Wonder where we would be if we had beat Evansville and Utah? Definitely top 5 and probably top 3. Those bad losses are going to haunt us. The other issue is we don't have a ton of good wins. UL is our best win and MSU and TX Tech haven't been as good as they should be. Beating Auburn will help but the SEC is down this year and that hurts us. LSU was ranked but not when we played them and so forth.
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Wonder where we would be if we had beat Evansville and Utah? Definitely top 5 and probably top 3. Those bad losses are going to haunt us. The other issue is we don't have a ton of good wins. UL is our best win and MSU and TX Tech haven't been as good as they should be. Beating Auburn will help but the SEC is down this year and that hurts us. LSU was ranked but not when we played them and so forth.
Looks to be about right for Kentucky. We have more losses than all others in the top 7. You could always argue that SDSU and Gonzaga don’t play the competition but I’m fine with it. Keep the Kentucky players hungry.
If the rolls were reversed they’d be a lot more buttery on the bottom.
Congrats to the Fighting Mark Popes at 17....with his Dad at PG.
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Some of yall are gonna name your first born son Evansville. Let it go already.
Only losing one game all year. No matter who you play, that’s a great season so far. Now I know we’re better than them but they deserve it as of right now. If they lose another game though they’ll fall far.
Its hard when you look at the NET.
Ky is being burned at the stake over a 3 pt L over 3 months ago.
If it was our 4th loss of the season, not sure if we would drop 4 spots. It's possible Duke would be above us?
I always wait for the specific voting to come out to see things. Here is our biggest issue in the AP poll...we have 3 douche bags that are the issue. 53 of the 63 voters ranked us 7 - 10 last week (this years specific rankings aren't out yet). Then James Crepea ranks us 18, Luke DeCock (real name) ranked us 19 and Jesse Newell ranked us 22. Had those guys followed suite and ranked us #10, we would have been #9 last week. Think about that, 3 guys out of 63 making that big of an impact. I'll be anxious to see what this weeks looks like.
But SFA is 24-3 and Evansville is 9-20 and while neither was a good loss they at least lost to a better team that will probably make the tournament.
1 vote for 4th
4
John Feinstein
5
Carlos SilvaChris BasnettDonna DitotaTroy Provost-HeronWayne Epps
6
Dave PrestonJack EblingLauren KirschmanMatt McCoyScott RicheySheldon Mickles
7
B.J. RainsBrian McInnisDavid CloningerDick VitaleGeoff GrammerJohn WernerJordan HansenMark BermanRick BozichStephen MeansSteve Hewitt
8
Bob HoltBob SuttonBruce PascoeCecil HurtChris MurrayCraig MeyerDave BorgesDave MatterDoug DoughtyJoe BuettnerJon WilnerKen WeinmanMarcus FullerNick SussSam Blum
9
Brian HollandChad LeistikowChristina ChambersJeff CallJerry CarinoJoe JulianoJoey KnightKevin BrockwayLauren BrownlowSeth DavisShannon RyanTerry TooheyTom BraggZach Klein
10
Adam GrosbardEdgar ThompsonJessica BensonJon RothsteinKevin McNamaraPaul KleeRob Dauster
11
Ben SteeleScott Wolf
16
Luke DeCock
17
James Crepea
21
Jesse Newell
4
John Feinstein
5
Carlos SilvaChris BasnettDonna DitotaTroy Provost-HeronWayne Epps
6
Dave PrestonJack EblingLauren KirschmanMatt McCoyScott RicheySheldon Mickles
7
B.J. RainsBrian McInnisDavid CloningerDick VitaleGeoff GrammerJohn WernerJordan HansenMark BermanRick BozichStephen MeansSteve Hewitt
8
Bob HoltBob SuttonBruce PascoeCecil HurtChris MurrayCraig MeyerDave BorgesDave MatterDoug DoughtyJoe BuettnerJon WilnerKen WeinmanMarcus FullerNick SussSam Blum
9
Brian HollandChad LeistikowChristina ChambersJeff CallJerry CarinoJoe JulianoJoey KnightKevin BrockwayLauren BrownlowSeth DavisShannon RyanTerry TooheyTom BraggZach Klein
10
Adam GrosbardEdgar ThompsonJessica BensonJon RothsteinKevin McNamaraPaul KleeRob Dauster
11
Ben SteeleScott Wolf
16
Luke DeCock
17
James Crepea
21
Jesse Newell
Creed Im sorry I screwed up the middle initial...
