YKCornelius
Yukon to my friends
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Plebe, I will give you props for digging out that SI article, although let's agree it was about the Men's AP poll, not the Women's nor the Coaches.“Nonsensical,” quite the hefty accusation! Yet it's been frequently mentioned on the Boneyard, including last year with great angst when UConn's ranking fell below teams that weren't playing good teams at the time, or whenever LSU's ranking tends to rise during a soft OOC merely as a result of other teams' losses.
Here's an SI article:
“Every Monday’s ranking changes feel formulaic. Every team that loses gets dropped a few spots, with almost zero regard for the strength of the opponent or circumstances surrounding the loss. If a team doesn’t lose, it’ll move up, again with almost zero regard for how that team actually played that week.”
Your facts are off. Creighton was dropped from the poll after week 1 following their loss to S. Dakota State. They were already unranked when they played KSU and UCLA.
For full context, I said: “If anything, an 8 seed is a tad generous.” I think their “true” seed would put them at a low 8 or a 9, but since the committee is allowed to bump a team up or down a seed line for procedural purposes, they could end up as high as a 7 or as low as a 10. I believe the committee for the first time this year will release its 1-68 true seed listing, so we should know exactly how they ranked them. My estimate is in the 31-35 range.
I also give you props for going back and researching when Creighton dropped from the rankings. While true it happened BEFORE the KSU game, it doesn't reduce the factual accuracy of my statement. When they dropped is irrelevant. What is relevant, and the point of my statement that you ignored, is that the pollsters agreed with the bad optics of Creighton's losses, but later restored the Blue Jay's ranking in mid-January where they've been ever since. Said differently, the pollsters view of the non-UConn losses were factored into the ranking of Creighton from the beginning and continue to be factored to this day. That's the bottom line.
I will put you down as a broad stroke "low 8 or a 9". If Creighton ends up anywhere in the 8 or 9 seed cohort, more props to you.
Finally, don't take "nonsensical" as an affront to you. It applies only to those that goofy statement you made. The large majority of your posts are sound and logical, and I often agree with them and find them very insightful. Nothing personal.
Peace. Go UConn.