AP Poll Week 17 (UConn #3)

[HU5KIES]

NCAA College Basketball Rankings: AP Top 25 Basketball Poll

1. Houston 1540 (53)
2. Purdue 1460 (4)
3. UConn 1459 (5)

Nearly tied for 2nd.

5. Marquette
12. Creighton

 

[Poe]

1 point behind Perdue, but one more first place vote

 

[brihman]

Seems fair - really is Purdue, Houston, UConn at the top with just about everyone with 6 losses behind the Big 3.

 

[Platt81]

No love. Creighton beating UConn but losing to St John’s climbs them three spots, but yet UConn losing to a top 15 drops them two spots. These writers have no clue.

 

[runner11]

All good. 1 in the East is what matters. As long as no voters had us lower than three, I have no gripes.

 

[Kolumbo]

Houston moves up while BYU, TT, TCU drop out.
USF is ranked. Good for them.

 

[XLCenterFan]

Shocked they didn’t have Tenn jump us. Whatever. AP Poll is full of squirrel voters.

 

[UChusky916]

Recency bias. We were #1 over Purdue and Houston a few weeks ago. All 3 teams have each lost one game since then. Only reason we fell to 3 is because we lost most recently.

 

[Austin316]

Ok serious question - Who let South Florida in the AP poll?

 

[Tyler2Rings]

Ok serious question - Who let South Florida in the AP poll?

Borges had them at #16

 

[Austin316]

Borges had them at #16

13 straight is pretty strong statement I guess. I tip my cap and welcome them despite the American…

 

[freescooter]

NCAA College Basketball Rankings: AP Top 25 Basketball Poll

1. Houston 1540 (53)
2. Purdue 1460 (4)
3. UConn 1459 (5)

Nearly tied for 2nd.

5. Marquette
12. Creighton

So apparently you get more points for beating us than you lose for getting slapped around by by St John’s. Or the voting was done before Sunday’s results. I’d think the Creighton results would more or less be a wash. Also gives some credence to the theory that UConn was their Super Bowl.

 

[Blue Blood]

Kind of wild that 4-11 are all 21-6 shows the GAP between the top 3 right now is fairly large

 

[Inyatkin]

Ok serious question - Who let South Florida in the AP poll?

Remember a few years back when they won two NCAA tournament games? Most random mini-run ever

 

[J187Money]

As long as we end up with a 1 seed and the path is NYC/Boston/Phoenix - I don't really care what the polls say.

 

[HeGotGame]

If we are not #1 its all irrelevant. Just give me the 1 seed in the East at this point.

 

[Mike Honcho]

No love. Creighton beating UConn but losing to St John’s climbs them three spots, but yet UConn losing to a top 15 drops them two spots. These writers have no clue.

I can't tell if this is a troll job or not.

 

[bendm]

only houston deserved to jump us. purdue lost to osu 2 days before we lost to creighton that's a much worse L.

 

[Dibbie]

I wouldn’t have cared if it weren’t for that damn most weeks as #1 thread. Sitting at 11, wanted to get into the Top 10

 

[Chin Diesel]

#2 in the USA Today coaches poll.

NCAA Men’s College Basketball Coaches Poll | USA Today Sports

Weekly results from the USA TODAY Sports NCAA Men’s College Basketball coaches poll, conducted weekly using a panel of head coaches at Division I schools.

sportsdata.usatoday.com

 

[HooperScooper]

I saw this in Borges' article about the #3 ranking. Wasn't aware of that.

Also, for the first time, there will be an AP Top 25 poll released the day after the national championship game.

 

[BugsyCT]

Thought we’d fall to 2 but whatever. Just give us that 1 seed in the East.

 

[freescooter]

I saw this in Borges' article about the #3 ranking. Wasn't aware of that.

Also, for the first time, there will be an AP Top 25 poll released the day after the national championship game.

Oh that should be meaningful. I predict Duke will be #1

 

[giddyup]

only houston deserved to jump us. purdue lost to osu 2 days before we lost to creighton that's a much worse L.

Ah, they’ve been looking for any reason possible to move Purdue ahead. No surprise.

 

[Platt81]

I can't tell if this is a troll job or not.

No troll job at all. Beating UConn was viewed by the writers as a momentous enough of a feat to move up three spots, even when losing badly to St John’s for Creighton. But yet the superiority for UConn that worked for Creighton worked against UConn themselves. Let’s not forget UConn was unanimous #1 last week, and now with the same amount of losses as the other two have fallen behind them. It’s all semantics and honestly is better for Hurley to push the lack of respect to the players, but I’m just saying if beating UConn is so great bc they are great, why is them losing worthy of the fall too?

 

[GHSWolverines]

What I would like to see to finish the regular season
1. Win the BE regular season title.
2. Win the BETZ
3. one seed in the east

 

[nomar]

I'm not one for complaining about disrespect but Purdue has 3 bad losses and we lost on the road to the 12th ranked team. You could make a good case we should still be #1, but we're better than Purdue. I get the arguments the other way but we are crushing teams and had 1 bad loss to a good team that shot the lights out at home.

 

[GHSWolverines]

I'm not one for complaining about disrespect but Purdue has a lot of bad losses and we lost on the road to the 12th ranked team. You could make a good case we should still be #1, but we're better than Purdue. I get the arguments the other way but we are crushing teams and had 1 bad loss to a good team that shot the lights out at home.

Seaton Hall was devastating. I can't wait when we kick their butt on Sunday

 

[BGesus4]

I saw this in Borges' article about the #3 ranking. Wasn't aware of that.

Also, for the first time, there will be an AP Top 25 poll released the day after the national championship game.

All the whining from couches about not caring about anything but being number 1 in April really paid off

 

[Chin Diesel]

Thought we’d fall to 2 but whatever. Just give us that 1 seed in the East.

UConn is #2 in the USA Today Coaches poll. One point ahead of Purdue.
Purdue is #2 in the AP poll. One point ahead of UConn.

In both polls UConn has more first place votes.

It's a push.