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[PantherObserver]

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Completely absurd we are STILL not ranked. Wasn't Drake in by now when they had their one good season in 30 years? How the heck are we not?

I was hoping we'd get in this week, win our next two, and gain some footing so once a loss comes we won't drop too far. Now the way it's setting up, if we win our next two, we get ranked and then go into our toughest road game of the year right away. Not liking that.

Hopefully the cats keep rolling. The lack of respect is sickening. Two national TV wins this week, RPI of 16 (!) as of today, and 13 straight wins. Seems that moron Dick Vitale is one of the reasons. Why does he even get a vote, isn't he clinically senile by this point?

[UNI Fight]

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If Creighton, Southern Illinois or Wichita State had the record, win-streak we do they would've been top 25 last week. UNI needs to make some noise in March, sweet 16, elite 8 so future UNI teams can get the respect they deserve. A lot of this voting seems to be on how recognizable the name is and what the program has done in the past. Of course, these top 25 ranks mean nothing right now, I'm more concerned with our NCAA Tourney seeding, I'd love to see a 6 or 7 seed UNI! Top 25 would help that though.

[PantherObserver]

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I am so mad I am still sitting here stewing lol

I just don't get it. 13 straight wins and an RPI of 16. How in the hell can anyone NOT have us on their ballot? This is insanity! Could we get some voters that actually know something about basketball. My god. This is disgusting.

[CincyPanther88]

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If Creighton, Southern Illinois or Wichita State had the record, win-streak we do they would've been top 25 last week. UNI needs to make some noise in March, sweet 16, elite 8 so future UNI teams can get the respect they deserve. A lot of this voting seems to be on how recognizable the name is and what the program has done in the past. Of course, these top 25 ranks mean nothing right now, I'm more concerned with our NCAA Tourney seeding, I'd love to see a 6 or 7 seed UNI! Top 25 would help that though.

This. Then ESPN might not get our name wrong so often.

[ceaser150]

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Did Northern Illinois get any votes this week?

I don't mind not being ranked. We need to keep playing with the chip on our shoulder. The ranking will come as long as we keep winning.

[PantherObserver]

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Did Northern Illinois get any votes this week?

I don't mind not being ranked. We need to keep playing with the chip on our shoulder. The ranking will come as long as we keep winning.

I don't know if it will or not. We lose ONE game, and its way back down the ladder because of the lack of respect. We are getting screwed, there's no way around it.

Surely we can't win them ALL...or can we?

[BCPanther]

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The lack of respect is astounding...

I hope Jake is using this. Not that this team EVER lacks focus...

[BCPanther]

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We haven't lost since the the Friday before Thanksgiving...

If Butler or Gonzaga did this ESPN would be blowing a load every night on SportsCenter talking about 'The Streak'. I wasn't upset at first, but the more I think about it, the more it infuriates me. I don't understand this total lack of respect for us and for the Valley as a whole...

[06panther10]

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We haven't lost since the the Friday before Thanksgiving...

If Butler or Gonzaga did this ESPN would be blowing a load every night on SportsCenter talking about 'The Streak'. I wasn't upset at first, but the more I think about it, the more it infuriates me. I don't understand this total lack of respect for us and for the Valley as a whole...

Yeah, its pretty bad really.

We have the 3rd longest winning streak in the entire nation. And only 3 teams in the country have a better record than we do. We have done it at home, on the road, and on nutural courts. We have beaten good teams, and crushed the bad teams. We have beaten ACC, B10, B12, CUSA, and Siena.

NO excuse for us not being in there. I was hoping we could get in this week, and then win a few games and move up, so when we lose, we wouldn't drop out of the top 25 win a single loss.

[ceaser150]

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What was Drake's streak 2 years ago? 19? Would be nice to reach that and see if we get the same attention here around the DSM area.

[Spathicle]

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Funny thing to me is that Mo St and Sienna both got in the ORV section yet we seem to be on the bubble.

Good news is that some announcers and media folks are noticing. ESPN Power Rankings has us in their ranks, Andy Katz refers to the panthers as being way to far under the radar. "All they do is win" <-Andy Katz

[UNI Fight]

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Funny thing to me is that Mo St and Sienna both got in the ORV section yet we seem to be on the bubble.

Good news is that some announcers and media folks are noticing. ESPN Power Rankings has us in their ranks, Andy Katz refers to the panthers as being way to far under the radar. "All they do is win" <-Andy Katz

Mo state and siena both got 1 vote, we got 91 votes so we're well above those two.

Others Receiving Votes
Texas A&M 126, Northern Iowa 91, Missouri 64, Mississippi State 61, New Mexico 59, Dayton 39, UAB 35, UNLV 28, Oklahoma State 26, Vanderbilt 21, Notre Dame 18, Wake Forest 14, Cornell 12, Butler 10, Texas Tech 10, Marquette 9, Virginia Tech 9, William & Mary 8, Louisiana Tech 2, Florida 2, Harvard 1, Missouri State 1, Siena 1.

In the ESPN/USA Today we have 62 votes and #25 Florida State has 65.

[FOTY]

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Drake has been brought up a couple times between the two threads. So, I took a look. It appears that they were in week 11 with a record of 16-1 before cracking the Top 25 (AP - 22 and ESPN - 23).

As we are in week 9 on the verge, we are exactly one week ahead of Drake where they were 2 seasons ago. We should be ahead given that we are coming off a NCAA appearance.

[achrist70]

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I am kind surprised Wichita isn't getting any votes, as they did beat Missouri State.

[Purrrrrfect]

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missouri st isn't good though