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Message: [QUOTE="Billy Jack, post: 4520265, member: 4173"] 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? [/QUOTE]

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