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Message: [QUOTE="Rb335, post: 4536126, member: 2685"] There are so many factors involved, and the weekly polls to me more reflect your recent results. Lose a game, slip a few spots, others lose, move up a few spots. Then there is the committee evaluation that looks at the entire seasons body of work and tweaks things based on if a team has been consistently good to end the year, apply injury issues to losses, etc. You have teams like LSU that are an enigma based on the schedule. You have teams like Uconn that are an enigma with injuries. Consider this, a hypothetical world where Azzi doesn’t return. Do you throw away UConn’s wins with Azzi when evaluating, since that technically was a very different team? Without Azzi, we’re 0-2 vs top 10 teams, 4-0 against teams 20-30, 2-1 against teams 40-50, and 8-0 against teams 50+. All using Massey ratings. The math to that is 6-3 against top 50 teams. Does that make this current iteration of the team more like a 3 seed? So many what if scenarios to make you spin yourself dizzy. But fun to daydream about for some! Currently, I think we need to take it game by game, try to get healthy, and take care of the business in the big east. The polls don’t have any impact on that just yet. [/QUOTE]