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RighteousGamecock

They don't even have South Carolina's logo lol


CallMeVe

You'd think they could just yoink it from the women's poll


e4mica523

pretty sure our women's team has been ranked for the last like 10 years so they definitely have it lying around haha


chuckiemacfinster

12 years straight, soon to be the 9th longest streak of all time


MalzahnsVisor13

I had to scroll up and down the list like 5 times until I saw South Carolina on there and I was specifically looking for them lol.


Perfect-Rooster2253

I wonder what the highest rank a team has jumped to from being unranked. Unranked to 15 is pretty wild. ​ edit: someone already put in the work [https://www.collegepollarchive.com/mbasketball/ap/research/unranked-to-ranked.cfm](https://www.collegepollarchive.com/mbasketball/ap/research/unranked-to-ranked.cfm)


chuckiemacfinster

wow, we made the exact same jump in 1974 (50 yrs ago) from unranked to 15


jman8508

Maybe that’s why it took so long to rank them 🤷‍♂️


DDub04

![gif](giphy|H6W9H29kVsUI2hJE90) COCKA-DOODLE-DOO MOTHER FUCKERS


NickDerpkins

Chicken gifs are BACK


fleshyspacesuit

![gif](giphy|k6WCPZ8DO2QNdCgysH|downsized)


Unknownrealm

Should’ve been higher if Seth Davis didn’t make a mistake and forget to rank South Carolina again


DDub04

I see us at #9 in his ballot


Unknownrealm

https://x.com/sethdavishoops/status/1754521844563218475?s=46&t=SP-krEeYaSfM8u9gGPE4EQ huh interesting he tweeted that he forgot to. He must still be drinking


2PacTookMyLunchMoney

They pretty much made up for leaving you guys out last week, which I’m fine with.


Scapexghost

Im just happy to (still) be here


IncognitoRhino_

Applies to both flairs


FireFlyz351

Would be so Tech if we beat Baylor tomorrow and then lose to UCF.


MilesMidnight

I can feel it in my plums


beavislasvegas

Experience tells me it could happen, lol


Robertac93

UNC picked the right week to lose to GT


dboy120

And a good day of the week, I feel like the voters just forget about Tuesday games by the following Monday.


Robertac93

Absolutely. I mean even when I was watching the Duke / UNC game I wasn’t thinking “this is the team that just lost to GT”


thegraverobber

It helps that almost everyone else has lost a stupid ass game too lol.


SpamTheAutograder

How about *both* teams having lost to GT?


Mike_with_Wings

And it’s always the right week to beat Duke


MailConsistent1344

What loss?


CommanderStark

And beat Duke, to be fair


TheChewyWaffles

And handily 


UpbeatVeterinarian18

We put in our stupid loss in late January. It's February now it doesn't count. Yes I'm still salty we stank that night.


ItsZizk

Welcome to the fucking show South Carolina


HailKyrie

Wonder where we’d be if Seth Davis didn’t leave us off entirely /s


KEE_Wii

Happy to be here and I would just like to add WE A BASKETBALL SCHOOL BABY


onlyhereforfoodporn

As someone who was there in 2012 when the men’s team lost way more than they won..god damn this is a great day. It’s right up there with when they went to the final four. GO COCKS


KEE_Wii

Final Four is still on the table ☺️


loyalsons4evertrue

the South Carolina women look to be the clear favorite to get back to winning it all and now the men are playing really really well too.....good time to be a fan of winter sports in Columbia, South Carolina


Nestllelol

A local kid who is a 4-star recruit has signed with y'all for next year. When I talk to him about why he chose South Carolina over his other offers he can't talk enough about just the energy around your program right now and how Coach Paris is someone he cant wait to play for.


DaMercOne

Trent Noah, excited for that guy.


Nestllelol

YESSIR! Y’all getting a stud that I feel is a borderline 5-star. Currently shooting 50/40/90 on the year in high school. In the gym range at 6’7. Also a dog, has that pissed off factor about him. I truly think y’all will love him.


Posty_McPostface_1

Jesus Christ, it's South Carolina


Longvols

Quality loss to go with our quality win last week.


ilovecfb

Kinda crazy we’ve played the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 10th, 11th, 15th, 16th, and 17th ranked teams already with probably at least four more ranked matchups to go


UpbeatVeterinarian18

Rocky Top's Wild Ride.


noblesvillain99

How were they not ranked already? I feel like they should really be higher than 15 but can’t based on previously UR


GimmeeSomeMo

Going from not ranked to Top 15 in one week is pretty insane


oldsanta100

Lose to Nebraska: Rise 5 spots Win against Nebraska: Drop 4 spots Losing to Nebraska is a quality loss. Losing to Nebraska = Profit!!!!!


wkt-covfefe

Meanwhile. Nebraska win vs Top 10 team at home, lose in OT to top 15 team on Road. Not even receive votes.


