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UConn #13 in latest AP poll

DefenseBB said:
Perspective-last week, we had 469 points, this week we have 487 so we gained 18 points. KSU had 519 last week, has 513 this week and lost 6 points and had games against Oklahoma and Texas this week.

Stop acting all "conspiracy theory" as given we lost a key piece of our team, the voters still voted for us. Give Virginia Tech credit for beating a team we couldn't. That was by far their best win and given how inconsistent they have been, I expect a loss to a middling ACC team to occur.
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“Perspective”?! This is the Boneyard you're talking to. We offer 31 flavors of outrage but perspective was dropped from the menu a while back :D:rolleyes:
 
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UConn beat Marquette & Creighton but their NET rankings are #39 & #26 respectively.
Some voters may not think that they should even be in the top 25.

UConn lost so much depth due to Aubrey's injury that Shade ended up playing 39 minutes against Georgetown.
 
Tonyc said:
This poll is a complete joke We lost to 3 top teams and have won more games against top teams then any other team infront of us in the polls. The pollsters are not doing their homework. Theyre going through the motions. We need a Boneyard poll or you can just use my top 10 poll which I havent put out yet. UConn is a different team now and much better then the team that they were in those losses. Right now I feel UConn is a top 5 team.
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Here's my ranking. It's based on a forecasting method and it's very UConn-centric in the sense that I asked myself who I thought the Huskies could conceivably defeat in March on the basis of what we're seeing now. Teams above I think UConn more likely than not wouldn't beat, and those below they would beat (more likely than not). There's lots of room for upsets here, and some teams, like ND, probably deserve a higher ranking but for injuries that may not be season long. That is, if Citron, Prosper and Westbeld are up to speed in a few weeks, they probably belong much higher. Net rankings in parentheses.
  1. SC (1)
  2. UCLA (5)
  3. Stanford (2)
  4. LSU (16)
  5. Texas (3)
  6. NC St (10)
  7. Va Tech (15)
  8. UConn (4)
  9. IU (11)
  10. Iowa (7)
  11. Baylor (8)
  12. USC (13)
  13. K St (9)
  14. Colorado (19)
  15. Michigan St (14)
  16. tOSU (17)
  17. Utah (6)
  18. Gonzaga (18)
  19. ND (12)
  20. Ore St. (21)
And a side note, I put NC St and Texas above UConn because they've already won games against UConn. But one might argue that they wouldn't repeat.
 
I can't see why folks are surprised. VaTech had a super win against a previously unbeaten team. UConn lost a key player, probably for the season.

As others have noted, if UConn continues to win convincingly, and especially in the highly unlikely (IMHO) case that they topple South Carolina, the rankings will take care of themselves.

Right now, UConn's injures make it such a flawed team that I figure we should just take the season one game at a time, hope for the best, pray for no more injuries, and not worry about the other teams or rankings.
 
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DefenseBB said:
Stop acting all "conspiracy theory" as given we lost a key piece of our team, the voters still voted for us. Give Virginia Tech credit for beating a team we couldn't. That was by far their best win and given how inconsistent they have been, I expect a loss to a middling ACC team to occur.
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On that note, Virginia Tech's next 3 games are Miami, FSU and Duke. Remember that ACC teams are contractually obligated to hand out “quality wins” to each other like it's a Sunday potluck. That's the only thing that can explain NC State's abysmal 4th quarter collapse and nonexistent defense on the winning play
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Just give Virginia Tech a week or so and they'll be due for their next egg casserole dish.
 
Another way to look at it is are there 12 teams out there that you think UCONN can’t beat?
 
visitingcock said:
Well, ESPN power rankings have y'all at 8. See ESPN doesn't hate y'all. At least not as much as the rest of the nation's sports journalists.

But again, only the NET realy matters and you are back in one seed territory there.
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If only the NET really matters (I agree), then what does this say about the human pollsters?
 
The weaker because of the projected loss of Aubrey doesn’t see to wash if you compare it with Harmon and Texas. Heck with the rankings, lace ‘em up and play and we’ll deal with our opponents come tourney time, one game at a time.
 
Bone Dog said:
Here's my ranking. It's based on a forecasting method and it's very UConn-centric in the sense that I asked myself who I thought the Huskies could conceivably defeat in March on the basis of what we're seeing now. Teams above I think UConn more likely than not wouldn't beat, and those below they would beat (more likely than not). There's lots of room for upsets here, and some teams, like ND, probably deserve a higher ranking but for injuries that may not be season long. That is, if Citron, Prosper and Westbeld are up to speed in a few weeks, they probably belong much higher. Net rankings in parentheses.
  1. SC (1)
  2. UCLA (5)
  3. Stanford (2)
  4. LSU (16)
  5. Texas (3)
  6. NC St (10)
  7. Va Tech (15)
  8. UConn (4)
  9. IU (11)
  10. Iowa (7)
  11. Baylor (8)
  12. USC (13)
  13. K St (9)
  14. Colorado (19)
  15. Michigan St (14)
  16. tOSU (17)
  17. Utah (6)
  18. Gonzaga (18)
  19. ND (12)
  20. Ore St. (21)
And a side note, I put NC St and Texas above UConn because they've already won games against UConn. But one might argue that they wouldn't repeat.
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I think UConn could conceivably defeat any team besides SC and UCLA in March right now. If they had Aubrey, I think they could conceivably be any team. To me conceivably mean you could imagine a world where they could win. I don't think Stanford -> V tech that its inconceivable that they could lose to any team in the top 25.

