Week 10 - Other Games

[drayenob]

Oregon beats #9 Arizona

 

[gsmooth]

Brandon miller is the best freshman in the country. But I’m afraid Alabama could be a good upset pick if he runs into a lockdown defender like Andre again. That win is going to pay huge dividends on selection Sunday though.

I think you are correct. But how many lockdown defenders are there like AJax?

 

[Huskyforlife]

I think you are correct. But how many lockdown defenders are there like AJax?

Probably not many.

 

[auror]

Oregon beats #9 Arizona

Oregon was ranked 76th in NET coming into today. Win by double digits over Arizona should raise them up a bit. Would be nice for us now that they're healthy if they can get to top 50.

 

[navery12]

This could also apply to the questions about UConn's losses the last few weeks

 

[August_West]

Coach Cal official revenge tour against @nelsonmuntz

@nelsonmuntz picked providence 9th in big East.

 

[Huskyforlife]

#7 UCLA and #10 Texas both down at half…

 

[nelsonmuntz]

@nelsonmuntz picked providence 9th in big East.

You were singing Providence’s praises and predicting a win over Creighton just yesterday. Are you really going “I told you so” on me?

 

[YoungFree]

Man, could it be possible we remain in the Top 10 with all these losses today?

And I'm super happy we played Bama early. Jeepers.

 

[storrsroars]

We would've stayed in top 10 regardless. You don't lose more than 4 spots with a road loss vs a ranked team.

 

[auror]

We would've stayed in top 10 regardless. You don't lose more than 4 spots with a road loss vs a ranked team.

Pollsters have been known to be sensitive to proximity frequency. Fool us once, shame on us. Fool us twice, shame on you. Fool us three times, you drop 10 spots.

 

[auror]

#7 UCLA and #10 Texas both down at half…

Both came back to win unfortunately. We'll fall to at least 10 if not further.

 

[jpeakin]

Both came back to win unfortunately. We'll fall to at least 10 if not further.

Good for Texas, but that win was from impressive. A squeaker at home to an unranked, winless in conference opponent. And yet another game where they've needed a big comeback. Hoping we can stay top 10

 

[shizzle787]

The odds of this are one in a million, but we could have a five-way tie for first at 16-4 if the top five all win their ten home games, win their road games against the bottom six, and lose their road games against the others in the top five.

 

[Tenspro2002]

Pollsters have been known to be sensitive to proximity frequency. Fool us once, shame on us. Fool us twice, shame on you. Fool us three times, you drop 10 spots.

If we hadn't already lost our "benefit of the doubt," we sure did this week. The bottom can really fall out when a surprising team loses 3 of 4, even on the road against quality opponents.

 

[HooperScooper]

The lesson to take away from today, is road games are hard for everyone.

10 ranked teams were on the road today. 9 of them lost, 7 of them to unranked teams. Virginia was the only one to get a win (at FSU). Road wins in conference aren't easy.

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[nelsonmuntz]

Pollsters have been known to be sensitive to proximity frequency. Fool us once, shame on us. Fool us twice, shame on you. Fool us three times, you drop 10 spots.

How could UConn possibly fall more than 3 or 4 spots? Tennessee caked its pants at home against an unranked opponent. UCLA, Gonzaga and Texas held serve and will probably jump us. Xavier and Virginia may jump UConn, but that is a lot of spots, and Virginia is playing basically a mid-major schedule. After that, the only other teams that didn't lose this week are Charleston, Auburn and (maybe) Marquette.

 

[auror]

How could UConn possibly fall more than 3 or 4 spots? Tennessee caked its pants at home against an unranked opponent. UCLA, Gonzaga and Texas held serve and will probably jump us. Xavier and Virginia may jump UConn, but that is a lot of spots, and Virginia is playing basically a mid-major schedule. After that, the only other teams that didn't lose this week are Charleston, Auburn and (maybe) Marquette.

The 10 spots wasn't referring specifically to us and expected outcome in this instance. Just something that pollsters often do. It's usually hard for teams to even stay ranked after losing 3 weeks in a row. But we were starting at #2 so that affords us some leeway and the chaos of today should provide even more.

A big jumble like today sometimes even necessitates pollsters to start a new ranking "from scratch" instead of just working off the old one as it were. That would probably actually benefit us, as our resume is still quite good.

 

[storrsroars]

How could UConn possibly fall more than 3 or 4 spots? Tennessee caked its pants at home against an unranked opponent. UCLA, Gonzaga and Texas held serve and will probably jump us. Xavier and Virginia may jump UConn, but that is a lot of spots, and Virginia is playing basically a mid-major schedule. After that, the only other teams that didn't lose this week are Charleston, Auburn and (maybe) Marquette.

First off, we still have a game today. Win that and there are no worries. UCLA probably jumps us, maybe X as well. With Tenn dropping to probably 9th, you're looking no worse than 7 for UConn, IMO. Texas just dropped 4 spots last week. They're not going to jump up a bunch of spots from a 2 point win at home.

Lose to SJU at home and we don't belong in the top 10 anyway.

 

[uconngb]

All this hand wringing over rankings in mid January……as if it means a damn thing.

The comedy never gets old

 

[mauconnfan]

Oregon ripped up Arizona nice win for the young Ducks.

One that stood out was Vandy over the Razorbacks by 12. They outscored the Hogs 63-42 in the 2nd half. They should be ashamed to give up 63 in a half in a league game never mind to a only decent Vandy squad.

UMass beat URI in an ugly game. URI just isn’t that good Archie Miller has some work to do and Frank Martin as well.

 

[auror]

All this hand wringing over rankings in mid January……as if it means a damn thing.

The comedy never gets old

There's a big difference between hand ringing and bored board speculation.

 

[REB1094]

The odds of this are one in a million, but we could have a five-way tie for first at 16-4 if the top five all win their ten home games, win their road games against the bottom six, and lose their road games against the others in the top five.

The only logical and fair way to break that tie would be a head to head comparison of every team vs. Alabama

 

[Huskyforlife]

All this hand wringing over rankings in mid January……as if it means a damn thing.

The comedy never gets old

Taking less than a minute to write a thought about our ranking, waste of time. Taking less than a minute to whine about people talking about our future ranking, very good use of time.