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Re: Ranked?
Of the 37 teams ranked ahead of us, notice how many are from WEST of the Mississippi. I count eleven (29.7%). Of those eleven, about 1/3 of them are traditional powers and media darlings that voters write in without thinking (Kansas, Texas, Gonzaga). ESPN doesn't do their homework - we all know that - they look at the east coast first, then slowly work their way westward when considering worthy teams to talk about/rank. I'm much more concerned with how the Panthers do in the Valley & Valley tournament, where they are seeded in the NCAAs, and how they do in that tourney than any discussion of rankings. That's the great thing about rankings in college basketball - they mean diddly poo to determine a champion, as long as you win six games in March, and the seeds for the tourney look pretty heavily weighted in the RPI (where we are 25th right now and climbing)
Of the 37 teams ranked ahead of us, notice how many are from WEST of the Mississippi. I count eleven (29.7%). Of those eleven, about 1/3 of them are traditional powers and media darlings that voters write in without thinking (Kansas, Texas, Gonzaga). ESPN doesn't do their homework - we all know that - they look at the east coast first, then slowly work their way westward when considering worthy teams to talk about/rank. I'm much more concerned with how the Panthers do in the Valley & Valley tournament, where they are seeded in the NCAAs, and how they do in that tourney than any discussion of rankings. That's the great thing about rankings in college basketball - they mean diddly poo to determine a champion, as long as you win six games in March, and the seeds for the tourney look pretty heavily weighted in the RPI (where we are 25th right now and climbing)
, it gets us some more recognition. The bandwagon always has room for more!
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