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LSU Basketball Moves Further Up in National Polls, #11 & #12
The Tigers piled on two more wins last week and continued their hot streak in the SEC. Now, LSU has won 13 straight conference games, 10 straight overall and for the 3rd week in a row, rise in the national ranks. The Tigers find themselves at #11 in today’s ESPN/USA Today poll and #12 in the AP poll. See the new polls here.
Some quick poll-analysis: the only teams with higher winning percentages than LSU are UCONN, UNC, Memphis, Pitt, and Oklahoma. The top 10 in both polls are almost identical, however, the 11-20 ranks of both polls involve the same teams, but the order is comparably different. For example, Villanova is #11 in the AP and #16 in the ESPN/USA Today. (more after the jump…)
All that doesn’t really matter, just something I noticed.
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LSU Basketball in Top 25 of Both Polls
The first achievement of this year’s LSU team has been met as the Tigers finally landed a spot in both polls’ top 25. #23 in the AP’s and #24 in the ESPN/USA Today poll.
LSU sits atop the SEC at 9-1 and are 21-4 overall. After wins over Miss. State and Ole Miss last week, LSU has won 9 straight SEC games, including 4 on the road. The only teams ranked higher nationally than LSU in each poll with a better winning percentage at this point are UCONN, Oklahoma, UNC, Pitt, Memphis, Missouri, and Butler. Also at 21-4 are Marquette and Xavier. Xavier beat LSU by 10 in Baton Rouge back on Jan. 24.
So much has been said to date about the SEC being down this year. I’m not really sure how you judge something like that. The Pac-10 has three teams in the ESPN top 20, what makes them better than the SEC this year? They are beating up on each other, same as in the SEC. No Pac-10 team has less than 3 conference losses. Also, Tennessee has the 3rd best RPI in the nation……. On the flip side, LSU’s out of conference schedule is probably pretty weak compared to other top teams. Same may go for other SEC teams. So who knows….
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LSU 18th in BCS, AP, and Coaches Polls
Following a miserable showing Saturday night, the Tigers actually moved up to 18th in all the major polls after North Carolina and Florida State, both ranked ahead of LSU, lost. The CollegeFootballNews Poll that I often reference, actually dropped LSU all the way out of the top 25 and have the Tigers sitting at 28th.
I’d probably have the Tigers somewhere in the 20-21 range. Ole Miss (6-4) comes to town next weekend for a 3:30 ET kickoff. The Tigers better have their shit together as Ole Miss will be coming in sky high after a 59-0 dick whipping of UL-Monroe. LSU has opened as a 5 1/2 point favorite.
LSU drops to 13,14 in AP and Coaches Polls
The polls are a funny thing. LSU dropped to 13th in the AP and 14th in Coaches this week after getting raped by Florida in the swamp. I cant totally fault the pollsters for dropping us that far after getting pounded by 30, however, we find ourselves behind teams like BYU, Missouri, Utah, Ohio State, and even Georgia. Are we really worse than those guys?
What are the polls really saying? Are they ranking how good a team really is? Does an undefeated record automatically put you ahead of someone with a loss? Sure, Florida slapped us around, but I’d bet my favorite testicle that we’d take BYU, Utah, or Ohio State….all of whom are ranked ahead of us. Not to mention that Florida might just be the best team in the country. One of the better polls around is the one found at CollegeFooballNews where they rank the teams….now this is a crazy concept….on how good the teams actually are! If you take a look, the Tigers only fell to 7th.
I’d love to chat with a pollster to see what he/she is actually looking for when ranking a team. I know the record is a major factor, but the talent on the team and the schedule should count equally as much.
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