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1. Duke (62) 18-1 1,789 2
    Last Week: Def. North Carolina State 73-56 (1/20), Def. Maryland 85-44 (1/24)
    This Week: Lost to Wake Forest 70-68 (1/28), 2/1 vs. Virginia (7-9) 

2. Connecticut (6) 18-1 1,694 3
  Last Week: Def. Villanova 89-83 (1/21), Def. Notre Dame 69-61 (1/24)
  This Week: Def. DePaul 71-49 (1/28), Def. Providence 94-61 (1/31) 

3. Pittsburgh (3) 18-1 1,647 4
  Last Week: Def. Syracuse 78-60 (1/19), Def. West Virginia 79-67 (1/25)
  This Week: Lost  to Villanova 67-57 (1/28), Def. Notre Dame 93-80 (1/31) 

4. Oklahoma (1) 19-1 1,539 6
  Last Week: Def. Nebraska 72-61 (1/21), Def. Baylor 95-76 (1/24)
  This Week: Def. Oklahoma State 89-81 (1/26), Def. Iowa State 78-68 (1/31) 

5. North Carolina  17-2 1,529 5
  Last Week: Def. Clemson 94-70 (1/21)
  This Week: Def. Florida State 80-77 (1/28), Def. North Carolina State 93-76 (1/31) 

6. Wake Forest  16-1 1,509 1
  Last Week: Lost to Virginia Tech 78-71 (1/21)
  This Week: Def. Duke 70-68 (1/28), Lost to Georgia Tech 76-74 (1/31) 

7. Louisville  15-3 1,351 9
  Last Week: Def. Rutgers 78-59 (1/21), Def. Syracuse 67-57 (1/25)
  This Week: Def. South Florida 80-54 (1/28), Def. West Virginia 69-63 (1/31) 

8. Marquette  17-2 1,209 11
  Last Week: Def. DePaul 79-70 (1/24)
  This Week: Def. Notre Dame 71-64 (1/26), Def. Georgetown 94-82 (1/31) 

9. Michigan State  16-3 1,136 7
  Last Week: Lost to Northwestern 70-63 (1/21), Def. Ohio State 78-67 (1/25)
  This Week: Def. Iowa 71-56 (1/29), 2/1 vs. Penn State (16-5)

I think we can jump wake and Pitt

Quote from: Gwaki on January 31, 2009, 06:28:55 PMI think we can jump wake and Pitt

Then how do we not jump Dook?  They lost to Wake this week.  Wake is ahead of Dook.

Quote from: wadesworld on January 31, 2009, 06:45:21 PM
Then how do we not jump Dook?  They lost to Wake this week.  Wake is ahead of Dook.

because dook won't fall enough with the loss and Wake gave GT their first conference win

Hell, we hav'nt played anybody yet. We'll be lucky to be in the top 10. South Carolina beat Kentucky and got more headlines than us. So did Pitt after beating ND. Hope it continues. Just makes our guys all the more hungry.

We'll jump Wake. No way we jump Pitt.

7) Jumping Wake Forest

Am I the only one that doesn't think we will jump Wake?  I really feel that we will stay the same, if anyone is going to jump both wake and dook it will prob be LOU

I voted 7th before I actually read how the teams above us did, but now I'm leaning towards maintaining an 8th rank... I don't see how we are gonna jump Wake with them beating Duke, and I find it highly unlikely that Pitt will fall down to 8th allowing us to jump them.

We are reaching a plateau in ranking, especially with the caliber of our next couple games.  For those that our rank really matters to, we need to be looking for no slip-ups on our end and some tough BEast/ACC games to force some losses above us if we want to break into the top 5

I'm thinking a win at Notre Dame and against Georgetown is better than losing to Georgia Tech and beating Duke.

I could easily see us staying at 8 though.

+1

Quote from: g0lden3agle on January 31, 2009, 07:46:56 PM
We are reaching a plateau in ranking, especially with the caliber of our next couple games.  For those that our rank really matters to, we need to be looking for no slip-ups on our end and some tough BEast/ACC games to force some losses above us if we want to break into the top 5

You mean a game like Uconn @ Lou?

I think we will remain 8th, but our votes will go up and thus the point margin between us and the teams above us will shrink.

I think we pass Wake and Pitt.  We'll be 6th and it'll look like this:

UConn
Oklahoma
UNC
Louisville
Duke
Marquette

At best we jump Wake.

Really though, if the voters aren't ignorant, we stay at 8.

What we did this week validated are current ranking more than give reason to move us up.

Wake shouldnt fall much at all, Pitt will likely drop to 6 ahead of us and Louiville, and Duke will be 4 or 5, interchangeable with Wake.



GT isn't as bad a loss as it looks, that team has a lot of talent. Wake's win vs Duke should balance that out.

Maybe someone will forget to vote for us and we will drop a spot in the rankings...