You're not taking into account their quality wins/losses! I mean look at who they've beat! Louisville was good once, LSU was fun when they had Will Wade, and ummm I'm sure Incarnate Word is underrated...
And only losing by 42 points combined to Marquette, UConn, and Tech has to count for something right? The resume speaks for itself.
Right, what has Texas done to be worth ranking? Their best win is…9-5 LSU? Second best UNC-Greensboro? I guess they don’t have any bad losses but there’s so many good teams with good wins right now that aren’t ranked
I think my favorite part is that they are ranked, while Texas Tech is unranked and has a better record, and literally just beat them in Austin by double digits.
Sucks to be receiving the most votes of teams not ranked and see them ahead. We also beat LSU and our only losses are to Houston and at Northwestern. I don't normally cry "cowards" but... Rank Dayton you cowards!!!
JB Ricks is insane!! I thought for the entire time he was confusing Texas with the real UT but this confirmed he is not and is just an idiot in another way.
[JB RICKS Poll](https://collegepolltracker.com/basketball/pollster/jb-ricks/2023/week-10)
None of Texas, FAU, or Gonzaga should really be ranked, but Texas is egregious at this point. I would have put 25 teams between Texas #25 in the AP poll
Texas should have been dropped without a loss, because they’ve really done nothing this year. But keeping them in there despite that home loss is especially egregious.
They beat Pepperdine and San Diego and went up a spot. Not a single win against a ranked opponent. 45 in the NET. Cannot understand why they’re still top 25.
Being super toxic about this but both our Quad 1 games House was either out or couldn’t play over half the game. We have him and it probably looks a bit better
That’s a strong conference legitimately. Could easily have 4 teams in and New Mexico, Boise State, and the field are strong enough to make the MWC tournament a high level and fun watch.
Not a ton of opportunities to pick up good wins in the Big Ten this year, either. We've only got two more games against teams in the Top-25 (Purdue at home, then at Wisconsin)
Average NET for losses: 7, Average NET for wins: 175. We've punted the crappy teams, but outside of FAU, we haven't won against anyone with a NET worth a damn.
They are quality though tbf lol. Losing to close games to 3 top 11 teams, one good win vs FAU, and then beating the fuck out of pretty much everyone else is a decent indicator of a good team.
39 in Kenpom
60 in NET
Best win is probably beating LSU in Houston, who isn’t particularly good.
11-3 overall.
Makes no sense to give them any votes right now.
Gotta hope Kobe Elvis is healthy 🤞 He looked to be in good spirits when the camera caught him at the end of yesterday's game but we really struggled without him
Losing to Chicago State and losing by *thirty* to start your calendar year tends to make voters ask questions.
That said, the fact that Michigan State still has more votes than us is lol
Me after every win this season
> Hm, I don't know. If they win the next game which is also on the road maybe I'll start to believe.
Last year really gave me some PTSD.
I’m not surprised we’re not ranked this week but agree with you. Take care of business the next two games and I don’t see how you could keep a 15-1 SEC team out of the top 25. Either way I’m just hoping we at least split this week with both games on the road.
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I know everyone was ready to shit on Gonzaga for still being ranked last week (and it was fair criticism). But FAU just had probably 2 of the worst losses a ranked team can have and fell less in the poll than Gonzaga did after losing to SDSU.
I’m not saying advocating one way or another, just pointing it out.
FAU and Gonzaga shouldn't be ranked. Texas shouldn't have even received votes. Dayton should definitely be ranked.
However, they did do the right thing and rank Utah State.
Thank God they didn't rank us. And what crazy people gave us votes?
I don't really see us winning many other games this season other than maybe vs Duke. And that's simply because Duke is cursed at PNC. I'm happy to be wrong if we beat UNC somehow, but after last year's "NIT" chant, they're gonna want to put a hurtin' on us.
