Gary Parrish has Tennessee at #4

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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.

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?
 
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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.

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?
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.
 
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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.
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.
 
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And rankings mean absolutely nothing at the start of February………. we are only halfway through the conference schedule at this point………..so much will change by the start of the NCAA. tournament. Our coaches and players I’m sure are locked in on the Missouri scout, who is the most improved team in the league at this point. After that, 4 of our next 5 are road games. Let’s see where we are then and see where we are in projected seed line.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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If they get the inside going and playing smart defense regarding fouls --- watch out. We had been to focused on the three ball and Barnes' offense does not work without a an inside game.
 
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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!
Missouri feels like a pivotal game. I'm hoping we come out ready for the challenge.
 
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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.
 
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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.
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
 
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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.
Edit.. my bad quoted the wrong person.

But to your point, I’d kinda argue our defense and rebounding let us down as much as the offense against KY, even w their 50+% shooting. Jmo
 
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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
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.
Having said that, now that I have thought more about it, I don't see them putting Purdue above us. If Michigan State stays above us it will be like last week. We will be right behind them. Purdue doesn't have the resume/record to jump Michigan State. They probably take Marquette's spot, but maybe a higher ranking depending on if Iowa State takes a big drop.
Everything considered, I won't be surprised at all if we are #4 come tomorrow afternoon.
 
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This can't be right. Purdue was in top 10 last week. They aren't dropping out with winning a game this past week and not losing one.

One other thing, have come it shows Tennessee moving up 7 spots with the green arrow? Should be up 4? Did this guy already have a predicted AP 25 mid week and had us at #11 after the KY loss?
 
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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!
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.
 
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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
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.
 
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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.

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.
 
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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.
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.
 
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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.
Yeah, it's the SEC so every game left on the schedule is loseable.

We have 9 games left, in order below.
Need to somehow try to go 7-2 or at least 6-3.
Good thing is I thought Missouri was on the road. I feel much better about that game at home.
Here's my predictions:

Missouri W
at Oklahoma W
at Kentucky L
Vanderbilt W
at Texas A&M L ( that one is legit winnable tho)
at LSU W
ALABAMA. W
at Ole Miss L
South Carolina W

My picks are based off of the fact it's hard to win 3 in a row in the SEC, and it's easier to win at home.

I'd say we go 6-3, but I think real possibility we do 7-2.
This would put us at 24-7 or 25-6, respectively.
I think we most likely need the 25-6 to get the #2 seed.
Probably have to go 26-5 to get a #1 seed.
But who knows, other top teams could start losing, too.
 
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We are a #2 seed at home and a #7 seed on the road.

If they can change their offensive play on the road and get off to a better start, they can get back to where they were earlier. The three-point shots have to be inside out, not side to side. They should create some fouls and get some early free throws. They have the horses.
 
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