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What do you think happens to L'Ville in the next poll?

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Sorry to all the Duke lovers here, but though they have won in that #10-#20 region this year, they have been blown out at home in two games, while Lville's losses at least came on the road. And their recent Hail Mary wins against a bunch of mediocre teams like Miami, VTech, and FSU might somehow impress the pollsters down in the SE, but they really resemble more of a 10th ranked team. But yeah, move them to the #3 team I guess because........,.........well, because they're Duke.
 
DobbsRover2 said:
Sorry to all the both Duke lovers here, but though they have won in that #10-#20 region this year, they have been blown out at home in two games, while Lville's losses at least came on the road. And their recent Hail Mary wins against a bunch of mediocre teams like Miami, VTech, and FSU might somehow impress the pollsters down in the SE, but they really resemble more of a 10th ranked team. But yeah, move them to the #3 team I guess because...,....well, because they're Duke.
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Well there are only two Duke lovers here... but anyway. I dont know if margin of victory or losses factors into deciding #1 seeds ( i hope not), but just looking at the data..... Louisville best two wins this season were LSU and the mediocre FSU squad. Like i stated earlier.... NC State has a better collection of wins than Louisville, much less dear ol Duke. Has their ever been a #1 seed in the women's tournament that only has 1 top 25 RPI win all season ??
 
triaddukefan said:
Well there are only two Duke lovers here... but anyway. I dont know if margin of victory or losses factors into deciding #1 seeds ( i hope not), but just looking at the data..... Louisville best two wins this season were LSU and the mediocre FSU squad. Like i stated earlier.... NC State has a better collection of wins than Louisville, much less dear ol Duke. Has their ever been a #1 seed in the women's tournament that only has 1 top 25 RPI win all season ??
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Sure, but Louisville hasn't gotten many top teams to play against, so getting top 10 wins are harder. But when they've played teams comparable to Duke's Miami and VTech games lately, they haven't stunk up the joint. Sure, just win baby is ultimately all that matters in the ranking, but for all the Dookie fans who think that recent 1 point wins over Miami and 4 point wins over VTech along with two complete blow-outs at home represent a real #3 team in the nation, I've got some other nice but totally unreal fantasies to sell you. At some point you have to start showing up for both the big and little games and stop wagging your finger at all the other teams asking about who have they beaten. I'm sure Dookie fans did that to Lville last year before their team skited off in the E8 and the Cardinals kept beating those top teams all the way to the NC game.
 
I believe that if there's a clear best-in-conference team in the Big 12 or SEC that they will contend with Louisville for the final #1 seed. (Right now, Baylor or South Carolina could win out and fill that description). And that would make little difference, since if Louisville drops to a #2, the fourth #1 seed would get to play them (Louisville) on their home court. I'm assuming that ND wins the ACC.
I keep waiting for one of the poll voters to vote for ND as the top team in the nation, just to make things interesting.
The drop-off after the top two teams is huge. Then there's a bunch of teams vying to be the best in that "second tier" and putting a little distance between them and the others as they move a little closer to the top two. Then there are a bunch of very mediocre teams with very little separating the #12 in the country from #28.
There could still be some surprises. Rutgers could take down a cold-shooting Louisville in the AAC Tourney. Stanford could be upset again. The SEC could have two or more teams tie for the regular season championship and have another team win the SEC Tourney. Baylor looks pretty safe though, and I look for a Baylor/Louisville rematch at Louisville for that Tourney regional final. A real grudge match... no matter which one is the #1 seed.
 
There's a substantial gap between #2 and the rest of the field. Duke, Louisville, Stanford pickem (#3-#5). I don't think any of them has much of a chance to beat Uconn or ND in the NCAA tournament.
 
Other than Stanford hopping over them on the way down, not much. LV lost to a higher ranked team so it's acceptable. Stanford lost against a team that isn't even ranked.
 
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alexrgct said:
Losing to uconn hasn't resulted in huge drops to Duke or Stanford, so I'd expect Louisville to fall a slot or two max.

On the basis of their work so far. Is have Louisville a #1 seed too. However, there's a good chance they're a #2 if they go 0-3 against uconn before the tourney, even though uconn is very, very good.
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What is their work? One win over 16 LSU and losses to UK and UCONN?

Maybe I'm missing something?
 
triaddukefan said:
They also beat Florida State, Colorado, and Oklahoma.
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IMO those wins are not impressive enough to keep the Cards at 4 despite a loss since none of those teams are ranked anymore.

UCONN
ND
Duke
USC
Baylor
Louisville
Stanford
Tenn
 
jdubct said:
There's a substantial gap between #2 and the rest of the field. Duke, Louisville, Stanford pickem (#3-#5). I don't think any of them has much of a chance to beat Uconn or ND in the NCAA tournament.
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