AP Poll - 12/18
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Yes!
They won at AFH, cracking the code of how to beat UConn without Castle playing, and Spencer hobbled so that he short-armed a few shots, including the final three that would have given the lead as the clock was going down.
Seriously, we'll know soon enough if undefeated Houston handles the B12 w/BYU as well as it did the AAC. And a half dozen other B12 teams will sort things out amongst themselves.
Poll voters are challenging UConn to do what's expected over the next 4 weeks. Same with Purdue. Arizona looks to have the most challenging end-of-the year schedule of the top 5.
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Houston ahead of us is not warranted - they haven't even played a top 25 team.
AZ ahead of us is not warranted either - other than Pudue, they haven't played anybody else and our loss at Kansas is a better Kloss than theirs against Purdue on a neutral court.
No logical explanation.
AZ ahead of us is not warranted either - other than Pudue, they haven't played anybody else and our loss at Kansas is a better Kloss than theirs against Purdue on a neutral court.
No logical explanation.
On top of that, they even got a first place vote! Comical
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As the basketball season goes on, AP voters typically won’t drop teams unless they lose, even if the people below them had better wins. Major reason why Purdue was #1 last year while struggling against average teams while we were #2 blowing everybody out
No worries though. Top 5 is a great place to be. Plenty of opportunities for great wins against Marquette and Creighton
No worries though. Top 5 is a great place to be. Plenty of opportunities for great wins against Marquette and Creighton
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Im happy with the position we’re in at this point . UConn exceeded expect in phase 1
The conference underperformed expectations but not by an alarming degree .
But it’s pretty much over and we did enough as a league to be top 3-4 .
Now it’s onto phase 2
Finish 1-2 In Conference and we will be a 1-2 seed
Let’s forget the poll and concentrate on winning the Conference . Being top 5 then will give us a little easier road but like last year a 3 seed isn’t bad
Polls don’t win Championships, thankfully .,
We weren’t top 20 at the end of 2011 regular season or 2014 going into the Tournament.
The conference underperformed expectations but not by an alarming degree .
But it’s pretty much over and we did enough as a league to be top 3-4 .
Now it’s onto phase 2
Finish 1-2 In Conference and we will be a 1-2 seed
Let’s forget the poll and concentrate on winning the Conference . Being top 5 then will give us a little easier road but like last year a 3 seed isn’t bad
Polls don’t win Championships, thankfully .,
We weren’t top 20 at the end of 2011 regular season or 2014 going into the Tournament.
That's actually an interesting Q. Northwestern over Purdue is best home win currently (then Kansas over us and Purdue over Arizona).
All things considered, Purdue over Marquette on neutral court is probably the best win overall (not considering margin).
Arizona over Duke is still probably the best road win so far. Maybe Clemson over Alabama. None of the top 6 teams have dropped a home game yet.
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I care less about the absolute ranking # and more about the BS I hear on pods, forums, and during games - I've heard the following takes:
Kansas killed us. Uh huh, they barely beat us on their 95% win rate home court.
Clingan is playing bad. He was injured and still held his own against some of the top rates bigs in the country.
Newton isn't that good. If you think that I DON'T want what you're smoking because it's clearly garbage.
Keep up the BS though, as Danny said before "get it while you can, we're coming".
Still I do like seeing those low #s next to our name. I think we should have gotten a bump to #4 this week but c'est la vie.
Kansas killed us. Uh huh, they barely beat us on their 95% win rate home court.
Clingan is playing bad. He was injured and still held his own against some of the top rates bigs in the country.
Newton isn't that good. If you think that I DON'T want what you're smoking because it's clearly garbage.
Keep up the BS though, as Danny said before "get it while you can, we're coming".
Still I do like seeing those low #s next to our name. I think we should have gotten a bump to #4 this week but c'est la vie.
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1. Polls never matter, but matter even less early in the season.
2. If we want to complain about being a few spots too low, we shouldn't play literally a majority of our OOC games against teams with NET rankings above or close to 300. Seriously. If writers want to lean to other good teams because they don't play as many horrific cupcakes as we do, that is far from unfair. As UConn fans, we only are focused on what teams did in important games, which is understandable, but it's not the only way to look at things.
