Musketeer Madness

Small steps are OK, going in the right direction!

URI #26, missed the Top 25 by 3 votes, which is how many Dayton got.

I guess no one remembers that we beat the team one spot ahead of us by 15. That's a little silly IMO.

GBXU wrote:I guess no one remembers that we beat the team one spot ahead of us by 15. That's a little silly IMO.

I guess that means that Miami, Temple, and ASU should be ranked ahead of us??? Your analysis, I hope you know, is far too simplistic at this stage in the season. IU is solid. They are 18-3 and 7-1 in the Big 10 with losses only to us, UConn and #8 Wisconsin.

Do I think we are better? Hell yeah, but the fact that we beat them is only one element in a lot that are considered in ranking teams. If we had won any of our 4 losses we probably would be ranked ahead of them. Had we beaten UT we'd be a Top 10 team right now. So don't blame the pollsters.

Surpringly, IU has only one "good" win, over #47 Illinois State. They have NO "bad" losses (using the RPI's designations).

X has 3 "good" wins-Kent State, IU, K-State, and 2 "very good" wins-Dayton, UMass.

IU's SOS is #122 while ours is #42.

The more you look at it, there probably isn't any reason for IU to be ranked ahead of us. I thought I could make an argument for it, but I really can't.

Maybe IU's coach is buying votes.

vamuskie wrote:Maybe IU's coach is buying votes.

No. He's text messaging to lobby the vote.

nice little soft feature on the Lavender at Ohio State and our Drew in USA sports as well today...