AP Poll - Week 6

[WrenchFan69]

I simply don't understand how Purdue jumps UVA but we can't jump both

 

[Topdawg]

Congratulations to the team for steady progress up the rankings. Would be delighted to see us at the top at the end of March and into April!

 

[Kitaman]

#1 feels cursed… I’ll take #2 or 3 until we get a couple BE games under our belt.

Butler gives me the heebie-jeebies. They’re trending upward w/ Thad Matta.

Hunter or Hunted. I'll take hunted.

 

[SoFla Steve]

What moron gave a first place vote to Tennessee?

Matt Charboneau - The Detroit News

 

[Tyler2Rings]

No, the team would only gain 3 points if those voters ranked UConn #3. And we are 10 points off of Virginia.

I'm not too bent out of shape. UConn is clearly in the top tier. 42 points back of Purdue (#1) and 140 points ahead of Bama (#4)

 

[AdamaNation]

Seems we could play with a chip this week?!?

 

[Umami Zen]

There seems to be a pattern.. As long as we keep winning and don't lose.. Voters will take notice.. Gotta say.. We're running out of spots to move up into..

 

[MTBingNinja]

It’s hard for the voters to have us leapfrogging over teams, seeing that Purdue and Virginia were ahead of us. I’m a Kenpom guy, UConn should be #1 but if we keep on winning things will sort themselves out.

 

[RayIsTheGOAT]

I simply don't understand how Purdue jumps UVA but we can't jump both

The points are so tight and different voters value different things. I'm thinking that some saw a road conference victory as being huge for Purdue. Again, I think it's clear that there's an argument for any of Purdue, Virginia and UConn to be number one. We are virtually tied with Virginia for #2.

Let's go take care of business on the road at Hinkle and let the voters think some more.

 

[BigTenFan]

Both UConn and Purdue will be playing 10 minutes from each other next Saturday night in Indianapolis.
Maybe an afternoon scrimmage?

 

[HailUConn]

Just came out, we are #3 as expected:

15 #1 votes though. I’ll take it

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[Kolumbo]

Others receiving votes:
Marquette 39
Xavier 26
Creighton 11

Johnnies don't even get a vote. Awful schedule I guess.
I don't understand the reluctance of leapfrogging. Evaluate each team on its own merits, not based on where it started pre-season polls.

 

[aburks41]

The points are so tight and different voters value different things. I'm thinking that some saw a road conference victory as being huge for Purdue. Again, I think it's clear that there's an argument for any of Purdue, Virginia and UConn to be number one. We are virtually tied with Virginia for #2.

Let's go take care of business on the road at Hinkle and let the voters think some more.

If a voter thinks an overtime win over a .500 Nebraska team is more impressive than giving Florida their worst home loss since 1998, then they need to have their brain checked.

 

[HailUConn]

A breakdown of Vote ballots for UConn :

 

[RayIsTheGOAT]

If a voter thinks an overtime win over a .500 Nebraska team is more impressive than giving Florida their worst home loss since 1998, then they need to have their brain checked.

Agreed... it's been well-established that a lot of these voters don't follow the games or landscape of college basketball very closely.

And if you have Alabama above UConn at this stage in the season, you should really have your voting privileges revoked.

The only explanation for the few who had Bama over us might be strength of schedule. The analytics don't like our SOS, but they like Bama's. But a head-to-head beatdown should trump that.

 

[AuRevoirAAC]

So what happens when #5 Houston takes down #2 Virginia on Saturday? Man, what a bizarre system if they somehow leapfrog UConn.

 

[HooperScooper]

Just came out, we are #3 as expected:

15 #1 votes though. I’ll take it

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It didn't just come out. It was posted in this thread 30 minutes before you did. Lol

 

[StllH8L8ner]

A breakdown of Vote ballots for UConn :

I look at this and am reminded that there was one single “sports writer” who didn’t vote for Jeter as a first ballot MLB Hall of Famer. I.e some people are just incredibly desperate to have their name in lights for any dumb reason.

 

[ctchamps]

Not directed at you, I see your joking, but I do see this scrimmage brought up both here and on Reddit. People forget we had neither Karaban or Dre…

Absolutely joking. We were down key parts of the starting lineup, integrating new players more than Virginia had to do and it is a scrimmage where the score is far less important than utilizing it to develop your team.

If anyone believes we could not have scored more against LIU and easily have set the UConn scoring record they would have missed that Hurley was playing all out for most of the game but was also working on sets and plays. Same as at Virginia but we were able to observe it for ourselves.

 

[ctchamps]

It didn't just come out. It was posted in this thread 30 minutes before you did. Lol

post nazi

 

[CL82]