I'm saying this, but I feel a little disrespected that we don't have any 1st place votes! Why should Purdue, who was ranked lower than us before PK. I understand they beat Gonzaga and Duke. But it isn't our fault that North Carolina can't make it to the finals. I have no doubt we would have won that game.

Nevermind that - we destroyed the 2 teams that beat UNC in the finals. UConn can only play the teams on the schedule. That's the argument everyone used with PC last year when they got every break for injury and rescheduled opponent.

If any of the voters bothered to stay up and watch the games (I'm assuming no) - there wasn't a single game that was even CLOSE down the stretch. If Bama jumps 7 spots for barely squeaking by UNC in a game both teams tried to lose, how does UConn not jump higher for beating the pants off of every team they see?

Creighton has a great win and a very good, close loss - but those games were all tight except for the little sisters of the poor schools. UConn has made every team look like an NEC team so far.

Phenomenal that we're bitching about being EIGHTH in the country though. First world problem.

 

[August_West]

me too, bud, me too. I think UConn would've beaten UNC.

UConn is 1-5 against UNC . 4 of those games were 2002,2003,2004,2005. The other was 1990.

We didnt exactly suck in any those seasons. Its "one of those things". We have "one of those things" with Kentucky. We beat some awfully good Kentucky teams. (4-1)

 

[CTBasketball]

UCONN is 1-5 against UNC 4 of those games were 2002,2003,2004,2005. The other was 1990.

We didnt exactly suck in any those seasons. Its "one of those things". We have "one of those "things" with Kentucky. We beat some awfully good Kentucky teams. (4-1)

That game in 2003(?) down in Chapel Hill pissed me off. We were the better team.

 

[August_West]

That game in 2003(?) down in Chapel Hill pissed me off. We were the better team.

our one win was decimating Matt Doherty's team, lol. Everyone did.