Butler and Dayton are the regional jobs I would worry Travis leaves for. And yes, Dayton is a significantly better job than Miami. Grant has severely underachieved since the magical 19-20 season.
Butler makes sense because he’s an alum and Thad isn’t in it for the long haul.
UC will be open, but no way they hire a guy who failed to make a tourney at X.
=>Disagree. UC would love a guy to be successful there just to rub it in the face of Xavier.
Dayton is a better job until we get that new arena and the donations were about to receive during our final 4 run this year!
Every team ranked 18-25 have lost at least once this week
And 13 Alabama have lost twice and have 5 losses
19 Iowa lose, making it their second of the week
#25 UCF hosts UC at 5pm.
Not gonna lie - still rooting for UCF.
The other reason to root for UC is to keep Wes employed but I hear you and tend to agree
The p5 and high major naval gazers at the field of 68 refuse to give us what’s ours
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Still not in Jon Rothstein’s “Rothstein 45” either. And he’s an AP poll voter. Sounds like we’re not getting his vote
I’m guessing there’s a subset of voters who just blindly look at kenpom and SOS and will refuse to rank us no matter what. If we keep winning, we’re going to wind up with both top 15 votes and ballots that don’t include us at all.
I think it just comes down to different ideology of how people do the poll. Some vote for it more as a “most deserving” list that is based more on wins and losses, while other vote for it more as a “power ranking” that is based more on metrics
Which is hilarious considering that Rothstein is likely going to be forced to talk about us a lot since we’re probably going to be flexed out to Friday night games in at least 3 of the 4 “MAC Wild Card” nights coming up starting in February.
Teams we should overtake:
#19 Iowa - lost twice
#24 SMU - lost twice
#25 UCF - 1 loss. UC game today should be irrelevant
#26 Villanova - went 1-1
#28 USC - went 1-1
Teams that should overtake us:
#31 Clemson - two wins, including #24 SMU
#32 SLU - two road wins, including VCU
#35 Florida - two wins over ranked teams
Wisconsin - beat #44 UCLA and won at #2 Michigan
Other teams to worry about Miami (FL), Texas A&M, St John’s, Texas
UCF only win by 1
Now they’re predicting us at 24th. Not putting a lot of stock into this but it least it’s one step better.
I know rankings are mostly subjective, and the true goal should be dancing, but dang. It would sure be nice to have that little number in front of our name again.
