AP has Kansas back ahead of ISU lol

[VeloClone]

Pat Rooney put KU 4th and ISU 11th on his ballot.

Where each voter put ISU is right here:

Iowa State Cyclones Basketball at College Poll Tracker

collegepolltracker.com

You can click on the name and it will pull up their social media accounts. Make sure you hit the thumbs down for the truly terrible ballots.

 

[CycloneErik]

Games will sort it all out. Really hoping for Houston rematch for title in KC

I prefer a rematch on the biggest Monday of the season.

 

[cytor]

None of this matters. When the final poll comes out in April, they will have ISU #1.

 

[Cyforce]

lol ok thanks dad.

Anything's possible, but your mom preferred me to use an alternate entry point.

 

[drmwevr08]

Stacking wins fixes everything. It's even more fun when they had it wrong going in.

 

[alarson]

Games will sort it all out. Really hoping for Houston rematch for title in KC

I'm really not.

That game was brutal. People make the argument about teams who have to play in conference championship games being worn out by that (and the games before) for their first tourney games, but having Houston be that opponent is taking that up to 11. Of course if it happens I hope we win, but hoping Houston gets upset before that point.

 

[mikeiastat]

…but way worse losses. Those don’t count?

Unless it's a pattern no. Teams usually get forgiven for one or two outliers. It just so happens we played 9 games we would have had to try to lose. It's kinda meh

 

[Kinch]

Ahead of them? Many times. Ahead of all three at the same time? Probably never.

That’s what I meant. If that’s the case, that is big news for the program.

 

[bosco]

We all know what's going to happen. We are going to win out with a 14-4 record in the B12 end up 2nd in conference.

KU and Marquette will get the 2/3 in Omaha while they ship us to the East as a 2. Baylor gets Memphis as a 3. Their reasoning will be is they "rewarded" us with a 2 seed.

Insert sad failure sound.

 

[StLouisClone]

I think ISU would be ranked # 3 if we had beat Houston

 

[cyclones12321]

So dumb.

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Definitely not surprised but I definitely think we are better than ku and possibly better than Houston. I think we beat ku 6 times outta 10 and maybe 5-5 or 4-6 vs Houston

 

[Cupped]

Favored to win two this week with BYU at home and UCF on the road should further entrench us in the top 10 heading into the final regular season week, the Big 12 Tournament and beyond.

I really saw us filling the 9 spot, and 8 is WAY better than 9!

 

[CycloneErik]

Favored to win two this week with BYU at home and UCF on the road should further entrench us in the top 10 heading into the final regular season week, the Big 12 Tournament and beyond.

I really saw us filling the 9 spot, and 8 is WAY better than 9!

Oklahoma at home, but still a win.

 

[WalkingCY]

I'm ok with it. We have a head-to-head with them and better conference record, but they have better non-con wins. And it's a 1 point margin

I’m not alright with it. They have way worse losses.

 

[Letterkenny]

…but way worse losses. Those don’t count?

I don't know? Our losses to Virginia Tech and Texas A&M on a neutral sight were bad. They're both in the 50's on Kenpom. Their non-conference wins over UConn and Tennessee carry a lot of weight.

 

[CascadeClone]

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I see he finally made the switch from compuserve.

 

[ISUTex]

This time of year it seems the AP and Coaches polls start to become more like the college football playoff poll. Certain teams will be placed at certain spots to meet the needs of the networks, site locations, conference bias etc........

I think I'm going to stick more to Net, BPI and KenPom.

 

[WalkingCY]

I don't know? Our losses to Virginia Tech and Texas A&M on a neutral sight were bad. They're both in the 50's on Kenpom. Their non-conference wins over UConn and Tennessee carry a lot of weight.

ISU had Ward out though… significant.

KU got the doors blown off by Tech and they get a pass because McCuller was out…. Didn’t drop big time at all.

 

[CascadeClone]

Pat Rooney put KU 4th and ISU 11th on his ballot.

Where each voter put ISU is right here:

Iowa State Cyclones Basketball at College Poll Tracker

collegepolltracker.com

You can click on the name and it will pull up their social media accounts. Make sure you hit the thumbs down for the truly terrible ballots.

There's only 62 AP voters in the AP poll?? I would have thought it would be closer to 200.
And one of them is Leastikow...

FWIW, the 6 outliers on ISU all have Duke and UNC higher, that's the main difference I could see.

 

[awd4cy]

KU ahead of ISU doesn’t make sense to me. The people saying this doesn’t matter are right, but the committee will select using the same line of thinking as the AP voters do. Jersey name matters.