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Message: [QUOTE="cferraro04, post: 4152225, member: 267"] First and foremost....Happy New Year to all. I hope your 2022 brings you good health, success, joy and love. It really hurts that this is the second season that is being impacted by this virus. I believe that this variant will be fast moving, intense and burn out quickly. Maybe peak in mid-January and begin to disappear at the end of January. Making up lost games will become difficult but I believe most of the games will be made up. I have been rather amused at the folks who think that if the number one team loses to an unranked team who was minus their best player that their place in the rankings will remain unchanged. I know it was a close game and the Basketball gods were not friendly to South Carolina but, c'mon they are not supposed to lose a game like that. They have to pay a price for that loss...the integrity of the polls depends on it. I don't think the slap down will be that severe...I think they drop one spot because the committee will reward their previous record. However, we must be cognizant of what the committee did to UConn...hey did UConn deserve to go down in the rankings that would be an emphatic yes...but, losing to Louisville (6) while UConn was ranked (7) by 5 points in a close game with 6 players gone from the roster (2 in the transfer portal and 4 to the injury bug) did not deserve a 4 place drop out of the top 10. That in my opinion was a "kick them while they are down" move by the powers that be. I am not even saying that UConn in its current condition doesn't deserve to be out of the top ten. They are basically playing with 6 players. What I am saying is that based on a single game loss to drop four spots after losing in a close game to a team that is ranked higher than you while your best player and arguably 3 players that can come in and contribute is a tad of an overkill that would only be magnified if the committee doesn't at least penalize SC by dropping them at least one spot for losing to an unranked team who was short handed. [/QUOTE]

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