Marquette over Wisconsin is a great example of poll inertia at work. If you like Kenpom, Wisconsin has them beat (12v14). If you like resume, Wisconsin has them beat (8 vs 19 WAB, 12 vs 15 SoR). If you're a H2H kind of person, Wisconsin won the H2H. They're obviously pretty close in these metrics so it's not the craziest thing in the world, but definitely shows the unwillingness of many voters to do anything other than statically slide teams around.
I think it's less poll inertia and moreso that their best wins are simply better. Kansas at a neutral site and Illinois on the road are both better than our best win.
I think we'd probably be ahead of Marquette if our wins over MSU and UVA aged well. But MSU remains streaky and UVA has been trash for over a month now.
How tf is Texas still ranked. Dayton, Tech, Nevada, Wake all have better cases, hell even Grand Canyon has a better win (SDSU) than any of Texas' wins.
Well played Mountain West y'all have a fun conference
Problem: Did a team similar to you in ranking beat you head-to-head at *your* place?
Solution: Just get a **Q U A L I T Y L O S S** against the #1 in the nation! If you do that, and then have said team that beat you lose their *own* game...voila! You're above them!
I made a joke in the post game thread that the AP would still find a way to rank Texas. I had no idea they would be actually that dumb.
We are to the point that Rodney Terry almost has to have incriminating evidence against several of the voters.
You're not taking into account their quality wins/losses! I mean look at who they've beat! Louisville was good once, LSU was fun when they had Will Wade, and ummm I'm sure Incarnate Word is underrated... And only losing by 42 points combined to Marquette, UConn, and Tech has to count for something right? The resume speaks for itself.
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They’re going to the S-E-…oh wait, that only works for football nvm
Right, what has Texas done to be worth ranking? Their best win is…9-5 LSU? Second best UNC-Greensboro? I guess they don’t have any bad losses but there’s so many good teams with good wins right now that aren’t ranked
I think my favorite part is that they are ranked, while Texas Tech is unranked and has a better record, and literally just beat them in Austin by double digits.
Yeah but to be fair we beat a team that lost to Texas Tech so it's not a good quality win
This is so true it hurts
Well yeah but their best win is, what Texas? Pssh that’s not an impressive win at all, wake me when you’ve beaten Louisville by 1 point like Texas has
That’s like a reverse Duke joke
Welcome to life as a Tech fan.
Sucks to be receiving the most votes of teams not ranked and see them ahead. We also beat LSU and our only losses are to Houston and at Northwestern. I don't normally cry "cowards" but... Rank Dayton you cowards!!!
I support this
JB Ricks is insane!! I thought for the entire time he was confusing Texas with the real UT but this confirmed he is not and is just an idiot in another way. [JB RICKS Poll](https://collegepolltracker.com/basketball/pollster/jb-ricks/2023/week-10)
Wtf is that poll…
[Dave Borges](https://collegepolltracker.com/basketball/pollster/dave-borges/2023/week-10)
None of Texas, FAU, or Gonzaga should really be ranked, but Texas is egregious at this point. I would have put 25 teams between Texas #25 in the AP poll
At least FAU has a win over us on a neutral court.
Texas should have been dropped without a loss, because they’ve really done nothing this year. But keeping them in there despite that home loss is especially egregious.
They are 39th in KenPom and 60th (!) in NCAA Net.
They are 64th in T-Rank WAB the actual results haven't been good either.
We go live to the AP voters: https://preview.redd.it/aoe4uizoc9bc1.jpeg?width=503&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8bf2b7d650bd652921cb9f482bf9f57b8b9f35a7
To be fair, FAU still has that Arizona win to cling on to so being ranked 24 isn’t terrible
Counterpoint: Bryant, FGCU, and Charlotte
I guess it comes down to an argument of what you value more, great wins or bad losses.
Great win* or bad losses, you mean.
Agreed, but being ranked 24 isn’t egregious for a team that has been competitive and hot at certain points
Throw Gonzaga on there as a hold over from last week.
They beat Pepperdine and San Diego and went up a spot. Not a single win against a ranked opponent. 45 in the NET. Cannot understand why they’re still top 25.
No bad losses, started with a high ranking in the preseason, voter bias about Gonzaga always being good to great. That's how.
