February 10th, 2020 at 12:55 PM ^
A real shame.
February 10th, 2020 at 1:00 PM ^
It sounds better when you say the preseason #1 team has fallen out of the top 25.
February 10th, 2020 at 2:20 PM ^
They achieved something very rare. They are only the 2nd team since 1968 to go from preseason #1 to unranked in same season.
February 10th, 2020 at 4:08 PM ^
Weird, guys
February 11th, 2020 at 6:44 PM ^
#2 Zags, one loss....to M; kinda wild to think.
February 10th, 2020 at 1:02 PM ^
So in jumps Houston and Colorado whom have done... what this year?
February 10th, 2020 at 1:12 PM ^
I was at the CU game the other day - they strike me as a legit Top 25 team.
They are #21 in KenPom, and have a neutral-court win over Dayton, along with a home win vs. Oregon. They play at Oregon Thursday Night, a big chance for them.
I know less about Houston, but I do see them at #17 in KenPom. By that metric, their ranking isn't ridiculous.
February 10th, 2020 at 1:24 PM ^
Good, makes UNIs win over them look even better!
February 10th, 2020 at 1:34 PM ^
Go Panthers! My HS g/f went there ... still keep in touch with her. The 1st Friday of this year's tourney is the 10 year anniversary of Ali Farokmanesh!
February 10th, 2020 at 1:05 PM ^
My weekly rant on this subject. If there's anything more meaningless than a mid-season college basketball poll I havent seen it. It's not used by the selection committee, it's not used by the conferences for any sort of tie-breaker so it's not even really looked at by anyone for anything other than the final one of the year.
They are the MgoPoints of college athletics. I seriously wonder why they even do these anymore other than the old "that's what we've always done" justification.
February 10th, 2020 at 1:11 PM ^
So you're saying MgoPoints are meaningless? Well damn mGrowOld.
February 10th, 2020 at 1:13 PM ^
No no no he's saying they don't work. wait. Maybe he's saying they work sometimes and then don't and then work a little.
February 10th, 2020 at 1:31 PM ^
Mid-season basketball polls are extremely important. What else could we use to thump other fans: "You were preseason #1 and fell out of the top 25? Sheesh you guys suck." "We started out unranked, handed the #1 ranked team its only loss and jumped all the way to #6."
We have to have something to brag about.
February 10th, 2020 at 3:03 PM ^
If there's anything more meaningless than a mid-season college basketball poll I havent seen it.
You haven't ever seen preseason poll?
February 10th, 2020 at 6:25 PM ^
Polls anytime are worthwhile. Look at all the interest and discussion they garner. It's interesting how much time and energy so many people spend dismissing certain ones.
February 10th, 2020 at 1:15 PM ^
Out of curiosity, I looked at Dayton's schedule yesterday. They haven't beaten anyone. If we get stuck with a 7 seed, would love to see them as the 2 seed in our part of the bracket!
February 10th, 2020 at 3:02 PM ^
So Michigan, msu, osu, Wisconsin, and Purdue not ranked.
Penn state, Iowa, and Illinois ranked.
What a world in which we live.
February 10th, 2020 at 3:10 PM ^
Shows how cyclical and important experience is in basketball
Those three teams are full of upperclassmen and all got their best players back from last year
With the exception of OSU (who has really, really disappointed this year) all those other teams lost tons of star players. Iggy, Matthews, Goins, McQuaid, Happ, Edwards, and Cline would be a final four team if not a national championship team
Those other teams will fall back to the bottom when their experience dries up or goes to the NBA
February 11th, 2020 at 11:14 AM ^
And in other conference news... UNC is shitting the bed in a major way... hell, this makes up for the entire Michigan football season.
I'm 'OK' with this trend.
February 10th, 2020 at 3:05 PM ^
MSU's next five games are two against Maryland, at Illinois, home against Iowa, and at Nebraska
They're currently on a 3 game losing streak and are only two games ahead of Michigan in the big ten standings. I will laugh my ass off for eternity if a first year Howard coached Michigan team who was missing their best player for half of the conference session finishes above the only preseason #1 ranked MSU team in history
February 10th, 2020 at 9:36 PM ^
Headline of the year, actually