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bigslk

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#1
After tonight's championship game where do you think Tennessee will end up in the rankings.

I'm thinking top ten, 8th :p :w00t:
 
#2
#2
I'd be fine with 8th. Remember, we were the 16th best team in the Sweet 16 according to some experts.
 
#4
#4
No matter what they will have Kentucky and Kansas in the top 5. The way things go Tennessee will be out of the top 10. Even though we should not be. 12th or 13th
 
#6
#6
I would think we should be 8th at the worst, but I guess that's not how it works. It doesn't really matter. I feel like the polls don't really mean anything in basketball.
 
#9
#9
tvolsfan said:
I feel like the polls don't really mean anything in basketball.
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+1

At the end of the season, they mean absolutely nothing to me. Who wants a top 10 ranking when you get knocked out of the tourny in the round of 32?

However, during the year the polls have an effect on several factors; how the players play (chip on shoulder, target on back, etc), and at-large seeding.
 
#11
#11
SaintBruce said:
Actually it was completely 100% wrong.
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So we were the best team? I hate to break it to you, but it's not hard to see why people would rate us like this. I think we should have been ahead of some teams, but I'm sure plenty of people still saw UT as the wildly inconsistent team that beat a 11 seed and a 14 seed to reach the Sweet 16. They did well with what they were presented, no doubt about that. However, reaching the Sweet 16 this year with the teams we played to get there was nothing special.
 
#12
#12
QuickdrawMcVols said:
+1

At the end of the season, they mean absolutely nothing to me. Who wants a top 10 ranking when you get knocked out of the tourny in the round of 32?

However, during the year the polls have an effect on several factors; how the players play (chip on shoulder, target on back, etc), and at-large seeding.
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I know people hate the underdog/disrespect crap, and it's not a great predictor of anything, but I can understand what you mean. For example, in 2007, UT looked completely different post number 1 ranking. I know there were probably other reasons, but I'd bet part of the problem was they already felt like they had proven themselves to everyone.
 
#13
#13
Rankings mean nothing once the season is over. UT didn't win the national championship bottom line and it was there for the taking.
 
#14
#14
Regardless of whether or not you think the rankings mean nothing it'd still be nice to be ranked in the top 10...how many times can Tennessee say that we've been ranked in the top 10 at the end of the year?
 
#15
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tvolsfan said:
So we were the best team? I hate to break it to you, but it's not hard to see why people would rate us like this. I think we should have been ahead of some teams, but I'm sure plenty of people still saw UT as the wildly inconsistent team that beat a 11 seed and a 14 seed to reach the Sweet 16. They did well with what they were presented, no doubt about that. However, reaching the Sweet 16 this year with the teams we played to get there was nothing special.
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What about reaching the elite 8?? (Oh yeh and beating UK/KU)
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#17
#17
I believe they also beat 2 seed OSU to get to the EE. UT should definitely be top 10. Our record and tourney run should back up that claim. We had single digit losses for the year. That doesn't happen to many teams very often.
 
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SaintBruce said:
Actually it was completely 100% wrong.
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So where do you rank Kansas? Is Michigan St. number four?

A game is a single event in a series of possibilities. If you flip a coin and it's heads, does that mean it will always be heads? It's the same with all probabilities. If Kansas and N. Iowa play five times, Kansas wins four of those five. You can't just say one team is definitely better than another because they beat them in a single game, and even more so when you are talking about teams that had to play different opponents and play different styles. All these things factor in, but it isn't so one dimensional as you are presenting it to be.
 
#20
#20
I have thought about this since the loss. We are not really loved in the media and polls so I can see us being in the low teens because most of the pundits felt we got an easy road to the 8. I agree it means absolutly nothing but it will be fun to see how it all shakes out. By no means do I think that the Elite 8 are 1-8 in the country.
 
#24
#24
I guess I'm hoping for a top ten ranking just for the future of this basketball program, but I guess a 12 or 13 ranking is more of whats going to happen.


:eek:k:
 
#25
#25
Well, we started the tournament ranked 14/15. We should move up from there. Let's look at who we should pass and who (if any) should pass us.

We should pass:

Georgetown (AP only)
Temple
Villanova
New Mexico
Purdue (arguable)
Ohio State (arguable)

There's no one else we can argue to pass, and there's no one else behind us who made the Final Four (and only one, Baylor, who even made the Elite Eight), so I'd say that's about it. I was a little surprised that Butler and Michigan State were already ranked ahead of us, but that was indeed the case.

So where should we end up? Depending on Purdue/OSU, we should end up between #9 and #11.
 
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