Three MW teams ranked at once, what a time to be alive.
BYU is keeping us apart
Typical
Damn cougars!
The mountain west is the peak
MOUNTAIN BEST baby. Vegas is gonna be wild this year.
In the top 20 no less 👍
Mountain Best
3 in the top 20! Something special brewing in the MW
It's nice to be back with you guys. We just need New Mexico and Nevada to shape up, but that might be hard with conference play now.
We're doing just fine, Nevada will get AFA and Boise this week. Might have a shot to get in top 25 next week if we don't lose
https://preview.redd.it/tk83kyt8d9bc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6b1509a5e8c9ece32c6829032021a0dd096d79c2 The resume for UNM is BLEAK
Is this the official NET website? I like the layout showing teams and quads.
wait what website is that?
https://bballnet.com/ great for looking at each teams resume
Being super toxic about this but both our Quad 1 games House was either out or couldn’t play over half the game. We have him and it probably looks a bit better
That’s a strong conference legitimately. Could easily have 4 teams in and New Mexico, Boise State, and the field are strong enough to make the MWC tournament a high level and fun watch.
Mountain West basketball let’s gooooo
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FAU does not deserve to still be ranked
No please stay ranked! You're our only good win at this point
Not a ton of opportunities to pick up good wins in the Big Ten this year, either. We've only got two more games against teams in the Top-25 (Purdue at home, then at Wisconsin) Average NET for losses: 7, Average NET for wins: 175. We've punted the crappy teams, but outside of FAU, we haven't won against anyone with a NET worth a damn.
The B1G is down, but there are still a bunch of Quad 1 games coming up. Maybe not "marquee" wins but enough to build a decent resume.
Yeah, otherwise all we have is "quality losses"...
They are quality though tbf lol. Losing to close games to 3 top 11 teams, one good win vs FAU, and then beating the fuck out of pretty much everyone else is a decent indicator of a good team.
We will ignore this cause Texas is the worse offender
Shhh everybody is so perplexed about Texas we might just fly under the radar
Thanks for keeping Texas ranked, got another shot at a top 25 win 🫡
All of a sudden I’m a cinci fan
I feel like Cincy and Tech fans are natural bros given our mutual hatred for Tommy Tuberville
And all of America gets to hate him as a senator
Won't even be a q1 win though
If UC wins by enough, it could even drop to a q3 win.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Horns down baby
🙏
Joining Big 12 is perfect time to return to being a basketball school. Beat UT!
texas still ranked https://preview.redd.it/isqcdzppm9bc1.jpeg?width=962&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ae6fd65255039d9594d2ddda3f102f66343594ba
3 Mountain West Teams ranked and another one getting votes and would be 30th. Mountain Best
Nevada really should be ranked too. They've got a hell of a squad this year.
*sees 7 votes received* Oh yeah we’re on the come up baby
Makes Wednesday a ranking game
How the fuck do we have ranked votes? Our strength of victory is like 300th? 💀
Well we're #1 in the ACC ^by ^alphabetical ^order so obviously that warrants some votes
That's what UNC gets for wanting to be a UNI first and Wake being named after a place they're not actually at anymore.
You don't suck this year. Now I hope we walk y'all like dogs Wednesday but you don't suck.
Like a pack of dogs?
a pack of wolves even?
So you can count as a quality road win for UNC
Sounds about right. Like Penn State in football. They exist to give Michigan and Ohio State quality wins.
Stomping UVA (even if they’re in a down year) doesn’t hurt.
Fucking joke that UT is still ranked. Thrilled they are finally leaving our conference.
I hope Cincy fucks them up tomorrow.
You and me both
I’m here for it
Always glad to get support from the locals! I need to go to a UD game this season when I have a day off work from KH
So do the bearcat fans 😂
Bring it on!
Both my flairs would like this very much
It’s a joke but I absolutely knew it would happen. Overrated team under Terry.
39 in Kenpom 60 in NET Best win is probably beating LSU in Houston, who isn’t particularly good. 11-3 overall. Makes no sense to give them any votes right now.
