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He has huge swings (he dropped us several spots after the KY loss). In fairness, the teams he has 5-10 all lost and we blew out the team he had at #4.
We should be #4 in the AP poll tomorrow, #5 at the absolute lowest. #3 Iowa State was blown out on their home floor by a quad 3 team after losing midweek by 9 at unranked Arizona. We blew out #5 Florida while missing two starters after they had a midweek home win over unranked Georgia. #6 Houston lost at home to #22 Texas Tech after winning @ unranked West Virginia. #7 Michigan State lost @ unranked USC. There wasn't a team ranked below us that did anything worthy of jumping us.He has huge swings (he dropped us several spots after the KY loss). In fairness, the teams he has 5-10 all lost and we blew out the team he had at #4.
I suspect we are somewhere in the 6-8 range in the AP Tomorrow. Could see us staying static or maybe even moving up slightly. Pummeling #5 (per AP) short handed HAS to more than cancel out losing by 5 to #12, right?
UF was off mid-week. That’s b2b weekends we’ve faced a top 5 team coming off a bye while we’ve had cage fights during the week. We’ll get ours in time so it likely works itself out just kind of ironic it’s set up like that in the early half of the conference slate and so close to each other.We should be #4 in the AP poll tomorrow, #5 at the absolute lowest. #3 Iowa State was blown out on their home floor by a quad 3 team after losing midweek by 9 at unranked Arizona. We blew out #5 Florida while missing two starters after they had a midweek home win over unranked Georgia. #6 Houston lost at home to #22 Texas Tech after winning @ unranked West Virginia. #7 Michigan State lost @ unranked USC. There wasn't a team ranked below us that did anything worthy of jumping us.
Other than not lose. Purdue has a chance to jump us, but that’s it. I expect us to come in anywhere from 4-7.We should be #4 in the AP poll tomorrow, #5 at the absolute lowest. #3 Iowa State was blown out on their home floor by a quad 3 team after losing midweek by 9 at unranked Arizona. We blew out #5 Florida while missing two starters after they had a midweek home win over unranked Georgia. #6 Houston lost at home to #22 Texas Tech after winning @ unranked West Virginia. #7 Michigan State lost @ unranked USC. There wasn't a team ranked below us that did anything worthy of jumping us.
Missouri feels like a pivotal game. I'm hoping we come out ready for the challenge.Hopefully, ZZ and Igor are healthy enough to contribute Wednesday night. We will need all hands on deck against a physical Mizzou team with a deadly shooter. They whipped Mississippi State at State like a rented mule!
Can't imagine Igor still battling the flu 5 days later. ZZ tougher to predict, game on Wednesday at home so no travel both of which is helpful.Hopefully, ZZ and Igor are healthy enough to contribute Wednesday night. We will need all hands on deck against a physical Mizzou team with a deadly shooter. They whipped Mississippi State at State like a rented mule!
While it is true that Purdue didn't lose, they still have an extra loss than we do after the Kentucky game. They only played one game this week and that was a five point home win over an unranked Indiana squad. I don't think that is enough to warrant them jumping an additional two spots to get ahead of us. I still say we should be 4 with the only justifiable argument being if they decided to keep Houston ahead of us. Even that is a little iffy, though. With Iowa St. losing twice, that vacates the #3 spot, which will almost certainly go to Alabama. Someone has to move up into the #4 spot. If that were either Florida or Houston, it would mean moving them up in the rankings directly coming off a loss. In Florida's case, they would move up a spot two days after getting beat by 20 points in their only game of the week. For Houston, it would be moving them up two spots two days after losing at home to Texas Tech. For me, the most logical solution is:Other than not lose. Purdue has a chance to jump us, but that’s it. I expect us to come in anywhere from 4-7.
Edit.. my bad quoted the wrong person.I'd say about 5-6. We don't need all of our shooters to be on every night, we just need a few of them to win most all of our games. Every now and then run across a team like KY last week that just couldn't miss, but our D keeps us in all of our games.
I said in the other thread about ranking we should be #4, but AP likes to favor "hot" teams, so I could see us 5 or even 6.While it is true that Purdue didn't lose, they still have an extra loss than we do after the Kentucky game. They only played one game this week and that was a five point home win over an unranked Indiana squad. I don't think that is enough to warrant them jumping an additional two spots to get ahead of us. I still say we should be 4 with the only justifiable argument being if they decided to keep Houston ahead of us. Even that is a little iffy, though. With Iowa St. losing twice, that vacates the #3 spot, which will almost certainly go to Alabama. Someone has to move up into the #4 spot. If that were either Florida or Houston, it would mean moving them up in the rankings directly coming off a loss. In Florida's case, they would move up a spot two days after getting beat by 20 points in their only game of the week. For Houston, it would be moving them up two spots two days after losing at home to Texas Tech. For me, the most logical solution is:
1. Auburn
2. Duke
3. Alabama
4. Tennessee
5. Florida
6. Houston
7. Purdue
8. Iowa State
9. Michigan State
10. Marquette
Very true. We better have our best defense going for us. We can't afford to allow that team to gun 3 pointers without having a hand in their face. Nearly all the scholarship players are battle tested except Boswell and he's slowly getting some live action.Hopefully, ZZ and Igor are healthy enough to contribute Wednesday night. We will need all hands on deck against a physical Mizzou team with a deadly shooter. They whipped Mississippi State at State like a rented mule!
I think you’re overthinking this. Number of losses, metrics, etc. don’t matter in the AP Top 25 basketball poll like they might to the football voters. We were #8 and went 1-1. Purdue was #10 and didn’t lose this past week. As I said, there’s a chance they could jump us, but they may not due to all of the other carnage in the top 10. We’ll have to wait and see.While it is true that Purdue didn't lose, they still have an extra loss than we do after the Kentucky game. They only played one game this week and that was a five point home win over an unranked Indiana squad. I don't think that is enough to warrant them jumping an additional two spots to get ahead of us. I still say we should be 4 with the only justifiable argument being if they decided to keep Houston ahead of us. Even that is a little iffy, though. With Iowa St. losing twice, that vacates the #3 spot, which will almost certainly go to Alabama. Someone has to move up into the #4 spot. If that were either Florida or Houston, it would mean moving them up in the rankings directly coming off a loss. In Florida's case, they would move up a spot two days after getting beat by 20 points in their only game of the week. For Houston, it would be moving them up two spots two days after losing at home to Texas Tech. For me, the most logical solution is:
1. Auburn
2. Duke
3. Alabama
4. Tennessee
5. Florida
6. Houston
7. Purdue
8. Iowa State
9. Michigan State
10. Marquette
Very true. We better have our best defense going for us. We can't afford to allow that team to gun 3 pointers without having a hand in their face. Nearly all the scholarship players are battle tested except Boswell and he's slowly getting some live action.
It’s 3 games in 6 days coming up. They’re all winnable but both Mizzou and @UK are also imminently losable and @OU sandwiched in the middle will be no picnic. No SEC road game is this year.This Missouri game coming up is huge. Need it to keep that #1 seed hopes alive.
I was already worried about them before we stumbled a bit recently because they're a scrappy team that has depth. After their game with Illinois I thought to myself they going to give us all we want.
Very loseable game on the road.
Hopefully everyone is back/ healthy and coaching keeps that same mindset as fje Florida game yesterday afternoon.
Yeah, it's the SEC so every game left on the schedule is loseable.It’s 3 games in 6 days coming up. They’re all winnable but both Mizzou and @UK are also imminently losable and @OU sandwiched in the middle will be no picnic. No SEC road game is this year.