AP Poll-Week 10

[navery12]

Oklahoma St is 40th. Oregon is 60th. Come on, man.

Those wins are technically not as impressive by the metrics. The ones he listed are all Quad 1 wins, but Oklahoma State at 40 (home Q1 is 30) and Oregon at 60 (neutral Q1 is 50) are Quad 2 wins

 

[Billy Jack]

We're 6 right? It's generous after those losses, until we win on road
vs tough teams.

So blow outs of #4 Alabama and #14 Iowa State on neutral courts aren’t good enough? Two conference losses on the road make #6 generous?

What tough team has 2-loss Tennessee beaten to deserve being ranked ahead of us particularly considering their home loss to a 6-loss team like Colorado? And how does 2-loss Alabama whom we beat by 15 head-to-head on a neutral court get ranked ahead of us?

Don’t bother answering because there is no explanation. The polls never make much sense because they’re simply opinion polls with lots of voter bias. Even the people who vote in them don’t take them particularly seriously.

 

[jibsey]

We laid 2 eggs in a row on the road, favored in both games. Not gonna quibble about being 6 like it's some kind of insult. We could be worse and will be if we lose to Marquette. A lot of our fans have been on a high horse. We have to show we are worthy by quality wins.

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

We laid 2 eggs in a row on the road, favored in both games. Not gonna quibble about being 6 like it's some kind of insult. We could be worse and will be if we lose to Marquette. A lot of our fans have been on a high horse. We have to show we are worthy by quality wins.

 

[caw]

We laid 2 eggs in a row on the road, favored in both games. Not gonna quibble about being 6 like it's some kind of insult. We could be worse and will be if we lose to Marquette. A lot of our fans have been on a high horse. We have to show we are worthy by quality wins.

Not saying UConn shouldn't have played better, but as many have said the top four in the BE are undefeated at home. That dam will probably break, but until it does it's hard to call any road loss to those other three teams a bad loss, favored or not. We will see how UConn truly stands when the other three teams complete their tough road games.

On that note, PC has yet to play another top four BE team on the road (first is the 19th at Marquette). Same with Xavier (UConn on the 26th).

Marquette has only been to PC (and lost, second is X on the 16th).

UConn has had by far the hardest start to the BE conference season of the top teams with three trips to the other top three teams. UConn will have travelled to PC, X and Marquette before PC or X has travelled to any of the others.

As for the ranking I agree overall, six is pretty accurate. You could argue 4-6 but its that range. Houston, Kansas and Purdue all have better resumes right now. Bama's is close and they are looking good recently. Tennessee I haven't seen but they have a strong and similar resume. I do think there is another cliff after that right now, or perhaps after UCLA (can't get a good read on them). I would also probably flip KSU and X but the top ten is pretty solidly accurate right now.

 

[SportsFan88]

The big difference is that casuals know Georgetown is a brand. My wife thinks Georgetown is a good basketball school because they used to be very good. She thinks BC is terrible, and they were actually pretty good in the day too. BC is crippled playing in the south with no rivalries.
Georgetown just needs a good coach. Good coaches don’t want the BC job. Al Skinner should still be there.

Those Troy bell Craig Smith BC teams were TOUGH

 

[mauconnfan]

Those Troy bell Craig Smith BC teams were TOUGH

Even better early 80's with the likes of Michael Adams, John Bagley, Jay Murphy, Martin Clark, John Garris, Stuu Primus, Dwan Chandler, Dom Pressley, Roger McCready. They were very good, Dr Tom and Sweaty Gary W were both good coaches at BC.

 

[Hoophound]

Even better early 80's with the likes of Michael Adams, John Bagley, Jay Murphy, Martin Clark, John Garris, Stuu Primus, Dwan Chandler, Dom Pressley, Roger McCready. They were very good, Dr Tom and Sweaty Gary W were both good coaches at BC.

The 90's were solid too with Eisley, Abrams, Huckaby and more. The ACC ruined sports in the Northeast.

 

[Billy Jack]

The 90's were solid too with Eisley, Abrams, Huckaby and more. The ACC ruined sports in the Northeast.

And that was their goal.

 

[CaptainRon]

And that was their goal.

