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Idiotic AP Voters with Duke still ahead of Kentucky (Week 3)

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UKMKG said:
Kentucky made its largest leap EVER in the AP poll this week--10 spots from #19 to #9.

However, a few voters had absolutely dumbfounding ranking regarding Kentucky...here are the highlights:

Randy Heitz (who?!) 107.7 The Franchise: Kentucky #17 and Duke #7 -- was he in a coma last week?!

Parth Upadhyaya (the Daily Memphian): Kentucky #13 and Duke #8 -- was he/she in India watching cricket?!

Peter Rauterkus (AL.com): Kentucky #13 and Duke #8 -- Alabama bias?

Marcus Fuller (St. Paul Pioneer Press): Kentucky #10 and Duke #9 -- those two teams just played each other you know!

No other voter had Duke ranked ahead of UK...full list here: https://collegepolltracker.com/basketball/grid/2024/week-3
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Cal's honeymoon at Arkansas is already over

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silentsaregolden2.0 said:
Just watched a video from 2 Arky fans who had been excited and hopeful with the Cal hire, and they are already despondent. I don't think there was one thing said by them that I disagreed with. In 4 games, they are already where most of us were at when he finally left. They talked about how his style is boring, he isn't developing guys like he used to, needs better assistants, that he won't change, etc. I think his stay there is going to be much shorter than anyone expected. This is a different video, but go to 2:45 and hear them talk about how right UK fans were

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Derek Anderson on the Knuckleheads podcast

Fox2monk
shaudyshaud said:
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Im sure most people heard about this already
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Love D Anderson and I happy he made it out big. My favorite Cat ever honestly. I have a couple favorites, but he’s my childhood favorite. I remember Mashburn, but I really remember the 1996 team vividly. I don’t remember games when I was 6 or 7 like I did when I was 10.
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Cal's honeymoon at Arkansas is already over

Fox2monk
MegaBlue05 said:
I’m in an SEC group on Facebook. I told them what to expect when they hired Cal:

Boring, archaic offense that labors to score 70 points against a team with a pulse
M2M defense 100 percent of the time even if they suck at it
High ranked recruits who are high on measurables and short on basketball skills and IQ
Stubborn coach who knows it all and will belittle anyone who dares question his greatness

I got called a hater and jealous ex.

Now, several piggies have told me they sadly think I might’ve been correct.
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Yup and more and more will see it as the year goes on.
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What shoes are most of the guys wearing?

Fox2monk
UKBrassowTipIN said:
I have several pairs of MJ 1's and 3's, a pair of 4's and a pair of 11's.

I'm unsure how jordan ever played in 1's..not a comfortable shoe at all. He's feet had to of bled wearing them
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I’m wearing the six rings right now. They have unbelievable ankle support, they are tight fitting but I can see why they would be great to play in. My favorites just to wear are the 4’s, 12, and 13.
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OT: Twitter in Absolute Shambles

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hmt5000 said:
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Amazing. X more closely resembles the real world and liberals freak out. They don't understand what life is like outside of their echo chambers. LOL.
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It's funny, bc every now and then all these left wing ppl try to go occupy a different social media app to yell at each other in an echo chamber and it always collapses. When musk first bought twitter they went to some app called Mastadon, and now they're going to some app called bluesky as if it it hurts X in some way. But anyway, it's going how you would think over there:
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Idiotic AP Voters with Duke still ahead of Kentucky (Week 3)

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ukcatz12 said:
But this isn't the title game. It was a single game sample three games into the season. Arizona lost to Wisconsin and is still ranked ahead of them. Texas A&M lost to UCF and is still ranked ahead of them. This is simply poll inertia at work.

At the end of the day none of this matters though, because college basketball has a tournament to sort it all out. But nothing about a few voters still having Duke above UK is out of the ordinary.
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I'm not making any judgments about whether UK is better than Duke at this juncture. That's debatable as most of you have said. What bothers me is when a team ranked 13th or 14th loses to a team ranked 1, 2 or 3 by fewer than 5 points. If the winning team happens to be Duke, UNC, Kansas or maybe Uconn, the lower ranked team drops 3 or 4 places and the winner moves up a slot or two unless they were already ranked No 1. Isn't a 13th or 14th ranked team supposed to lose to a top 3 ranked team? Yes, and according to how the sports writers or coaches vote, that's exactly what should happen. What bugs me is when a team ranked 6-10, for example, beats a 1-3 ranked team and the loser stays in the same place or drops only one or two places the following week while the team that is 6-10 only moves up one or two places.

True, that analysis is too simplistic because you have to take into account bad shooting nights, why they occur, whether the refs were blatantly biased, where the game was played, whether one of the teams was playing at less than full strength, comparative strength of schedules, etc. All of those factors and many others have to be considered. IMO, and obviously that all it is, is that too often there are certain teams that seem to curry favor with the pollsters as well as the refs in games, especially important ones.
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Antonio Reeves having a great game

IL Wildcat
MegaBlue05 said:
Reeves will end up being one of the most underrated players in our history. He should've started his whole time here and his amazing senior season will only be known as "Oakland."

Sad.
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Yeah, it really is sad. Reeves was one of my favorite Cats over the last 2 seasons. I wish him nothing but the best. He became a much more complete player over the last 2 seasons. He's a pure scorer. Great game for him. If New Orleans is smart, they'll increase his minutes. If they don't give him a shot, someone else is going to scoop him up.
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Cal's honeymoon at Arkansas is already over

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WCSPlayedWRInHS said:
I would bet most arky fans assumed they were going to at least get a couple seasons of vengeful Cal, out to prove he wasn’t washed. He should’ve just retired and lived a cushy life as an ambassador to the program.
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Yeah, honestly, this is what I expected. I thought Calipari would be out to prove himself and it would drive him to push his players and his coaches harder, maybe as he did when he first arrived at UK. But I don't think we're seeing this.

I think we should also acknowledge that Calipari lost Assistant Coach John Welch when he left UK. Welch ended up back at Fresno St. Calipari ended up in Arkansas without Welch. I'm sure most remember, Welch was the guy brought in to help Cal's offense, and he did help, by all accounts, significantly. Last season's issues were on the defensive end primarily.

So, now Cal is back to running the offense and Welch is in Fresno. This has left some selling Arkansas stock and seeing Cal trot out the same offense he ran back when he had Wall, Blessed, Cousins, et al. I think the game has passed Cal by and he needs a guy like Welch to inject some analytics and modern offense to the team, but he has the same coaching staff he had before. We shall see what happens. Cal has some talent here, but i don't expect the same old offense to produce better results.
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