It’s not the end of the world. Had to figure that would happen with two top 10 wins. Still think we have the better loss to Arizona down two starters.
The Big East has no juice. There seem to be a T25 v T25 matchup every night between either the Big 10, Big 12, or SEC. The Big East has had ONE single T25 vs T25 matchup. It's February.
Come on Ruff, we need to win against X 1st.
What if I like being angry?
You say this then question why I say it’s the BE fault. UConn is in a lose lose situation this year in conference. They have everything to lose and nothing to gain. Even when they blow them out it means nothing
Possibly. But this week was a weird week to do it when we just won by 30. I mean even in our rough month we didn’t lose to a Wisconsin level team. They also should’ve lost to penn State. We’ve both had a shaky month. They just lost. This week was why they jumped us. And if they won those two games no matter how much we won our games this week by, they were jumping us. Because 4/5 of the BE sucks
We definitely have the better loss. That is unarguable.
I recall the first time UConn reached a #1 ranking in 1995, it was a big deal, especially for a program that had never reached a Final 4. Now after 6 championships and multiple #1 rankings, it has definitely lost most of its shine. But it still interests me. The more we are up there, the more we are talked about and the more our brand is reinforced and recruiting and fundraising bolstered. So I would say it still matters, but not as much. It is nice being the basketball capital of the world.
The loss is old news at this point. These polls are week to week.
We did just get by PC at home. They have two top ten wins in one week. We have one all year (Illinois). They're also widely recognized as being neck and neck favorite with AZ from a metrics/Vegas perspective. This one really isn't that weird.
But you can say the same about practically every other team.
I still disagree with the drop - someone please find me a team that’s won 17 in a row and gone down in the rankings. Our OOC speaks for itself.
Michigan beat two top 10 teams this week, it's not at all weird they jumped us today.
Which all circles back to it’s the BE fault. UConn will never have the opportunity that Michigan had this week. They barely beat these teams and it’s “they can’t even blow out bad teams”. They blow them out “ it doesn’t matter because they suck”. You can start to see why a competitor would begin to get disinterested. Which is what I think the majority of out January problems stemmed from.
I’m not saying it’s weird. It’s just the BE’s fault. We’ll never have that opportunity this season in conference. We can win by 50 and it won’t matter so long as teams in better conferences continue to win. If Duke beats NC and Clemson they’ll jump us too.
It's nobodies fault, we just played the toughest teams on our schedule early in the season. St. John's fits into that mix and we haven't played our two regular season games against them yet. Nova may also be ranked when we go down there.
You said this week was a weird one for Michigan to jump UConn.
“We just played the toughest teams on our schedule early in the season”
Yea that was until I saw the light. It’s the BE.
