What do you think this week rankings will be on Monday ?

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#131
Probably number 12, much like the gaps in the football offense, same gaps, inconsistent play, poor ball handling, middle school turnovers by Chaz and Igor, might struggle with State, will struggle with Auburn, could be out of the top 20 this time next week.

Tennessee offense is easy to defend when Mayshack is no threat to score from the perimeter, his defender drops off on Lanier, maybe boxes Z on one side of the floor, not sure how Barnes fixes an easy 5 on 4 game for the opposition, but it's getting dangerously close to being difficult to watch.
 
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TartanTurff said:
Probably number 12, much like the gaps in the football offense, same gaps, inconsistent play, poor ball handling, middle school turnovers by Chaz and Igor, might struggle with State, will struggle with Auburn, could be out of the top 20 this time next week.

Tennessee offense is easy to defend when Mayshack is no threat to score from the perimeter, his defender drops off on Lanier, maybe boxes Z on one side of the floor, not sure how Barnes fixes an easy 5 on 4 game for the opposition, but it's getting dangerously close to being difficult to watch.
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Nice try
 
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TartanTurff said:
Probably number 12, much like the gaps in the football offense, same gaps, inconsistent play, poor ball handling, middle school turnovers by Chaz and Igor, might struggle with State, will struggle with Auburn, could be out of the top 20 this time next week.

Tennessee offense is easy to defend when Mayshack is no threat to score from the perimeter, his defender drops off on Lanier, maybe boxes Z on one side of the floor, not sure how Barnes fixes an easy 5 on 4 game for the opposition, but it's getting dangerously close to being difficult to watch.
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Let’s bet $1,000 we’re still ranked in the single digits.
 
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VolCalls said:
We aren’t dropping out of the top 8. FWIW, we fell from #5 to #6 in CBS’ Top 25 and 1 today
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People have to ask themselves, who is necessarily jumping us?
Michigan State has the only real shot with their win over Illinois and 11 straight wins.

Kentucky isn't hopping us with a loss this week at home and 4 losses on the year. Marquette lost at home and was already behind us. Houston didn't get a big enough win IMO , struggled with UCF, and has 3 losses.
Kansas lost to Iowa State and is 13-4.
Texas A& M still hasn't made up for that Oklahoma loss and is 14-4 with a loss to KY this week. Oregon and UCONN both lost this week as well.

Maybe we go to 7 if Michigan State jumps us, but that's all I can see. We could just stay at 6.

If we were going to crap the bed again, this wasn’t an bad week to do it.
 
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Anti-shunshinepumper said:
People have to ask themselves, who is necessarily jumping us?
Michigan State has the only real shot with their win over Illinois and 11 straight wins.

Kentucky isn't hopping us with a loss this week at home and 4 losses on the year. Marquette lost at home and was already behind us. Houston didn't get a big enough win IMO , struggled with UCF, and has 3 losses.
Kansas lost to Iowa State and is 13-4.
Texas A& M still hasn't made up for that Oklahoma loss and is 14-4 with a loss to KY this week. Oregon and UCONN both lost this week as well.

Maybe we go to 7 if Michigan State jumps us, but that's all I can see. We could just stay at 6.

If we were going to crap the bed again, this wasn’t a bad week to do it.
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Exactly. Only thing I’ll add is that unlike football, total number of losses has no bearing on movement in the rankings, it’s all based on what happened over the past week. The only teams in the top 12 not to lose this week were 1, 3, 10, & 12.
 
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VolCalls said:
Exactly. Only thing I’ll add is that unlike football, total number of losses has no bearing on movement in the rankings, it’s all based on what happened over the past week. The only teams in the top 12 not to lose this week were 1, 3, 10, & 12.
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Not usually, but if the metrics were somehow tied, it possibly could.
But yeah, 10 is Houston and 12 is Michigan State. I saw some weird prediction polls that had Houston ahead of us this last week. Wouldn't surprise me if they jumped us, but I don't think they will. Michigan State is fixing to start getting a bunch of hype because they are 11-0 in last 11.
Like I said, I could see them sliding them past us.

