AP moves up UK two lousy spots for beating #3
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I don’t care about ranking right now! Let’s see where we stand going into selection Sunday. If we continue to have good ball movement and play the D we are capable of it will sort itself out. Having said that since we both have 3 loses and we have beaten Michigan St and have a another top 5 win we should be ahead of them.
But we are talking about UK and according the the NCAA Selection Committee 8-9 losses for us usually means a 6-9 seed. 
Simply not true, in 2018 we were 24-10 and a 5 seed, 2016 26-8 a 4 seed and 2011 25-8 a 4 seed.But we are talking about UK and according the the NCAA Selection Committee 8-9 losses for us usually means a 6-9 seed.
The only time since Cal has been here we have been less that a 5 seed we were 24-10 in 2014 and got the 8 seed. So saying 8-9 losses means a 6-9 is entirely fictitious.
Not to mention this year there will be few if any power 5 teams with less than 5 losses.
I'm doubting we get a 2 seed . I'm thinking if we can get a 4 seed then this team has had a pretty good year .
Yes, all polls are shams and virtually inconsequential, other than telling some guy in Boise or a recruit in Texas that Kentucky is pretty good. That said, we deserve any blatant disrespect possible, when you are absolutely all over the map in terms of play, and when you lose to two teams about 49 of the last 50 Kentucky teams would have beaten easily. If our guys are worthy, they'll keep moving up. At this point, it's one half and one game at a time...the hole has been dug, now we need to get out of it.
I figured there would be some BS like putting us 15th instead of around 12th where I thought we deserved to be, but 17th after beating #3 LMFAO. Had it been Dook with the same record etc.. they would have moved up at least 8 spots. Mich St with 3 losses at 14th is crazy and Michigan with 3 losses at 12th LOL. Michigan moved way too far up and then got blown out and their UNCheat win doesn't look so impressive now. 2 wins against the Top 5 and 17th is a joke. Especially only moving up 2 spots after taking down #3. That's UK and the voters for you though.
Still a ray of sunshine? Santa must have put a lump of coal in your stocking. Kidding aside, I thought we might move up 3 or 4 spots, but the real issue I have is UofL just dropping 4 spots. Auburn should be ranked ahead of them.
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It's funny Evansville is a Quad 4 loss for us which is bad, but FHD is only a Quad 2 loss for Dook. We both lost at home and to bad teams. FHD hasn't beaten anyone but Dook and lost to Rutgers and a bad Bama team and are 8-2. Evansville is 8-4. I mean they are both really bad it's just funny how 1 is a quad 4 and the other is a Quad 2 loss. FHD has only been beating teams with a NET around 250-300+ just like Evansville. The NET is really strange. I get the basic concept, but it seems like you are punished much harsher then you are rewarded. edit: Sorry meant SFA not FHD.
Utah is 62nd ahead of Virginia and teams like TN. So if people thought that was a bad loss we really better not lose to any SEC team besides maybe AUB, LSU, FL or ARK. We really need AUB to stay hot and beat them @AUB again this year for a big boost in the NET.
Utah is 62nd ahead of Virginia and teams like TN. So if people thought that was a bad loss we really better not lose to any SEC team besides maybe AUB, LSU, FL or ARK. We really need AUB to stay hot and beat them @AUB again this year for a big boost in the NET.
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You failed to mention we won the conference tournament those 3 years as well.
What do you think UNC or duke would have been seeded with those same records and as the champ of their conference tournament? I’ll hang up and listen..
Not talking about OSU, but Evansville and Utah are definitely “crappy”. Those 2 losses will keep us out of the top 10 until we rattle off about 10 wins in a row.
Did you seriously not realize who the 2 teams were that I was talking about?
Why should we be ahead of Michigan State? This is a joke right?
Just because someone has tge same amount of losses doesn’t mean both teams are equal.
MSU lost to UK, Duke and Virginia Tech. Nothing wrong with losing to any of those three teams.
UK lost to Evansville at home, Utah and Ohio State.
You can't look at those losses and think both teams should be rated the same.
Let me be clear, losing games to Evansville and Utah SHOUOD mean you fall out of the rankings and don't come back until you reel off a bunch of impressive wins.
We won a game at home in overtime that we were favored in. Big deal.
UL just took a very talented and desperate team to overtime on their home court, they are where they belong.
If it was reversed and we lost an OT game on the road, we would be pissed if we dropped at all, let alone 2 spots.
Here we are complaining that we're not top 12 when we have two of the most embarrassing losses of the season on our record.
It’s widely known they have the bracket done before the SEC Championship game.
I guess it’s just a matter ir opinion. But we also have a better win than they do.
They aren't corrupt. They're just plain friggin stupid. But we did, after all, lose to Evansville.
That's one way to look at it. Another is what were teams ranked when they played. I have always seen the argument for both.
That win was more than cancelled out by the two extremely bad losses we have.
Yes, but care to answer my question? Where do you think Duke and UNC would have been seeded with the same record and conference tourney champs?
You can do it if you’re dook or ucheat. I’m not sure that Mich and Mich State deserves to be where they are ranked.
There is an explanation for it. Their losses aren’t nearly as bad as our losses. Yeah, we beat them. But the explanation is simple. We lost to Evansville and Utah.
Net rankings have Kentucky at #44 and MSU at #19.
The good news is this is all meaningless right now
Wow.
who wooda thunk it? Having a couple of bad losses will hurt a teams ranking
And Cal hasn’t won a tiitle without....:stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
Because they have 3 losses like we do? Is that why you think they should be ranked 17th or worse?
Did they lose to Evansville and/or Utah type teams?
Here's a hint, the answer is NO. Their losses are to really good teams. 2 of our 3 losses are to below garbage teams.
The Polls will change like the weather forecast for the next two months. Gotta beat Texas Tech and no more bad losses.
Worse than i thought lol
Preseason rankings matter. Early rankings matter. Hot L’s matter.
How the team plays matters.
Cant shoot dont score matters.
Preseason rankings matter. Early rankings matter. Hot L’s matter.
How the team plays matters.
Cant shoot dont score matters.
Naw it only drives unstable people nuts. Every single coach me and my friends have played for in HS and college could care less about where someone puts them in a early poll.
even if he did I’m sure he has above average intelligence to understand that he lost too two teams they had no business losing to then beating a higher ranked team who they were favored to win against and expect to move up much
even if he did I’m sure he has above average intelligence to understand that he lost too two teams they had no business losing to then beating a higher ranked team who they were favored to win against and expect to move up much