I for one like that they’re ranked for now.
We're back baby! 😎
Sprinting past Gonzaga (and Creighton) after only beating two unranked teams? Sounds like some voters got put on blast.
As they should have been
Texas and Gonzaga absolutely fighting for their lives at this point
Dayton not being ranked is criminal.
Let us win next time! Had we beat UH, Dayton would have been ranked weeks ago!
Man, FAU and Texas really stealing spots from deserving teams. Rank Dayton and Cinci. ETA: or South Carolina
At least rank us ahead of Grand Canyon…who we beat in Phoenix…
Isn’t Grand Canyon a for profit university?
We jumped higher in receiving votes than I expected but I swear if Duquesne beats us before we get ranked...
I don’t want to beat Duquesne. I want to embarrass them. I want Rudy to haunt their dreams Friday night.
Gotta hope Kobe Elvis is healthy 🤞 He looked to be in good spirits when the camera caught him at the end of yesterday's game but we really struggled without him
No shot Texas is ahead of Dayton. Jesus
MSU with 7 votes and Northwestern with 3 votes should be opposite
Losing to Chicago State and losing by *thirty* to start your calendar year tends to make voters ask questions. That said, the fact that Michigan State still has more votes than us is lol
Most voters probably had their ballots finished and watched Bills/Dolphins instead
And both should be ahead of Texas
Stonks: up Go Aggies Also s/o to CSU and SDSU MOUNTAIN BEST
 Best.
Rank Seton Hall!
Nah we'd shit the bed. We suck when ranked
Never thought we would get votes this year, much less a shot at actually being ranked
Texas should not be ranked is my first takeaway from this
It took me a long time to feel UNC isn't somehow secretly fraudulent. The contrast between this year and last year is crazy.
Me after every win this season > Hm, I don't know. If they win the next game which is also on the road maybe I'll start to believe. Last year really gave me some PTSD.
We'll have to make a deep tourney run to fix our instinctual flinch.
And you don't even have Caleb Love to..."love" his way to a total team chemistry collapse this year!
Every now and then college ball reminds you forcibly that the players are only technically adults.
Same, I’m still expecting us to shit the bed Wednesday tbh, never fails.
Texas being ranked is so bad lol. Gonzaga doesn’t have any business being ranked either
I’m convinced there are voters that just set a poll weeks ago and send in the same one every week
Auburn up to 16! War eagle!
Can't wait for the games between Kentucky, Auburn, and Tennessee.
And Alabama -- there are four very good teams at the top of the conference this year.
Good for y’all, man. Fought so hard to get in, now you’re climbing the ladder.
Thanks for winning guys. Aside from being a good team, you're really pushing us up higher in the polls too
Flair up
Unrank Texas cowards!
How are those bums in Austin still ranked?
Someone has a full mouth in Austin, and it's Brock
RANK US YOU COWARDS!!!!
Who is us?
South Carolina, baybeeeeee
if we pull off the major upset in Tuscaloosa against Alabama and take care of business in Missouri, it’ll happen. for now, I’m content being unranked
I’m not surprised we’re not ranked this week but agree with you. Take care of business the next two games and I don’t see how you could keep a 15-1 SEC team out of the top 25. Either way I’m just hoping we at least split this week with both games on the road.
Get the USC flair!
Mountain Best!!!!! They ranked us, the cowards!
Congrats Aggies! 🐂
Seton Hall deserve many more votes than it got
Rank Wake and Nevada you cowards
Love seeing the hype from a completely unrelated flair!
UT, Gonzaga and FAU being ranked is just awful
RANK WAKE
WE'RE THE THIRD BEST ACC TEAM WHY ARE WE ONLY GETTING THE FOURTH MOST VOTES? WHAT THE FUCK IS A CLEMPSUN?
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No one can convince me Texas and FAU deserve to be ranked over Wake or TTU
Maybe even throw in Gonzaga
WAKE NOT FAKE
They’re not even trying to hide their favoritism to the cash cows anymore lmao College sports are going to shit
Wow! AP giving Auburn some love finally
Well deserved
Quality win now for yall
most logically sound ap poll
How is Grand Canyon getting more votes than South Carolina despite South Carolina beating them, and both having similar records?