And their co-conspirator ESPN

 

[Billy Jack]

We laid 2 eggs in a row on the road, favored in both games. Not gonna quibble about being 6 like it's some kind of insult. We could be worse and will be if we lose to Marquette. A lot of our fans have been on a high horse. We have to show we are worthy by quality wins.

Laid an egg??? Strong language.

Whoever favored us vs Xavier at their place didn’t know what they were talking about. That was a pick ‘‘em game. Even the PC game figured to be close.

Any home win by a good team in a P6 conference can’t really be called an upset even of the visiting team is favored. These teams know each other too well and the rivalries are too strong.

 

[Billy Jack]

And their co-conspirator ESPN

Absolutely.

 

[SportsFan88]

Even better early 80's with the likes of Michael Adams, John Bagley, Jay Murphy, Martin Clark, John Garris, Stuu Primus, Dwan Chandler, Dom Pressley, Roger McCready. They were very good, Dr Tom and Sweaty Gary W were both good coaches at BC.

Yeaaa John bagley is from my neck of the woods my dad always talked about him and how good he was, Ernie Cobb is my wife’s uncle he played there too right?

 

[mauconnfan]

Let's not forge

The 90's were solid too with Eisley, Abrams, Huckaby and more. The ACC ruined sports in the Northeast.

Let's not forget Curley who's dad ruined his college career talking him out of being a Husky. We may have won our first title before '99 if he had made his own decision?

 

[mauconnfan]

Yeaaa John bagley is from my neck of the woods my dad always talked about him and how good he was, Ernie Cobb is my wife’s uncle he played there too right?

John and Ernie both very good players who escaped from our state as well as Garris, Murphy, Adams and so many others back in those days.

 

[HuskyHawk]

So blow outs of #4 Alabama and #14 Iowa State on neutral courts aren’t good enough? Two conference losses on the road make #6 generous?

What tough team has 2-loss Tennessee beaten to deserve being ranked ahead of us particularly considering their home loss to a 6-loss team like Colorado? And how does 2-loss Alabama whom we beat by 15 head-to-head on a neutral court get ranked ahead of us?

Don’t bother answering because there is no explanation. The polls never make much sense because they’re simply opinion polls with lots of voter bias. Even the people who vote in them don’t take them particularly seriously.

They are the only team to beat Kansas so far. Does that count?

 

[The Yakk]

John and Ernie both very good players who escaped from our state as well as Garris, Murphy, Adams and so many others back in those days.

Soup Campbell. Sly Williams. Rocket Rod Foster.

 

[karstenkibbe]

John and Ernie both very good players who escaped from our state as well as Garris, Murphy, Adams and so many others back in those days.

Ernie Cobb was so smooth. I always wondered as a kid if UConn’s trajectory would have changed entering the 1980s if he had chosen to stay in state in the late 70s.

 

[Dogdeacon]

Mike DiMoron retweeted the below. I don't know, it seems Gtown's struggles are because of Ewing. They have enough of a storied program to attract talent and a good coach and be competitive in the league. I'm not sure BC moving the ACC for money has really made their sports programs better in fact it seems like hockey, basketball and football are all an afterthought.

Yeah, that is horsebleep. GTown proves only that if you have a very, very bad coach you will be very, very bad. This can happen anywhere. Is his point then that BC has had 3-4 bad coaches in a row since Al Skinner?! At some point it is the program and the conference and not the coach. Hardly a binary proposition where conference affiliation guarantees success. A good conference & fit therein enables and encourage success , but even a good conference with a terrible fit makes success much more challenging.

 

[jibsey]

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I gave you a like on this because just today I texted my friend a big Met fan that I heard “he” lost Correa to the Twins and he wrote back that he… did not lose anyone. So I told him that if I use the word “we” for what my favorite baseball team does it means the Yankees not the Cleveland Guardians, and I have no hatred or dislike for those Indian/Guardians. Same goes for those men’s hoop players in Storrs…..”we”.

 

[mauconnfan]

Soup Campbell. Sly Williams. Rocket Rod Foster.

John Williamson, Mickey Heard, John Thomas, Jiggy Williamson, Ricky and Owen Mahorn, John Nelson, Billy Eason, Charles Smith, Frenchy Tomlin on and on and on. Too bad would've had some special teams in the 70's/80's.