The Boilermakers will have to wait a little while longer to be #1 in the nation, as Duke squeaked by them for the top spot, garnering 30 first place votes to Purdue's zero.The Boilers did move up a spot to #17 after beating a ranked team on the road. Hmmm, let's see what else happened in the top 25.
It's interesting to us the undeserved respect that the Big East continues to get. For example, Syracuse got run out of the gym by Pitt and followed that with another double-digit loss to Louisville and yet only fell seven spots to 15. In more egregious name-recognition voting, Notre Dame got beat at home by admittedly very good UConn, yet is still ranked 22. They only fell three slots, yet they have a 12-6 record. 12-6? Seriously? Michigan is 14-6 and they beat Duke and UCLA, yet they don't even get a sniff at the top 25 this week. Yeah, that Big Ten sure is a down conference.
How about Georgetown? Another sterling 12-6 record, and do you know what they did last week? They lost by 17 to unranked West Virginia and by five to..... Seton freaking Hall. But by all means, let's keep them in the top 25. They've earned it.
Just more proof that the rankings are complete silliness.
3 comments:
We can't put a lot in polls - they just give us a ballpark estimate. Just look at the conference standings and totals in the win-loss columns and that will tell you who will make the big dance. Then we figure out who is really good and who isn't.
The Big 11 is tough this year - just ask Bobby Knight.
The bottom eight in the Little East is a joke! It is absolutely not the deepest conference when you take into account the total number of teams.
Michigan was ranked earlier in the year and then went on a horrible losing streak that culminated with a drubbing at Penn State. That game wasn't even close and that's why they aren't ranked. If they put together a solid win streak within the conference, they will crack the top 25.
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