#12 in latest AP poll

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lawgator1 said:
Last I saw in bracketmatrix.com you were still the third of the 3 seeds. If you win the SEC tournament I think you could end up the bottom 2 but depends on whatever else happens, of course. Dropping to a 4 is of course possible if you are out in your first tourney game, again depending.

But right now, UT as a 3 seed seems pretty reliable.
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As we all know, the sec tournament doesn’t matter.
 
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#28
beachvol23 said:
you should already know , but here it is, look at history of the polls, when teams lose in upsets they generally drop 4-5 spots, but in this case, for two weeks now, this has not happened. The bias to protect Purdue and Big#? is very clear! If Houston had same record past 6 games, they’d be 17!
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There is no clear-cut template for adjusting teams in the top-25 following wins or losses. There anre tons of factors like who you lost to, where was it, scoring margin, annd how other teams ranked around you performed. And anytime you’re a top-3 team, almost any loss is considered an upset. You’re just trying to make it a cookie-cutter formula, and it’s not. Especially in late February when teams have an entire body of work to be judged upon that supports their ranking.

Purdue lost to 3 teams currently ranked in the top-25 and a fourth who will make the NCAAT, 3 of those 4 on the road. They are 24-5 as a result against a stronger strength of schedule than Tennessee according to the metrics. Over that span, Purdue has fallen two spots in the rankings, from 3rd to 5th.

Tennessee lost as many games in the same time frame, 2 of which came against ranked teams, a third against a team that might make the NCAAT, and a 4th to a team that will be playing in the NIT. They are 21-8 as a result. Over that span, Tennessee has fallen two spots in the rankings, from 10th to 12th.

Where is the injustice you’re banging your fists on the table about? They seemingly were treated rather equally.

And yeah, if Houston had that same record over the same span, they’d have tumbled further because their losses would have come against some garbage AAC teams that won’t sniff the NCAAT. You aren’t comparing apples to apples.
 
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