AP Poll - Week 13 | Page 3 | The Boneyard

AP Poll - Week 13

Seton Hall has 3 Quad 1 wins and a great SOS, so I think they're already on the radar....they have 9 games left to make their case.

Yes. Seton Hall is currently ranked #57 on NCAA Net, which is the instrument which the committee uses to start their conversation. #57 is bubble neighborhood. It won’t take much to move the Hall up into a tournament spot along with the other 5.
 
If this were Duke the heads on here would be screaming bias. We have no business being top 25 right now. I guess our strong start was so impressive that it left an impression. Fools gold apparently. We`ll see.

Who are you promoting fir the top 25 over us? And dies anyone seriously believe that Florida Atlantic deserves to be ranked ahead of us? Or in the top 25 at all?
 
Of course they have. Just this season, Indiana lost 6 of 9 (close enough?) and they’re still ranked in the top 25.
But didn't they fall out of the poll at some point?
 
.-.
Did you learn your arguing technique from @nelsonmuntz ?

I said, "I wonder if a team has ever done x." You responded, "Of course they have! Just this year, a team did y!"
Reminds me of the recent thread where someone asked if any team has ever gone from unranked, to as high as #2, to unranked in the same season. And people pointed out Duke and UNC this season, which of course isn't true since they both started the season highly ranked.

Reading comprehension is not a strong suit on here.
 
Did you learn your arguing technique from @nelsonmuntz ?

I said, "I wonder if a team has ever done x." You responded, "Of course they have! Just this year, a team did y!"

And I said, “Close enough?” I guess not for you.

My point is that at this moment in the season, both are in the top 25 after having suffered similar slumps. IU was dropped from the top 25 because they hadn’t built up a sufficient resume prior to the slump to keep them there. UConn has stayed in the top 25 because of their superb beginning to the season. Indians is back in the top 25 because since their slump, they have added to their early start to give them a comparable resume to ours albeit accomplishe in 2 different pieces instead of all at once as ours was.

I didn’t think it was that hard to see the similarities between the two as to require this explanation. Teams are voted into the top 25 based on their total body of work, not just a set of games over the period of a few weeks. As we’ve seen with Indiana, a slump doesn’t mean that a team’s season is over. Teams come back from slumps and turn things around as IU has done lately.

Teams not only turn slumps around, but in some cases they go on to win national championships after such slumps. The voters know this, which is why they are reluctant to bury a team prematurely.

We all know about UConn’s historic turnaround in 2011 when they went on to a NC after losing 7 of their last 11 regular season games. Historic but not unique. In 1985, Villanova lost 7 of 13 going into the tournament before winning the NC. If teams can turn around losing streaks at the most stressful time of year to win it all against the toughest competition, why is it so hard to believe that it can happen in the middle of a regular season?
 
And I said, “Close enough?” I guess not for you.

My point is that at this moment in the season, both are in the top 25 after having suffered similar slumps. IU was dropped from the top 25 because they hadn’t built up a sufficient resume prior to the slump to keep them there. UConn has stayed in the top 25 because of their superb beginning to the season. Indians is back in the top 25 because since their slump, they have added to their early start to give them a comparable resume to ours albeit accomplishe in 2 different pieces instead of all at once as ours was.

I didn’t think it was that hard to see the similarities between the two as to require this explanation. Teams are voted into the top 25 based on their total body of work, not just a set of games over the period of a few weeks. As we’ve seen with Indiana, a slump doesn’t mean that a team’s season is over. Teams come back from slumps and turn things around as IU has done lately.

Teams not only turn slumps around, but in some cases they go on to win national championships after such slumps. The voters know this, which is why they are reluctant to bury a team prematurely.

We all know about UConn’s historic turnaround in 2011 when they went on to a NC after losing 7 of their last 11 regular season games. Historic but not unique. In 1985, Villanova lost 7 of 13 going into the tournament before winning the NC. If teams can turn around losing streaks at the most stressful time of year to win it all against the toughest competition, why is it so hard to believe that it can happen in the middle of a regular season?
I'm just wondering if a team has ever lost 6 of 8 and remained ranked at the end of it, dude. I am aware that other teams have done other things, but it's not relevant to my musing.
 
Here's grab bag of minor errors that barely matter. Everybody get a good night's sleep. Tuesday is Game Day.

Lol think the guy that put us 18 is the one who Twitter collectively bullied after giving us a laughably low rating at the start of the year. He must be afraid

Or slow.

I could care less with a writer with half my BB knowledge cares about us.
Please don't elaborate on how much less you could care.

Five assuming Creighton can get to 19 wins. If one of Seton Hall or St. John's gets hot, just maybe we will see six but I doubt it.

Looks like the drugs are kicking in, and you're starting to shizzle.

That early season games count as much as late ones is pretty ridiculous. Teams change, sometimes dramatically over the course of a season. Look at, we’ll us this year. Teams get better too. Look at Creighton. I’d happily have played them in December. Not so excited to play them now. To equate a win over us or Creighton now vs December is foolishness. Honestly all these “scientific” systems are just as much pseudo science as phenology was.

^ And then there's this.

Do you even know what thread you are in?

This post doesn't relate to the Subject, any other posts, or any other posters.

You label things, with nothing at all to back them up, "pretty ridiculous" and "foolishness," as though anybody would go on nothing more than your say so.

And you drive home a non-point with a sloppy, "Look at, we'll us this year," because you don't even respect yourself enough to look over your work before posting it.

We know you're not serious when you open your final paragraph with, "Honestly..." Don't you think we instantly consider if anything before that was been honest? You contrast "science" and pseudo science with the same lack of substance as your other empty claims, all to set up your misspelled attempt at a mic drop. Phrenomenal! Bavo!

Just go back to your coaching candidate profiles.
 
Who are you promoting fir the top 25 over us? And dies anyone seriously believe that Florida Atlantic deserves to be ranked ahead of us? Or in the top 25 at all?
i well remember ur early season blather on that team.
congratulations, u've gone from cranky old guy to full on clown college status in like a nanosecond.
that was fast.
 

Forum statistics

Threads
168,227
Messages
4,558,213
Members
10,444
Latest member
Billy Boy


Top Bottom