Marquette #22 in Coaches Poll

[MarquetteDano]

Cue the "I don't care about the polls" replies in 3...2...1....


http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/mensbasketball/usatpoll.htm

[National Champs]

Louisville one spot ahead of us. Let's get this win fellas.

[4everwarriors]

I'd say we got uck fayed. Shoulda been higher.

[🏀]

Kentucky over Baylor is a shame.

Outside of the top three teams, MU could beat any of them or get their asses collectively handed to them.

[real chili 83]

We're 21st in the AP poll, 2 spots ahead of Louisville.   

[warriorchick]

Louisville apparently got some bonus Pitino Points in the coaches poll.

[ATL MU Warrior]

OMG, I thought we were NEVER GOING TO BE RANKED AGAIN after losing to two Top 15 teams on the road by single digits!  

Instead we have yet to fall out of the rankings.  

I love our over the top, pessimistic fans.  Oh wait, no I don't.  

[National Champs]

OMG, I thought we were NEVER GOING TO BE RANKED AGAIN after losing to two Top 15 teams on the road by single digits!  

Those losses were already incorporated into last  week's rankings.

[MarquetteDano]

Those losses were already incorporated into last  week's rankings.

ATL Warrior was making fun of more than a few posters who assured us that, after the loss to Cuse, Marquette would never be ranked again in the history of the NCAA.   

[ErickJD08]

OMG, I thought we were NEVER GOING TO BE RANKED AGAIN after losing to two Top 15 teams on the road by single digits!  

Instead we have yet to fall out of the rankings.  

I love our over the top, pessimistic fans.  Oh wait, no I don't.  

I was one of those people.  I do believe we typically get hosed in polls.  Take the names off the numbers.  We won twice and there were a bunch of teams that lost ahead.  This week just buttresses my point.

[MU82]

Yep, the famous anti-Milwaukee university conspiracy.

I mean, UWM, Cardinal Stritch and MATC aren't ranked at all!

[romey]

I was one of those people.  I do believe we typically get hosed in polls.  Take the names off the numbers.  We won twice and there were a bunch of teams that lost ahead.  This week just buttresses my point.

Well, just looking at the coaches poll and understanding how, as someone pointed out here before, you move up or down based on what you diod since the last poll, it seems this weeks MU spot should be no surprise:

Last week's #17 (UVA) lost to # 6 and remained #17
#15 (UofL) lost to an unranked team, defeated an unranked team and dropped to#21
#13 (Mich) beat an unranked team and lost to an unranked team and dropped to #19
#12 ((UNLV) lost to #22 and dropped to #20
#11 (Georgetown) lost to unranked and beat an unranked team and dropped to #12
#8 (Indiana) loses to unranked team and loses to #5 and drops to #13
#7 (MSU) beat un unranked team and lost to an unranked team and dropped to #9
#5 (OSU) lost to unranked team and beat #8 team and dropped to#6
#3 (UNC) beat an unranked team and lost to an unranked team and dropped to #8

#24 (MU) beats two unranked teams and moves up to #22

Those are the teams that were ranked ahead of us last week  *that lost* (edited this to clairfy).  So who do you think we should have leapfrogged?

[The Maestro]

Yep, the famous anti-Milwaukee university conspiracy.

I mean, UWM, Cardinal Stritch and MATC aren't ranked at all!

Neither are MSOE or Alverno.

[ErickJD08]

I am not sure.  I do know that we shouldn't have dropped that far to begin with.  UVA lost and didn't get dropped.  MSU lost to an unranked team and dropped 2.  IN lost twice (one to a bad team) and dropped 5.  Georgetown lost and dropped 1.  We lose and we drop 6/7 spots.

[Dawson Rental]

Vandy and the Badgers finished 26 and 27, respectively in the AP poll.  Keep rallying guys and pump up our RPI!