#21 and rising!

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19 butler lost today. 16 Michigan State and 23 Arizona lost Saturday. 20 Illinois lost Friday. 21 Creighton, 18 LSU and 17 Iowa lost Wednesday. 16 Michigan State lost on Tuesday as well.

I think 16. Michigan State will fall out altogether. Arizona and Creighton as well. That should move us up 3 spots. Add that LSU lost to Vandy and we should have them drop behind us. Illinois might drop to 25 because the big 10 is the best conference in the universe with 17 teams going to the tournament according to ESPN.

Add in that we just bent Wichita over the woodshed and we could jump 6 spots.

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Jumping from #25 to #19 would be reasonable. Anything better would be special.

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Wichita beat Ok St in Stillwater and now we’ve beaten Wichita twice. That really helps the metrics for that loss it basically throws it out.

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#20 this week. However, #18-20 are all pretty close points-wise, and we’re closer to 18 than 21.

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Wow Michigan State falls out after 3 straight losses

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surely they judge teams differently… Last week’s rankings, UH almost dropped out of the rankings entirely when they lost @ Cincy by 2. This week Iowa loses @ Purdue (14-10 record) by almost 40 points! and they only drop down 4 spots to 21st.

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P5 bias… it is a fact !!

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Just a handful of votes between #18 and #20, and no Wichita State to be seen.

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The conference heavyweights keep beating each other at the top. I think we will be the only ones ranked at the end. Hopeful to have 3 teams in the tourney.

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#19

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Hey, not trying to complain, but who did Colorado beat to go from #24 ranked to #16. Did anyone see that??!

We went from #25 to #20.

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But they beat that juggernaut Nebraska at home

Anyone who thinks there’s not P-5 bias in basketball is either fooling themselves or simply naive

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Cali and Stanford. No reason for them to move up more than we did. They only won by 7 and six points in each game.

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Who were the two?

https://twitter.com/Joseph_Duarte/status/1226948716076118016?s=20

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That is because the “media” (AP voters) anointed the big10 as THE best league this year…based on nothing of course !!

Remember how long Ohio State was ranked in the top 10 early in the year even though they had not really played anyone… Basically the same Ohio State team that we beat like a rented mule last year !!!

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Dave Matter of the St Louis Dispatch and James Crepea of the Oregonean.

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It’s based on what they did OOC which is much better than what our conference did.

Ohio State had wins against Cincy, Villanova, @UNC (though they turned out to be bad), Penn State and Kentucky when they were 11-1.

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Crepea. That hack has no idea there are other colleges outside of U of O.

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James “Full of” Crepea and Dave “I really don’t” Matter

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