They re rank the 16 teams left UK #8

[kywildcat41035]

They have UK #8 and UT #5. Going to be a game Friday night and the Cats need to bring it for 3rd time.

Reranking the last 16 teams standing in the men's NCAA tournament

The second round saw all four 1-seeds advance, a buzzer-beater and more close games. Let's rerank these 16 teams.

www.espn.com

 

[Wildcats1st]

They have UK #8 and UT #5. Going to be a game Friday night and the Cats need to bring it for 3rd time.

Reranking the last 16 teams standing in the men's NCAA tournament

The second round saw all four 1-seeds advance, a buzzer-beater and more close games. Let's rerank these 16 teams.

www.espn.com

I think our starting lineup is top5 in the field maybe top 3. The starting 5 are very very good.

 

[Cats192]

You could look at this: We play a top 5 team. That's a tall task.

You could also look at this like: Tennessee is the 5th best team left, and they have to play the 8th best team. And if you're in the business of identifying upsets, they have one of the toughest matchups of the high seeds.

 

[TheDude73]

Pay wall...won't be long before everything has a pay wall.

DISREGARD: I just had to log in with my ESPN+ and it was all there (and I'm not a subscriber).

 

[LineSkiCat14]

Surprised Tennessee is ahead of Bama. I would put Tennessee at 6th.. not that it's a huge difference

 

[KENTUCKY_FLYER]

There are only 4 people on the ESPN NCAAT Bracket Challenge with perfect brackets remaining. Only one of the 4 have Kentucky advancing to the EE.

 

[fabcat]

Surprised Tennessee is ahead of Bama. I would put Tennessee at 6th.. not that it's a huge difference

They did beat Bama I believe both times this year. Only reason Bama is not above them I reckon

 

[know1]

8 is probably fair. It might be a big higher than we deserve at this point, but it's in the ballpark.

 

[TheDude73]

Of course they ram Duke to the top. I thought Auburn was the initial overall #1 seed? What suddenly justifies dropping them to the last #1 and vaulting Puke to the top?

And then UT is higher than us? We beat them twice already.

I'd be curious to see actual rationale for each ranking, not just a summary of their seasons. We beat the best 14 seed and then solidly took down a very good #6 seeded Illinois.

 

[kywildcat41035]

Of course they ram Duke to the top. I thought Auburn was the initial overall #1 seed? What suddenly justifies dropping them to the last #1 and vaulting Puke to the top?

And then UT is higher than us? We beat them twice already.

I'd be curious to see actual rationale for each ranking, not just a summary of their seasons. We beat the best 14 seed and then solidly took down a very good #6 seeded Illinois.

I guess on putting Duke at the top (I'm not trying to justify it because I can't stand them) but their margin of defeat in both of their games was the best out of all the # 1 seeds.

I guess they have their blinders on when it comes to our 2 victories over UT this year and so does Vegas. Just look at the opening line UT is the favorite by 4.5.

 

[littlecreek]

I hope they keep underestimating Kentucky. It's kinda refreshing being underdogs for a change. If you got to watch the post game interviews it seems like the team is really enjoying it and are focused. They "know the assignment".

 

[Blueisbest]

They did the same thing on Yahoo and we were ranked 12th out of 16.

 

[kywildcat41035]

They did the same thing on Yahoo and we were ranked 12th out of 16.

That's because they're a bunch of yahoos on there.... lol

 

[catsfanbgky]

Of course they ram Duke to the top. I thought Auburn was the initial overall #1 seed? What suddenly justifies dropping them to the last #1 and vaulting Puke to the top?

And then UT is higher than us? We beat them twice already.

I'd be curious to see actual rationale for each ranking, not just a summary of their seasons. We beat the best 14 seed and then solidly took down a very good #6 seeded Illinois.

Probably because Duke is beating the F out of everybody, and Auburn has struggled before the NCAA tournament and in both of the first and second round games. Something is off with them they are not a "team" right now. Just a bunch of individual talent doing there thing.

 

[Sejonesy]

Decourcy has us at 9. He has Maryland at 6! Ha

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