Will we be ranked again? the do over

[willie99]

I don't know what every other ranking bubble team has been doing, so who really knows

But I'm a lot less confident this time than I was last time.

Beaten by a Creighton team that lost to Butler before us and was run out of the gym by St John's after us. Then being non competitive against a short handed Nova team that's lost a few games when they were at full strength

We're NOT JELLING

 

[mauconnfan]

People made fun of my #26 and I don’t want to be right at all but if you didnt see this coming you weren’t watching the games. I’m hoping we stay off the bubble but I’m not confident in that either. Top 25? Don’t care just play better basketball sometime soon and maybe win a game we have in our clutches.

For now with this schedule, no! Just make the tourney please.

 

[Connecticut13]

I don’t see us being ranked again this season. At this stage, we’re just hoping to make the tournament.

 

[UconnFanDC]

I've said previously that we haven't really beaten a ranked team at full strength. There alwaysseemedto be a key playermissing from their team. We've lost to a bad WV team, struggled against Butler, UMES and Depaul although victories. I do believe we're a team that fits between 20-35. We can be that team that upsets a higher ranked team in NCAA's not named Gonzaga, Auburn or Purdue. Anything but a play in or 8/9 seed is good for me. Hoping we can get to that 6 seed or somewhere playing a 2 seed before playing a 1 seed with a confident team preparing for an upset of a 1 seed heading to the final 4.

Now let hope Danny can do better to get them boys better prepared for the games and half-time and in game adjustments.

 

[Storrs South]

They will still be ranked tomorrow.

Losing to Nova on the road was difficult to watch but you don't get penalized for losing to a top 15 team on the road.

Creighton was a bad loss but it's one game.

UConn is 18 in KenPom and while I'm not saying it's right, we've seen voters heavily consider KP since day 1. I think UConn slides back to 23 or 24. Outside Borges and a couple others most voters aren't watching or watching closely.

LSU got smacked against unranked Vanderbilt and Xavier lost to DePaul. Those two may fall out at 21 and 23 respectively.

The next 3 vote getters were Bama, Murray State and St Mary's. None did anything of note to really move voters one way or another.

It's also a moot point since whether or not they'll be ranked next week is entirely driven by the 3 games on the docket this week.

Win 2 of 3 or better and they remain (or jump back in if I'm wrong). Anything less unranked.

 

[CTBasketball]

Let’s be honest we don’t deserve to be ranked.

 

[NC_Uconn_Fan]

Who cares, does anyone really have any faith in this team?

 

[navery12]

I don't know what every other ranking bubble team has been doing, so who really knows

But I'm a lot less confident this time than I was last time.

Beaten by a Creighton team that lost to Butler before us and was run out of the gym by St John's after us. Then being non competitive against a short handed Nova team that's lost a few games when they were at full strength

We're NOT JELLING

Yes

Who cares, does anyone really have any faith in this team?

Yes

 

[8893]

We're NOT JELLING

 

[willie99]

Is that how ya supposed to spell Gelling? Gosh darn

 

[8893]

Is that how ya supposed to spell Gelling? Gosh darn

No worries. Bill Cosby did a number on all of us.

 

[Hi-Low]

We'll likely still be ranked in tomorrow's polls....LSU, Xavier, Iowa St, Mich State, Bama had worse loses than we did this week.

If UConn goes 0-3 in week ahead against Marquette, Xavier, St Johns then obviously won't be getting top 25 votes for awhile.

 

[mauconnfan]

I mean you get beat at home by a Creighton team that scored 59 and get trounced in a huge game of Big East contenders there’s no way you deserve to be in the top 25. Win the next 3 maybe you get back in but for now there’s others who received votes that deserve it more.

 

[F101Voodoo]

Of course we will be ranked, just lower! Sad to say!

 

[huskyinfl]

#1 at the end of the year - all that matters

 

[MTBingNinja]

I don't know what every other ranking bubble team has been doing, so who really knows

But I'm a lot less confident this time than I was last time.

Beaten by a Creighton team that lost to Butler before us and was run out of the gym by St John's after us. Then being non competitive against a short handed Nova team that's lost a few games when they were at full strength

We're NOT JELLING

Not after Tuesday

 

[willie99]

I mean you get beat at home by a Creighton team that scored 59 and get trounced in a huge game of Big East contenders there’s no way you deserve to be in the top 25. Win the next 3 maybe you get back in but for now there’s others who received votes that deserve it more.

C'mon man, they win their next three there's no maybe, that's a given

Winning the next three is the hard part

 

[HooperScooper]

Creighton was a bad loss but it's one game.

Agree about the Villanova game.

But many times when you're ranked #17 and then lose to an unranked team at home you aren't in the top 25 the next week.

 

[Storrs South]

Agree about the Villanova game.

But many times when you're ranked #17 and then lose to an unranked team at home you aren't in the top 25 the next week.

If they were 20 or above I would say yes, and maybe the way they are playing at the moment they shouldn't. But at the end of the day 95% of voters aren't watching the games. They look at who won, who lost, KenPom, and whatever personal biases / friendships they have with coaches.

In addition, this program seems to have won over a lot of National guys that do have votes. Plus from the earlier post, teams behind us had equally bad loses and there are no logical replacements is why I feel like they will stay.

Whether or not they do doesn't matter since they since they play 3 games this week with 2 of them ranked opponents. If they do deserve to be ranked, this week will prove that out, as will the following two weeks as it's all Q1 / Q2 games from this point till the end of the month.

 

[Huskyforlife]

Yes

 

[mauconnfan]

No matter monstrous 3 game week for Dan Hurley and his team

 

[Hoophound]

Let’s be honest we don’t deserve to be ranked.

College basketball seems weak right now. We might still deserve a ranking but that isn’t saying much.

 

[gtcam]

Rankings need to be the last thing on the minds of all players, the coaches and sane fans
This team and staff has a ton of work to do to right the ship and become respectable in the NBE because to most coaches looking at film will figure out ten ways to expose this team if the rotations and the offense stay the same.
It's very doable to make the NCAA tournament but this team needs wins and quality wins vs Marquette, Xavier and Nova at home is a start

 

[Storrs South]

 

[KingAG]

Let’s be honest we don’t deserve to be ranked.

We will be

 

[KingAG]

This isn’t the AAC. We have like 5-6 Q1 opportunities remaining. We’ll be ranked and a top 5 seed if we want to be.

 

[Storrs South]

25 here

 

[Austin316]

Haha squeaking into the #25 would be a good sign on how media perceives the program. We’re very critical in our analysis as fans because we watch religiously. If the country is generally buying into the program, it’s a good sign. But need to bounce back vs a hot Marquette team to solidify ourselves as a good program and remain where we expect to belong.

 

[Storrs South]

Another AP voter

 

[Storrs South]

UConn at 23