AP poll out, MU #16

[Sir Lawrence]

1. Wisconsin (35) 26-2 1,747
2. Ohio State (31) 24-3 1,728
3. Florida (4) 24-3 1,647
4. UCLA (2) 23-3 1,611
5. North Carolina 23-4 1,474
6. Kansas 23-4 1,403
7. Memphis 23-3 1,378
8. Texas A&M 22-4 1,283
9. Washington State 22-4 1,172
10. Pittsburgh 23-4 1,161
11. Nevada 24-2 1,146
12. Georgetown 20-5 1,009
13. Southern Illinois 23-5 962
14. Air Force 23-4 831
15. Butler 24-4 695
16. Marquette 21-7 510
17. Vanderbilt 18-8 413
18. Duke 20-7 410
19. Texas 19-7 332
20. Louisville 19-8 286
21. Brigham Young 20-6 264
22. West Virginia 20-6 240
23. Oregon 20-7 218
24. Virginia 18-7 185
25. Alabama 19-7 177
OTHERS RECEIVING VOTES
USC 170, Virginia Tech 126, Oklahoma State 123, Kentucky 110, Stanford 88, Winthrop 75, Boston College 74, Arizona 59, Maryland 48, Notre Dame 39, UNLV 35, Kansas State 34, Xavier 28, Indiana 21, Akron 19, Creighton 16, Old Dominion 15, Davidson 8, Virginia Commonwealth 7, Santa Clara 6, Massachusetts 4, Drexel 4, New Mexico State 3, Texas Tech 3, Tennessee 2, Vermont 1.
DROPPED FROM RANKINGS
Oklahoma State 18, Arizona 19, Kentucky 20, Boston College 21, USC 22, Indiana 24.
Complete Rankings
   
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/rankingsindex

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GTown is top 10. They should EASILY be flopped with Pitt. Louisville sitting pretty as well.

[NavinRJohnson]

I'm thrilled with 16, given what we've seen in the past 10 days or so. I guess how good you are is completely releative to the teams around you. Now we've gotta win some games though. Gott afigure we'll be Top 10 after we win our next three. 

Georgetown at number 12 is beyond me.

5 BE teams in the Top 25.

Not the best timing for Wisconsin to get the Number 1 spot - just in time to go on the road to face a desperate Michigan State team, then travle to OSU on Sunday. Likely to be a short lived view from the top for them.

[Marquette84]

GTown is top 10. They should EASILY be flopped with Pitt. Louisville sitting pretty as well.

Pitt beat Georgetown head to head.  That makes it difficult to suggest they should "EASILY" be flopped.

[mosarsour]

Who would have thought after losing 3 in a row, that we'd still be in the top 20 in the country! 

[Mayor McCheese]

makes me cringe to see Wisconsin ranked number one... In Big Ten play, they have played 2 tough teams... they are 1-1 (I don't even know if you can consider Indiana a tough team, but it was @ Indiana, so we will leave it there).... I expect Wisconsin to go 1-2 the last three, losing at Mich St(MSU needs it badly) and being just dismantled in Columbus, I predict a double digit loss in Columbus, with Oden having numbers around 20 points, 12 boards and 5 blocks.  When I watch Badger games, I have a hard time seeing their dominance in a conference where if you don't get 10 wins in the conference, there is no way you should be NCAA eligible (lets face it, Minn, PSU and NW is 6 wins right there).  Illinois beating NW 48-37 is a joke.

Maybe it is because I despise everything Bo Ryan, since I have been shoved my fillings here at Platteville, but man, I will give him one thing, he runs the refs like no one else in the league.

[greenman]

could not agree more with mayor's post above, hate wisconsin basketball, hate bo ryan, hate the fact that alando tucker is a 5th year senior and is about what? 38 years old.

love MU still in the top 20, love their chances in the next three games and in the BE tourney

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EASILY because...

1.) That game was over a month ago. G'Town lost by 5 @ Pitt. There is no doubt that Pitt @ G'Town will be a W for the Hoyas by 10. A neutral court game between the two would be the same.

2.) G'Town was won 9 straight. We were excited about 8 straight. 5 of those W's are on the road. Two of those wins over ranked teams.

3.) Pitt has lost since the last ranking AT HOME to Louisville. They squeeked one out against Washington also at home.

There is no hotter team right now that G'Town.

Marquette84, while you are right, and that's how these pollers look at things. We all know G'Town > Pitt.

[Wade for President]

How in the Wide World of Sports are we #16!?!?!?

Don't get me wrong...I'm elated at the ranking, just confused how a team that has lost 3 in a row, manages to check in at #16.

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Teams 18-25 went 3-13 last week.

[Big Papi]

How in the Wide World of Sports are we #16!?!?!?

Don't get me wrong...I'm elated at the ranking, just confused how a team that has lost 3 in a row, manages to check in at #16.

Most of the teams below us also lost 1 or 2 games and some of those looked a lot worse than ours.  USC lost to a horrible ASU (first Pac 10 win of the year) yesterday as one example.  Look we might have stunk it up the last 3 games but 2 of those were close losses against decent teams.

And for those who think we are now on the bubble, I issue a challenge of finding 34 at large teams with a better resume than ours at this point in time.  We are definitely trending the wrong way and losing our remaining games would put us on the bubble but we are no where near it now. 

[spiral97]

Teams 18-25 went 3-13 last week.

yes, and 2 of those 3 wins were against other teams in that ranking range.. somebody had to win..