But, but, but, the Girlverines just beat the B1G's reigning national champion.........sure it was in 2000, but just proves how tough the league is.
an exhibition means nothing when it comes to selection Sunday
Was simply correcting the previous poster saying their best win was Louisville.
There are real consequences though.
Timing matters, though. And playing ranked teams over the course of a season is more meaningful to voters than playing none after mid-December. Look, the New Big East is not good this year. The bottom dwellers might not be quite as bad as in previous years. I mean Seton Hall and DePaul were barely d1 programs at times in recent years, but the problem is that the middle of the league isn’t very good. The top is 1 team deep which has been a fairly standard NBE issue but now the middle has been hollowed out. It’s basically the problem Gonzaga has had for years. There is a big dog then maybe a kinda big dog then everybody else. The latest bracketology has the NBE as a 3 bid league.
There are a lot of games left to be played in the B12 and B10 to determine 1 seed. Any one of AZ, Houston, ISU could still get hot and make a move. I think Kansas and TT have too much ground to make up. Illinois could win the B10 and warrant a 1.
| Season | Week | Team | Prev Rank | New Rank | Record | Notes / Context |
| 1992–93 | 7 | Indiana | #4 | #5 | 1–0 | Michigan jumped them after a high-profile win |
| 1993–94 | 4 | North Carolina | #3 | #4 | 1–0 | Arkansas beat #6 Arizona and surged |
| 1993–94 | 10 | Kentucky | #5 | #6 | 0–0 | Idle week; UMass had two strong wins |
| 1996–97 | 10 | Wake Forest | #2 | #3 | 1–0 | Kansas beat #4 Cincinnati and jumped ahead |
| 1997–98 | 4 | Arizona | #3 | #4 | 0–0 | Idle week; Kansas had two strong wins |
| 1997–98 | 11 | Duke | #3 | #4 | 2–0 | UNC beat #7 Clemson and voters rewarded the stronger win |
| 1998–99 | 6 | Stanford | #4 | #5 | 1–0 | Maryland beat #5 Kentucky and jumped ahead |
| 1999–2000 | 3 | Auburn | #4 | #5 | 0–0 | Idle week; Arizona beat two ranked teams |
| 1999–2000 | 9 | Syracuse | #5 | #6 | 2–0 | Michigan State beat #7 Purdue and moved up |
| 2000–01 | 8 | Michigan State | #2 | #3 | 1–0 | Stanford beat #4 Duke and jumped MSU |
| 2001–02 | 5 | Illinois | #4 | #5 | 1–0 | Oklahoma beat #14 Arkansas |
| 2001–02 | 10 | Kansas | #2 | #3 | 0–0 | Idle week; Maryland beat #9 Oklahoma |
| 2003–04 | 7 | Florida | #5 | #6 | 2–0 | UConn beat #13 Oklahoma |
| 2004–05 | 4 | Oklahoma State | #5 | #6 | 1–0 | Illinois beat #1 Wake Forest |
| 2004–05 | 12 | Kansas | #2 | #3 | 0–0 | Idle week; UNC beat #4 Wake Forest |
| 2005–06 | 9 | Villanova | #4 | #5 | 1–0 | Memphis beat #9 Gonzaga |
| 2006–07 | 5 | Pittsburgh | #3 | #4 | 1–0 | UCLA beat #19 Texas A&M |
| 2006–07 | 14 | Wisconsin | #2 | #3 | 0–0 | Idle week; Ohio State beat #20 Purdue |
| 2008–09 | 6 | Texas | #5 | #6 | 1–0 | Wake Forest beat #9 Baylor |
| 2009–10 | 4 | Villanova | #3 | #4 | 2–0 | Texas beat #10 USC |
| 2009–10 | 11 | Purdue | #4 | #5 | 1–0 | Syracuse beat #9 West Virginia |
| 2010–11 | 8 | Syracuse | #4 | #5 | 2–0 | UConn beat #12 Texas |
| 2011–12 | 6 | Louisville | #4 | #5 | 1–0 | UNC beat #9 Wisconsin |
| 2011–12 | 12 | Missouri | #5 | #6 | 2–0 | Duke beat #8 UNC |
| 2013–14 | 9 | Wisconsin | #4 | #5 | 2–0 | Michigan State beat #5 Ohio State |
| 2014–15 | 7 | Louisville | #4 | #5 | 1–0 | Duke beat #2 Wisconsin |
| 2014–15 | 14 | Villanova | #4 | #5 | 2–0 | Virginia beat #9 Notre Dame |
