This week's polls

[99topdawg]

AP Poll

1) Villanova (32)
2) Maryland (13)
3) Oklahoma (7)
4) Iowa (11)
5) Xavier
6) Kansas (1)
7) Virginia (1)
8) MSU
9) UNC
10) WVU
14) ISU

 

[DJL]

Double digit loss to a bad team and Oklahoma is still ahead of us? Okay I guess they have a better record but I think they should've dropped further. But whatever. Doesn't really matter.

 

[mopkins]

Iowa was only 1 vote behind oklahoma. So it's basically a tie.

 

[WindsorHawk]

I had Xavier and Virginia swapped. Otherwise, my top 5 and next 5 match the polls...was guessing at the order. I can't really argue with the rankings. A case can be made for all of those teams. But NC and MSU each getting a 1st place vote shouldn't have happened IMO.

 

[1977Hawkeye]

Indiana out (27th) FWIW.

11 #1 votes... Nice. I did expect OU to drop more than 2 spots, but whatever I guess.

 

[WindsorHawk]

Indiana out (27th) FWIW.

11 #1 votes... Nice.

I like the Coaches Poll better. They don't give Louisville and SMU votes since they aren't eligible for postseason play. It doesn't impact the top 10 but it does impact the bottom 10 to 15 teams. Drop those 2 ineligibles out of the AP and Indiana is 25th. They are 22nd in the Coaches Poll.

 

[1977Hawkeye]

I like the Coaches Poll better. They don't give Louisville and SMU votes since they aren't eligible for postseason play. It doesn't impact the top 10 but it does impact the bottom 10 to 15 teams. Drop those 2 ineligibles out of the AP and Indiana is 25th. They are 22nd in the Coaches Poll.

Good point - I forgot about that.

 

[mopkins]

Indiana is still 24th in KenPom, however they're 55th in RPI. Hopefully Iowa can pull off the win in Bloomington

 

[WindsorHawk]

Indiana will probably be a top 50 RPI team by going 3-4 down the stretch.

Iowa
@ MSU
NE
PU
@ IL
@ Iowa
MD

Just playing the 5 ranked teams will help. Beat 1 of them, NE and IL and they're probably in the top 50 RPI.