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AP Poll - UConn moves up to #18

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Some of the rankings here really Irk me, I mean UVA loses to GW and is still ranked ahead of us...

Anyway what doesn't kill you makes you stronger and something I noticed about this year in college basketball. It reminds me very much of 2 years ago. When there are plenty of good teams sure, but no great ones. Meaning anyone can be beat and if a team peaks at the right time....
 
alfonse said:
Some of the rankings here really Irk me, I mean UVA loses to GW and is still ranked ahead of us...

Anyway what doesn't kill you makes you stronger and something I noticed about this year in college basketball. It reminds me very much of 2 years ago. When there are plenty of good teams sure, but no great ones. Meaning anyone can be beat and if a team peaks at the right time....
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A loss on the road to GW in the final minute or so is not a bad loss, if you start off the season in the top 10 a loss like that is only going to drop you so far. UConn's 3 wins against weak competition isn't really going to move the needle from where they already started, they'll have their opportunity this week.
 
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alfonse said:
Some of the rankings here really Irk me, I mean UVA loses to GW and is still ranked ahead of us...
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That's roughly a top 50 road loss, can't really see how that should make you think less of a team. Then they went and took care of business in their tournament, which didn't really throw many obstacles in their way, but they didn't stumble.
 
aceboon said:
so Zac Boyer is a UConn alum and had them unranked, not saying you have to be biased and rank em high, but unranked is pretty interesting.
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I think decent analysts try a little too hard to be unbiased at times. Bilas does it with Duke (thankfully). You just don't notice it because of everyone else's perma BFieldHusky.
 
#18 is about right. We haven't played anyone worth anything, so the voters still have no information about us.

If we sweep Atlantis, we'll be around #8-10. If we go 2-1, we'll tread water around #16-19. 1-2 on the winner's bracket side, we drop to #22-25. 1-2 or worse on the loser's bracket side, we're unranked.

Now, the rankings themselves don't mean very much, but this week is a huge lever arm on our season. We could come out of here with 3 marquee wins, or zero. That's the difference between a #3 seed and a #8 seed.
 
Tenspro2002 said:
#18 is about right. We haven't played anyone worth anything, so the voters still have no information about us.

If we sweep Atlantis, we'll be around #8-10. If we go 2-1, we'll tread water around #16-19. 1-2 on the winner's bracket side, we drop to #22-25. 1-2 or worse on the loser's bracket side, we're unranked.

Now, the rankings themselves don't mean very much, but this week is a huge lever arm on our season. We could come out of here with 3 marquee wins, or zero. That's the difference between a #3 seed and a #8 seed.
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100% spot on.
 
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Jaker said:
Michigan, Charlotte and Gonzaga
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Even though it hurts UCONN's RPI, and they wouldn't get the chance to paste Syracuse, I'm almost hoping for it.

But it would be too much fun to beat them....and I want the guys to get experience against the zone.
 
Miami jumped in at #15 unsurprisingly.
 
Tenspro2002 said:
#18 is about right. We haven't played anyone worth anything, so the voters still have no information about us. If we sweep Atlantis, we'll be around #8-10. If we go 2-1, we'll tread water around #16-19. 1-2 on the winner's bracket side, we drop to #22-25. 1-2 or worse on the loser's bracket side, we're unranked. Now, the rankings themselves don't mean very much, but this week is a huge lever arm on our season. We could come out of here with 3 marquee wins, or zero. That's the difference between a #3 seed and a #8 seed.
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I can't remember an early season game(s) being so crucial to us going in.


Ahh life in the AAC
 
August_West said:
I can't remember an early season game(s) being so crucial to us going in.


Ahh life in the AAC
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Wichitia State in 2010, although that was somewhat in hindsight since most didn't think that team would be all that good and we were probably just hoping to make the tourney going into that year. This team has high expectations, but it really would help to win this game to help set a tone for the season.
 
Texas A & M to 25 just made the already deep Atlantis battle deeper!

Surviving winner of this early season event is getting some RPI points which will help and slides during the season.
 
alfonse said:
Some of the rankings here really Irk me, I mean UVA loses to GW and is still ranked ahead of us...

Anyway what doesn't kill you makes you stronger and something I noticed about this year in college basketball. It reminds me very much of 2 years ago. When there are plenty of good teams sure, but no great ones. Meaning anyone can be beat and if a team peaks at the right time....
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We`ve played a couple of cupcakes so i dont mind where we`re ranked. Im willing to bet if we win atlantis we`ll move up quite a bit in the rankings.
 
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How does Zac boyer not rank Uconn again? Uconn graduate and worked for the Courant. Seems personal
 
The rankings seem particularly bad to start the season, #13 Indiana lost tonight to Wake Forest.
 
aceboon said:
so Zac Boyer is a UConn alum and had them unranked, not saying you have to be biased and rank em high, but unranked is pretty interesting.
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I also think he wrote for that other board that begins with an R covering UConn, years ago.
 
Worldwide said:
How does Zac boyer not rank Uconn again? Uconn graduate and worked for the Courant. Seems personal
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Its sad writers cant leave their bias at the door and expect to have credibility. Sure we`ve played a couple of weak non conference teams but if you are not impressed by what youve seen from Uconn you need to find a new profession.
 
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Silk31 said:
Rothstein didn't even rank us this past week lol...I guess we weren't generating any "Palpable Buzz" for him
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Pretty sure that was a mistake on his end. Can't see him dropping UConn 6 spots and out of the poll on purpose.
 
Worldwide said:
Pretty sure that was a mistake on his end. Can't see him dropping UConn 6 spots and out of the poll on purpose.
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Yeah, he's done that before iirc. If enough people get on his arse, he usually offers a mea culpa and rectifies it in the next one.
 
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