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Message: [QUOTE="Plebe, post: 3335660, member: 6927"] Back to the topic of the AP poll: Some teams I think are significantly overranked: [TABLE] [TR] [TD][CENTER]Team (AP ranking)[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]Seeding in 2019 NCAAs[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]end-2019 Massey ranking[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]Rationale[/CENTER][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Kentucky (13)[/TD] [TD][CENTER]6[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]24[/CENTER][/TD] [TD]Lost 2 of top 3 players to graduation. Not at all clear who can fill the void to complement Howard.[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Michigan State (15)[/TD] [TD][CENTER]9[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]38[/CENTER][/TD] [TD]Lost Allen (graduation) and Cooks (transfer). Might be better than last year, but 23 spots better?[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Indiana (18)[/TD] [TD][CENTER]10[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]41[/CENTER][/TD] [TD]I hesitate to include them here, but I think people are overestimating how much they'll improve. All-glue player Bendu Yeaney is still rehabbing a torn achilles.[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Arkansas (20)[/TD] [TD][CENTER]WNIT[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]53[/CENTER][/TD] [TD]Though I think they'll make the NCAAs, I think there's some recency bias at play here, based on their run in the SEC tournament last March.[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Tennessee (23)[/TD] [TD][CENTER]11[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]49[/CENTER][/TD] [TD]I'm morally obligated to include them in this list. Are we really rewarding them for beating the Little Sisters of the Wounded Leprechauns?[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]West Virginia (25)[/TD] [TD][CENTER]WNIT[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]47[/CENTER][/TD] [TD]Muldrow was a huge graduation loss, and big question marks hang over Tynice Martin. They do have Gondrezick back, but this team has a lot of questions to answer.[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/QUOTE]

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