Despite dropping another road contest to a vastly inferior team last night in Fayetteville,
ESPN's new weekly power rankings place the Cats at #24, good for the third-best team in the SEC and the second-best in the state. Florida checks in at #12, Vandy at #23 and Louisville at #16.
The rankings are based off of a group of 16 ESPN college basktball writers, researchers and TV personalities and while you can certainly make a case for John Calipari's team not deserving a top-25 position, it is interesting to see
the people who voted them outside of the rankings. They are a Calipari foe (Forde), a friend of Clyde (Fraschilla), a researcher (McCallum), a Georgia alum and SEC guy (Schlabach), a hated name from the past (Simon) and a prominent former Blue Devil (Williams). Clearly, the Cats are victim of a conspiracy. The 1-6 SEC road record has nothing to do with it.
Here is where each member of the panel ranked the Cats:Â
Jay Bilas: 18
Eamonn Brennan: 24
Brett Edgerton: 25
LaPhonso Ellis: 23
Pat Forde: Unranked
Fran Fraschilla: Unranked
Doug Gottlieb: 19
Andy Katz: 24
Diamond Leung: 21
Joe Lunardi: 24
Jason McCallum: Unranked
Dana O'Neil-Forde: 23
Mark Schlabach: Unranked
Miles Simon: Unranked
Dick Vitale: 25
Jay Williams: Unranked
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