(01-20-2014 11:55 PM)450bench Wrote:  Shocked we're still ranked but happy about it. The team is still garnering respect.

We'll get there.

(01-20-2014 02:58 PM)TripleA Wrote:  

(01-20-2014 02:20 PM)lenetzach Wrote:  

(01-20-2014 02:05 PM)TripleA Wrote:  The Zags being ahead of us is puzzling.

I didn't get involved in the previous discussions on this but I have always expected them to move up just by winning

Yeah, agree. They were 24 and we were 17, and they won 2 easy road games. But my issue is, have you watched them play? They are not good.

If they get hot, they can hang for awhile, but I've watched them 3-4 times, at least. Not impressive. Portland rolled over them 2 weeks ago.

Drew Barham is a nice guy and was a great Tiger walkon, but any team that starts him, or uses him as the 6th man, as the Zags do back and forth, is not a team that should be ranked right now.

I suppose the bigger issue with me is that most of these voters don't actually watch many games, and once they position a team, as you noted, they simply move it up/down, w/ a win or loss, regardless of whom they play, or how they actually perform.

They will be our easiest ranked win of the year imo.

(01-21-2014 01:22 AM)Jedi Master Sipho-Dyas Wrote:  

(01-20-2014 02:58 PM)TripleA Wrote:  

(01-20-2014 02:20 PM)lenetzach Wrote:  

(01-20-2014 02:05 PM)TripleA Wrote:  The Zags being ahead of us is puzzling.

I didn't get involved in the previous discussions on this but I have always expected them to move up just by winning

Yeah, agree. They were 24 and we were 17, and they won 2 easy road games. But my issue is, have you watched them play? They are not good.

If they get hot, they can hang for awhile, but I've watched them 3-4 times, at least. Not impressive. Portland rolled over them 2 weeks ago.

Drew Barham is a nice guy and was a great Tiger walkon, but any team that starts him, or uses him as the 6th man, as the Zags do back and forth, is not a team that should be ranked right now.

I suppose the bigger issue with me is that most of these voters don't actually watch many games, and once they position a team, as you noted, they simply move it up/down, w/ a win or loss, regardless of whom they play, or how they actually perform.

They will be our easiest ranked win of the year imo.

Yep. Assuming they are still ranked when we play. Zags are in the Coaches (#21), but out of the AP right now (#28). I'm sure the usual suspects won't count it as a ranked win, but I will. The Zags have 5 games left before us, including BYU and Portland, who beat them easily 2 weeks ago, which hurt. But it's the same week as our game, so if they are ranked when they play Portland again, they technically will still be when we play.

And we need UConn to climb back into the top 25 before we play again. They are #27 in the AP and #31 in the Coaches. They play Houston and @ Cincy before we meet again. But that won't be an easy win for us @ UConn, especially if we let Daniels go off again.

Also, Cincy is way up now, but before we play them again, they have to play both Louisville and UConn twice each, and @ SMU. And again, that wouldn't be an easy win @ Cincy for us.