That been said I think 8 is about right right now for UConn sans #44 sadly. I think match up wise I'd swap Vtech with Iowa and maybe put Kstate above us match up wise as well.

I do think you highly over rate Michigan State who lost to Creighton by over 20 at home.
 
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DefenseBB said:
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Stop acting all "conspiracy theory" as given we lost a key piece of our team, the voters still voted for us.
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Is that how the rankings work? Voters decide what the future impact of injuries will be and then change the ranking accordingly?
 
Gordo said:
These rankings mean absolutely nothing, and until we actually beat someone ranked higher than us we won't move up. Beating teams ranked beneath us is what's suppose to happen!
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We only play one team ranked higher than us the rest of the season. By this logic, #13 is our ceiling.
 
Plebe said:
On that note, Virginia Tech's next 3 games are Miami, FSU and Duke. Remember that ACC teams are contractually obligated to hand out “quality wins” to each other like it's a Sunday potluck. That's the only thing that can explain NC State's abysmal 4th quarter collapse and nonexistent defense on the winning play
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Just give Virginia Tech a week or so and they'll be due for their next egg casserole dish.
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NC State was without an injured River Baldwin
 
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HuskyNan said:
Yep. The Huskies are seen as weaker without Aubrey. Voters are remembering last year.
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I don't necessarily think that's the case. I'm honestly not sure if half the voters know who Aubrey is or that she's hurt.

I just think they (incorrectly) viewed VT as having a more impressive week because of the win over NC State and therefore they bumped VT over UConn. Nobody else above them lost games outside the Top 12/13.
 
The coaches poll will be even worse. But at this point, UCONN is very close to, if not in, as a 2 seed. Keep taking care of business and we should solidly be a 2 seed when the season ends.
 
Are people new to this poll thing?

When a team beats a higher-ranked team, they move up. It's quite predictable. It's nothing against the teams that get “jumped” after holding serve against unranked or lower-ranked teams. It doesn't mean Kansas State or UConn fell from the voters' good graces, and it's nothing to get our knickers in a twist over.

(I wonder if the K-State fans are this outraged?)
 
fireford said:
If it makes people feel better, UConn is #4 in the latest net rankings, which matter more than the polls.

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FWIW, other than Stanford (which I would not rank as high as #2), the Net very closely tracks which teams I'd be least excited to be facing in March. And setting Stanford aside, UConn is quite rightly third among the teams I'd least want to face.
 
As I have posted previously, this early in the season, my experience is that few of the voters have spent much time watching the games. Unlike UConn, most of the teams play easy non-conference schedules, the voters don't bother with these games and see UConn with 3 losses and lots of injuries. Most writers also have limited current knowledge and are posting click bait. The more "noise" they hear from us, the more "stuff" we will continue to see posted.
 
I would hope that voters are only looking at the prior week, as UConn beat Marquette, then Creighton, in which the Aubrey thing happened, then dominated G'town. Yeah, we had an injury, however it didn't impact the team last week. Let's see how this week goes before making any assumptions. Then again, I'm not a BB writer, so maybe I think differently, or maybe I think too much.
 
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Boneyarders, please, it is not disrespect that UConn is ranked where it is. Pollsters are giving other teams the chance to be ranked probably higher than they should be because it helps in reinforcing the argument about college WBB - and MBB - that ESPN and others seem to have latched onto. Turn on any of the talking heads about college basketball and you'll hear what the transfer portal has done, etc. in creating "parity". It's kinda what professional sports is like with players being traded from one team to another in the off season. It's also great for the media so why shouldn't they push it?

But that's not the important thing. The important thing is Geno, the coaches and the players themselves don't pay attention to rankings. UConn's focus right now is as it should be on the next game and the game after that and after that culminating in the BE regular season and championship. Of course, one or two wins in the upcoming games with ND and SC will certainly help to change things a lot.

Rankings right now are insignificant except maybe for setting betting lines and the prognostications of the prognosticators. UConn should simply concentrate on winning and the rest will take care of itself.
 
hoopsnloops32 said:
We only play one team ranked higher than us the rest of the season. By this logic, #13 is our ceiling.
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Other teams’ ranking could drop because of things not involving UConn. I suspect that late February early March the NET rankings will loom larger in the voters’ thinking. If we end up with only 4 losses and only a few teams have less than 5, the ranking will adjust.
 
Bone Dog said:
Other teams’ ranking could drop because of things not involving UConn. I suspect that late February early March the NET rankings will loom larger in the voters’ thinking. If we end up with only 4 losses and only a few teams have less than 5, the ranking will adjust.
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And other teams will rise because of things not involving UConn. It's just a BIT preposterous that AP voters aren't expected to watch games and vote accordingly and instead just move teams up and down based on looking at win loss columns. It's lazy and not actually what they are paid to do.
 
In the words of Bobby Boucher, the AP voters have provided the Huskies with, “Tackling Fuel!” :cool:
 
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