Rankings for 2021-22

[Django]

My wife is a big UK fan. Latest rakings have XU 2 ahead of UK in one poll, 2 behind in the other, with Tennessee between in both polls. As a loyal UK fan, her take is "...so why in Tennessee even ranked at all, and (of course) which nutcases think XU is better than UK?" PERCEPTIONS!
PS. I know better than to respond to her with anything other than "...hmmm...."

She's a smart woman!

[kayako]

Not sure how we end up behind Tn when you compare stats:

10 9 Tennessee SEC 8-2 wl 1-0road 1-2neutral 6-0 home 1-0 Q1 1-0 Q2 2-0 Q3 5-0 Q4 SOS 131
11 12 Xavier Big East 11-1wl 1-0road 1-1neutral 9-0 home 3-1 Q1 2-0 Q2 2-0 Q3 4-0 Q4 SOS 17

To be fair, the AP Poll isn't supposed to be 100% resume based. The best bracketologist had Xavier at #2 Seed, Tennessee at #6 Seed, and Kentucky at #8 Seed.

[Fieldhouse Flyer]

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Tuesday, December 21, 2021: Villanova 71, Xavier 58

NCAA MEN'S BASKETBALL NET RANKINGS – NCAA.com – games through Tuesday, December 21, 2021

NET Ranking Wed. Dec. 22, 2021 • NET Ranking Tues. Dec. 21, 2021 • Team

13 • 17 • Villanova
17 • 21 • UConn
18 • 11 • Xavier
27 • 26 • Seton Hall
31 • 32 • Providence

56 • 55 • DePaul
57 • 58 • Creighton
76 • 64 • Marquette

114 • 113 • St. John's
163 • 161 • Butler
169 • 166 • Georgetown

I’ve never been a big fan of NCAA Tournament predictions in December, but as of today, it looks like the Big East will get five teams in comfortably, with DePaul (9-1) and Creighton (9-3) needing to keep up the good work in conference play – particularly against the present bottom four teams - to make it seven teams dancing in March.
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[Omaha1]

16 providence
19 Villanova
22 xavier
24 seton hall

UConn and Creighton receiving votes.

[stever20]

Seth Davis after this week-
16 Nova
18 Seton Hall
22 Xavier
24 Providence
25 UConn

[stever20]

AP Poll just released-
Nova 14 from 19
Xavier 17 from 22
Seton Hall 20 from 24
Providence 23 from 16

UConn 30

[adoraz]

Still only one ranked ACC team, with Duke dropping to #8.

[stever20]

Still only one ranked ACC team, with Duke dropping to #8.

Miami only other ACC team even getting votes- and they were only 28th.

[kayako]

Pretty fair except Providence should be in the teens.

UCONN just needs to get some wins, and they'll shoot up in the rankings.

[stever20]

Pretty fair except Providence should be in the teens.

UCONN just needs to get some wins, and they'll shoot up in the rankings.

Providence dropped so much because teams just below them got such huge wins last week-
Nova over Creighton by so much
LSU over Kentucky and Tennessee
Texas Tech over Kansas
Wisconsin over Purdue, Iowa, and Maryland

I think also like it or not, the 32 point defeat by Marquette hurt Providence with the voters. I know Seth Davis mentioned that last night to a Providence fan last night about it.