Latest (Nov 28) AP Poll

[UConnCat]

Top 4 the same. Of note:

• Marquette and Villanova are #s 24 and 25, giving the Big East 4 teams in the top 25
• Tennessee out
• Louisville drops to #18

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[Beemer]

Tennessee out. I'm good with that.

 

[DefenseBB]

Tennessee out. I'm good with that.

Be careful, you will be accused of LV bashing....

To me, NC while they did beat ISU (or more exactly ISU beat ISU) should not be in the Top 10 and is at best the 4th or 5th best ACC team behind ND, NC State, Virginia Tech and probably Louisville. ISU is also not top 10 material and should be after Iowa. Again, these voters are rewarding far too many teams for playing cupcakes as if their laudy records somehow are the sole proof they are legitimate. So LSU and Arizona are listing solely for their past season efforts/coaches. Heck even Louisville, Baylor and Oregon are suspect as they lose when they play a quality team.

 

[tkaes]

I don't get Stanford at 2. Who have they beaten? No one. Meanwhile UCONN has wins over 3, at the time in the top 10. Where does the bias come from? (a rhetorical question.) Is it simply because Geno has too many NCs and Tara not enough?

 

[jaydee602]

And the "prestigious" SEC has only TWO top 25 teams: South Carolina & LSU.
LSU plays ONE top 25 team (South Carolina) the whole season!
UCONN has already played 3 Top Ten teams with 2 more Top Ten & NINE Top 25 games still on their schedule!

 

[meyers7]

Be careful, you will be accused of LV bashing....

Accused or complimented on??

 

[sun]

I don't get Stanford at 2. Who have they beaten? No one. Meanwhile UCONN has wins over 3, at the time in the top 10. Where does the bias come from? (a rhetorical question.) Is it simply because Geno has too many NCs and Tara not enough?

Stanford tied #1 Scar in regulation and forced their game into overtime.

 

[Plebe]

I don't get Stanford at 2. Who have they beaten? No one. Meanwhile UCONN has wins over 3, at the time in the top 10. Where does the bias come from? (a rhetorical question.) Is it simply because Geno has too many NCs and Tara not enough?

Is the last question the rhetorical one? Or was it the one before that? Or both?

Most teams still haven't won truly meaningful games. Virginia Tech and LSU, just to name two, have played pathetic schedules but not only have they not fallen, but they've climbed to #9 and #11.

Stanford played the prohibitive #1 team and took them to overtime. Nothing has happened to break their presumptive claim to #2 implicit in the preseason poll. Not everything is "bias".

 

[Aluminny69]

Stanford tied #1 Scar in regulation and forced their game into overtime.

But Stanford was at home, and looked awful in overtime.

 

[jaydee602]

I don't get Stanford at 2. Who have they beaten? No one. Meanwhile UCONN has wins over 3, at the time in the top 10. Where does the bias come from? (a rhetorical question.) Is it simply because Geno has too many NCs and Tara not enough?

Stanford has started the season at #2 and lost to #1 South Carolina into OT. An argument can be made that UCONN should jump over Stanford, but the Cardinal haven't done enough to drop in the rankings.

 

[sun]

If UConn can remain undefeated & beat Scar then it can leapfrog over Stanford and vault to #1.

 

[Aluminny69]

Stanford has started the season at #2 and lost to #1 South Carolina into OT. An argument can be made that UCONN should jump over Stanford, but the Cardinal haven't done enough to drop in the rankings.

Only 11 point difference between UConn and Stanford. How do you you count the Texas win? Sure they were #3 at the time, but they got that ranking before their All Star point guard was hurt. So that is a misleading win.
Someone pointed out that our three wins against Texas, N.C. State and Duke, were against teams dominated with "portal" players, which means it wll take time for them to play together. Iowa was the first real team. Which is to say, a lot will change over the course of the season, so rankings now are basically meaningless.

Of course you can argue, correctly, that UConn is missing four starters from last year's Final Four team. Several players, Dorka, CD AG, Azzi, are recovering from last year's injuries. Which makes it difficult for outsiders to evaluate this year's team.

 

[Rb335]

Teams by conference:

Power5:
PAC 12- 5
SEC- 2
ACC- 5
Big 10- 5
Big 12- 3

Other:
Big East- 4
WCC-1

Interesting.

 

[PacoSwede]

Only 11 point difference between UConn and Stanford. How do you you count the Texas win? Sure they were #3 at the time, but they got that ranking before their All Star point guard was hurt. So that is a misleading win.
Someone pointed out that our three wins against Texas, N.C. State and Duke, were against teams dominated with "portal" players, which means it wll take time for them to play together. Iowa was the first real team. ...

you can't be serious ---
or perhaps i misuderstand

 

[HuskyNan]

Stanford has started the season at #2 and lost to #1 South Carolina into OT. An argument can be made that UCONN should jump over Stanford, but the Cardinal haven't done enough to drop in the rankings.

^^^^^^^
This

 

[Kaizen]

Stanford tied #1 Scar in regulation and forced their game into overtime.

A win is a win, a lose is a lose.

 

[Plebe]

But Stanford was at home, and looked awful in overtime.

So teams should be ranked according to the portion of the game where they played the worst? Where would UConn be ranked if the voters only looked at how we played in the 2nd quarter vs. Iowa?

 

[RockyMTblue2]

UConn beat the Trees to end the season, then Paige was injured. Absent that terrible event I would have expected UConn to be 2.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

So teams should be ranked according to the portion of the game where they played the worst? Where would UConn be ranked if the voters only looked at how we played in the 2nd quarter vs. Iowa?

Your damn logic is absolutely no fun @Plebe.

 

[ClifSpliffy]

Teams by conference:

Power5:
PAC 12- 5
SEC- 2
ACC- 5
Big 10- 5
Big 12- 3

Other:
Big East- 4
WCC-1

Interesting.

change has come!
next up? big east competing for top recruits.

 

[tkaes]

Stanford tied #1 Scar in regulation and forced their game into overtime.

Sure, but they didn't win and who did they beat? Mighty Vanguard (who?), Cal State Northridge, Grambling? Schools all on par with Texas, ST, and Iowa, right? In the end maybe Stanford is 2 but not based on what they've done at this point.

 

[tkaes]

Stanford has started the season at #2 and lost to #1 South Carolina into OT. An argument can be made that UCONN should jump over Stanford, but the Cardinal haven't done enough to drop in the rankings.

My view is that they haven't done enough by virtue of their weak schedule to stay at 2 in the rankings. Perhaps Tara should have schedule tougher opposition like Geno does.

 

[jaydee602]

My view is that they haven't done enough by virtue of their weak schedule to stay at 2 in the rankings. Perhaps Tara should have schedule tougher opposition like Geno does.

Stanford has nine more games scheduled against top 25 teams. But none in the top 10 & most of them vs. Pac !2 teams.

 

[sun]

A win is a win, a lose is a lose.

UConn only beat the weakened Texas team by 7 points, the same margin of victory that Marquette beat them by.
Maybe the AP pollsters agreed with Geno, that UConn has 50-60 points sitting on the bench due to injuries that puts us at a disadvantage.
Or else we could have started the season ranked at #2 and beaten Texas by more points.