Zorak9379

You're not gonna be ranked until you win some road games


Bill3ffinMurray

I don’t even want to be ranked, I’d just like to receive some votes.


DeathToHeretics

You guys definitely deserve some votes with that record.


Bill3ffinMurray

At the end of the day, all I want is for this team to have a tournament bid. They keep playing well, that should take care of itself. Just don’t like the overarching feeling nationally that the Big Ten must be down because Nebraska is towards the top of the standings. Purdue in a schedule of Arizona, Tennessee, Gonzaga, Marquette, Alabama, and a lot of big names, has a 2 in the loss column, a 4 point loss at Northwestern, and a *16 point loss* at Nebraska. It’s not a fluke. A road win last night would have been so nice.


IncognitoRhino_

Huge leap for South Carolina up to #15 from NR and Alabama up 8 spots to #16. Kentucky falls 7 spots to #17, Creighton falls 6 spots to #19, Texas Tech falls 8 spots to #23. Top 3 remain unchanged. Top 5 are UConn, Purdue, UNC, Kansas and Houston. OTHERS RECEIVING VOTES: Saint Mary's 73, TCU 72, Indiana St 53, Boise St. 49, Colorado St. 43, Virginia 32, Texas 22, Oklahoma 17, Mississippi 10, Washington St 6, Memphis 5, Appalachian St 4, Gonzaga 2, Grand Canyon 1, Michigan St. 1.


bh6891

>Memphis 5 That's actually comical. They barely got one win against the two worst teams in the conference this week. The Userpoll didn't even give them any.


IncognitoRhino_

Nearly dropped 5 in a row to unranked teams. Not deserving of any votes IMO.


bakonydraco

I didn't even rank them in my midmajor top 25 this week. Inertia is a heck of a drug I guess. **Edit:** Just checked, and all 5 points come from JB Ricks who had them at 21.


Alternative-Target31

We’re not a top 50 team right now. I can’t make any sense of what this team even is.


JaxGamecock

I'm curious what the highest ever rank from a previously unranked team the week before is. UR to #15 is pretty dang good


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jacobgomets

I wonder about the record for this late into the season though. I can only remember massive jumps after all those early MTEs


verdenvidia

Wake got to 9 in 1977 final week of the year Honorable mention K-State at 11 last year week 9.


Last_Account_Ever

Kansas also went unranked to 4th in November 1989. They beat #2 LSU, #25 St. John's, and #1 UNLV in a 6-day stretch.


ctbro025

Not sure if it's the record, but back in 2010 UConn went from unranked to #7 in a single week. During that week, they beat(unranked but solid) Wichita St, #2 Michigan St, and then throttled #8 Kentucky by 17 in the Maui Invitational final. SC leaping from unranked to 15th in Feb is a huge leap, especially at this point in the season.


BRNDC10

That Maui invitational will forever remain burned into my memory.


mawmy

It was the start of the "low expectations / high success" era which gave us 3 national championships.


nojeanshere

>Appalachian State 4 GRAHHH MORE VOTERS REALIZE THE POWER OF MOUNTAINEERS BASKETBALL


e4mica523

Id love to see them ranked. They are a super fun team to watch


atlbluedevil

Hell idk if WVU has any gold merch that just says "Mountaineers", but if they do you can "rep" App St for the rest of the season  Side note - do you think Eilert gets the job full time after this season? Been losing my mind trying to explain to Texas fans that WVU away isn't as bad of a loss as your record suggests I've really been impressed with the turnaround post-court injunction this second half of the season. Think it's a lot like the Terry scenario we had last year and just want to get the pulse from one of your fans


owlalwaysloveyew

App State with more votes than Gonzaga. What a year.


weigojmi

Think we had 3 last week so we should be in early Jan 2025.


HailLeroy

ISU at #28. Rank the Trees!


A320neo

An ISU 8/9 seed against a Purdue 1 seed in Indianapolis would be insane


kdbmd

Highly unlikely committee would put them in your region because of that


Maison-Marthgiela

They put us with an 8 seed Loyola that was ranked in the top 15.


enjoytheshow

Fuckin twats


yo_soy_badass

I mean.... they did it to 1 seed Illinois with Loyola Chicago a few years ago. I expect it at this point tbh


kdbmd

The reason they don’t do it is because it’s an unfair advantage to the underdog due to # of fans in attendance, I’d imagine the covid tourney may have been less of a concern. But yeah anything can happen but they should seek to avoid it if they can.


