TheMookieMonster
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Garbage assessment, Goodman
Way-too-early Power 36 rankings for the 2021-22 college basketball season
I know we had a disappointing season this year, but the fact we are being overlooked so much for 2021-2022 is ridiculous. Not even in the top 36 teams? Oral Roberts?!?! Talk about recency bias....
Honestly, good. This is going to give the guys a lot of ammunition. I like being the hunter instead of the hunted. Barnes' seems to get more out of his teams when he can sell the "No one believes in you" shtick.
W Bediako moves Bama up to 7Here are the T-Rankings which he hasn’t even published yet. It deducts uncommitted players in the portal and assumes no returning seniors. Also makes some assumptions about who is going to the draft even if they haven’t announced (like Keon)
7. Alabama
11. Kentucky
19. Florida
20. LSU
24. Tennessee
33. Auburn
37. Arkansas
74. Vanderbilt
77. Mississippi State
80. South Carolina
82. Ole Miss
111. Texas A&M
112. Missouri
212. Georgia
Obviously this could and almost certainly will change a lot since the portal is so full and seniors can come back. But this is kind of the baseline as to where we stand now
I still believe that UT could've beaten anyone in the country. It's a problem when they could also lose to any team in the country as well....Did Barnes oversell the “we could beat anyone in the country” line to the media this year? I know you don’t tell your team, guys we wouldn’t be able to beat Gonzaga, etc, but I heard Barnes say that more this year than I can ever remember. Did he really believe that? Or was he trying to instill confidence into his team heading into the tourney?
Yeah I had a feeling Baylor was going to win it all when I saw how the "switch" got turned back on in the tournament. They were thrashing folks, seemed they got the appropriate wake-up call prior to the tournament when Ok State put them outta the Big-12.
I think Mashack will be the biggest surprise for the good guys.As we stand now, assuming Fulk returns, just a ballpark:
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