Preseason Rankings already

[Dr. Blackheart]

This gets me thinking.  The Elite 8 run was the last time we were truly playing meaningful basketball.  And I remember how excited I was the following November when we were projected to win the conference and unveiled the Conference Championship banner on opening night. Since then, a painful slide to irrelevance.  We need to do something about that this year.  Been simply too long.

It is the Sweater Vesties fault!

[brandx]

Same reason Notre Dame gets it. Lots of lazy sportswriters. You can add to that proximity to New York City.

I heard the entire state of Ohio is a suburb of NYC.

[source?]

I heard the entire state of Ohio is a suburb of NYC.

I heard Chicago is now considered an NYC suburb. Maybe UConn delivers that market after all.

[lurch91]

Not sure I get your point.  18 of those 25 teams finished in the top 25, and 22 of them reached the NCAAs in the top half of the draw (except Missouri, who was a 9 seed.)   Kentucky, Texas and Baylor (who won the NIT) are the exceptions.  Seems like if you were in these rankings the odds were that you were a very good team.

I know they missed on us, but pre-season rankings are a pretty good gauge of the talent you have.  I actually use the preseason rankings when picking the NCAA tournament as it helps identify talented but underachieving teams that may advance farther than their seed would indicate.

This is very true.  While preseason rankings are irrelevant to actual season performance, it does give us an understanding of who should, or is expected, to perform when the games are played.  I really like the fact that 4 teams from the Big East are getting noticed (RESPECT!  ) before the the shoes have been laced up.  This will hopefully buI'll excitement and momentum for Marquette and the Big East.