So we beat Tennessee at Tennessee and they moved from number 8 up to number 4. OK sounds fair
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Yeah that’s moronic. The pollsters think waaaaaay too much of Florida.
Yes, we did beat Tennessee at Tennessee …and then we lost to the last place team on our home court.
You left that last part out.
Regardless of the situation, you have to be realistic about our game. It sucks and all of that, but Arkansas would’ve probably beaten anyone Saturday night playing like that.
Agreed. I just don’t get the complaining about the polls. The AP poll is utterly meaningless anyways. So who cares? The NET is the only ranking system worth paying attention to.
Technically they have lost 3 of their last 5 games which makes it even more of a head scratcher.
Right and mentioning it strengthens his case that the poll voting is oddball. If we were a very strong team—the kind of team which, in a vacuum, you would have expected to see beat Duke, UL, and Florida and beat Gonzaga, aTm, Mississippi State, and UT all at home—then UT losing to us even in Thompson-Boling wouldn’t be a big deal at all. You could make a case for still moving them up after that week given their bounce-back blowout versus Florida. Add in our loss to Clemson, our utter evisceration at the hands of mighty Ohio State, and now our playing like little girls against last-place Arkansas and it becomes harder to see why the voters didn’t want to ding UT harder for losing to us at home. There are certainly some reasons to call our Arkansas night an outlier, given the storyline. But I wouldn’t have really expected AP voters in general to weigh those reasons very heavily, especially in a way that’s basically so complimentary of us.
Yes, the AP poll is often “oddball”, because it represents nothing more than the biased opinions of some sports writers. But it’s also meaningless. It has no impact on anything that actually matters. So who cares?
Never quite gotten why this board gets so worked up over the AP poll. Nobody is ever gonna remember who the AP ranked this or that on this day in history.
I’m not sure why we moved up four spots either. I’m assuming because a ton of teams around us lost on Saturday. Either way, I don’t think Tennessee is a top 5 team. If we could shoot, yeah. But our shooting has been abysmal. That being said, I am glad the SEC doesn’t have to play each other right away in the tournament. I expect five or more SEC teams in the sweet sixteen.
More than likely the last half of the NCAA tournament will be an SEC tournament 2.0
