Who’s #1? (Merged)

[Charliebball]

Talk to me after UConn survives the gauntlet of top ten teams they will play this season......until then who cares about early season rankings?

 

[OldSchooler]

The hand writing is on the wall. When UCONN beats Oregon St, and either Mississippi U. or Boston U, who we have already beat, Uconn will be N.o.1 . I am watching S.Carolina now. Back to the game.

That's Boston COLLEGE in the Bahamas tourney, not Boston UNIVERSITY.

 

[Urshurak]

It's November. It really doesn't matter. I guarantee you Geno couldn't care less.

We can evaluate after UConn plays ND and USC.....that will sum up where they are.

 

[PJCLaw]

The hand writing is on the wall. When UCONN beats Oregon St, and either Mississippi U. or Boston U, who we have already beat, Uconn will be N.o.1 . I am watching S.Carolina now. Back to the game.

Boston College, not Boston University, who UConn beat this season, is in the tournament.

 

[01Neaggrad02]

To me it would reason that UCONN would be 1, Texas 2, UCLA 3, ND 4, SC 5, and USC 6.... But that is just me... UCONN has looked impressive, and with Geno's milestone, and everyone seeing that Azzi is back, I highly doubt anyone would drop us in the rankings... And Texas has not lost... I doubt they will drop either.

 

[Puppy Love]

Where do people see South Carolina dropping to? For me
#1 Notre Dame (although in the AP I think UCLA will be here)
#2 UCLA
#3 UCONN
#4 South Carolina
#5 Texas
#6 USC

Yes, ND’s win was impressive, but USC barely got by Ole Miss. I think at this point in the season, USC is overrated. JuJu doesn’t look as good as she did last year (despite ESPN anointing her as the supreme Godess of Basketball). When ND gets back some of their missing players, they might be the best team, but they aren’t right now. For the first in a long time, nearly everyone at the top looks vulnerable.

 

[Gus Mahler]

How can we get so wound up? This is the Boneyard. Most of us don’t have a life outside UConn WBB from November to April.

@oldude speaketh truth.

 

[Centerstream]

That was last season, UConn is a completely different team this year. I believe that UConn only played 6 players in that game, they can play at least 11 right now.

And we have Sarah, Azzi and Jana included in the 11

 

[Centerstream]

Talk to me after UConn survives the gauntlet of top ten teams they will play this season......until then who cares about early season rankings?

Many Boneyarders????

 

[bballnut90]

Yes, ND’s win was impressive, but USC barely got by Ole Miss. I think at this point in the season, USC is overrated. JuJu doesn’t look as good as she did last year (despite ESPN anointing her as the supreme Godess of Basketball). When ND gets back some of their missing players, they might be the best team, but they aren’t right now. For the first in a long time, nearly everyone at the top looks vulnerable.

This ^^. Notre Dame with a huge win and deserves a top 3 ranking but I think USC is more likely in the 10-15 range right now than top 5.

 

[dabears17]

My thoughts exactly. I said in an earlier post that S.Carolina was beatable and they should be NO.1 until they lost. Well they lost and now it's UCONN's turn. UCLA is formidable but SC hasn't the defense that UCONN has , so I believe that we can prevail. Has UCLA ever beat UCONN? We should be NO.1 next week and if not ,by the week after we will be. GO FRESHMEN!!! GO SOPHOMORES!!! GO HUSKIES!!!!

UCLA beat UConn on November 24th, 2023.

 

[CL82]

Have folks on this board really not become wise to the Laws of Jinx?

Thank you!

 

[CL82]

How can we get so wound up? This is the Boneyard. Most of us don’t have a life outside UConn WBB from November to April.

Well, that's not true for me. I also follow UConn football, men's basketball, and hockey.

 

[Bone Dog]

I have watched all the top teams play, and by far the most impressive among them at this early point of the season (god I hate myself for saying this) is Notre Dame, not UCLA, and it isn't even particularly close.

But UCLA would probably get credited for beating the top-ranked team by a wide margin. I expect the first-place votes to be split three ways between UCLA, ND, and UConn.

If I had a vote, I'd put ND at #1, UConn and Texas at #2 or 3, UCLA at #4, and SC somewhere around #7 or 8, about even with Iowa State, who just barely squeaked past Drake today, and USC at #9. SC is probably better than 7, but now it's time to prove it. After today's loss, last year's accomplishment doesn't have any weight.

 

[Hayven]

Talk to me after UConn survives the gauntlet of top ten teams they will play this season......until then who cares about early season rankings?

Couldn’t agree more. The team needs to figure out how to limit the ND guards in a few weeks.

 

[freekimchee]

Wouldn't surprise me one bit if the voters put UCLA #1 and ND #2 while dropping UConn to #3 followed by SCar at #4 and USC #5

 

[MSGRET]

UCLA barely beat Louisville 66-59 in Paris. Louisville just played USF and barely beat them 64-60. UConn played USF and blew them out 86-49. I'll take UConn over UCLA and ND because I don't think they would have an answer on stopping Paige, Azzi and Sarah.

 

[Charliebball]

Many Boneyarders????

To each their own but I'm trying to figure out why it matters at this time in the season........the rankings are likely to change on a weekly basis with every top ten team win or loss so who's ranked number one right now is of little consequence.......as we come down the stretch towards the conference tournaments that's when they'll have my attention.....

 

[Next 12]

BU isn’t in the Bahamas, BC is.

Thank you. I took Boston to be BU when I saw the match-ups. My bad. So it was Boston College. It is no matter UCONN will win both games and be 6-0 GO HUSKIES!!!!!

BU isn’t in the Bahamas, BC is.

 

[Bone Dog]

I'm trying to figure out why it matters at this time in the season

It doesn’t matter. The point of the exercise might actually be to show how meaningless the rankings are.

 

[ERWUC65]

ND at home for Texas and UConn in December. Rankings will have some meaning after those games.

 

[The CDR-Ret]

My top 6:
#1: UConn - We have Paige, Sarah, & AZZI (even though she has only one game so far) and they don't!
#2 UCLA - very impressive vs. South Carolina
#3 uNd - looking good so far - Still early
#4 South Carolina - was on a 43 game winning streak, defending National Champs & many AP writers already voted (early and often)
#5 Texas - best win so far is Vs. DePaul, we'll see how real they are vs. uNd on 12/6/24 in South Bend
#6 USoCal - they still have Juju Watkins and don't see LSU moving up with the light weights they are playing

 

[ScottCT]

I don't understand why the people who say they don't care about the rankings, click on thread that's clearly about the rankings, and then complain that people are talking about the rankings.