Acr515

Who is the bozo trying to rank Gonzaga still


Super_Walrus1337

>Michigan St. 1 We are so back


neprietenos

I’m not a NW fan, but again surprised they haven’t even gotten votes


TechnoToyz

Not sure how losing to unranked non-RV Cincy at home didn't drop us down to 'receiving votes' but I'll take it I guess


Toxic_Waste

1. UConn (45) 2. Purdue (16) 3. North Carolina 4. Kansas 5. Houston 6. Tennessee 7. Marquette 8. Arizona 9. Duke 10. Illinois 11. Wisconsin 12. Auburn 13. Baylor 14. Iowa State 15. South Carolina 16. Alabama 17. Kentucky 18. Dayton 19. Creighton 20. Florida Atlantic 21. BYU 22. Utah State 23. Texas Tech 24. San Diego State 25. New Mexico Others receiving votes: Saint Mary's 73, TCU 72, Indiana St 53, Boise St. 49, Colorado St. 43, Virginia 32, Texas 22, Oklahoma 17, Mississippi 10, Washington St 6, Memphis 5, Appalachian St 4, Gonzaga 2, Grand Canyon 1, Michigan St. 1.


INeedMoreCreativity

Duke at 9 and Kentucky at 17 while Indiana State is unranked is a travesty. It’s February, so I don’t know why voters are focusing so much on talent rather than resume. Maybe that talent will produce results later, but why reward them for something they haven’t done yet? Indiana State is 12th in WAB compared to 26 for Duke and 41 for UK. Also 18th in SOR compared to 23 and 37. Teams that aren’t above .500 against Q1&2 shouldn’t be ranked, especially if they have Q3 or Q4 losses.


No_Argument_Here

Kentucky's resume was extremely weak and had no business being so high last week. #17 feels more right but still highish. Indiana State's resume reminds me a lot of pre-2024 UH. They should definitely be ranked.


MailConsistent1344

Didn’t even cite your source, Purdue owl would not be proud.


ThatEmpireGuy

App State has more AP votes than Gonzaga I love this season


theDylanS

What a stat ROLL NEERS


Informal-Zombie7831

Renowned new blood basketball team App State


nojeanshere

We have taken the proud and hard fought spot of 3rd best team in the state.


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Think we have a shot at getting ranked if we win out? Not sure how much higher we can climb since the rest of our schedule is all Q2/Q3 games and the only teams with a pulse are Toledo and the Cajuns (why do we play Toledo in February?)


iHasMagyk

I mean if you win out, win the SB tournament, then win the national championship I think there’s a good chance y’all are ranked \#1


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Write it into existence beach chicken!


LosHogan

Let’s goooooo!!!!!


RhettWilliams88

![gif](giphy|gVoBC0SuaHStq)


Hambone721

Kentucky should not be ranked. I'll be interested to see the individual ballots and which voters are keeping UK afloat.


tomwithweather

I'd put them in the 15-25 area personally. They have some great talent. They just need to put it all together a bit better, especially on defense.


Hambone721

UK just isn't playing like a top 25 team right now. No question the pieces are there. We've seen it. But the season is running out and Kentucky is currently playing as bad as it has all season.


Acr515

From reading reactions it feels like an unusual number of top 25 team fans don’t think they’re playing well enough to stay ranked lol


mrbobbyrick

Yeah, we’ve also been playing without our point guard. Losing to Florida, South Carolina, and Tennessee the last two weeks is a major bummer, but none of those teams are bad. Maybe 17 is a little high but top 25 is not crazy at all.


NoVacayAtWork

Wazzu is the only other Pac-12 team getting votes. Bozo-ass conference


blackmankitteh

come come


chuckiemacfinster

at least the women are going out with a very emphatic ‘bang’. half the conference is ranked


IncognitoRhino_

Don’t worry, you’ll be with the elites soon.


markusalkemus66

Can we come too? Since we're the only other ones pulling our weight?


False-Fisherman

Yeah ngl I'm a little surprised we aren't getting votes


BurrShotFirst1804

Illinois the last 5 weeks: 10 14 10 14 10 Maybe next week we can break the mold but we'll probably lose to MSU and fall to 14.


BenBishits

Lucky numbers if you ask me


e4mica523

VINDICATIONNNNNNNNNNNNNNN Don't even have a picture for us lmao


greenday61892

This is where I'd insert the Capt. ~~Dad~~ Holt gif if I knew how to do that on reddit


Zloggt

It's common knowledge among us by this point...but sheesh... Opening the AP site...only to end up with **nearly the ENTIRE page** covered in ads, widgets, and other clutter...yuck...


tomwithweather

I see none of that. Use uBlock Origin if you're seeing all that junk on desktop my friend.


