Kentucky up to #9 in AP Poll

[Sejonesy]

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[rob_47]

Wow huge jump 👏

 

[HerrosHeroes]

Deserved

Like I preached months ago: #23 my big blue butt!!!

Now here we are #9 just 3 games in

Kiss the ring

 

[JPFisher]

 

[twwilliams9]

 

[UKWildcats1987]

Surprised Duke dropped 6 spots.

UK should be in top 10 for a few weeks at least until the Clemson and Gonzaga tests.

 

[kywildcat41086]

Nice jump in rankings! Now just keep winning!

 

[Ugoff]

Awesome. We should be able to ride there for a while with a few road apples coming up.

 

[ThunderMash]

Lol it took 3 games for Kentucky to jump Arkansas.

3 games.

😂

 

[HerrosHeroes]

2 teams ahead of Kentucky that already have an L. This is why polls cannot be taken seriously. We should be a min of #7 but they hate us. Fact.
If we win out to the Zags then take them down out there we should be the new #1.
A. Its our birth right
B. We would have not one but two wins over top 6 teams and neither game was played in Ky!

 

[BassProCat]

Hell yeah.

 

[kywildcat41086]

2 teams ahead of Kentucky that already have an L. This is why polls cannot be taken seriously. We should be a min of #7 but they hate us. Fact.

We started out at 23 and we climbed all the way up to 9. So that win over Duke that was a 14 spot climb which is a really good jump. If we keep taking care of business we'll get there!

 

[crawfords corner]

Arkansas has scored 208 points in 3 games. Kentucky had 203 in their first 2. Through 3 games UK has scored 72 more points than Arkansas. Thank goodness that archaic offense is gone. The first half of last season was an aberration for Cal. He basically only played like that half of last year and sort of like that during the Fox/Monk season.

 

[Smashcat]

Nice.

 

[HerrosHeroes]

UK #9 and going for #9
Discuss

 

[HerrosHeroes]

Awesome. We should be able to ride there for a while with a few road apples coming up.

We gonna ride it all the way!!!

 

[Aike]

10 spot jump…wonder if we’ve ever had a 1 week jump that large?

 

[CatFanInIlliniLand]

I don’t mind this. We will get our shot at Auburn, Gonzaga & Alabama.

 

[Ugoff]

I think maybe a lot of pollsters didn't know what to make of this team and were waiting for some kind of sign one way or the other. Guess they got it.

 

[jeffky]

Nice

 

[HerrosHeroes]

10 spot jump…wonder if we’ve ever had a 1 week jump that large?

Wonder if we have ever been so poorly ranked preseason Aike?

 

[JonathanW]

2 teams ahead of Kentucky that already have an L. This is why polls cannot be taken seriously. We should be a min of #7 but they hate us. Fact.
If we win out to the Zags then take them down out there we should be the new #1.
A. Its our birth right
B. We would have not one but two wins over top 6 teams and neither game was played in Ky!

No. It's not that simple. Otherwise in football you would see Army in the top 5-6.
Some voters vote based on record, what have you done.
While other voters vote based on they eye test, what do they think you WILL DO.
Then other voters vote based on a combination of what have you done, and what do they think you will do.

I think you need to consider as many factors as possible, not just wins and losses. How convincing were the wins/losses, were they based on the flip of a coin chances at the end of the game. Who have you beaten. Who has beaten you. And yes, when the N (# of games) is small then expectations are more of a factor now than they will be in February.

 

[know1]

I didn't think we'd be that high and I didn't think Duke would be that low. I was wrong on both counts.

That being said, it doesn't make sense to give us that big of a jump AND drop Duke that many. It should be one or the other. Either it was an impressive win by us over a really good team, or a bad loss by them because they were over rated. To make both teams move that much is a bit illogical.

 

[St.PatterSoN-54-]

 

[ORCAT]

Very nice jump, just keep winning and the rankings will take care of themselves.

 

[Aike]

Wonder if we have ever been so poorly ranked preseason Aike?

Right. I’m thinking maybe back in 1991 if ever.

 

[Fox2monk]

Where did the 2003 team start? I know they moved up some when that crazy winning streak started.

 

[gbl97]

We beat Duke, but they are certainly a top 10 team even this early in the season.

 

[Basscat1987]

Is this the first time a Pope team has been ranked top 10? Pretty neat if so

 

[kennyskywalker34]

Deserved

Like I preached months ago: #23 my big blue butt!!!

Now here we are #9 just 3 games in

Kiss the ring

Ranked 9th and going for 9. Coincidence? I think not. Bawhaha 40-0 and SKOAL

 

[DDMatUK=NBA]

We deserve to be top 10-12. Beyond that, all bets are off. I think we had a nice and deserved jump and that we will win our games, unless the wheels come off, until Gonzaga. I think that one can go either way but should tell us all a lot about this team. I like that Pope is familiar with Few and I think we have a fair chance of winning that game. But I wouldn't be surprised either, if that's where we lose our first game. Just keep taking one game at a time and let the chips fall. I like where we are at this point, though. Gonzaga looks good to me but not unbeatable, at all.

 

[electricat2]

congrats to the cats

 

[LmdCat]

I didn't think we'd be that high and I didn't think Duke would be that low. I was wrong on both counts.

That being said, it doesn't make sense to give us that big of a jump AND drop Duke that many. It should be one or the other. Either it was an impressive win by us over a really good team, or a bad loss by them because they were over rated. To make both teams move that much is a bit illogical.

The same can be said about Purdue and Alabama. Heck, Alabama fell 6 spots from previously being ranked #2. The fact that we moved up is what is important and not so much about what happened to Duke, imho.

 

[nickhorvathsuxazz]

10 spot jump…wonder if we’ve ever had a 1 week jump that large?

I can remember us tumbling that far a time or two, but never jumping that much

 

[Digger-Cat]

Wonder if we have ever been so poorly ranked preseason Aike?

Well, look at all those years they pre season ranked us in the top 5 and it only took a couple weeks before we made the voters look terrible.

We have a brand new team, in most cases, teams built like ours don't do very well. Pope and this team are putting in a lot of hard work and they earned this. We should just leave it at that instead of trying to call out the voters.

You can't blame voters for thinking we wouldn't be this good.

 

[Digger-Cat]

We beat Duke, but they are certainly a top 10 team even this early in the season.

They're at Arizona this week, so they have a shot to get back into the top 10 with a wim, ehich I think they'll get.