We lose to unranked UConn and drop 6 spots. Louisville beats UConn and moves up 5 spots. Weirdness.

Fair ranking. We should move up after this week. Winning 2 and sitting at 15-4.

(01-20-2014 02:21 PM)mairving Wrote:  We lose to unranked UConn and drop 6 spots. Louisville beats UConn and moves up 5 spots. Weirdness.

It's Louisville and they destroyed Houston and beat UConn by 12 lol. Must be nice to be in THE club.

(01-20-2014 02:22 PM)Tigermaniac Wrote:  

(01-20-2014 02:21 PM)mairving Wrote:  We lose to unranked UConn and drop 6 spots. Louisville beats UConn and moves up 5 spots. Weirdness.

It's Louisville and they destroyed Houston and beat UConn by 12 lol. Must be nice to be in THE club.

We lost to UConn at home, Louisville beat UConn on the road. That matters.

(01-20-2014 02:21 PM)mairving Wrote:  We lose to unranked UConn and drop 6 spots. Louisville beats UConn and moves up 5 spots. Weirdness.

Well, they also beat Houston by 40, and their win over UConn was convincing.

The loss is doubly sad because we would be somewhere around #12 if we beat UConn. That was a full 10-12 spot swing.

(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.

(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.

Same impression I got. They can possibly cause some problems for some big, slow B1G team (or the likes of Kentucky) in the tourney if they catch fire from long range. However, they're not big enough or fast enough to threaten too many other teams. I think we match up really well with them.

(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.

Yeah, I've just become resigned to how I expect the voters to vote. What I think is accurate is usually significantly different.

I did not see this coming.

(01-20-2014 01:50 PM)Tigers2B1 Wrote:  Florida #6, Louisville #9, OK State #12, Bearcats #16, Zags #21

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/ncaab/polls/

This is great.

MEMPHIS could very well end up the season having played at LEAST 8 ranked teams...several in top 10. If UConn gets ranked before 2/15, that will be 9 ranked teams out of 31 games.

I can't be sure but I THINK that would constitute the hardest (ranked opponent wise) regular season schedule ever played by a MEMPHIS team. Then throw in games against LSU, Houston, SMU. Not bad.

The TIGERS will be playing UC, UL, UConn, and Gonzaga later, so that is 4 mor eopportunities to move further up (or down) the polls. The reall good news is the RPI increase regardless.

Iowa's rise in the rankings has been incredible.

(01-20-2014 01:19 PM)TigerFan386 Wrote:  Sounds about right. I'll be much happier when our KenPom defensive efficiency ranking is top 25, right now its 69th. Was top 20 at one point, we need to crank up that defensive intensity.

Will not happen if we keep using the 3/4 guard sets.... The lack of size does not cause opposing team to alter shots.

(01-20-2014 06:41 PM)uofmcamaro Wrote:  Iowa's rise in the rankings has been incredible.

They are very good-watch them a lot because they are my son-in laws team. True 11 deep, well coached and maybe not super athletes but their floor spacing is great.

(01-20-2014 03:55 PM)boss man Wrote:  

(01-20-2014 01:50 PM)Tigers2B1 Wrote:  Florida #6, Louisville #9, OK State #12, Bearcats #16, Zags #21

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/ncaab/polls/

This is great.

MEMPHIS could very well end up the season having played at LEAST 8 ranked teams...several in top 10. If UConn gets ranked before 2/15, that will be 9 ranked teams out of 31 games.

I can't be sure but I THINK that would constitute the hardest (ranked opponent wise) regular season schedule ever played by a MEMPHIS team. Then throw in games against LSU, Houston, SMU. Not bad.

The TIGERS will be playing UC, UL, UConn, and Gonzaga later, so that is 4 mor eopportunities to move further up (or down) the polls. The reall good news is the RPI increase regardless.

Great post, boss man. We are definitely playing a whole new 'league' of competitors now that we are playing in a Big Six conference. This may not be the Big East, anymore, yet, it literally still IS the BE conference in stature, television exposure and overall competitive strength of every team in the AAC.

(01-20-2014 02:21 PM)mairving Wrote:  We lose to unranked UConn and drop 6 spots. Louisville beats UConn and moves up 5 spots. Weirdness.

Louisville has some weird F'ng glow around them I guess. Totally ridiculous.

These next few games give us an opportunity to iron out some wrinkles that had mounted in this early season. Itll feel like cusa for a few weeks. JP's teams usually got better as the cusa season progressed. Therefore I expect to win all of these up to SMU & then it gets tough again right before conf tourney time, which is something we'll need to test out new found improvement, which is something we haven't had in a long time.

(01-20-2014 10:02 PM)Chi-TownTiger Wrote:  

(01-20-2014 02:21 PM)mairving Wrote:  We lose to unranked UConn and drop 6 spots. Louisville beats UConn and moves up 5 spots. Weirdness.

Louisville has some weird F'ng glow around them I guess. Totally ridiculous.

Well, our loss was on our home floor so it (the loss) hurts us just a bit more than their win on the road helps them. Plus, they are Louisville and the lazy voters just think, "oh yeah, they're really good"!

Shocked we're still ranked but happy about it. The team is still garnering respect.

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

I agree. With both points actually, but I thought we might be 24 or 25, barely. Either way it's good.