Week 14 AP Poll- #17
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Surprised our board seems split on if KSU should be top 25. Have people not watched them lately? Yeah they lost to A&M but they have been curb stomping the conference since they squeaked out that win against us where we appeared to lose focus.
They killed Tech at home and beat OU/OKState on the road in absolutely dominant fashion. It is not easy to win that comfortably on the road in this conference and they're doing it.
They killed Tech at home and beat OU/OKState on the road in absolutely dominant fashion. It is not easy to win that comfortably on the road in this conference and they're doing it.
If MSU hadn't lost I think they drop Michigan further and put MSU up around 4 or 5. Voters typically want that one Big Ten team ranked very high. MSU has been looking like the better team and then they dropped one the same time Michigan looked like crap.
We have a perfect set up for trying to get a win in Manhattan a week from Saturday. I think we go 2-0 this week, then we have a full seven days to prepare for them since we don't have a mid-week game. That's huge.
True, but you can't just ignore the non-con, including getting beat down by a really bad TAMU team. In the past 4 weeks or so they have definitely played like one of the top 25 teams in the country, and they're likely to get there, but right now based on their results so far there's a good argument to keep them out. Also, Tech, OU and OSU all look completely broken right now.
Not bad points, but having watched them Saturday they looked downright scary good even when they weren't shooting well.
I think ISU is pretty good and I'll be shocked if we win @OU as easily as KSU did.
Well, we will see this week what people really think of KSU after they host KU and play at Baylor.
Hard to justify dropping ISU for winning games it should. On the other hand, this is first week this season that all voters have Iowa State in top 25. Finally.
CycloneErik
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That's not true. You can put a winner rating on every single post in this thread if you want to.
To be fair, K-State fans like @surly don't have a long history of winning, so it's probably a mystery to him.
Weren't they picked to be in the bottom of the conference anyway?
They only lost two non-con games and actually had some close games vs. Nebraska and Colorado...didn't get into the rankings until they beat Kansas.
It really was in March when you started to see how elite they were.
They only have 2 losses, both on the road to tournament teams. Why wouldnt they be #7?
They looked like world beaters earlier when they thumped Nova early in the year.
But, wow, they looked flat-out lost against Iowa. Their shot selection was worse than ours when we played there.
Say what you want about KSU and Baylor - Weber and Drew get more out less as well as anyone. I don't like it about 4x/year but you have to respect it. Well, we have to respect, sportswriters not so much.
Someone said this about Huggins after the WVU game and I just don’t get it here. I’ll give you Weber. His recruiting classes are usually 40s to 80s. But Drew absolutely gets talent in.
Since 2010:
2010: 6
2011: 23
2012: 4
2013: 20
2014: 61
2015: 46
2016: 41
2017: 81
2018: 36
Outside of 2017 and 2014, Drew has had some good to damned great recruiting classes. He’s definitely had plenty of talent to work with.
I dislike Iowa as much as anybody on this board. Unfortunately, they are pretty good. Garza, although unathletic, is quite skilled offensively. They will make the tourney. Given their lack of guards, I doubt they go very far.
I do not get what Baylor is selling!
They recruit really well in FB and BB - both men and women’s. Multiple scandals do not seem to phase them. Is their hypocritical brand of Christianity really a selling point? $?
