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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.
 
WrenchFan69 said:
I simply don't understand how Purdue jumps UVA but we can't jump both
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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.
 
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.
 
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RayIsTheGOAT said:
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.
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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.
 
aburks41 said:
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.
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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.
 
HailUConn said:
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
 
HailUConn said:
A breakdown of Vote ballots for UConn :
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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.
 
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runner11 said:
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…
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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.
 
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MervthePurvis said:
Seems we could play with a chip this week?!?
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Unfortunately we are literally not playing this week lol nothing until Saturday with Butler

I would be very scared if I were a fan of any team we play until we are #1. If I’m Hurley I’m having this team blow out everyone by as much as humanly possible and keep making these idiot voters look as clueless as they are.
 
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StllH8L8ner said:
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.
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Right, or they'll pick out one obscure metric that goes against the grain and make that their number 1 consideration in voting to be edgy.
 
GameTime said:
Even though it took Perdue overtime to barely beat Nebraska, they do already have 5 quad 1 wins. I am ok being behind them…. For now.
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Latest rankings must have dropped somebody becaus Purdue is now at 4 quad one wins. And they only have the one additional quad two win. UConn has three and three. For what its worth, Sagarin has us with 5 wins against top 50 teams.
 
August_West said:
They are playing well, this will be a much bigger test than Florida on the road by all indications.

Plus what really gives me the heebie jeebies is it's simply first league game. We've are 1-9 in the opener the last 10 years I think. Combine that with a huge target on our back being undefeated, and a huge opportunity for Butler to set themselves up for being in a post season conversation and it's going be a heavy lift.

For that exact reason, I like it though. It seems like a great time for a road league opener against a good team, because every challenge we've faced so far we aced. This team seems to relish "tests" .
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What I don't like about the Butler game is it comes right after finals. Player's minds are rightly on other things this week.
 
Rocktheworld said:
Unfortunately we are literally not playing this week lol nothing until Saturday with Butler

I would be very scared if I were a fan of any team we play until we are #1. If I’m Hurley I’m having this team blow out everyone by as much as humanly possible and keep making these idiot voters look as clueless as they are.
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screw the voters blow them out anyways
 
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AuRevoirAAC said:
So what happens when #5 Houston takes down #2 Virginia on Saturday? Man, what a bizarre system if they somehow leapfrog UConn.
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I think we would slide into #2. Houston wouldn't get any first place votes since they have a loss. Purdue and UConn likely split UVA's first place votes
 
StllH8L8ner said:
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.
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Mariano is the only MLB player to ever get 100% of the vote and Jeter is the next highest percentage. They certainly aren't the two greatest baseball players ever.
 
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