UCONN to No.1 ?

[Tonyc]

It's the 'overall' body of work instead of a bad loss or good win in a single game. That makes sense. What doesn't make sense is that UCONN played a strong out of conference schedule. It should be no doubt the No.1 seeds South Carolina, UCONN, UCLA for sure and Texas or USC (the only 2 in question) in no particular order, after that.

I like your picks. Defense as well as having good guard play win championships. SC and UConn have that right now. With the time off between now and selection Sunday teams will have time to regroup and heal. We will see. Paige was focused this weekend. She looked and played like she did when she won NPOY. SC looked fierce. UConns execution and fine tuned passing ate up their opponents while SC's athleticism ran circles around their opponents. Both teams have multiple scorers and both teams have depth. UConn has Paige and two other go to scorers. Both have really good defenses. These are my two top teams as of yesterday's games. What is going to be needed is a balanced scoring attack with leadership at the guard position. At this stage of the season top teams can slow down a team which has has one dimensional scoring threat. You saw what SC did to Texas and UCLA did to USC. Pressure defense will hurt teams that do not have good ball handlers. The brackets will be what they are. Your going to have to score and your going to have to keep your opponent from scoring. The biggest difference with UConn is now they appear to be healthy. Their early season losses might have been different if they were healthy. Still UConn has one loss since Jan 1.

 

[robert]

UConn as the highest two seed will face the weakest #1 which are Texas and USC. These are very favorable matchups for UConn.

I would love to be in Texas or Southern California bracket , but the selection committee will take into consideration the S curve formula too , just because we are the strongest no. 2 we will be in the bracket of the weakest no. 1, that’s not always the case .

 

[robert]

Interesting to see how this thread immediately jumped off the rails. The OP asked a pretty simple question. With #1 TX & #2 USC both losing yesterday would #3 UConn move up to #1 in the POLLS? Subsequently, just about every response misinterpreted that question to be about tournament seeding.

To redirect this discussion back to the OP’s initial question, I don’t know if either the AP or Coaches poll are updated again before the tournament, but assuming that they are, there is certainly a possibility that UConn would rise to #1.

As for the tournament seeding decisions, we can all argue about them in a week when the committee releases the brackets. Just think how much fun that will be if UConn is #1 in the polls but draws a #2 seed in the Big Dance…

It’s tough for UConn to be the number 1seed overall or the best scenario will be number 1 seed in any of the region . My wild guess is UCLA will be the top seed followed by Southern California , Texas and South Carolina…definitely Notre Dame will not be near as a number 1 in any of the region. Duke will be a surprise number 2 and TCU .LSU and NCST probably will be in number 3 .

 

[DEpup]

I'm just not sure we'd ever be put ahead of the SEC and Big10 champions in this time of super conferences unless we are undefeated and especially not with that annoying TN loss.

 

[Plebe]

I'm just not sure we'd ever be put ahead of the SEC and Big10 champions in this time of super conferences unless we are undefeated and especially not with that annoying TN loss.

Can't really overgeneralize like that. Every season is unique; it comes down to a comparison of resumes unique to that season. This year it just so happened that those two conferences each had two really, really strong teams. A month ago Notre Dame looked well ahead of us, but they faltered in the last 3 weeks and we're now ahead of them.

If we'd gone 2-1 vs. SC, USC and ND and avoided the loss to Tennessee we would have a really strong case for overall #1. Instead we went 1-2 and lost to Tennessee so #5 is more than appropriate IMO.

 

[dtbtbtb]

IMO if we would have won at TN, we would have been a 1 seed for sure. As things stand, the top number 2 is fair. Hope like others to be the number 2 with TX as the 1 as they seem to be the weakest.

 

[JBK]

UConn lost the head to head to USC, and Texas has a better Quad 1 record than UConn. Huskies are solid at the overall #5 seed

How can the rank SC over us ? We destroyed them in their own Gym and have the same overall record

 

[mrmojack]

I think the loss to Tennessee eliminated us as a #1 seed. Everyone has been beating
Tennesse lately.

 

[bballnut90]

How can the rank SC over us ? We destroyed them in their own Gym and have the same overall record

They have a much better resume of wins, have only lost to top 5 teams and just clobbered the #1 team yesterday.

 

[oldude]

Again, the OP is about polls, not seedings, and the new AP poll has UCLA at #1 (19 1st place votes), SC at 2 (9 1st place votes) and UConn remains at 3, but picks up 7 1st place votes, followed by USC & TX. ND falls all the way to #8. TCU at #6 & Duke at #7.