deacdixieboy
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Somehow we lost the votes we had last week after beating 2 solid opponents this week.
Pitt looks like they are [Redacted]-level bad at basketball this year
Can anyone explain where the Quad ranking cutoffs come in? It doesn’t appear to be top quarter, next quarter, etc with Northwestern at 42 but considered Quad 2. Maybe that being at Wake changes it just enough to move them to Quad 2?
Somehow we lost the votes we had last week after beating 2 solid opponents this week.
Donald Hunt, the one writer that voted for us last week at 24th, retired a couple days later.
Donald Hunt, the one writer that voted for us last week at 24th, retired a couple days later. I think SOS will continue to hold us back for a while until we can get a lot of ACC games under our belt, but if we win our next four games (USC Upstate, Charlotte, VMI, and BC) and go into the road game against Louisville 12-1 I would expect us to be ranked.
lunardi has us in his last 4 in at the moment and i hate that i know this or shared it
This made me laugh audibly for some reason.
Heroic last act!
https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/basketball-men/d1/ncaa-mens-basketball-net-rankings
Deacs are #31 in the initial NET rankings. LSU all the way up at #2.
Wow. ESPN has us 6th in the ACC at 10.9-9.1. Tied with Cuse.
Not sure what the numbers you have there mean, as there are 20 conference games. For any stat nerds, I'd argue with like 90% confidence we finish anywhere from 4th to 10th, with the ability for 3rd if everything goes perfectly, and lower than 10th if the wheels really fall off or something unexpected happens. So hard for me to gauge it because I feel like we just don't know where to put VT and Northwestern, and LSU and Oregon St for that matter. Is VT really a top 3 or 4 ACC team? They have lost to every top 40 team they have played. Is Northwestern a contender or pretender in the Big 10? They won at Maryland and against Georgia, but both those teams are towards the bottom of their leagues. They also lost to Providence who I see as a bubble team or slightly better. Give me the games against BC, Louisville, Miami, and FSU and I feel I'll have such a better idea of just where we stack up. Really important to win a minimum of 2 of those games given the brutal slate we have starting with the home game against Duke.
For any stat nerds, I'd argue with like 90% confidence we finish anywhere from 4th to 10th