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Post by montymontezuma on Jan 17, 2011 10:17:49 GMT -8
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Post by longtimebooster on Jan 17, 2011 10:18:29 GMT -8
Funny how one week most people on the board say rankings are meaningless ... Not sure who "most people" are, but I'm certainly not one of them. Rankings mean a lot. Every college hoops fan in the country reads the rankings when they come out. That's great publicity for the team. Additionally, the rankings matter when the Selection Committee seeds the teams for the Tourney. A No. 6 team could easily get a No. 3 or 4 seeding. Not true for a No. 3 or 4-ranked team. Guys on the Selection Committee say they take lots of things into account, which I'm sure they do. However, they are human. And they watch the rankings week-in and week-out just like the rest of us. ... but if they keep winning and beat byu (cheaters) the ranking will be out of this world! I think this is naive. We're freaking John Belushi trying to crash a party of Blue Bloods. They will only begrudgingly give us votes. There's a strong possibility of Syracuse losing to Pitt this week and both staying ranked ahead of us, even if we beat the Zoobs on the road. We're starting to bump up against a ceiling here. |
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Post by monty on Jan 17, 2011 10:19:04 GMT -8
Win Wed and beat BYU in provo and all will take care of itself. Actually, it won't. I'm becoming convinced that the only way we start passing teams is when we're 25-0 and the current teams ahead of us start ringing up two and three losses. Otherwise, we'll just bounce between 4 and 6. Yea, we've hit the glass ceiling. Hopefully now that we are above a 'true' 6th team we'll move ahead of teams that lose, but who knows? And in the AP we got the douches like little sethy davis and that other retard from NC voting us 10th |
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Post by Borg on Jan 17, 2011 10:20:20 GMT -8
Win Wed and beat BYU in provo and all will take care of itself. Exactly. People who don't follow west coast basketball can say a lot of things now, but if we take down #10 BYU on the road it will silence all critics. nuh uh uh! Make that "#9 BYU". We're hot on your heals my friend. #10 is so 'yesterday'.  |
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Post by monty on Jan 17, 2011 10:21:17 GMT -8
this stuff was already posted in this thread |
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Post by csfoster on Jan 17, 2011 10:22:46 GMT -8
Take it out on Air Force Aztecs and you will likely be in the Top 3 come next Monday!  |
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Post by redsuit on Jan 17, 2011 10:22:51 GMT -8
I like being only 8 points back and closer to #5 than #7
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Post by aztec00 on Jan 17, 2011 10:23:53 GMT -8
Exactly. People who don't follow west coast basketball can say a lot of things now, but if we take down #10 BYU on the road it will silence all critics. nuh uh uh! Make that "#9 BYU". We're hot on your heals my friend. #10 is so 'yesterday'. They must have overlooked your UCLA game ;D |
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Post by jeffreylw on Jan 17, 2011 10:25:12 GMT -8
Syracuse plays at Pitt tomorrow night. That should be interesting for the rankings. Pitt doesn't have to play at Syracuse this year.
The only ranked road games that Pitt has left this year is at Villanova and Louisville.
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Post by montymontezuma on Jan 17, 2011 10:28:56 GMT -8
this stuff was already posted in this thread Did not see it as the link did not come thru. |
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Post by j on Jan 17, 2011 10:32:29 GMT -8
Interesting how bout guys that voted us 3 were on campus last Wednesday for the UNLV game.
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Post by RB Aztec on Jan 17, 2011 10:49:00 GMT -8
This is exactly what I expected would happen. I expected us to stay at #6 in both polls. If we beat BYU and AFA, then we might move up. When you are in the top with established programs, it is hard to move up.
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Post by haleiwaaztec on Jan 17, 2011 11:02:28 GMT -8
If we do win our next 3 games, we will be top 3 in both polls. In the AP, 37 of the 65 voters have us #6 or higher and only 4 have us outside the top 7. With all the big east and big 12 teams playing each other, we will rise higher.
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Post by monty on Jan 17, 2011 11:02:57 GMT -8
watchout for the winner of 'nova and uconn
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Post by Borg on Jan 17, 2011 11:03:16 GMT -8
This is exactly what I expected would happen. I expected us to stay at #6 in both polls. If we beat BYU and AFA, then we might move up. When you are in the top with established programs, it is hard to move up. But, it shouldn't be 'that' hard. You guys had a tough schedule last week. UNLV @ home, and UNM on the road. It's not like those two teams are a walk in the park. |
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Post by monty on Jan 17, 2011 11:09:21 GMT -8
This is exactly what I expected would happen. I expected us to stay at #6 in both polls. If we beat BYU and AFA, then we might move up. When you are in the top with established programs, it is hard to move up. But, it shouldn't be 'that' hard. You guys had a tough schedule last week. UNLV @ home, and UNM on the road. It's not like those two teams are a walk in the park. sorry, only a top 6 not a top 5 team is going to beat you in 10 days |
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Post by KickAztec on Jan 17, 2011 11:24:20 GMT -8
I'm having a hard time seeing why we should be upset ranked number 6. That's pretty damn good for a team that only has one victory over any current top 25 teams (St. Mary's).
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Post by chopshop on Jan 17, 2011 11:34:48 GMT -8
It's awesome to be ranked this high however all that matters now is how we do in The Dance. As long as we stay in the top 20 and make a deep run in the tournament, I'd prefer that to us being ranked in the top 4 all season and no good run in the tourney.
This is not the BCS and east coast bias can't hold us down in March!
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Post by monty on Jan 17, 2011 11:37:01 GMT -8
I'm having a hard time seeing why we should be upset ranked number 6. That's pretty damn good for a team that only has one victory over any current top 25 teams (St. Mary's). Ohio State: No top 25 wins Kansas: UofA (25, coaches) Syracuse: 5 loss Michigan state (17/18), 4 loss Notre dame (16/16) Pitt: Texas (10/11), Lost to Unranked Tenn, Uconn (8/8) Duke: 5 loss michiganState (17/18), lost to unranked FSU in first road game that wasn't a home game sdsu: St Mary's (21/22) Not like everyone else is setting the world on fire |
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Post by Borg on Jan 17, 2011 11:59:32 GMT -8
It's awesome to be ranked this high however all that matters now is how we do in The Dance. As long as we stay in the top 20 and make a deep run in the tournament, I'd prefer that to us being ranked in the top 4 all season and no good run in the tourney. This is not the BCS and east coast bias can't hold us down in March! Gotta have the rankings to get the ever slippery "seeding". Seeding means everything in the Dance. |
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