So....What are we ranked on Monday - 1/6/2025?

[MuMark]

https://twitter.com/zachosterman/status/1099831523077955586?s=21

[YoungMUFan4]

Seth Davis has MU at 12

[BM1090]

Borges has us at 10

[brewcity77]

Ben Steele has us at 10.

[BM1090]

Mark Berman has us at 8

[JakeBarnes]

Mark Berman has us at 8

Up from 10.

So far we have moved up in everyone's ballot that has been revealed.

[Benny B]

I'll guess 10 as of now and 9 if MSU loses.  I think the big wins behind us are too many votes behind.

LSU lost at home to Florida this week.  Texas Tech maybe.

Don't overlook the regency bias.... remember when MU lost to St Johns midweek, but then beat Nova on NMD and didn't move at all?  Florida is - arguably - even less a slouch that St Johns. 

[BrewCity83]

Don't overlook the regency bias.... remember when MU lost to St Johns midweek, but then beat Nova on NMD and didn't move at all?  Florida is - arguably - even less a slouch that St Johns.

That's why MU's gotta stay at the Hyatt Regency.   

[Its DJOver]

Don't overlook the regency bias.... remember when MU lost to St Johns midweek, but then beat Nova on NMD and didn't move at all?  Florida is - arguably - even less a slouch that St Johns.

Our not dropping after that week had more do with other teams losing as well.  We were 10, 11 VT had an 0-2 week, 12 Houston passed us, 9 MSU had a 1-1 week with their loss coming against Illinois so we passed them, 12 Kansas had a 1-1 week with the win coming against Okla St which was not as impressive as Nova, 14 Nova obviously lost, and 15 Purdue had a 2-0 week but they were 300+ points behind us, and closed that gap to just 50 points the next week.  Between the week 14 polls and the week 15 polls, numbers 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, and 16 all lost at least one game.  When everybody wins, or everybody loses there's not much movement to be had.

[JakeBarnes]

I'd be shocked if we were anything but 10. I think the highest possible this week is 9, depending on how voters treat Michigan and Tennessee.

[Mr. Sand-Knit]

When is the poll posted?

[Windyplayer]

11:00 a.m. CST, https://collegebasketball.ap.org/poll

[Galway Eagle]

11:00 a.m. CST, https://collegebasketball.ap.org/poll

Isn't it past 11 back there now?

[KampusFoods]

Isn't it past 11 back there now?

Steele will tweet it long before the AP puts it on their site. They're terribly slow with this.

[LoudMouth]

Isn't it past 11 back there now?

Yes but the AP system works as well as a square wheel

[LoudMouth]

10 it is

https://twitter.com/BenSteeleMJS/status/1100079822955597825

[Galway Eagle]

Hmm interested to see how the votes went this week.

[HowardsWorld]

The biggest joke of all is that Kansas only dropped to 15. They got crushed by 30 and only dropped 3 spots.

[Windyplayer]

Yes but the AP system works as well as a square wheel

Correct.

Ben Steele's Twitter account: https://twitter.com/BenSteeleMJS

[brewnewsman]

The Top Twenty Five
By The Associated Press
   The top 25 teams in The Associated Press' college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Feb. 24, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week's ranking:
                                      Record      Pts  Prv
  1.  Gonzaga  (44)          27-2      1569      2
  2.  Virginia  (15)        24-2      1513      3
  3.  Duke  (3)                  24-3      1502      1
  4.  Kentucky  (2)          23-4      1418      4
  5.  North  Carolina      22-5      1326      8
  6.  Michigan  St.          23-5      1232    10
  7.  Tennessee                24-3      1190      5
  8.  Houston                    26-1      1145      9
  9.  Michigan                  24-4      1057      7
10.  Marquette                23-4      1019    11
11.  Texas  Tech              22-5        938    14
12.  Nevada                      25-2        883      6
13.  LSU                            22-5        836    13
14.  Purdue                      20-7        820    15
15.  Kansas                      20-7        580    12
16.  Kansas  St.              21-6        559    23
17.  Maryland                  21-7        549    24
18.  Florida  St.            21-6        501    16
19.  Wisconsin                19-8        466    22
20.  Virginia  Tech        21-6        392    20
21.  Buffalo                    24-3        288    25
22.  Iowa                          21-6        278    21
23.  Cincinnati              23-4        263      --
24.  Wofford                    24-4        112      --
25.  Washington              22-5          92      --
   Others receiving votes: Louisville 90, Villanova 63, Iowa St. 58, Mississippi St. 28, Auburn 16, Baylor 10, VCU 4, Old Dominion 2, New Mexico St. 1.

[Windyplayer]

Nice to see Buffalo get a little bump up.

[LoudMouth]

The biggest joke of all is that Kansas only dropped to 15. They got crushed by 30 and only dropped 3 spots.

I would say that the biggest joke is that we only gained 32 points this week...Kansas deservingly lost 221

[Windyplayer]

I would say that the biggest joke is that we only gained 32 points this week...Kansas deservingly lost 221

Right, no love for rock solid wins. Not unreasonable for any top 25 team to slip up against Butler or @Providence.

[Aughnanure]

NM

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

213 votes out of 6th place. 199 votes ahead of 14th place, but a healthy 439 vote cushion between us and 15th.

213 votes can be made up with 2 wins for us and 1 loss for the teams in front of us.

Go Indiana, ECU, UCF, Nebraska, Maryland, Ole Miss, and Kentucky, my 2nd favorite teams this week! Rankings are dumb, but I'm with Boxer, since I attended Marquette I have never seen Marquette break the #8 barrier. I'd like to see us get there.