Other than that, we ain’t going anywhere.
And with Marquette losing, there is just a good of a chance that Houston or Michigan State take their spot. Maybe even KY's, or Kansas's
 
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VolCalls said:
Exactly. Only thing I’ll add is that unlike football, total number of losses has no bearing on movement in the rankings, it’s all based on what happened over the past week. The only teams in the top 12 not to lose this week were 1, 3, 10, & 12.
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It's absolutely mindless to compare it to our football team, and football in general, as a few posters have done
 
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BernardKingGOAT said:
It's absolutely mindless to compare it to our football team, and football in general, as a few posters have done
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They are apples and oranges in that they are two different sports. Comparing them directly can be a bit silly. However, there are some similarities.
(i.e team sport, played with a ball, both have offensive and defense, turnovers, a clock system where time and time outs need to be managed, etc)

As far as rankings, they are different too, but there can be similarities there, also
i.e strength of schedule/opponents record
In regard to playoffs, basketball's selection committee primarily uses NET rankings and it's detailed process, and CFPC has its own criteria and may directly use different metrics such as eye test, common opponent outcomes, and necessary head to head results.

Having said that, we have been talking AP Poll in this thread. AP polls for football and basketball are virtually the same.
So in regards to the AP polls, it's not silly at all to compare the two.
 
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Projected AP poll according to Fansided-

1.Auburn Tigers
2. Duke Blue Devils
3. Iowa State Cyclones
4. Houston Cougars
5. Alabama Crimson Tide
6. Florida Gators
7. Michigan State Spartans
8. Tennessee Volunteers
9. Kentucky Wildcats
10. Kansas Jayhawks
11. Purdue Boilermakers
12. Marquette Golden Eagles
13. Texas A&M Aggies
14. Oregon Ducks
15. Mississippi State Bulldogs
16. UCONN Huskies
17. Wisconsin Badgers
18. Illinois Fighting Illini
19. St. John's Red Storm
20. Ole Miss Rebels
21. Memphis Tigers
22. Michigan Wolverines
23. Texas Tech Red Raiders
24. Louisville Cardinals
25. Clemson Tigers

Not sure I'm buying it though.
Guess we'll see.
One thing for sure, Tennessee isn't going to be worse than 8.
 
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Anti-shunshinepumper said:
They are apples and oranges in that they are two different sports. Comparing them directly can be a bit silly. However, there are some similarities.
(i.e team sport, played with a ball, both have offensive and defense, turnovers, a clock system where time and time outs need to be managed, etc)

As far as rankings, they are different too, but there can be similarities there, also
i.e strength of schedule/opponents record
In regard to playoffs, basketball's selection committee primarily uses NET rankings and it's detailed process, and CFPC has its own criteria and may directly use different metrics such as eye test, common opponent outcomes, and necessary head to head results.

Having said that, we have been talking AP Poll in this thread. AP polls for football and basketball are virtually the same.
So in regards to the AP polls, it's not silly at all to compare the two.
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It's much different when nuance is applied, as you have done
 
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VolCalls said:
Oh look, we held steady at #6 in the AP poll.
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NCAA College Basketball Rankings: AP Top 25 Basketball Poll

The official page for the AP Top 25 men's college basketball poll. Keep up to date and view the latest NCAA men's basketball ranking updates each week for the 2023-24 season.
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Yep. I was pretty confident after looking at all the teams behind us that none of them had the resume to jump us.
This next week may be a different story if we play anything like we did at Memorial Stadium.
 
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Florida's probably climbing, but honestly, these rankings are so volatile right now, it's all just guesswork.
My guess 5th
 
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VolunteerCeltic said:
With Florida, Kentucky and others losing, I am happy to see the Vols only dropped to 7th in Coaches poll and stayed at 6th in AP.
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Same. Like I said in another post, not a bad week to poop our pants at Vandy all things considered. Still #4 in Net.
Season ended today we'd be probably be a #1 seed. Just need to finish what we started.
Going to be extremely hard to do with how good the SEC is, tho. 2 seed is probably more realistic, but until the fat lady sings I'm hoping for that #1 spot.
 
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Anti-shunshinepumper said:
Yep. I was pretty confident after looking at all the teams behind us that none of them had the resume to jump us.
This next week may be a different story if we play anything like we did at Memorial Stadium.
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So was I. Those who thought we’d drop out of the top 10 were out of their minds.

BTW - it’s Memorial Gym. Memorial Stadium is the football stadium at Oklahoma, Indiana, Nebraska and a host of other schools.
 
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