Top 25

[aburks41]

 

[OkaForPrez]

This week's reddit user poll has us 28th. It tends to react faster than the media polls so I think it indicates we'll be just outside the top 25.

 

[aburks41]

#28 in the AP. No clue how a team like Oklahoma is ranked ahead of us when they have lost 4 games in a row to end their season. Complete garbage

 

[MTBingNinja]

#28!!!

 

[Dabutlerdidit]

good, more fuel heading into MSG

 

[I Bleed Blue]

I wanted UConn to be ranked badly, but clearly people are still sleeping on us. Time to make people pay. MSG is our house and rents due baby!

 

[UC1995]

Most of the beat AP voters probably still think we are AAC. Kidding aside (kind of) they really don't vote on the momentum a team has which is too bad. Some of them don't pay much attention during the season and just vote based on where they were the week before. Only reason teams like Indiana, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin (out this week) stayed in so long in the top 25.

 

[HooperScooper]

good, more fuel heading into MSG

"We've got to have good preparation and not drink the Kool-Aid. Because now we've gone from 'this team is a bubble team' to now all of a sudden 'a Final Four sleeper,'" Hurley said.

"We have a chip on our shoulder. People haven't praised a lot of our season. We've had a lot of detractors. And I love that. We're going to have a chip on our shoulder and a real edge to us over the next couple weeks. That's our mentality."

 

[Waquoit]

"We've got to have good preparation and not drink the Kool-Aid. Because now we've gone from 'this team is a bubble team' to now all of a sudden 'a Final Four sleeper,'" Hurley said.

I like that he said that out loud. That's modern coaching.

 

[CTBasketball]

 

[billybud]

#28 in the AP. No clue how a team like Oklahoma is ranked ahead of us when they have lost 4 games in a row to end their season. Complete garbage

Oklahoma has Quality Losses...LOL

To current NET ranked numbers...2...14...17...17...24...30...30

and beat current NET...7...14...23...23...24

 

[UConn_Top_Dog]

UConn will go from UR to #1 one month from now. Sweet!

 

[SoFla Steve]

Coaches Poll is out. We're tied for 28th . . . with Wichita State.

 

[uconngb]

Oklahoma has Quality Losses...LOL

To current NET ranked numbers...2...14...17...17...24...30...30

and beat current NET...7...14...23...23...24

Just think how much more highly ranked we would be if we had played Quinnipiac, Yale and Fordham!! What a mistake........

 

[VAHuskyFan]

Oklahoma has Quality Losses...LOL

To current NET ranked numbers...2...14...17...17...24...30...30

and beat current NET...7...14...23...23...24

LOL is right.

Oklahoma is under .500 in Q1/Q2 games, has a Q3 loss, has a significantly lower winning percentage than UConn (against a worse overall SOS), has lost 4 in a row, and is ranked behind us in NET, Kenpom, and BPI.

We have one common opponent: we both played Xavier at Xavier.

Oklahoma: Lost by 22.
UConn: Won by 8. Without Bouknight.

 

[SoFla Steve]

Link to College Poll Tracker. You can see who our admirers are.

Connecticut Huskies Basketball at College Poll Tracker

 

[UofCT]

Shocked we didn't get a vote from Borzello

 

[UConnDad]

Coaches Poll is out. We're tied for 28th . . . with Wichita State.

Think Wichita is 32.

 

[KingAG]

Link to College Poll Tracker. You can see who our admirers are.

Connecticut Huskies Basketball at College Poll Tracker

Dick Vitale is exactly what his first name describes him ass. What an ACC/Duke/North Carolina nut hugger

 

[Kolumbo]

Lauren Brownlow from Durham and Luke DeCock from Raleigh voted 23. Credit.

 

[king conn]

Our highest vote came from Denver

Probably thought he clicked Colorado

 

[JB75]

Too bad. Right on outside looking in. Wudda been great to crack the top 25 this week and see that number next to our name while watching the tourney later this week. Still can’t believe there’s 25 teams ranked higher than us. Comical

 

[SoFla Steve]

Think Wichita is 32.

They are 32nd in the AP poll, but 28th in the Coaches poll.

 

[VAHuskyFan]

Dick Vitale is exactly what his first name describes him ass. What an ACC/Duke/North Carolina nut hugger

In fairness, Dickie V did not vote for either Duke or UNC in his Top 25. I was frankly amazed.

 

[Get a Job]

Lauren Brownlow from Durham and Luke DeCock from Raleigh voted 23. Credit.

I am giggling like a child at these names. I'm not proud of it.

 

[Travelman6]

Dick Vitale is exactly what his first name describes him ass. What an ACC/Duke/North Carolina nut hugger

And you just know if UConn goes on some run he will be the first to say "UConn is back baby" or something like that in a "told you so" type of tone.

 

[HuskyBoi]

Let's use this snub as even more motivation to crush the tournament this week and improve the numbers that really matters - adding another Big East tournament championship and improving our tourney seeding

 

[JB75]

In fairness, Dickie V did not vote for either Duke or UNC in his Top 25. I was frankly amazed.

“In fairness?” Why wud u? Duke is completely off the bubble. So vitale gets praise because he didn’t put Duke in his top 25 when they’re barely in the top 60? Ok lol

 

[billybud]

LOL is right.

Oklahoma is under .500 in Q1/Q2 games, has a Q3 loss, has a significantly lower winning percentage than UConn (against a worse overall SOS), has lost 4 in a row, and is ranked behind us in NET, Kenpom, and BPI.

We have one common opponent: we both played Xavier at Xavier.

Oklahoma: Lost by 22.
UConn: Won by 8. Without Bouknight.

You can slice data any way you want..but Oklahoma did beat current AP #11 Kansas and AP #6 Alabama...and has two wins over AP #10 WVU along with a win over AP #10 Texas.

UConn has a win over AP #24 USC.

 

[VAHuskyFan]

You can slice data any way you want..but Oklahoma did beat current AP #11 Kansas and AP #6 Alabama...and has two wins over AP #10 WVU along with a win over AP #10 Texas.

UConn has a win over AP #24 USC.

Justifying AP rankings by reference to other AP rankings can get circular in a hurry. Those wins aren’t as impressive as they seem.

Kansas is 22 in Kenpom. Alabama is 8. WVU is 25, and Texas is 26. (USC is 15.)

Oklahoma also lost to 5-16 Kansas State (Kenpom 184). There’s a reason the committee breaks out wins and losses by quadrant (and looks at both wins and losses).