The polls, in their infinite wisdom, tend to drop teams for a loss even if it was to a higher-ranked team. Washington, similarly, fell from #23 to just outside the top 25 after losing at Louisville.
Jacy Sheldon was the only one who really showed up for Ohio St. She was outstanding.
Taylor Thierry also had a very good game with 20 points and 4 steals. What killed them was that McMahon, who's otherwise been excellent, and Taylor both had really bad games, shooting a combined 3 for 21.
Because that was LSU 1st game of the season and they weren't playing as they should...I saw LSU beat VT easily. I feel LSU is a top 3 school if not #1
You know South Carolina has beaten 4 ranked teams, 3 on the road, right?
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South Carolina, UCLA, NC State, Iowa and Texas are better than LSU. I would most likely also put Baylor ahead of them.
LSU is ahead of Colorado in both NET and Massey, FWIW.
#1? No sir, that's easily South Carolina!
Holding a top-16 ranking will give us home games for rounds 1 & 2 of the NCAA Tournament. Then we can start shopping for hotel rooms in Albany for the Regionals.
The rankings don't determine the tournament seedings.
Heck, I ain't worried about the rankings but a win over those two teams would be a huge boost for the confidence of the players and fans. If am a player on that Marquette squad or a member of the coaching staff, I would use that slight bump (from #23 to #18) as extra motivation. Knowing that some teams are looking at 2-4 losses and here Marquette is undefeated but other teams are ahead of my program?
Pssh, like that matters!You know South Carolina has beaten 4 ranked teams, 3 on the road, right?
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