Kentucky moves up to No. 11 in latest Coaches Poll
The media voters were a bit higher on Kentucky's win over Duke than the coaches, apparently. The Wildcats come in at No. 11 this week in the Coaches Poll.
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We beat Duke heads up on a neutral court but the coaches don’t dare rank us ahead of them 😂
Keep disrespecting us please!
Keep disrespecting us please!
Yawn
Its like clockwork.
But this UK team, like Pope said at halftime of the Duke game, is built different.
Yes, they damn sure are. They are all paid assassins/mercenaries with tons of experience and talent coming to UK to be coached by Pope, who all these guys were cherry picked for his style of play and of course to cut nets!
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There are idiots in every profession, I say this all the time at work lol.
Didn’t we play Duke. Maybe I dreamed we beat them . What biased idiots .
Just keep winning and shocking the talking heads.
Pope and staff will have our team playing with a chip on their shoulders.
Pope and staff will have our team playing with a chip on their shoulders.
Cool by me. We should know as well as anybody what these rankings mean early. I'd rather be underrated than overrated anyday
I’m fine with it actually. I think what the coaches saw was a game where Duke led the majority of the game and lost it at the end. Both teams are pretty evenly matched honestly.
Now I must go and be sick.
Now I must go and be sick.
You know, every time the rankings come out in October, there are always a group of people in every fanbase that say "these rankings don't matter, talk to me in January".
Well, they most certainly do matter for a few reasons.
1) when you're ranked just inside the top 25, all it takes is one loss and you're out of the rankings and who knows for how long.
2) you beat a top 5 team, but since you were ranked so low, they refuse to jump you ahead of the team you beat, because some of them think it was a fluke and some think that's just too far to jump someone.
3) the perception all year long is that you are not a top 10 team and even if you make it up to 10th, all it takes is one loss to a middling team on the road and you go back to where they think you should be, because pre-season rankings left that impression.
Hopefully Pope and the guys can prove the duke win wasn't a fluke, so this team isn't fighting an uphill battle all year.
Well, they most certainly do matter for a few reasons.
1) when you're ranked just inside the top 25, all it takes is one loss and you're out of the rankings and who knows for how long.
2) you beat a top 5 team, but since you were ranked so low, they refuse to jump you ahead of the team you beat, because some of them think it was a fluke and some think that's just too far to jump someone.
3) the perception all year long is that you are not a top 10 team and even if you make it up to 10th, all it takes is one loss to a middling team on the road and you go back to where they think you should be, because pre-season rankings left that impression.
Hopefully Pope and the guys can prove the duke win wasn't a fluke, so this team isn't fighting an uphill battle all year.
seven sec teams in ap top 25–two acc teams in top 25. how times have changed
If they are evenly matched one would think the tie breaker would go to the team who walked away with the win.
You can play the “what if” game all you want.
What if Kentucky played the same defensively the whole game?
What if Robinson has more than one point and no field goals?
What if Kentucky played the same defensively the whole game?
What if Robinson has more than one point and no field goals?
They're supposedly perma-banned since the infamous stall ball game around 1982 - but I would like to see UK play them & maybe drop UL for 2-3 seasons
'83-'84 season was the stall game...something like 24 to 17 final
Massive win for seeding. Early in the season you can make big moves. The longer the season goes on, the harder it is to move up. We are in a perfect position right now.
Only rankings that matters are the ncaa tournament committees. You move up theirs by getting quality wins like Duke.
What if UK didnt have the most wins ever?
What if UK didnt have the highest winning % ever?
What if UK didnt have 8 trophies, 2nd most ever?
“Then” maybe the venom and hate wouldnt be as severe!
This is why the Coaches kept UK out of the top 10.
What will they do after we win at Clemson and Gonzaga?