| 2015–16 | 5 | Kansas | #4 | #5 | 1–0 | Maryland beat UConn |
| 2015–16 | 14 | Iowa | #4 | #5 | 0–0 | Oklahoma beat #10 West Virginia |
| 2016–17 | 9 | UCLA | #4 | #5 | 1–0 | Gonzaga beat #21 Saint Mary’s |
| 2017–18 | 6 | Wichita State | #4 | #5 | 1–0 | Duke beat #24 Florida State |
| 2017–18 | 14 | Purdue | #3 | #4 | 2–0 | Virginia beat #18 Clemson |
| 2018–19 | 10 | Michigan | #2 | #3 | 1–0 | Duke beat #13 Florida State |
| 2019–20 | 4 | Duke | #1 | #2 | 1–0 | Louisville beat #4 Michigan |
| 2019–20 | 7 | Louisville | #1 | #3 | 2–0 | Kansas & Gonzaga both beat ranked teams |
| 2019–20 | 12 | Auburn | #4 | #5 | 2–0 | Baylor beat #3 Kansas |
| 2020–21 | 8 | Iowa | #4 | #5 | 1–0 | Michigan beat #9 Wisconsin |
| 2021–22 | 4 | UCLA | #2 | #5 | 0–0 | Duke beat #1 Gonzaga |
| 2021–22 | 10 | Purdue | #3 | #4 | 2–0 | Baylor beat #8 Iowa State |
| 2021–22 | 14 | Arizona | #3 | #4 | 1–0 | Auburn beat #12 Kentucky |
| 2022–23 | 6 | Virginia | #3 | #5 | 1–0 | UConn beat #20 Iowa State |
| 2022–23 | 11 | Houston | #1 | #2 | 2–0 | Purdue beat #24 Ohio State |
| 2023–24 | 3 | Marquette | #4 | #5 | 1–0 | UConn beat Indiana |
| 2023–24 | 7 | Arizona | #1 | #2 | 1–0 | Purdue beat Arizona head-to-head |
| 2023–24 | 10 | Kansas | #2 | #4 | 1–0 | Houston & UConn had stronger wins |
| 2023–24 | 14 | North Carolina | #3 | #4 | 2–0 | UConn beat #4 Marquette |
4x in 23-24 alone.
I was told it was a conspiracy against UConn and money was involved.
It's an ambiguous thread title.
It comes down to NIL.I guess I don't know how we fix it if we aren't recruiting at a high level. I've been saying this for a couple years now. The BE as a whole doesn't recruit well at the HS level, so how do we miraculously turn it around?
Latest mock has Zubi, and then Dillon Mitchell back end of 2nd round. The entire first two rounds is made up of SEC/B12/B10/ACC. It's nothing but a talent shortage because we can't recruit. Who do we have in this league next year that has a chance to be special? Gtown has a fairly high kid coming in. No one really mopped up in the portal this past go outside of UConn & StJ.
Go look at the B12 - it's a lot of star power through HS recruiting, mixed with high end returners.
Best HS class after us is Creighton at 37. The BE is cooked. It's just not a draw anymore for top kids, and gets second rate transfers.
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A lot of this just isn't true.
This curious defense of Duke, after countless other disturbing posts extolling Duke, has the unmistakable stink of a Dookie troll, @WeAreDuke.
Fair. Would appreciate if you could elaborate, because I have no reason to believe that if the big east schools were paying players more than the P4, or at least the same, that the conference would have a larger number of highly regarded, star players. Maybe what you’re suggesting is that this year is an aberration. If so again if you could elaborate that would be fantastic.
The Big East is spending a lot on NIL, they had highly nationally ranked portal classes, and a lot of players from high major/P5 schools. Shaheen brought in a bunch of mid-major players because those are the guys he wanted. He didn't spend all the money they had set aside to get players. He brought in P5 transfers the previous season and it was a disaster.
Which schools had high ranked portal classes other than StJ?
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