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Huskies Move Up to 6th in AP Poll

MSGRET said:
So it's OK for South Carolina to lose to Missouri and have a meltdown against Kentucky, or that Louisville to have a meltdown against Miami and not score the last 5:54 minutes in the 4th. But if UConn can only beat Villanova 5 - 10 points it's bad, even though Paige and Liv aren't 100% yet, at tournament time a win is a win, they all count.
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against Villanova we had 6 players. Paige, Liv, Caroline. No excuse still, but if committee looks at everything, that should be at least a consideration
 
visitingcock said:
Given that South Carolina has beaten Stanford, NC State and UConn and has a better win/loss record than UConn against a top 2 as opposed to top 30 SOS )using massey above,

Yeah. it's okay for SCar to have two one point losses.
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It's not the loss, it's the meltdown in the 4th.
 
Aluminny69 said:
Wow, imagine if Louisville had to play UConn in the Tourney, AGAIN. (in Bridgeport) Walz would be apoplectic.
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I think he would be apoplectic if he has to meet them before the NC game.
 
MD#12Fan said:
Does this throw away Charlie Crème’s latest bracket?
He has UConn in bracket with SC. Why do they want that matchup so bad in the Regional final.
I love UConn in the bracket with NC St. That would be a great regional final. See which team is the real deal this year
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I don't care what Creme's brackets are. He doesn't like Uconn or the big east. The Big East should have at least 3 or 4 teams in .
 
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I only want the 2 seed in Bridgeport so we can beat TN again. Other than that, this team should be able to navigate its way through any path. UCONN youth is a bigger obstacle than where they get placed...IMO.
 
Phil said:
LSU didn’t drop far enough, they are number 18 in Massey, and shouldn’t get a hosting seed. Nice to see Carla’s Princeton in the top 25
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Who would you give LSU hosting spot to? We are going to just forget that LSU went 25-5 with a 13-3 record against the #1Net/RPI conference because they loss to the SEC tournament champion. Make it make sense please.
 
And if Baylor doesn't win the Big 12 tournament, they could slip...but probably unlikely seeing that the Championship game is on Sunday and the Committee will have the brackets already finished by the time the game is played.
 
MSGRET said:
So it's OK for South Carolina to lose to Missouri and have a meltdown against Kentucky, or that Louisville to have a meltdown against Miami and not score the last 5:54 minutes in the 4th. But if UConn can only beat Villanova 5 - 10 points it's bad, even though Paige and Liv aren't 100% yet, at tournament time a win is a win, they all count.
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I totally understand this perspective, but to play devil's (committee's) advocate for a moment, they're very focused on overall body of work; each loss of course counts but not so much that it negates the 30-ish other games played.

SC took relatively bad losses to Missouri and Kentucky, but they still have a better overall resume than anyone else. They have a ridiculous 18 Quad 1 wins, including two wins over other #1 seeds (Stanford and NC State) and additional top 10 wins over LSU and UConn. No one comes close to that. Stanford also has 18 Quad wins but none over the committee's top 10 (best wins are over Maryland, Indiana, Tennessee and Arizona).

Louisville may end up dropping from #4 overall to #5 behind Baylor, but they had a relatively wide cushion compared to other teams ranked below that. Iowa State, LSU, UConn, and Mich. don't have the quality wins to overtake Louisville even with the loss to Miami. Texas has good quality wins but has a really bad loss to Tech.

The committee is surely aware of UConn's injuries and can consider it a mitigating factor in our losses, but that doesn't resolve the problem of a lack of quality wins. We beat TN and ND ... and then a handful of teams more or less in bubble territory. It's hard to know whether or how much our MOV in today's game vs. Villanova would influence them in where they seed UConn on March 13, but given the severe dearth of opportunities to evaluate a full-strength UConn squad against meaningful competition, UConn could use all the "good looks" they can get.
 
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In my mind the importance of the poll is that it reflects the views of a range of people who are not on the Boneyard and are trying to do something similar to the Committee. What we learned is that last week's results leaves a small imprint on the rankings--even if it is only one or two games of information.
 
Plebe said:
SC took relatively bad losses to Missouri and Kentucky, but they still have a better overall resume than anyone else. They have a ridiculous 18 Quad 1 wins, including two wins over other #1 seeds (Stanford and NC State) and an additional top 10 win over UConn. No one comes close to that. Stanford also has 18 Quad wins but has no wins over the committee's top 10 (best wins are over Maryland, Indiana, Tennessee and Arizona).
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Both losses were Quad 1 since Missouri was on the road and Kentucky was at a neutral site. Plus, So Carolina had previously beaten Kentucky on the road which will mitigate the loss somewhat.
 
dtbtbtb said:
considering all the upsets, if UConn wins the Big East Tournament tonight and it is not placed in Bridgeport as the 5th or 6th team, it would be clear that the committee just decided that it would do what they can to avoid UConn in the Final 4 for the 13th time in a row.
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I’m shocked! Shocked to discover there is a conspiracy theory going on in this establishment.
 
