
So I’m looking at the newest AP basketball poll that came out a couple hours ago, and honestly, I wonder whether some people voting are actually paying attention college basketball.
My quibble isn’t with Memphis dropping from No. 14 to No. 16. In the big picture, it isn’t really significant, and frankly the three teams that moved ahead of Memphis — Arizona, Wichita State and Butler — deserved to. Arizona had a quality win over Illinois, Wichita State has gone on the road to beat Syracuse and LSU and Butler wasn’t ranked high enough last week following its win in the Preseason NIT.
My problem comes more toward the bottom of the poll.
– Georgia Tech has been awful since its win over Memphis, getting blown out in the Maui final by UCLA, struggling at home to beat Penn State and then losing a road game against a very average Miami team on Sunday. Yet the Yellow Jackets checked in at No. 25 in this week’s poll, which is just bizarre.
– Please tell me how Georgetown got 60 votes. The 4-3 Hoyas have not played like a top 25 team at any point this season, yet they got more votes than undefeated Missouri, a very impressive Missouri State team, a surprising Virginia team and an 8-1 Air Force team that has been crushing people.
– Texas got 8 votes. People, stop voting for Texas, at least until they beat a team of consequence. Gonzaga made Texas look really bad on Saturday.
– Oklahoma got 4 votes. Their four wins so far are over Norfolk State, Liberty, Chaminade and TCU.
– A couple misguided souls out there must believe Michigan is a top-25 team, since the Wolverines got two votes. Michigan is 8-1, but the schedule has been embarrassingly bad. I watched Michigan’s 74-67 loss to NC State, and it was ugly.
Response to “AP basketball poll voters are wacky”
December 6th, 2006 at 11:06 pm
What was Calipari getting all excited at the refs about at the UT game? They were missing fouls against TN players too. The refs weren’t shooting 20-something percent! Tigers have the ranking they deserve, and UT game makes that obvious.

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