Kansas Moves Into the Top Five In Both Major Polls
by Owen on Jan 23, 2012 11:53 AM CST
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PrintA week after handing Baylor their first loss, the Kansas Jayhawks continue their climb up the polls and now sit at no. 5 in both the AP and Coaches poll released for the week of January 23rd. It's almost hard to believe that Kansas has worked their way into this position in what is supposed to be a 'down year'. But Tyshawn Taylor and Thomas Robinson look like a guard/forward combination that could do some damage come March.
Overall it was a bit of a chaotic week around the country and with that we are looking at a new no. 1 in college basketball as Kentucky moves back into the top spot. Rival Missouri moves into the no. 2 spot after their big win in Waco. At this point the Kansas v Missouri matchup in Columbia on February 4th is setting up to be a MONSTER if both teams can continue their winning ways.
Syracuse, last weeks no. 1, drops to the third position after losing to Notre Dame. Ohio State, a team Kansas has beaten head to head, sits just in front of the Jayhawks at no. 4. Moving on down the list we find Baylor sitting just behind the Jayhawks at number 6 after having lost back to back games against the two Big 12 opponents in front of them. If you look at it right now the Big 12 looks like a juggernaut of sorts and it's hard to believe that the winner of the league between Baylor, Missouri and Kansas won't be in the conversation for a potential no. 1 seed come tourney time.
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ESPN just had a misprint on their promo
It said we were #1 in previewing tonight’s game. I was like ummm that cannot be right. Sure enough, it wasn’t which I am certainly fine with.
by I need more Esteban on Jan 23, 2012 12:02 PM CST reply actions
Maybe they were talking about their Bracketology?
I think it has us as a #1 seed right now
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Yep. In the Midwest.
And Missouri playing Bucknell. Wouldn’t that be a fun way for MU to go out of the Big 12.
Yup, poetic even...
I just worry that instead of just enjoying the ride this year that I’m going to have unrealistic expectations… Which is simultaneously disappointing and awesome considering our preseason evaluations of this team #NoDownYears
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I doubt you'd see Mizzou fans wear those shirts ever again
The name of that song played at KC Comets games in the '80's was Giorgio Moroder's "The Chase." Now you know.
I Am Currently
Shirtless.
I used to be an A's fan until they left town and got good.
by philofthenorth on Jan 23, 2012 8:05 PM CST up reply actions
mmm
sexy
Shit happens when you win championships
by Andrew Clark on Jan 23, 2012 10:35 PM CST up reply actions
Lunardi actually has us as the third #1 seed
Syracuse, Kentucky, then us and then Ohio State just ahead of MU for the 4th #1 seed.
His points on KU:
Leading the conference
"have played a much better schedule across the board"
KU has the second-best (behind Syracuse) record against the teams in his field
In choosing tOSU over MU, he says it’s all nonconference schedule. "Historically … a sub-250 nonleague schedule … is very difficult to overcome in this kind of comparison"
AP poll has Ohio St 4 and KU 5
Even though KU beat Ohio St. The polls are so screwed up. I know, we were at home and they didn’t have Sullinger, but come on.
To each his own...
but “at home” and “without Sulliner” are two pretty big variables. Considering they don’t have a Davidson-like mark against their resume, this makes perfect sense to me.
by hiphopopotamus on Jan 23, 2012 12:48 PM CST up reply actions 2 recs
I am no fan of the polls at all
But the computer rankings also have Ohio State ahead of us, and they don’t take account of whether Sullinger played. They have the better body of work so far.
This^^
Overall, Ohio State deserves to be ranked higher than us. I’d even venture to say that we are a little high in the rankings if I could find any more teams to put above us…
it goes both ways
KU and Duke have the same record, they have a head2head victory against us but we are ranked one spot ahead of them. It really all comes down to when you lost most of the time.
by I need more Esteban on Jan 23, 2012 4:05 PM CST up reply actions
We Beat Duke
Everywhere but the final score.
I used to be an A's fan until they left town and got good.
by philofthenorth on Jan 23, 2012 8:06 PM CST up reply actions
I prefer to lurk in the shadows . . .
of #7 – #14 or so in the polls. They are useless except for some nice visibility in the media. Unfortunately, you cannot continue to win ballgames without moving up.
it's a problem
The name of that song played at KC Comets games in the '80's was Giorgio Moroder's "The Chase." Now you know.
This is probably our peak in the rankings.
All our tough Big 12 games are still ahead of us. The moment we lose one we’ll probably gravitate back down to the 7-10 range.
I am not really fazed by the rankings but some food for thought
KU loses 7 players from last years team leaving just 1 starter. 2 of the high profile freshmen that came this year can’t play and another isnt even allowed to go to school. With all of this they are still ranked number 5 and a possible #1 seed in the tournament. Please don’t ever let Bill Self leave
The real question is...
How does Kentucky commemorate its #1 ranking?
A. Make a shirt
B. Hang a banner in Calipari’s yard
C. Both
You all know the answer though.
And will they ever play anyone of any consequence on the road?
Outside of KU on the neutral court, the only time I see them take on anyone in that SEC is in their house. And because the SEC now seems to be nearly every swinging dick in D-I they are nearly immune from playing the teams that matter.
by BCRavenJHawkfan on Jan 23, 2012 4:15 PM CST up reply actions
They did play Indiana at Assembly Hall
That’s probably tougher than our toughest road game so far.
well they go home and home with UNC
though that series might be over now if I’m remembering correctly. But yeah they got lucky if you want to call it that that Indiana was good this year. The only year it’s been bad in terms of not playing anyone really really good is 2010 and even then it got saved by them playing a lot of the semi good teams
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Not that I disagree with you, but
KU doesn’t exactly schedule a murderers row of opponents on the road either. Over the last 2 years KU has played away games at Cal, USC, and Michigan. Only Michagan was a tournament team, and they weren’t all that good.
Kentucky has played @ UNC, Louiseville, and Indiana over that same time span and all three were/will be tournament teams with pretty good resumes.
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by Triston27 on Jan 23, 2012 5:26 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Did you see this nonsense?
John Calipari goes overboard vouching for SEC
He thinks as many as eight or nine teams would be “in the discussion” for NCAA bids.
I always drink the Kool-Aid
There's so little differentiation once you get to the bubble teams that saying teams are in the discussion is meaningless
There are 37 at large spots, plus another 8 or 9 conference champions from conferences that are sure to have mutliple bids. Of those 45 spots, about 30-35 will go to the 5 big conferences (BCS conferences minus the Pac-12) so that’s an average of 6-7 teams per conference. To say you’ve got as many as eight or nine teams “in the discussion” for about six or seven bids your conference is likely to get is saying nothing.
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