2. If we want to complain about being a few spots too low, we shouldn't play literally a majority of our OOC games against teams with NET rankings above or close to 300. Seriously. If writers want to lean to other good teams because they don't play as many horrific cupcakes as we do, that is far from unfair. As UConn fans, we only are focused on what teams did in important games, which is understandable, but it's not the only way to look at things.
AZ beat 3 teams who were ranked at the time of their games. We've beaten 3 as well.
Both teams are 0-1 against teams currently in the top 10s.
We are ranked 6th and 7th in WAB resume metric.
There's just not much to get upset about. Coin flip situation and they had the poll inertia on their side.
UH does have 4 Q1 NET wins
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You're all overlooking the big story: Providence got 5 points in the "others receiving votes."
One of those is Xavier, not exactly a top team right now.
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From Borzello @ ESPN
3. UConn Huskies (10-1)
Previous ranking: 5
This week: at Seton Hall Pirates (Wednesday), vs. St. John's (Saturday)
UConn wrapped up its nonconference schedule with a convincing 76-63 win over Gonzaga in Seattle on Friday. It was Donovan Clingan's best performance of the season against a high caliber opponent, as he was simply dominant on the interior, finishing with 21 points, eight boards, three assists and two blocks. And led by Clingan, the Huskies are shooting a nation-leading 64% from inside the arc.
3. UConn Huskies (10-1)
Previous ranking: 5
This week: at Seton Hall Pirates (Wednesday), vs. St. John's (Saturday)
UConn wrapped up its nonconference schedule with a convincing 76-63 win over Gonzaga in Seattle on Friday. It was Donovan Clingan's best performance of the season against a high caliber opponent, as he was simply dominant on the interior, finishing with 21 points, eight boards, three assists and two blocks. And led by Clingan, the Huskies are shooting a nation-leading 64% from inside the arc.
If they drop out, UH will be 3-0 vs Q1 (still 2nd best Q1 record behind Purdue) and 1-0 vs Q2
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AP pollsters vote UConn as the 5th best team out of 351 teams playing Division 1 basketball. And the Boneyard reaction is to get out the pitchforks and torches.
LOL! Arrogant and spoiled.
LOL! Arrogant and spoiled.
Definitely lots of chances to determine what UH is this year. Hopefully we'll be held to legacy Big 12 team standards for wins and losses and not UH in AAC when/if UH loses 3 or 4 games.
Arizona also won @ Duke which is a pretty darned good win. I figured it could go either way between us.
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These polls are just dumb. If I have to do the rankings, it would be this:
1. UCONN (we have beaten multiple ranked teams with a very close loss at Kansas on the road)
2. Purdue
3. Kansas
4. Arizona
5. Houston
1. UCONN (we have beaten multiple ranked teams with a very close loss at Kansas on the road)
2. Purdue
3. Kansas
4. Arizona
5. Houston
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Undefeated B12 U Houston shown the love at #3 while fellow undefeated B12 member U Oklahoma “disrespected” at #7. Found that interesting.
I hear they wont play a rank team until Jan 18th against BYU. I thought they already left that dreadful AAC conference
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The Kansas argument - UConn (H), Kentucky (N), Tennessee (N), Indiana (A) with a loss to Marquette (N) is better than UConn w/ Indiana (N), Texas (N), North Carolina (N), and Gonzaga (N) with a loss to Kansas (A). Kansas has wins against the current 5, 8, 9. UConn has wins against 11, 14, and 19.
I agree with the following:
I agree with the following:
- If Houston played a Kansas or UConn OOC schedule they would have a loss or two. They don't even have the excuse of scheduled quality teams haveing down years. Just a weak schedule when Xavier (A) is the toughest competitor
- Arizona got way too much credit for beating a then #2 Duke. Current ranked wins for AZ - Duke - 21, Wisc - 24.
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This tweet saved me from looking up the analytic site rankings one by one. The metrics and eye test are in close agreement on us, and we’re in a great position going into conference play. I do think we have the highest ceiling, given that we haven’t quite been at full strength against elite competition.