Stanford didn’t move at all? Shouldn’t the fact that they lost at home, even if it was to the one team ahead of them in the rankings, still take them down at least one notch? Rankings don’t matter this early in the season, but that doesn’t sit right with me, it’s giving “heavy pro-Stanford ESPN-level bias.”
#19 Texas (1-3) and #23 Tennessee (2-3) imo shouldn’t be ranked anymore either, considering they each lost to at least one team they should’ve beaten along with losing to other similar-level teams.
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Stanford not moving doesn’t bother me because honestly the rest of them are meh. UConn maybe should jump them but only because of Fudd. She’s been outstanding.
Louisville lost already so they should drop again. Tennessee should be #25 or out because god damn they have been awful. Texas needs to figure it out without Harmon because I’m getting over that excuse for them.
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Still. I don’t like teams more or less staying where they are in the rankings no matter what happens just cuz of pre-conceived notions about them. Seems like men’s college basketball is wayyyy more dynamic on a week-to-week basis regardless of the time of year. Bigger climbs & bigger drops, no matter who you played and beat/lost to. Again, it’s giving supreme bias towards those who are or at least are supposed to be the 'Haves.'
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In all the rankings I did -- which was too many over too many years -- I basically never punished a team for losing to someone above them in the rankings. After all, the higher ranked team was supposed to win ...
Still don't think it's fair to the teams below them who've won their games for the week and deserve to move up. These rankings end up shaking out as they do over the course of a season, cuz damn near no one stays undefeated – it's fine if the rankings are fluid in the meantime.
True ... but still, if the rankings mean anything, then a higher ranked team should win. And why should a team be punished for losing a game they were supposed to lose? Especially if teams below them didn't beat any teams ranked higher than them. Or beat mid-majors and padded their record.
Back to my original point: I don’t think Stanford dropping one (1) spot from #2 to #3 after losing to SoCar at home is too much to ask. Would something like that happen to any other team in the country if they lost to SoCar at home – or better yet, playing at SoCar? I personally don’t think so. Just feels like a team not moving in the rankings after a loss sets a bad precedent that leaves room for pre-existing biases towards the more trendier upper-echelon schools, that’s all.
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The quality of play matters as much to me as whether you won or loss. A #1 v #2 matchup should be competitive, and in this case the game went to overtime. Can't really ask for a much more competitive game than that. I get where you're coming from Stormeo, but if you are worried about biases towards upper-echelon schools, the only thing moving Stanford down is only going accomplish is to make room for UConn.
if you are worried about biases towards upper-echelon schools, the only thing moving Stanford down is only going accomplish is to make room for UConn.
Which would’ve been fine by me. Again, I think these rankings naturally work out the way they do through the course of a season. Stanford dropping a spot wouldn’t have meant they never would’ve been able to pick it back up at some point. And if UConn would’ve claimed the #2 then proceeded to stay undefeated until Tourney time (unlikely this year but seemingly never impossible), then good on them.
But anyway, it’s clear I’m on an island with this viewpoint, so it’s probably time for me to just drop it.
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