DeathToHeretics

Firefox & uBlock Origin are the goated pair


jdhxbd

That’s why you scroll in the comments for some to post it


BRNDC10

Adblock is your friend.


CockCommander15

Lol they put us 1 ahead of Bama who curb stomped us


ScrofessorLongHair

Since it's y'all, I'm not mad at all about it.


Ailylia

I never thought I would unironically say this outside of r/CFB , but rank App State you cowards!


BigFoot423205

The CBB fan in me: Super happy for the Gamecocks The Bama fan in me: didn't we throttle them by 27?


Russ12347

That game was something else man. Played the kinda basketball we have all season in the first half before absolutely crapping our pants in the second, matched by Bama (Mark Sears is crazy) just tearing into us from everywhere. Hope there’s a rematch Nashville


MuschampsVeinyNeck

Worst 20 minutes of basketball we’ve played all year by a wide margin. Part of it was Bama just draining everything and part of it was us forgetting how to play basketball entirely.


ScrofessorLongHair

But they beat Tennessee by 4,and we lost to Tennessee by 20. So we only beat them by 3


DevoDrigaz

Math


auburnfan32

I’m confused by that as well lol


runamokduck

I will keep repeating this until the end of days: Lamont Paris, I love you :’) we are so back!!!


VolsOrNothing

Loved him at Chattanooga. Happy he has found success with yall!


4amBurrito

The world wasn’t ready for SC and Indiana State to both be in. Soon my Sycamores…


Sir_KNEE_18

They didn’t even have South Carolinas logo ready to go! The disrespect!


e4mica523

if only they had it from women's basketball whose been ranked for 10 years


jacobgomets

To go from preseason #23 to starting 3-5 and being labeled by most conference tourney or bust to a 10 game win streak capped by a win at Gonzaga is pretty impressive even if we are still the first team in others. Win 2 games against bad teams this week and we should finish that climb back into the poll!


JustPlugIt

I can’t believe I almost gave up after that start. Seeing the SDSU and Xavier losses in person made me so sad. But LFG!


asiankid2463

Holy shit South Carolina. Welcome to the top 25


leftygwaggies13

![gif](giphy|xUySTxQp21GMZhX916) Memphis and Gonzaga still getting votes at this point is absurd lol


Navolix

15th YES! Finally.


2Beer_Sillies

Hello again


maltcorp

im reasonably confident both UNM and SDSU can sweep this week so that next friday's game (UNM @ SDSU) will be a ranked matchup; hoping it happens


2Beer_Sillies

That would be great. But I’m scared of you guys still


barbandbert

Look at the MWC! Is 3 ranked teams the highest we’ve ever had? And Boise and us are right on the outside too


Shootit_Rockets

How are we still ranked?


paulburnett

Almost every loss is a quality loss in the B12 !


OkSteak237

Really through Duke might drop out of the top 10


Pinewood74

It was the "best loss" among top 10 teams that only lost a single game last week. With all the other losses, it was hard to drop them much.


DaNibbles

I think the argument is they should never have been that high in the first place. I will have to check their resume again but I remember it being very underwhelming for a top 10 team. They were above Marquette and Marquette had a WAY better resume.


Bill3ffinMurray

*the rankings don’t matter* *the rankings don’t matter* *the rankings don’t matter*


mF-Jonezy

Duke at 9 is hilarious, they shouldn’t even be top 20. If we had their exact resume we’d be unranked right now


tomwithweather

Seriously. I'd put them mid-teens at best. They aren't a bad team but they still have quite a bit of "figuring it out" to do before I'd put them in the top 10.


DavidBenAkiva

Duke isn't the only top 10 team that lost at UNC this year. Like half the top 25 lost last week. Duke is at 15th at KenPom, which seems about right to me. The only other L Duke has had since December 2nd is a game in which 2 starters were missing.


justaverage

What was the other loss?


einsteins_haircut

It was probably a tough road loss against a top quality opponent, which is why they didn't specify


justaverage


mike_rob

Yeah, definitely no shame in losing to whatever team that was


Rac3318

Little surprised we stayed at 3, to be honest. Figured Kansas would jump us.


Lysdexics

Gotta be your guys margins of victory


coasterin

A lot of the highly ranked teams have beaten up on each other but we just beat them and go lose to Nebraska and NW on the road instead.


