ESPN/USA Poll. They weren't impressed.

[SoCalwarrior]

It's a tie at the top of the ESPN/USA Today men's college basketball rankings. North Carolina and UCLA both have 744 points to share top billing. The Tar Heels have 14 first-place votes, compared to 10 for the Bruins. North Carolina led UCLA by three points a week ago. Memphis, Kansas and Georgetown round out the top five. Memphis, which won the 2K Sports College Hoops Classic tourney last week, received six first-place votes. Kansas picked up the remaining first-place vote of the 31 coaches voting in the poll.
North Carolina kept the No. 1 spot in The Associated Press poll, although its lead over UCLA did shrink, and the top nine teams were the same as last week. The top 10 teams in the coaches' poll remained unchanged. Louisville, Tennessee, Indiana, Washington State and Duke round out the top 10. All are unbeaten. Marquette fell from 11th to 13th despite remaining unbeaten. Oregon and Michigan State climbed up to a tie for 11th.
Four teams dropped out of the rankings -- Arizona, Arkansas, Stanford and North Carolina State. Clemson, Butler, Florida and Davidson moved into the top 25.

[Chili]

It's a tie at the top of the ESPN/USA Today men's college basketball rankings. North Carolina and UCLA both have 744 points to share top billing. The Tar Heels have 14 first-place votes, compared to 10 for the Bruins. North Carolina led UCLA by three points a week ago. Memphis, Kansas and Georgetown round out the top five. Memphis, which won the 2K Sports College Hoops Classic tourney last week, received six first-place votes. Kansas picked up the remaining first-place vote of the 31 coaches voting in the poll.
North Carolina kept the No. 1 spot in The Associated Press poll, although its lead over UCLA did shrink, and the top nine teams were the same as last week. The top 10 teams in the coaches' poll remained unchanged. Louisville, Tennessee, Indiana, Washington State and Duke round out the top 10. All are unbeaten. Marquette fell from 11th to 13th despite remaining unbeaten. Oregon and Michigan State climbed up to a tie for 11th.
Four teams dropped out of the rankings -- Arizona, Arkansas, Stanford and North Carolina State. Clemson, Butler, Florida and Davidson moved into the top 25.

Actually Marquette has 9 more votes (413 to 404) than it did the week before. MSU and Oregon just picked up more.

[77ncaachamps]

I think they still see the weaknesses in this MU team.

But if MU runs the table, they're top 10 easily.

[augoman]

basically, they're looking at the same team as last year, w/ all of the foibles still apparent.  As a result, I'm surprised at how high we're ranked (thrilled, but surprised).

[TVDirector]

we ain't playing like a top 10 team.
not yet this season.

and certainly not in Maui--- too, too close.
jeez.

[mcnaulty21]

Interestingly, we also got more points in the AP than last week and dropped a spot.

[79Warrior]

we ain't playing like a top 10 team.
not yet this season.

and certainly not in Maui--- too, too close.
jeez.

I agree. I think this team gets a big dose of reality tomorrow. Not likely we advance to the final shooting like this. Seems like we picked up right where we left off last year.

[spiral97]

Well.. Marquette got dropped in favor of Michigan State and Oregon.  Both lost in the last 24 hours.  To be fair, MSU's loss came at the hands of #1 UCLA and they gave them a VERY tough run (MSU was up by 4 with 2 minutes left in the game and ultimately held UCLA 68 points).  Oregon's loss was a disaster for them though.. 99-87 loss to unranked (and nearly unheard of) Saint Mary's.

We take care of business tonight and we'll be right back up there.

[wadesworld]

Well.. Marquette got dropped in favor of Michigan State and Oregon.  Both lost in the last 24 hours.  To be fair, MSU's loss came at the hands of #1 UCLA and they gave them a VERY tough run (MSU was up by 4 with 2 minutes left in the game and ultimately held UCLA 68 points).
We take care of business tonight and we'll be right back up there.

Not saying that UCLA is a bad team without them, because they are definitely a great team even when not completely healthy, but they were missing Darren Collison last night, along with two players who see the court off of their bench.  But yeah, MSU gave them a run for their money, but Kevin love is just a beast.