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Post by blob on Nov 21, 2005 18:14:39 GMT -5
How does K-State lose 3 of their last 5 matches, including losses to 2 teams ranked below them, and climb from 31 to 25 in the AVCA. Makes no sense.
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Post by SaltNPepper on Nov 21, 2005 18:55:00 GMT -5
How does K-State lose 3 of their last 5 matches, including losses to 2 teams ranked below them, and climb from 31 to 25 in the AVCA. Makes no sense. Probably because they're going to end up 4th in the Big 12 and there is too much power in that conference to only have three ranked teams. Probably a better question would be how could the coaches have previously droped some of the Big 12 teams out of the top 25 when they had 5 or 6 ranked earlier in the season and their only losses since then have come against each other. Doesn't happen in the Pac-10. |
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Post by 2c on Nov 21, 2005 19:14:04 GMT -5
How does K-State lose 3 of their last 5 matches, including losses to 2 teams ranked below them, and climb from 31 to 25 in the AVCA. Makes no sense. They went from 5 votes to 37 votes beating #25 ranked team and taking a game of the #1 team... not too surprising. 37 points seems like a VERY low amount for a #25 team. Anybody want to volunteer to research what the lowest #25 point total has been this year or ever? |
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Post by blob on Nov 21, 2005 20:10:48 GMT -5
K-State has losses to unranked Kansas & Texas A&M in the last couple of weeks. I can understand not moving a team DOWN because they lost to Nebraska, but moving them into the top 25 after their recent poor showing against unranked teams makes no sense. Again, you lose 3 of your last 5 games, including 2 against unranked teams and you GO UP 6 SPOTS?  You don't move teams UP that are losing. |
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Post by GatorVball on Nov 21, 2005 20:16:02 GMT -5
voters have short term memory. They only look at what happened lately. All they saw was KState beating Colorado and taking a game off Nebraska. Coupled with 2 ranked teams losing(CU and Tennessee), they decided to rank them. Personally, I think UCSB should be ranked, but in the end, it really means nothing.
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Post by vbfanatic on Nov 21, 2005 21:46:24 GMT -5
To be honest there should probably be 5 or 6 teams from the Big 12 ranked in the top 25. A&M is playing well right now and could be and is better than some of the teams that are ranked. The Big 12 does not get the cupcake matches that BYU and LBSU do to pad their records. There are no teams like Air Force, Wyoming, New Mexico in the case of BYU or UC Davis or Cal State Riverside or Fullerton in the Big 12 so they are penalized for beating each other. We'll see come tournament time. By the way, who has Wichita State beaten to ranked 22 or 23rd. There are no other teams in the Missouri Valley even close to being ranked but I guess when naive voters look at someone who has a 25-2 record they figure "they must be top 25" As was said in an earlier post it doesn't really matter anyways.
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Post by OverAndUnder on Nov 22, 2005 9:08:42 GMT -5
A&M stumbled midseason, which is when the voters' opinions settle into weekly regurgitation.
The AVCA will not forgive TAMU enough for them to make the poll, but it doesn't matter, because the NCAA Selection Committee will.
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