As a side note, UConn moved up to 5th in ESPN’s power rankings, while SC dropped to 3rd:
  1. Stanford
  2. NC St
  3. SC
  4. Baylor
  5. UConn
 
McFly said:
Do either of those make Bridgeport more likely? Seems to me that one or the other should.
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The number 6 seed will play number 3 in Bridgeport.
 
oldude said:
As a side note, UConn moved up to 5th in ESPN’s power rankings, while SC dropped to 3rd:
  1. Stanford
  2. NC St
  3. SC
  4. Baylor
  5. UConn
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Why did South Carolina drop to #3. I believe that UConn at full strength is a final four team. Putting them in So. Carolina's bracket would only serve to deprive the nation of what could be a dynamic finals match-up.
 
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CTBballfan243 said:
I thought the goal of the committee was to have teams with male coaches play against each other so that they eliminate each other, thus preventing to many male coaches from advancing to the final 4.
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Doesn’t that have the opposite effect?
 
Phil said:
LSU didn’t drop far enough, they are number 18 in Massey, and shouldn’t get a hosting seed. Nice to see Carla’s Princeton in the top 25
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Lol
A team with no bad losses plus wins over iowast, Tenn, ole miss, Florida, Georgia 2x, and Kentucky.
 
Imagine this hypothetical: We (UConn) are the third ranked team in the country, NC State is sixth or seventh. UConn is sent 675 miles to a Greensboro Regional as the #1 seed, along with NC State (77 miles away) as the #2. The Boneyard would be howling (me too). A #1 seeded NC State does not deserve to be placed in a regional in the backyard of a lesser-seeded team.

Until the women's game attracts a NATIONAL audience (fannies in seats, not TV) this kind of inequity will prevail.
 
cferraro04 said:
Why did South Carolina drop to #3. I believe that UConn at full strength is a final four team. Putting them in So. Carolina's bracket would only serve to deprive the nation of what could be a dynamic finals match-up.
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I would have to assume that SC’s loss to KY in the SEC final, while both Stanford & NCSt won their conference championships comfortably.
 
WHO CARES, REALLY?
7 game season starting tonight.
East-west-north-south.
Wherever-whatever-whoever-what time-
No longer means diddly.
Need to win seven more-
Against all comers.
Stack ‘em up and knock ‘em down.
One at a time.
GO HUSKIES!
One at a time.
 
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Put us wherever you want...we will be in the final four. The old Uconn is back..you can feel it! Just wait and see...
 
Centerstream said:
Of course he does, the BE is not a P5 conference
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P5 is a football term. In basketball it's Major Conference and Mid-Major. Some schools, like Gonzaga, are Major Conference that have mid-majors in their conference.
 
oldude said:
As a side note, UConn moved up to 5th in ESPN’s power rankings, while SC dropped to 3rd:
  1. Stanford
  2. NC St
  3. SC
  4. Baylor
  5. UConn
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Power rankings are just Mechelle Voepel's opportunity to tell Charlie Creme he is wrong. There's no systematic or algorithmic process. It's just whatever Mechelle thinks.
 
Forego said:
I’m shocked! Shocked to discover there is a conspiracy theory going on in this establishment.
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If there were 0.01% the number of actual conspiracies in this world as there are conspiracy theories, I wouldn't even trust myself.
 
Viet Vet said:
Imagine this hypothetical: We (UConn) are the third ranked team in the country, NC State is sixth or seventh. UConn is sent 675 miles to a Greensboro Regional as the #1 seed, along with NC State (77 miles away) as the #2. The Boneyard would be howling (me too). A #1 seeded NC State does not deserve to be placed in a regional in the backyard of a lesser-seeded team.

Until the women's game attracts a NATIONAL audience (fannies in seats, not TV) this kind of inequity will prevail.
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The #1 seeds are the purely geographic placement. The top ranked #1 gets the tournament closest to their home. Even if the second ranked #1 is closer to that spot. Hence. SCAR travels to 180 miles Greensboro while NC State, just 80 miles away from Greensboro gets the next closest spot. IF NC State ends up ranked higher than SCAR, guess what, SCAR ends up in Bridgeport.
 
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