AP Poll - Week 6

[UCLJ0211]

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UConn stays at #5. Iowa State up to 4 after smoking Purdue.

 

[prankster]

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UConn stays at #5. Iowa State up to 4 after smoking Purdue.

So...if we hadn't been down 2 starters, we would be #1?

I have some doubts there.

But #1 in early December means significantly less than being #1 in April.

 

[REB1094]

I guess the cap for the 1 loss club is #5. Would have liked UConn to slot up but fineeee

Seton Hall has votes!!!

 

[UCLJ0211]

I guess the cap for the 1 loss club is #5. Would have liked UConn to slot up but fineeee

Seton Hall has votes!!!

Nova too!

 

[brihman]

Might be the stiffest competition we’ve seen for a title while we have an elite team. Michigan is mashing everyone. Arizona and Duke with a lotta top tier wins. I don’t know about Iowa State and Purdue but Duke/Michigan/Arizona are elite.

 

[upstater]

Not often that you beat #11 Illinois and a ranked Kansas and you don't move up at all.

 

[Dutch Boyd]

Not often that you beat #11 Illinois and a ranked Kansas and you don't move up at all.

The teams above us haven’t lost and have good wins as well. If our team was at full strength against Arizona we’d be #1.

 

[RuffRuff]

This is the poll!

 

[UCLJ0211]

This is the poll!

Number 5 again, just like the 23-24 team. 😉

 

[alexd]

This is the poll!

Damn! That Connecticut team wins a lot!!!!

 

[NewBlood]

How many in the top 10 have played most of the season with 40% of their starting lineup out?

This team will be designed to PEAK in mid-march and early April.

 

[NewBlood]

Damn! That Connecticut team wins a lot!!!!

It is a beautiful thing isn't it?

 

[RuffRuff]

Damn! That Connecticut team wins a lot!!!!

Wild how if you look at the cutoff there, the winners are so much across UConn, UNC, Florida and Nova. 12-21

 

[RuffRuff]

How many in the top 10 have played most of the season with 40% of their starting lineup out?

This team will be designed to PEAK in mid-march and early April.

I'd be surprised if the winner didn't come from the top 5-6 teams.

 

[NHUConnfan]

I love how Dylan Sinn dropped us a spot to #10 this week.

 

[bazzdog]

Might be the stiffest competition we’ve seen for a title while we have an elite team. Michigan is mashing everyone. Arizona and Duke with a lotta top tier wins. I don’t know about Iowa State and Purdue but Duke/Michigan/Arizona are elite.

Absolutely right. There are about 7-8 excellent teams. Iowa St is for real and BYU will be real good. And Kansas has a chance to be elite too.

 

[HooperScooper]

I love how Dylan Sinn dropped us a spot to #10 this week.

I attended Indiana University and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism in 2015.

Didn't like the Braylon Mullins recruitment, I guess. Or that Liam McNeeley decommitted and then went to UConn.😀

 

[upstater]

The teams above us haven’t lost and have good wins as well. If our team was at full strength against Arizona we’d be #1.

I know that, just saying that it is highly unusual

 

[Jaydumo20]

Might be the stiffest competition we’ve seen for a title while we have an elite team. Michigan is mashing everyone. Arizona and Duke with a lotta top tier wins. I don’t know about Iowa State and Purdue but Duke/Michigan/Arizona are elite.

You could be right.
Predicting a uconn-23-january-esque slide when Michigan gets deep into conference play.
I still think we are the best team in the nation when Reed gets healthy. And we have the best tourney coaches.

Everyone was high on purdue... until they weren't.

 

[Tyler2Rings]

This is the poll!

I love how any time you see a "last X champions did Y" stat, it is clearly tailored to fit the 2014 team. This had to have been their highpoint in the AP that year (until the postseason)

 

[RuffRuff]

Predicting a uconn-23-january-esque slide when Michigan gets deep into conference play.
In regards to us, remember, more than half the teams we faced in the tourney, '23 and '24, were the teams that were gonna give us a terrible time (Illinois and T Shannon were the worst matchup for us??).... yet a great time was had by all.

It really depends on where we finish. If we win tomorrow, I would wager we finish the year as a top 3 team given the BE slate.

I honestly don’t see many BE teams even on the road this year that are going to give us problems unless they light it up from 3.

 

[Jaydumo20]

It really depends on where we finish. If we win tomorrow, I would wager we finish the year as a top 3 team given the BE slate.

I honestly don’t see many BE teams even on the road this year that are going to give us problems unless they light it up from 3.

Id take any finish in the top 10.

Our play in the tourney is a different animal.
And that's not homerism. Id be saying the same thing about uconn basketball if I were a duke, Michigan or AZ fan- "please don't let us get uconn in our region"

 

[Ewekon]

I thought Indiana was #1

 

[TheChamps990411]

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UConn stays at #5. Iowa State up to 4 after smoking Purdue.

Iowa St has no business moving ahead of Uconn in the polls after beating a stupidly overrated Purdue team.

 

[DW1361]

Like a well trained race horse, I like our current position at no. 5. We will be there in the end.