SportsHoopla Top 25 [12/8 - 12/14]

[elijah]

We've continued to get a little more each week, maybe this week we get enough (atleast 4) to make a poll?

Deadline is at 6 PM EST tomorrow

 

[ericd7633]

1. Kentucky
2. Duke
3. Arizona
4. Louisville
5. UVA
6. Gonzaga
7. Texas
8. Wisconsin
9. Villanova
10. Kansas
11. Washington
12. Utah
13. Wichita State
14. Ohio State
15. Maryland
16. Oklahoma
17. Butler
18. Iowa State
19. San Diego State
20. Notre Dame
21. Miami
22. Illinois
23. Georgetown
24. Michigan State
25. Creighton

 

[douggie]

Wow, Washington Huskies at #11. That's bold. uNC drops out? There are 25 better teams than Roy's boys?

 

[ericd7633]

Wow, Washington Huskies at #11. That's bold. uNC drops out? There are 25 better teams than Roy's boys?

UNC already has two losses. Iowa IMO is a double digit seed again in the NCAA Tournament. UNC does have wins over Florida and UCLA, but Florida is already a 4 loss team and hasn't looked good in any of their wins.

Washington completely shut down SDSU and is undefeated thus far. It's tough doing an exercise like this, this early in the season. You have to try and balance preseason expectation, with what has actually happened on the court thus far, and that's a short sample size.

 

[tducey]

UNC has 2 losses sure but I don't think they should drop out of anyone's top 25.

 

[dcZONAfan]

1. Kentucky
2. Duke
3. Arizona
4. Louisville
5. UVA
6. Gonzaga
7. Texas
8. Wisconsin
9. Villanova
10. Kansas
11. Washington
12. Utah
13. Wichita State
14. Ohio State
15. Maryland
16. Oklahoma
17. Butler
18. Iowa State
19. San Diego State
20. Notre Dame
21. Miami
22. Illinois
23. Georgetown
24. Michigan State
25. Creighton

Gonzaga is legit. But putting them ahead of Wisconsin when both lost to top 3 teams? I think it should be Wisconsin Gonzaga Texas for that trio of teams that just lost to Kentucky, Duke, and Arizona (partly because of how poorly texas played against UCONN). They essentially played UCONN to the same level that Yale played them.

 

[ericd7633]

UNC has 2 losses sure but I don't think they should drop out of anyone's top 25.

It's certainly debatable IMO. I wouldn't be against them being in somebody else's top 25. I just gave the reason why they wouldn't be in mine. If they didn't have UNC on the front of the jersey, or started out in the top 10, I don't think they'd be ranked where they are that is for sure. I wouldn't consider them to have a top 25 resume right now, but again its difficult this early on in the year trying to rank based on resume, because we are only a month into the season.

 

[ericd7633]

Gonzaga is legit. But putting them ahead of Wisconsin when both lost to top 3 teams? I think it should be Wisconsin Gonzaga Texas for that trio of teams that just lost to Kentucky, Duke, and Arizona (partly because of how poorly texas played against UCONN). They essentially played UCONN to the same level that Yale played them.

I was more impressed with what Gonzaga did against Arizona and with what Texas did against UK then I was with what Wisconsin did at home against Duke. Plus Texas is without their PG, who is probably their 2nd most important player. I will agree though, Texas did play poorly against UCONN.

It's not easy to try and rank this early on as mentioned in previous posts.

 

[rmilia1]

1. Kentucky
2. Arizona
3. Duke
4. Virginia
5. Louisville
6. Wisonsin
7. Texas
8. Villanova
9. Gonzaga
10. Wichita State
11. Kansas
12. Iowa State
13. Caolorado State
14. Utah
15. Northern Iowa
16. Ohio State
17. Miami
18. Baylor
19. Butler
20. West Virginia'
21. Washington
22. Iowa
23. North Carolina
24. San Diego State
25. Oklahoma

 

[ehb5]

1. Kentucky
2. Duke
3. Arizona
4. Virginia
5. Louisville
6. Wisconsin
7. Villanova
8. Gonzaga
9. Texas
10. Wichita St
11. Kansas
12. Utah
13. Ohio State
14. Iowa St
15. Washington
16. San Diego St
17. Michigan St
18. North Carolina
19. Miami
20. Illinois
21. Maryland
22. Butler
23. West Virginia
24. Northern Iowa
25. Notre Dame

 

[rmilia1]

I just cant see having Michigan State still ranked right now. Sure all 3 of their losses were to good teams but they dont have any quality wins to back up 3 good losses. When a win over Marquette is your best win 9 games in and you have 3 losses then you cant be ranked. I ranked Iowa ONLY because they at least have a solid win to go with their 2 good losses. Teams with 2 plus losses at this point cant be ranked unless they have at least 1 quality win to neagte one of those losses.

 

[elijah]

1. Kentucky
2. Duke
3. Arizona
4. Virginia
5. Gonzaga
6. Wisconsin
7. Louisville
8. Texas
9. Villanova
10. Kansas
11. Ohio State
12. Wichita State
13. Utah
14. Iowa State
15. Butler
16. Maryland
17. St. John's
18. Notre Dame
19. Miami
20. North Carolina
21. Oklahoma
22. West Virginia
23. Illinois
24. Georgetown
25. Washington

 

[Hook'Em0608]

Once again, this is a formula so don't bite my head off!

1. Arizona (2)
2. Kentucky (5)
3. Colorado St (7)
4. Old Dominion (15)
5. Washington (12)
6. Wisconsin (1)
7. Kansas (13)
8. Duke (17)
9. Northern Iowa (16)
10. Virginia (24)
11. Villanova (18)
12. Miami (3)
13. Gonzaga (9)
14. Louisville (14)
15. Wichita St (10)
16. Texas (8)
17. Seton Hall (11)
18. Iowa St (NR)
19. Utah (NR)
20. Florida Gulf Coast (NR)
21. Green Bay (NR)
22. Baylor (NR)
23. West Virginia (19)
24. TCU (NR)
25. NC State (NR)