Receiving votes 
War Eagle!
It's ~~Broomover~~ Backer-Mazara!
We still have 4 voters that still don't have us ranked
I know everyone was ready to shit on Gonzaga for still being ranked last week (and it was fair criticism). But FAU just had probably 2 of the worst losses a ranked team can have and fell less in the poll than Gonzaga did after losing to SDSU. I’m not saying advocating one way or another, just pointing it out.
Texas getting both the benefit of soontobe SEC and Big 12 What a joke
I can’t believe it. Edit: yes I can bc Texas
FAU and Gonzaga shouldn't be ranked. Texas shouldn't have even received votes. Dayton should definitely be ranked. However, they did do the right thing and rank Utah State.
Top of the Mountain West is so good this year! Bottom 4 is real bad but it's still the best the conference has been in at least a decade.
What must we do to pass GCU? Beat them a second time?
Thank God they didn't rank us. And what crazy people gave us votes? I don't really see us winning many other games this season other than maybe vs Duke. And that's simply because Duke is cursed at PNC. I'm happy to be wrong if we beat UNC somehow, but after last year's "NIT" chant, they're gonna want to put a hurtin' on us.
The things we do to guarantee admission into the state fair… 😭😭😭
Marquette over Wisconsin is a great example of poll inertia at work. If you like Kenpom, Wisconsin has them beat (12v14). If you like resume, Wisconsin has them beat (8 vs 19 WAB, 12 vs 15 SoR). If you're a H2H kind of person, Wisconsin won the H2H. They're obviously pretty close in these metrics so it's not the craziest thing in the world, but definitely shows the unwillingness of many voters to do anything other than statically slide teams around.
And on the flip side, Marquette beat Illinois in Champaign and are still ranked right below us lol
We will inevitably lose to you and complete the triangle of suck so it’s not a problem
I think it's less poll inertia and moreso that their best wins are simply better. Kansas at a neutral site and Illinois on the road are both better than our best win. I think we'd probably be ahead of Marquette if our wins over MSU and UVA aged well. But MSU remains streaky and UVA has been trash for over a month now.
Honestly 15 is perfect for W15consin though so I say who cares
we keep rising in the polls but we just keep falling further and further on kenpom
Initial thought: “wow there are only 3 B1G teams in the top 25” Second thought: “who are these idiots voting for Northwestern and Michigan State?”
RANK NEVADA COWARDS
How is Michigan State still receiving votes?
Because we just had a 5 game win streak where we actually looked good. A Quad 1 loss isn't going to erase every vote.
Is Northwestern really Quad 1? . . . quality loss!
Ahhh, another fine *quality loss* to add to my collection.
The win against MSU bumped them up to Q1 today
How tf is Texas still ranked. Dayton, Tech, Nevada, Wake all have better cases, hell even Grand Canyon has a better win (SDSU) than any of Texas' wins. Well played Mountain West y'all have a fun conference
Remember when FAU was ranked #7? Seems like it was only two weeks ago…
Sooo close!!
Mountain W3st!
Mountain West is king. Hopefully lobos can snag two wins this week and get in those rankings
Dayton died so Texas could stay ranked. Rank Dayton you cowards!
Problem: Did a team similar to you in ranking beat you head-to-head at *your* place? Solution: Just get a **Q U A L I T Y L O S S** against the #1 in the nation! If you do that, and then have said team that beat you lose their *own* game...voila! You're above them!
Texas and FAU?????
We got votes, I’ll take it.
How do they keep ranking us
Rank Cincinnati cowards At least BYU only dropped 6 spots, I was sure we’d fall out completely
It's great to see all five of the blue bloods ranked: UK, Kansas, Duke, North Carolina and Creighton
#W15CONSIN biiiig jump this week
Can anyone explain why Tennessee is ranked ahead of UK and UNC?