Not that it matters, but I could now see this team in the top 15 in the country starting but finishing much higher?
Thoughts
Thoughts
Just for fun, preseason ranking
- Thread starter BoilerinLouisville
- Start date
Jon Rothstein at CBS SPORTS released his Top 25 yesterday.
Takes the recent Duke transfer Sulaimon to MD into consideration.
1. Maryland
2. UNC
3. Kansas
4. Iowa State
5. Kentucky
6. Virginia
7. Duke
8. Oklahoma
9. Wichita State
10. Villanova
11. Cal
12. Indiana
13. Gonzaga
14. Michigan
15. West Virginia
16. SMU
17. UConn
18. Georgetown
19. Arizona
20. Cincy
21. Miami
22. Purdue
23. Oregon
24. Mich. St.
25. Wisconsin
Boilers @ #22. I'd say BCS addition should launch us to Top 15 easily.
Takes the recent Duke transfer Sulaimon to MD into consideration.
1. Maryland
2. UNC
3. Kansas
4. Iowa State
5. Kentucky
6. Virginia
7. Duke
8. Oklahoma
9. Wichita State
10. Villanova
11. Cal
12. Indiana
13. Gonzaga
14. Michigan
15. West Virginia
16. SMU
17. UConn
18. Georgetown
19. Arizona
20. Cincy
21. Miami
22. Purdue
23. Oregon
24. Mich. St.
25. Wisconsin
Boilers @ #22. I'd say BCS addition should launch us to Top 15 easily.
Pre-season rankings are horribly affecting college basketball... All it does it try to set up ranked made for tv match-ups. We have no idea who is going to be good or bad next year but the media insists on ranking teams before it's even played a game. It's even worse in football when teams who are ranked at the beginning of the season appear to be much tougher opponents than what they really are. Rankings shouldn't happen until conference start in my opinion.
Rankings make the Message board internetz go 'round.
It's not really. I think it just shows what I've been saying in that they weren't game changers. They were going to be bench players and nobody knew what Davis could contribute.
I wish they would just do away with preseason rankings thru the first 4 weeks.
I wouldn't think that MSU losing Swanigan would knock them down that far. Even without him there are still going to be an extremely tough team. Still top 15.
I think Michigan is a little high. Michigan was really young last year and even when Levert was healthy they dropped a few head-scratcher games I could see them being what Purdue was last year.....improved and good enough to make the tournament , but in the 22-12 record range and one year away from being really good. Especially once Battle gets there in 2016.
I know Bo Ryan gets the benefit of the doubt for that 25 spot, but with the returning talent in the Big Ten, Wisconsin could still be really good but wind up being 6th in the Big Ten. I'll go out on a limb and predict that this is the year where Wiscy finally loses their top 4 finish streak.
I think Michigan is a little high. Michigan was really young last year and even when Levert was healthy they dropped a few head-scratcher games I could see them being what Purdue was last year.....improved and good enough to make the tournament , but in the 22-12 record range and one year away from being really good. Especially once Battle gets there in 2016.
I know Bo Ryan gets the benefit of the doubt for that 25 spot, but with the returning talent in the Big Ten, Wisconsin could still be really good but wind up being 6th in the Big Ten. I'll go out on a limb and predict that this is the year where Wiscy finally loses their top 4 finish streak.
Nope. It says the voters are still voting based on ancient history and not what Tommy has done to the program.
Dang. After all the witty posts you've made you've suddenly disappeared from my view!!!
I am too. But they added some quality big guy (foreign, I believe) to a pretty solid lineup. It's hard to think they'll be significantly better given they were a dumpster fire before Walton and LeVert went down, but they really came around at the end of the season. I would expect them to pick up where they left off at the end of the year. I think they're gonna be pretty tough, but I am skeptical.
Iu top 15 is funny. Return the core of a team that lost tons of games towards the end of the season, hopefully they keep the momentum going into next year!
Similar threads
