AP Top 25 - UConn down to #11

[Conndog]

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Other notables -
UCLA down 5 to #7
USC down 4 to #15
Utah down 4 to #20
UNC down 4 to #24

It sucks to be a school with a “U” in its name

 

[Centerstream]

Wait a minute. We lost to a ranked team and beat a ranked team. What is going on here. We've lost 4 games to ranked teams and beaten 5 ranked teams.

Last week when we beat Marquette, they were not in the AP Top 25. But they were close, 26th.

 

[CL82]

ND should be ranked ahead of us.

Interesting that we were down three but they're only up one.

 

[hoopsnloops32]

Interesting that we were down three but they're only up one.

they lost at home to a lower ranked team before they played us. not surprising IMO

 

[nwhoopfan]

, staying undefeated against weak competition lets you move up in voters eyes.

Unless you are Gonzaga.

 

[Audi1954]

Interesting that we were down three but they're only up one.

They lost to Syracuse!

 

[Bald Husky]

We are screwed for tournament seating and location. ND was a huge game and we blew it.

 

[SLY63]

We can get back to top 10 if we beat SC, but that's a long shot.

We would be top 5 if we beat SC at Columbia, but that is a real long shot

 

[DallasDomer]

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Thanks but when I select an individual voter it doesn't show their votes. Am I missing something?

 

[Plebe]

We can get back to top 10 if we beat SC, but that's a long shot.

 

[WLT1717]

Ohio State and Indiana's 4 spot jumps feel a bit unearned (especially Indiana's); but given all the losses last week, staying undefeated against weak competition lets you move up in voters eyes.

They do play each other this weekend though...so it likely works itself out.

If you haven’t seen IU play, check them out. They are a solid team and the rematch should be a game to see.

 

[HuskyNan]

Thanks but when I select an individual voter it doesn't show their votes. Am I missing something?

The poll will change, showing each person’s individual votes

 

[maple]

They lost to Syracuse!

True but Syracuse also upset FSU the week prior and nearly upset VT yesterday as well. Gotta imagine pollsters are thinking Syracuse has potential.

 

[Cuango]

We would be top 5 if we beat SC at Columbia, but that is a real long shot

I think we need something a little stronger than “long shot”!

 

[willie99]

Why? They smoked us on our home court in front of a hostile crowd and all of the Husky greats Geno could drag out to Gampel in the middle of January. If you're not ranking the teams based on head to head results, then what are you basing it on?

Everybody losses to somebody, many lose to teams ranked below them

You'd have to be unbeaten to be ranked above everybody. It is what it is.

Using your argument, Cuse should surely be ranked higher than ND, they beat them twice

 

[NYCHUSKIES]

It's safe to say with LSU loosing today to an unranked team, we can expect Uconn back in the top 10 next week. Assuming all goes well this week.

 

[Darwin]

At least no new injuries in that horrid ND game. Each of the last two ND games featured an injury to a key UConn player -- Paige in 2021, Azzi in 2022. (We played them in early December the previous two times).

Super disappointed in Saturday's game, but always remembering: we've got FIVE players out. Yes, ND has a key player out. But not three starters, and not five total.

Paige, Edwards and Muhl have been starters all season, no?

 

[Kat]

As the top ranked teams lose games to tough competition, UConn will be cruising through the Big Easy, and rising in the rankings.

 

[DrummerDee]

Well, LSU lost on Monday to unranked MS STATE, and K State just lost tonight against unranked Oklahoma.

 

[hoopsnloops32]

Paige, Edwards and Muhl have been starters all season, no?

But would they have been if we had a healthy Jana, Azzi and Ducharme? Me thinks not. I think the likely starters a fully healthy team would have been Paige, Azzi, Carol, Aaliyah and Jana.

Also, Azzi, Carol and Aubrey have all been starters before as well. So either way you slice it, three starters are out.

 

[hoopsfan22]

But would they have been if we had a healthy Jana, Azzi and Ducharme? Me thinks not. I think the likely starters a fully healthy team would have been Paige, Azzi, Carol, Aaliyah and Jana.

There is no chance Jana would have started over Nika. I'll bet that thought never even crossed Geno's mind.

 

[hoopsnloops32]

There is no chance Jana would have started over Nika. I'll bet that thought never even crossed Geno's mind.

strongly disagree. We need a center more than anything, no way was the plan to play four guards from the start.

 

[hoopsfan22]

strongly disagree. We need a center more than anything, no way was the plan to play four guards from the start.

It was. There is zero chance Geno was benching a multi-year senior starting PG for a player that had never played a minute of college ball just because she's tall. If that was indeed the plan, he could have simply started Ice over Nika to fulfill that second big role in the starting lineup. Geno's own words show how much he wants Nika on the court as much as physically possible. As recently as last night he reiterated how they are a different team with her on the court for the 10000th time, but probably he could say it 10000 more times and it won't be enough for the Nika detractors because they simply know more than coach does.

 

[hoopsnloops32]

It was. There is zero chance Geno was benching a multi-year senior starting PG for a player that had never played a minute of college ball just because she's tall. If that was indeed the plan, he could have simply started Ice over Nika to fulfill that second big role in the starting lineup. Geno's own words show how much he wants Nika on the court as much as physically possible. As recently as last night he reiterated how they are a different team with her on the court for the 10000th time, but probably he could say it 10000 more times and it won't be enough for the Nika detractors.

Geno has said it wasn’t though. If he was going to move anyone to bench it would be Ducharme but a Geno has said multiple time he PLANNED on having a center to start along Aaliyah until Jana got hurt.

 

[Darwin]

But would they have been if we had a healthy Jana, Azzi and Ducharme? Me thinks not. I think the likely starters a fully healthy team would have been Paige, Azzi, Carol, Aaliyah and Jana.

Also, Azzi, Carol and Aubrey have all been starters before as well. So either way you slice it, three starters are out.

Muhl was always going to be a starter. Get real, still the best PG Uconn has. As for Jana, you are speculating, nobody knows what was there and ready at this level without her injury, nobody. In any event, Paige, Edwards and Muhl were starters coming in, so yeah, three starters not two. Hyperbole works sometimes, not this time.

 

[hoopsnloops32]

Muhl was always going to be a starter. Get real, still the best PG Uconn has. As for Jana, you are speculating, nobody knows what was there and ready at this level without her injury, nobody. In any event, Paige, Edwards and Muhl were starters coming in, so yeah, three starters not two. Hyperbole works sometimes, not this time.

You also don’t know. But we do know the actual FACTS that Ducharme, Griffin , and Fudd have all been starters and considered main starters jn their time at UCONN. So three starters.

And if Nika is the best point guard we have why has she, CD AND Geno all said how hard is has been for her to move it of the point guard position this season? She’s not even playing pg now and you think she would be the main PG for a healthy UConn team. Mhmmm.