WVU No. 16 in the AP Top 25 poll
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WVU moved up 6 notches to #16 in the latest Associated Press writers’ basketball poll.
Ohio State, after losing to WVU, dropped from #2 to #5.
Kansas, WVU’s next opponent on Saturday, is ranked #3, up two notches because #2 Ohio State and #3 Louisville (now #7) both lost.
If WVU beats #2 now #5 Ohio State and #3 Kansas back to back it would be difficult to keep Huggins Heroes out of the top 10, maybe even the top 5.
I really enjoyed sitting 4 rows from the Ohio State bench in Cleveland and seeing the bewilderment, anguish and dismay on their faces. They were victims of Huggins Heroes, as the sign displayed on national TV said.
It is a great time, as always, to be a Mountaineer. Somewhere in Heaven Jack Fleming and his Mother were smiling and cheering WVU on. And Jack's Mom was muttering something nasty about Pitt!!!!
Ohio State, after losing to WVU, dropped from #2 to #5.
Kansas, WVU’s next opponent on Saturday, is ranked #3, up two notches because #2 Ohio State and #3 Louisville (now #7) both lost.
If WVU beats #2 now #5 Ohio State and #3 Kansas back to back it would be difficult to keep Huggins Heroes out of the top 10, maybe even the top 5.
I really enjoyed sitting 4 rows from the Ohio State bench in Cleveland and seeing the bewilderment, anguish and dismay on their faces. They were victims of Huggins Heroes, as the sign displayed on national TV said.
It is a great time, as always, to be a Mountaineer. Somewhere in Heaven Jack Fleming and his Mother were smiling and cheering WVU on. And Jack's Mom was muttering something nasty about Pitt!!!!
Yes, it will be difficult for a team as young as WVU to remain consistent. Of course, thanks to our depth, the players know that anyone not going all-out all the time will be benched by Huggins.
What I saw in Cleveland was a one-for-all attitude. Oscar, despite his miserable day, was laughing and cheering on the bench with 6 seconds left in the game. It doesn't matter who is the best in the game being played to Huggins Heroes as long as WVU wins. That's an attitude that was sorely missing last season with the rotten apples poisoning the well. I LOVE this team, and not just because they lost only once by 2 points with the help of a bad call that went against them with 5 seconds left.
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Michigan beats a couple ok teams goes uh unranked to 4. You can bet your sweet *** if Ohio state was 22 and we were 2 and they beat us with their best player sitting on the bench in foul trouble the whole game in a game played in Fairmont and called a neutral court, and it made them #1 in basically every power metric even espns made up ones, their asses would be higher than 16 with only 1 loss, they would be at least top 4, guaranteed
68 team field and we are on the 2 line right now. The only ranking that matters is the NCAA ranking and they love us.
We just need to keep getting better and get really hot during NCAA tourney time. Basketball rankings are hardly worth a dime.
Actually, a 68-team field, which makes your point even more valid. I don't give a crap about where WVU is ranked as long as Huggins Heroes are in March Madness. 6 straight victories and Huggins and my alma mater have their first national title in basketball, although I still contend that the 1942 NIT championship was a national title because, at that time, the NIT was bigger than the NCAA title. So much so that the NCAA had to make a rule that a team could NOT turn down an NCAA invite and go to the NIT but could do both, and some did.
Just ignore the old coot. Your brain will hurt trying to make sense of the disjointed ramblings and your involuntary eye roll reflex may detach your optic nerve when reading these corny sayings he thinks are clever. All the while he'll try to convince you to believe he is such a paragon of wisdom and insight because he worked as a writer for a newspaper sports page and is more well off and well traveled than us common peasants.
Actually no. It's 64. Those 4 extra are play in games nothing more. Play in game = a conference championship game.
64 team field. The others are play in games same as a conference championship. If you want to count those play in games you might as well count every conference tournament game as NCAA field of...
It is OK to be wrong but it still does not change the fact it is a 68 team field. Conference champs who play in the play in game get the same pay out as a second round game who did not play in the first round.
Might as well make it a 132 team field. Helps water it down even more than the 64.
Well, it made an impression on the guys handling national TV of the WVU-Ohio State game I attended in Cleveland. You know that if you saw ME holding my HUGGINS HEROES sign on national TV as the final score flashed across the bottom of the screen. But I guess you're used to being out of the loop because of your envy, jealousy and stupidity. Let's go, Huggins Heroes!! Catchy, huh? National TV thought so. People watching the game with me though so, asking if they could photograph me holding the sign. The Jumbotron guy thought so, showing me on it several times holding my Huggins Heroes sign. You are SO far off-base that you're not even in leftfield. You're in the street behind the stadium where the leftfield seats are. You are owned! And by an 87-year-old. Oh, the humiliation! Get back in grandma's basement where you belong to do your sulking! Meanwhile, I'll get back to LOVING this young team that can beat #2 without WVU's #1 being a factor. How many teams can do THAT?
Sorry, but they among the 68 teams that can win March Madness, the same as #1 seeds. So it IS a 68-team tournament. Play-in game IS part of March Madness.
So are conference tournament games. But you keep on keeping on old fart.
Not sure why you are digging in on this. Kind of like TVZ where your opinions are passed on as fact.
In 2011, the NCAA field expanded to 68 teams and the last 8 teams playing for four spots making the field into 64, which is called the first round and so on. The former first round is called the second round, the second round is called the third round, and the Sweet Sixteen is the same, but it is technically the fourth round in the current format, etc.[13]
In 2016, the field did not expand, but the round numbers changed again. The first four games containing the last 8 teams is now referred to as the first four. Consequently, the first round does not start until the first four games are out of the way and the field is narrowed to 64 teams. So after the first four games the first round starts instead of that being the second round. The Second is now when there are 32 teams left, the sweet sixteen is the third round, and so on.[14]
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