ESPN 2021 class rankings

[WFFL]

It was a worse situation for S Car in 2017 that UConn in 2020. And if they could win a title then then so could have UConn last year. I'm not saying it would have happened but simply that it happens often in wcbb that the No 1 in the AP poll doesn't win the championship.

What I can't understand is how a fan base that is predicting a championship in 2021 and others beyond 2021 needs to try and claim a bogus one for a year that's done and gone.

I concur you are definitely right my friend .

 

[Alydar]

Speaking of the 2017 Miss state debacle ....did anyone here notice at the 2:15 mark of the 2nd QTR the cam swivels to Sue Bird the goddess and she says to Megan Rapinoe "Why does he have her in?" LOL referring to Natalie Butler after she turns it over with a travel

Sorry but I doubt many UConn fans watch that game again. Just as doubt S Carolina fans watch their losses to UConn.

 

[WFFL]

Sorry but I doubt many UConn fans watch that game again. Just as doubt S Carolina fans watch their losses to UConn.

No shade , just a hilarious laugh at how serious Sue was about Why Geno had Butler in the game AT ALL . #SharedThoughts

 

[Alydar]

No shade , just a hilarious laugh at how serious Sue was about Why Geno had Butler in the game AT ALL . #SharedThoughts

Remember that Butler led the nation in rebounding one year.

 

[WFFL]

Remember that Butler led the nation in rebounding one year.

Yes , but not at UCONN unfortunately ...Tell that to Sue The Goat !

 

[HuskylnSC]

The bottom line is that without a championship tournament winner, no school can claim a championship. 18 times since 1987 a team not ranked #1 won the championship. Teams ranked 3,4,5,6, 8, and 11 have ended the season as champions. Geno has said many times being #1 in the poll really doesn't prove anything.

Year	Champion	Rank	Number 1
2019	Baylor (37-1)	1
2018	Notre Dame (34-3)	5	Uconn
2017	South Carolina (33-4)	3	Uconn
2016	Connecticut (38-0)	1
2015	Connecticut (38-1)	1
2014	Connecticut (40-0)	1
2013	Connecticut (35-4)	3	Baylor
2012	Baylor (40-0)	1
2011	Texas A&M (33-5)	8	UConn
2010	Connecticut (39-0)	1
2009	Connecticut (39-0)	1
2008	Tennessee (36-2)	3	UConn
2007	Tennessee (34-3)	3	Duke
2006	Maryland (34-4)	3	North Carolina
2005	Baylor (33-3)	5	Stanford
2004	Connecticut (31-4)	6	Duke
2003	Connecticut (37-1)	1
2002	Connecticut (39-0)	1
2001	Notre Dame (34-2)	1
2000	Connecticut (36-1)	1
1999	Purdue (34-1)	1
1998	Tennessee (39-0)	1
1997	Tennessee (29-10)	8	UConn
1996	Tennessee (32-4)	4	La Tech
1995	Connecticut (35-0)	1
1994	North Carolina (33-2)	5	Tennessee
1993	Texas Tech (31-3)	5	Vanderbilt
1992	Stanford (30-3)	3	Virginia
1991	Tennessee (30-5)	4	Penn State
1990	Stanford (32-1)	11	Penn State
1989	Tennessee (35-2)	4	La Tech
1988	Louisiana Tech (32-2)	3	Tennessee
1987	Tennessee (28-6)	1

 

[bennyskid]

It's amazing how much things have changed in just 30 years. In 1990, Stanford was 27-1 going into the tournament, a #1 seed, and the two main polls had them #3 (Coaches Poll) and #11 (AP Writers). Can you imagine the uproar today if any major conference team went 27-1 and was ranked ELEVENTH? Behind WESTERN KENTUCKY (who started the season unranked, finished 17-10, ranked #10, and lost by ten in the first round as a 9-seed.)!!!

But who was paying attention to WCBB in 1990 . . . certainly not many AP writers!

 

[Gamecockfan77]

Hold on Jumpstart. I haven't posted one word in this thread about South Carolina as to whether or not South Carolina should or shouldn't have been number 1, etc., etc. I'm just astonished at how many times South Carolina backers have jumped in to defend their "championship" and number 1 rating.

Finally, check yourself if you think UConn fans are in any way, shape or form "jealous" of South Carolina at what "they have become." We will acknowledge that they are a good program. But win a couple in a row before even thinking that UConn fans have any reason for jealousy. Of any program.

Who said anything about a championship?

South Carolina ended the seasons as the #1 team in the land according to various sources.

That's cooler than not finishing #1.

It's weird that bothers you and that you keep mentioning how it bothers you.

 

[Gamecockfan77]

It was a worse situation for S Car in 2017 that UConn in 2020. And if they could win a title then then so could have UConn last year. I'm not saying it would have happened but simply that it happens often in wcbb that the No 1 in the AP poll doesn't win the championship.

What I can't understand is how a fan base that is predicting a championship in 2021 and others beyond 2021 needs to try and claim a bogus one for a year that's done and gone.

What South Carolina fans are claiming a championship and predicting another one?

Seem like real hooligans.

 

[JonathanXIV]

Who said anything about a championship?

South Carolina ended the seasons as the #1 team in the land according to various sources.

That's cooler than not finishing #1.

It's weird that bothers you and that you keep mentioning how it bothers you.

