We gained 63 points in the poll this week. Hard to move up with our schedule.
No it doesn’t really matter what the AP voters think. They will not decide the tourney seeding.
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Look at Nevada and Gonzags schedule…
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- Win out we are a 2 seed.
- Lose only 1 more in regular season or conference tournament we are a 3 seed
- Lose 2 the rest of the way we are a 4-5 seed
- Lose 3+ and we are 6-8 seed.
- Don’t see us being lower than 8 seed at this point.
Basically, rankings don’t matter that much. We have a chance to beat some solid teams the rest of the way (including possibly Cincy twice).
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Peception does matter…and we will see if that NET will really work come Selection Sunday…
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Hard to move up with our schedule that we played this past week, to be more clear. We gained more points than Nevada and Gonzaga combined FWIW.
Wouldn’t matter to me if we dispatched Duke early rather than later. Let Mr. Shashefski take his boys home.
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New Mexico State should be ahead of Cincy since they have a better record, though, right?
If you just want the AP to be solely based on winning percentage then it wouldn’t really even need to exist. You can just drop all the teams into a spreadsheet and sort by winning percentage.
I watched the Maryland Michigan game…Maryland looked like trash in that loss. Still ranked…let me guess, a quality loss…weak new way of saying we will keep team A ranked over team B…
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cinci still 23 in the net, that’s what counts
Duke is scary! I dont want no part of them either. Everyone else is beatable and hopefully Duke gets upset because their outside shooting betrays them. :fingers cross:
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I’m not sure how NCAA seeding works but would they match up #1 overall seed (Duke) with the weakest #2 seed to reward them in the elite 8? If so hope UH can move up to #7 overall by selection time (#5 preferably in UT/UK’s bracket).
All we have to do is maintain our focus from game to game, keep winning and the rest will take care of itself. The success of UH this season has caught many pollsters by surprise, including our fan base, and our schedule has experienced wins over teams having down years, so in my opinion, the climb to the top of the ranking list is understandably slow. Also, we’ve reached the point in the rankings where we are running out of space to the top and we are battling conference media bias that favors the ACC, BIG TEN, SEC, and others and it won’t change until we change it. It’s all up to us. Go Coogs!
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According to the laws of physics, as it pertains to college BB rankings and seedings, (and maybe lots of other things) the higher up you are, the harder it is go up.
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I’m OK with it as the further up you climb, the fewer spots there are. We are in good shape and are capable of winning all of the rest of the regular season games, heck, maybe even the conference tourney! They way we are jelling and the DEPTH!!
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according to this our SOS is 58th and there are 4 teams in the top 16 that have a worse schedule than us including Michigan and Tennessee, we are awfully close to Gonzaga as well. Nevada remains ahead of us in the AP and coaches with a 128th ranked schedule and a much worse loss than us. Our schedule is not that bad
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I want to see “Jimmy Chitwood” Davis in the finals against Duke if that is the dream that we all aspire. Hoosiers at the college level with Coogs instead.
They take a lot of variables into account.
We played UConn and Tulane last week. Which of those wins moves the needle?
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It doesn’t, but if we had lost to one of them, the drop would have been deep.
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