Unanimous #1

[Hunt for 7]

I am thinking there is a shot that it happens.

 

[YoungFree]

I am thinking there is a shot that it happens.

Neg...at least 3-4 votes won't go our way.

 

[my2cents]

Duke/North Carolina writers will never vote for us.

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

Beat Creighton

 

[rman726]

Gimme those 16 votes Purdue. Hand em over.

 

[HungryHu5ky]

I think this Monday they gotta give UConn the respect of being unanimous if only for this wk

 

[Scoe]

Someone always has to be that guy.

 

[Tenspro2002]

Neg...at least 3-4 votes won't go our way.

The previous #1 votes were either us or Purdue.

If someone wanted to rank Houston #1 because of KenPom or whatever, they would have done it already.

 

[NHRich]

Who knows if they can win it all, but this is the best UConn BB team I’ve ever seen.

 

[businesslawyer]

I am thinking there is a shot that it happens.

By not voting for us, voters will get their names publicized, while voting for us they are individually ignored. That will be too high a mountain for 100% of voters to climb.

 

[Husky15]

If you look at the poll tracker no voter had anyone ahead of us besides Purdue. I think we’ll be unanimous come this time tomorrow

 

[uconnfan68]

If you look at the poll tracker no voter had anyone ahead of us besides Purdue. I think we’ll be unanimous come this time tomorrow

There are 3000yo Greek tragedies about this level of hubris.

 

[Scoe]

Yup.

Baseball Hall of Fame: Derek Jeter says one vote that kept him from being unanimous pick won't bother him

Jeter appeared on 396 of 397 ballots

www.cbssports.com

Those were my exact thoughts being a Yankees fan.

 

[jibsey]

Those were my exact thoughts being a Yankees fan.

A Red Sox writer.

 

[Hunt for 7]

The best part about this whole thread is that we are debating who won’t put us at number 1 in quite possibly what is the most arbitrary process imaginable. But there will only be a handful if there are any. Purdue was a unanimous #1 in the coaches poll in late November. And in the AP in January. With that said it would clearly be bs if we are not unanimous in one of the polls.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Those were my exact thoughts being a Yankees fan.

Baseball HoF is about the worst comparison you could ever make. Baseball writers didn't make Ruth, Gherig, Williams, Aaron, Cy Young, or about 100 other more worthy players unanimous selections either.

Jeter and Rivera vote counts were a reflection of a changing mindset of voters as compared to them actually deserving the highest vote count. For the record I always thought the baseball HoF writers were dbags on how they let that precedent go for several decades.

UConn has clearly shown they are the best team and deserve all the #1 votes for thus week upcoming.

 

[ctchamps]

Anyone who votes for Perdoodoo Monday is full of shdoodoo!

 

[jpeakin]

Who knows if they can win it all, but this is the best UConn BB team I’ve ever seen.

The two are not mutually exclusive. Anyone can have a bad night but I would agree, this may be the best team we've ever seen. Perhaps our vision is blurred from our recent success.

 

[alphasigko]

Neg...at least 3-4 votes won't go our way.

Yes, some dummies will vote for UofA, or Kansas

 

[El Obrero]

It’s one of the perks of being UConn. No matter how clearly superior you are, you’re always unproven, never a blue blood, always the team that nobody can quite trust that what they did on the court today was real, because kenpom blah blah blah. Hurley has got to be having a blast coaching under these conditions!

 

[rman726]

Yes, some dummies will vote for UofA, or Kansas

UConn and Purdue split every single #1 and #2 vote. I doubt anyone that voted UConn #2 last week is going to vote for another team to jump them.

 

[willie99]

The debate is over

For now

 

[huskeynut]

In reality, how the writers vote doesn't mean much. Many have their biases that will never change. UConn is not a P5, UConn is not a "blue blood', UConn doesn't really play anybody. Heard it all and still UConn has 5 natty's.

We will be a 1 seed for the tourney. The rest will be done on the court. Win 6 games and it's natty #6.

 

[RedStickHusky]

It's time we start asking ourselves whether any of those so-called blue bloods deserve to be grouped with UConn?

 

[UCTitleTown]

Remember that one writer that kept Jeter from being a unanimous first ballot Hall of Famer? He's probably a college hoops voter too.