I'm mildly surprised, but AP poll voters did not succumb to inertia this week, and our Devils have leapfrogged Kansas to take the #1 spot in the latest rankings. Duke received 48 out of 65 first-place votes.
Duke jumps Kansas for top spot in AP Top 25 men's hoops after Kentucky blowout, passing UCLA for most all-time No. 1s:
https://collegebasketball.ap.org/art...-ucla-most-all
It’s pretty rare that a #1 team drops out of the top spot without losing. Even more rare when the beat a top 10 team and still get bumped. Just goes to show how impressive our win was. I was kind of wondering if Kentucky’s less-than-impressive showing in their next game would cast some doubts in the minds of voters, but it looks like they are all aboard the Duke hype train!
This also works out great for ESPN, they can paint us as the heavily favored juggernaut and then when we inevitably lose a game they’ll call it a shocking upset.
AP Top 25
Others receiving votes: West Virginia 145, Indiana 131, Nebraska 41, Wisconsin 32, Washington 29, Maryland 28, Notre Dame 24, Miami 16, Ohio St. 14, Alabama 11, IowaSt. 9, Florida 9, Louisville 8, Texas 6, Texas Tech 5, Arizona St 4, Butler 4, Vanderbilt 4, Loyola of Chicago 3, Arizona 2, St. John's 2, Marshall 2, Xavier 2, Penn 1, Furman 1, Davidson 1, S Illinois 1.
RANK SCHOOL RECORD POINTS PREVIOUS 1 Duke (48) 2-0 1,606 4 2 Kansas (14) 1-0 1,571 1 3 Gonzaga 2-0 1,478 3 4 Virginia (2) 2-0 1,326 5 5 Tennessee (1) 2-0 1,306 6 6 Nevada 2-0 1,277 7 7 North Carolina 2-0 1,260 8 8 Villanova 2-0 1,139 9 9 Auburn 2-0 1,132 11 10 Kentucky 1-1 1,054 2 11 Michigan State 1-1 919 11 12 Kansas State 1-0 892 12 13 Oregon 2-0 739 14 14 Florida State 2-0 731 17 15 Syracuse 2-0 673 16 16 Virginia Tech 1-0 664 15 17 Mississippi State 2-0 549 18 18 Michigan 2-0 486 19 19 Clemson 2-0 350 22 20 UCLA 2-0 340 21 21 TCU 2-0 323 20 22 LSU 2-0 248 23 23 Purdue 2-0 218 24 24 Marquette 2-0 155 — 25 Buffalo 2-0 154 —
So that's 6 ACC Schools and UNCheat ranked with ND, Miami, Lou getting votes. It's going to be an interesting year.
Who is voting Tennessee for #1? Really?
Just the fourth time a #1 team has dropped without losing.
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Awesome stat, thanks for finding that. Interesting that all three scenarios involved the preseason #1 dropping after the first week. The tweet doesn’t really clarify whether it has ever happened DURING the season, but the implication is that it has not. Also interesting that’s kentucky had its hands in all three of those other cases too.
Kansas is lucky they got dropped this week because tonight the vicious Vermont Catamounts invade Allen Fieldhouse and there are going to be Jayhawk feathers everywhere. Cleanup on aisle six!
Reasonably good doubleheader tonight, Stanford at unc-holeville, then the Catamounts have at it. *
*OK, so actually it's not one of Vermont's better teams, but still...
It's John Feinstein( @JFeinsteinBooks ) from the Washington Post. He also has us at #3. Only one other voter had us ranked this low, Lauren Brownlow of WRAL durham.
https://collegepolltracker.com/basketball/
Incidentally, Duke Vitale is one of the 14 voters who kept Kansas at #1. Just click on a team to see who voted for them and the rankings assigned by each voter. Although the polls are pretty meaningless during this time of the year, I like this site.
Thanks.
Never heard of Brownlow, but Google informs me that she is a UNC grad:
https://www.wralsportsfan.com/rs/bio/13882579/
She also has UVA #1, UNC#5 and FSU#10.
Feinstein is, well, Feinstein.
I wouldn't keep Kansas #1 but don't have a problem with those who did.
I like her and Joe Ovies, they are fun and informative, especially in their ACC Panic Room videos. Brownlow also does the Sad Panther Fan, which is a humorous (and not always sad) continuing look at the Panther's season.
She voted UVA as her #1, which is rather bizarre.
https://collegepolltracker.com/baske...ow/2018/week-2
Congrats to Wojo for getting Marquette into the top 25 this week, too!
Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."
She also does preview articles for ACC league contests in both football and basketball that are quite well known for her use of humorous GIFs. Despite my extremely bland description, they are freaking hilarious. Highly recommend.
Once league play gets up and running, I'll try to remember and link one. You might even be able to find a football one right now if you're so inclined.
^ he's also bitter about some stuff, not even worth rehashing.
actually, duke isn't even 1st in the acc
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