Once again Duke gets the benefit of the doubt. For anyone who thinks they don't get special treatment, they LOST a game to Syracuse in 2014 and moved UP 6 FREAKING SPOTS. That's pure ********.
Like I have always said, Kentucky falls faster in the polls after a loss than any other team and climbs slower than any other getting back to the top.
I’m long convinced that Izzo and K are long time members of Bohemian Grove! Nothing else makes sense at this point.
Heck, if Roy could reel off 2-3 wins in a roll, they’d be ranked again too! LOL
The Big 10 and ACC may be stronger conferences but UK beat ACC conference leader UL.
No shocker here from what I posted above that DeCock, Crepea and Newell screwed us again. Jesse Newell continues to be a terrible voter. Here are some of his highlights for this week:
7. Michigan State - 17 spots above their ranking and 10 spots above their next highest ranking by voter
10. Michigan - 9 spots above their ranking and 6 spots above their next highest ranking by voter
11. Ohio State - 12 spots above their ranking and 6 spots above their next highest ranking by voter
13. Arizona - 15 spots above their ranking and 8 spots above their next highest ranking by voter
15. Florida State - 9 spots below their ranking and 5 spots below their next lowest ranking by voter
21. Kentucky - 13 spots below their ranking
I wonder how many of the voters have a sports background? I wonder how many played the flute in their high school marching band? Some of the votes make no sense.
It is like they get orgasmic because a mid major is in the top ten.........The NCAA has been pushing the mid-majors for a long time now.........they don't want them to get tired of paying their dues and not receiving a part of the pie....[cheers]
That's so inept it has to be on purpose. No one is that clueless.
Does anyone review these and hold voters accountable? If somebody on my team at work continues to underperform, I don't continue to let it happen. They either improve or they find another job.
THIS ! ! !
San Diego State lost at home to UNLV, whose record at the time was 14-14 in the mighty Mountain West Conference ! As you say, BassPro ... what a joke !
SFA is a Top 100 team with only 3 losses or so. Evansville is high 200s and hasnt won a game in like 2 months
8 is fair . Highest ranked 5 loss team . Also- I hate Duke as much or more than any of you but their resume is better than our resume if you look at it objectively. Let me be clear - I would love to play them as I think we beat them 5 out of 7 times .
objectively - Duke has beaten two top 10 teams in Kansas and Florida State and they beat Michigan State. Our best win is Louisville . Their worst loss is SFA who is top 100 about the same as Utah . We have .... well you know . I know NC State just beat them but there resume is better than ours. If we are going to be a 3.. give me Duke as our 2 and SDSU or Maryland as the 1.
objectively - Duke has beaten two top 10 teams in Kansas and Florida State and they beat Michigan State. Our best win is Louisville . Their worst loss is SFA who is top 100 about the same as Utah . We have .... well you know . I know NC State just beat them but there resume is better than ours. If we are going to be a 3.. give me Duke as our 2 and SDSU or Maryland as the 1.
LOL Maryland is not going to be a 1 seed unless they win out . . They would have to win out to get a 2 . UK wins out and our 1 seed will be KU with a very outside shot at Baylor being it . Our 3 IMO will be either UL for a rematch in the sweet 16 or FSU possibly or someone like Nova .
Suspect it will look something like this
Midwest - KU / UK / UL / Nova
West Zags/Maryland / Creighton / Zona Or Oregon
South - Baylor/ FSU / Auburn / Mich or Mich st
East - SDSU / Dayton / Seton hall / Penn St or Ohio St
really those 4 seeds are hard to figure .
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