Read my post. Never said it bothered me. And you are being a little disingenuous. Plenty of SC fans (and their coach) have claimed a championship for last year. Let’s not pretend they haven’t.

 

[UConn2SF]

From South Carolina 2020 women's basketball team's wikipedia page:

"...some overzealous Gamecock fans have attempted to push a claim to a mythical national championship for the program as a result of the final poll results. Staley made remarks in the media fueling such claims, which were met with widespread derision and ridicule by observers throughout the rest of the country."

 

[TheFarmFan]

From South Carolina 2020 women's basketball team's wikipedia page:

"...some overzealous Gamecock fans have attempted to push a claim to a mythical national championship for the program as a result of the final poll results. Staley made remarks in the media fueling such claims, which were met with widespread derision and ridicule by observers throughout the rest of the country."

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This is amazing. I have been calling theirs a mythical national championship since they self-crowned it, so I'm delighted to see the Wiki editors have incorporated that puckishly derisive nomenclature.

 

[jumpstart]

Hold on Jumpstart. I haven't posted one word in this thread about South Carolina as to whether or not South Carolina should or shouldn't have been number 1, etc., etc. I'm just astonished at how many times South Carolina backers have jumped in to defend their "championship" and number 1 rating.

Finally, check yourself if you think UConn fans are in any way, shape or form "jealous" of South Carolina at what "they have become." We will acknowledge that they are a good program. But win a couple in a row before even thinking that UConn fans have any reason for jealousy. Of any program.

It's actually kind of hard to know who is a fan of who.....I figure that the majority are UCONN fans and you are right...UCONN fans are not alone in their disdain for the South Carolina program as of late. I would not think UCONN fans "should" be jealous but it seems that way. I have always looked at it as "UCONN...and then everyone else". That is no longer the case. I would say that Baylor, Stanford, South Carolina and a few others are on equal par now. It's no longer a "UCONN...and then everyone else" playing field. There are UCONN fans that are not comfortable with that in any way. You may be the exception to that.....but it is a reality....

 

[jumpstart]

This is amazing. I have been calling theirs a mythical national championship since they self-crowned it, so I'm delighted to see the Wiki editors have incorporated that puckishly derisive nomenclature.

You can make any "claim" you want. People do it everyday....

 

[jumpstart]

That was 2017 though....with a totally different team.

South Carolina was the last team standing....national champions without an * about UCONN or Miss St.....

 

[Argonaut]

It's actually kind of hard to know who is a fan of who.....I figure that the majority are UCONN fans and you are right...UCONN fans are not alone in their disdain for the South Carolina program as of late. I would not think UCONN fans "should" be jealous but it seems that way. I have always looked at it as "UCONN...and then everyone else". That is no longer the case. I would say that Baylor, Stanford, South Carolina and a few others are on equal par now. It's no longer a "UCONN...and then everyone else" playing field. There are UCONN fans that are not comfortable with that in any way. You may be the exception to that.....but it is a reality....

I don't think it's jealousy that you're sensing or any sense of discomfort. The overwhelming feeling I get when I hear/read toward SC is just annoyance.

SC won a single NC -- three years ago.
They have beat UConn once -- 1-7.

But now, there are "fams" coming out of the woodwork like SC is ready to win every game from now until the sun implodes -- save that for an SC forum.

While you want to shout out your team's successes from the mountaintops, doing it in a way that makes it blatantly obvious that folks can't behave like they've been there before won't bring out the welcome wagon on a perennially excellent rival's message board.

 

[JonathanXIV]

It's actually kind of hard to know who is a fan of who.....I figure that the majority are UCONN fans and you are right...UCONN fans are not alone in their disdain for the South Carolina program as of late. I would not think UCONN fans "should" be jealous but it seems that way. I have always looked at it as "UCONN...and then everyone else". That is no longer the case. I would say that Baylor, Stanford, South Carolina and a few others are on equal par now. It's no longer a "UCONN...and then everyone else" playing field. There are UCONN fans that are not comfortable with that in any way. You may be the exception to that.....but it is a reality....

Over the course of UConn's reign at the top of women's basketball (let's date it back to our first championship), there have been times when UConn has had to "share" space at the top with other programs. For example, between 1995-2000, and 2004-2008. But each time UConn reasserted itself as being alone at the top. Don't be surprised if UConn is once again getting tired of "sharing" room at the top of the mountain and reclaims it's place so that it's once again "UConn and everyone else."

 

[SCspur]

Hmmph can’t convince me there is no jealousy going on....

 

[JonathanXIV]

Hmmph can’t convince me there is no jealousy going on....

Don't understand your post at all.

 

[SCspur]

Don't understand your post at all.

You don’t see the UConn fan trolling the SC Twitter page?

 

[visitingcock]

now, back to those 2021 class rankings . . .

 

[eebmg]

You don’t see the UConn fan trolling the SC Twitter page?

If you see his other tweets, he is not a real fan of anything but being a trash talking hater. Once heard by accident a podcast of his, pretty virulent stuff

 

[Gamecockfan77]

Kind of exhausted what we can say about the 2021 rankings haven't we?

Might be time for a 2022 thread. They were just released along with 2023.

 

[eebmg]

Kind of exhausted what we can say about the 2021 rankings haven't we?

Might be time for a 2022 thread. They were just released along with 2023.

until 11/11.

 

[Gamecockfan77]

until 11/11.

Fudd going to UCLA isn't going to change her #1 ranking if that's what you are insinuating.