AP Poll Week #13

[HooperScooper]

Michigan passes us for #2. We're now #3.

Did someone forget to submit their ballot? Only 59 #1 votes for Arizona and 60 the prior week. There were 61 votes 2 weeks ago.

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[jibsey]

17 wins straight without a loss and coming off an away blowout of Creighton. The last bunch of close wins in a disrespected apparently bad conference did the trick. I’ve always placed less importance to these rankings which moves up and drops teams at times significantly with a loss even a close one.
More important than these numbers is to just keep improving team rebounding and team offense, and that seems to be happening.

 

[ecasadoSBU]

How does UConn drop? such b.s

 

[Ha Who]

Not shocked, CBS Sports was reporting that this would happen yesterday. I still think their conference should win a national championship before they automatically allow teams to bypass the team that hasn’t lost.

 

[KingAG]

Such BS

 

[FightOnCT]

The week we get our ish together and we move down. Hilarious

 

[UConnTrumbull]

I actually LOVE this. Free bulletin board material for Dan and the team. Great week for this to happen!

 

[RashadRay11]

This is a direct result of us not having many Q1 win opportunities in the Big East. Sucks but unavoidable. Win twice this week.

 

[RashadRay11]

Next year we should schedule games against Gonzaga and Duke in January and February. They both need them like us

 

[Uconn77Duke74]

Michigan plays Duke in a couple of weeks. Will knock one of them down a few spots.

 

[Lafayette]

Makes sense. Michigan beat #5 and #7 and we beat unranked.

Still they have to play @Purdue, vs Duke, @Illinois and vs Michigan St again.

 

[RuffRuff]

Not sure we should take this one personal. UM went on the road and dominated a top 10 team, then beat another top ten team. They only have one loss and were formerly #1. Not surprising. Good to see voters actually used their brains. Creighton doesn't carry much weight. 2 top 10 wins versus a PC & Creighton when you have the same amount of losses should swing some votes TBH. Did't expect it, but am not holding it against the voters. Maybe if we go out and run over STJ it will swing back.

 

[StllH8L8ner]

@RuffRuff with a lot of influence over the voters apparently?

On a sidenote, I had Michigan/MSU on in the background while doing some things around the house, saw MSU with the lead at halftime and thought “Michigan can’t be THAT good for it to be this close”. Then I realized I had the women’s game on…

 

[aceboon]

going forward it would probably be a good idea to have another tough non-conf game scheduled in late Jan/Feb like what Duke has done the past 2 seasons with Illinois and Michigan

 

[lonsharkin51]

Michigan plays Duke in a couple of weeks. Will knock one of them down a few spots.

No it won’t

 

[CardiacAndre7]

It sucks I guess, but it’s not like it doesn’t make a little sense. Mich had 2 big wins and as someone mentioned we just don’t have the high end win opportunities at this point.

The Illinois win keeps looking better and better, though

 

[WhereistheDove?]

This was bound to happen. They have a better resume and better metrics. We jumped them after their loss due to recency bias but that fades and they’ve had a couple big wins recently that we just can’t get in the BE. This all means zero at the end of the day.

 

[ecasadoSBU]

Not shocked, CBS Sports was reporting that this would happen yesterday. I still think their conference should win a national championship before they automatically allow teams to bypass the team that hasn’t lost.

FACT!!!!!

 

[JungleLobo]

Next year we should schedule games against Gonzaga and Duke in January and February. They both need them like us

I think the Zags have had enough of east coast Huskies

 

[KingAG]

This was bound to happen. They have a better resume and better metrics. We jumped them after their loss due to recency bias but that fades and they’ve had a couple big wins recently that we just can’t get in the BE. This all means zero at the end of the day.

Better resume is debatable. Definitely better metrics though.

 

[WhereistheDove?]

Makes sense. Michigan beat #5 and #7 and we beat unranked.

Still they have to play @Purdue, vs Duke, @Illinois and vs Michigan St again.

Their six game stretch to end the regular season includes Purdue, Duke, Illinois, and MSU. Would be somewhat surprising if they don’t pick up at least one loss in that brutal stretch.

 

[DogMania]

Michigan beat #5 at the time Nebraska last Tuesday and then at #7 in-state rival Michigan State on Friday.

In the same week we beat 9-13 cross-border pain-in-the-ass, PC at home by 6, followed by our 27 pt beat-down at 12-10 Creighton, both unranked.

And if any of the voters watched UConn and Michigan games the past few weeks, can anyone blame the voters?

Don't get me wrong. I love our team and believe we have a chance to be among the best programs by tournament time. But based on what I've seen, and as we begin February, Michigan looks the more formidable team at this time.

As long as we keep on winning, and hopefully continue to play like we did on Saturday, we'll be just fine and would slip past Michigan and Zona in the polls when either of them slips up, if that's really that important to some.

It's always fun to see our team at the top during the season, but sitting atop the list at the beginning of April is what really counts.

 

[WhereistheDove?]

Better resume is debatable. Definitely better metrics though.

It’s not a knock on UConn. They are 8-0 vs our 5-1 in quad 1 wins and have blown out teams far more than we have. I still think we’ve seen their peak but haven’t yet really seen UConn’s but they have a better resume. A lot of that is just based on the conference we play in but still.

 

[TheShot1990]

I actually LOVE this. Free bulletin board material for Dan and the team. Great week for this to happen!

Logged onto to post the same, but you stole my thoughts. The real rankings come in April.

 

[KingAG]

It’s not a knock on UConn. They are 8-0 vs our 5-1 in quad 1 wins and have blown out teams far more than we have. I still think we’ve seen their peak but haven’t yet really seen UConn’s but they have a better resume. A lot of that is just based on the conference we play in but still.

I didn’t take it as a knock. I just think the teams we beat are really good and could be debated as better.

Their metrics are way better