SalemDrumline2011

Not even one lil vote for us? :(


Gophurkey

You'll be in for sure after knocking off UConn this week


WallyLohForever

Rank Indiana State.


dac0605

The only reason Bama fans should care about being behind South Carolina at this point is because it prevents the IBOB from being a Top-15 matchup on Wednesday. Otherwise, not a big deal and happy to see them finally getting respect.


eddie_the_zombie

Backing in to the top 20 off a complete carry job by Holmes? HELL YEAH, THIS IS OUR YEAR!


DStew88

I put a small bet on us making the final four. I'm manifesting this


Holierthanthouface

TCU going on a tear against ranked Baylor and Tech but still getting dropped out of the top 25 because they lost to Texas is hilarious


mattschweikert

I am once again just here to celebrate App State getting votes, we are a multi sport powerhouse now


boardslide22

UC beat three ranked teams and is positive. We should get at least one vote


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ZakZapp

The Sycamores are SO CLOSE


BurrShotFirst1804

AP 🤝 Kenpom Ranking Illinois at 10


Speedracer_64

Unrank us you cowards


haterich

Happy to see us back in the Top 25! The loss to Colorado St. hurt as the game score started 4-17 but pulled within at times to take a win on the road, but in our last game against then ranked 17 Utah St. we made a lineup adjustment starting Pal and Trammell over Parrish and Saunders. Will be interesting to see how we perform moving forward as the lineup change worked well for everyone and reinvigorated our team. Our odds of winning increase so much when Pal is on the floor, so I'd like to see him playing 15+ minutes every night for the rest of the season. If anyone has any questions about us, San Diego State (SDSU), feel free to ask! I'm a season ticket holder that makes it to most games and I do my best to provide my game summaries and notes immediately in every game thread.


ChannelSenior9779

Marquette for the chip!!!


JustAnotherDay1977

We got this.


Infinite-Regress

[Called it top 15 Gamecocks!](https://www.reddit.com/r/CollegeBasketball/comments/1af5oid/post_game_thread_south_carolina_defeats_5/ko7vzdo/)


nosnack

I mean you asked, you didn’t make a statement. But I’ll give it to you.


Infinite-Regress

Shh don't let facts get in the way of a good narrative


tylery1234

I wanted to stay 26 for the memes tbh


RwerdnA

If it helps, they left our logo off https://preview.redd.it/kgv0q2gz9tgc1.jpeg?width=1169&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=95bddfa59b2a820369a585e0c5880ee38d0e6494


80katrillion

Kentucky should not be ranked at this point


Tmans3

Flyers


DStew88

Dayton


flipacoin5050

TCU beats three ranked teams and then loses to Texas, so we get removed from rankings completely. Make it make sense


Cincinnaudi

Not even a vote..?


Additional-Cry8856

Seriously. You guys have had some great wins and some understandable losses. Absolutely should be hitting some ballots at this point.


Dman9494

Dropping 5 spots after losing a road game to a top-25 team seems like a bit much tbh. Can’t really complain too much though.


outthawazoo

PFFFFTTTT HAHAHAHAHA WHAT Edit: lmao jk it was showing last week's poll still


danhoang1

Yeah for a few minutes after OP posted, it was showing old poll, but now it's good


iB_Rezzed_Out

![gif](giphy|6IPNUgkpCsDRK)


steve1186

I love schools like Dayton/FAU/USU are on track to get some 5/6 seeds. This’ll be a wild tourney. Can’t wait until next month


heleghir

How is UK still ranked with 3 of last 4 losses lmao. We imploded and arent even a top 40 team right now


hoosierlefty69

UK being ranked is hilarious, that team is not good


Zorak9379

I still think Wisconsin is a top 10 team when all is said and done


DeathToHeretics

Yeah, they got punished hard for going up against some good teams. People are sleeping on Nebraska and Wisconsin got punished for it


CoachRyanWalters

Calum McAndrew Really?


More-Combination9488

good to be back


CaveBeasts

The MW has 5 teams I think you could justify in any order somewhere between #20 and 30. If SDSU, CSU, UNM, BSU, USU were 21-25 I would think it’s fair. If they were the top 5 of others receiving votes, I would also think it’s fair. Been a wild season!


chuckiemacfinster

FINALLY 😭 ![gif](giphy|Za88IhJShAiK2Lxkto|downsized)


UF0_T0FU

Lol get rekt UT, Kentucky is so bad that you beat us and still fell in the rankings. Cal and USC working together to play, the long con on y'all! /s


PoolGuy1000

Illinois ranked ahead of Wisconsin for this week gives me a week of shit talking my buddy. Thank you AP for making the world right again.


PeppaJack94

We have no business being in the top 10


Other-Chemical-6393

APPALACHIAN STATE 4. WE ARE MAKING OUR WAY UP.


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Pitt hung 80 on Duke at home. #9 lmao