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1. Kentucky (46)
2. Ohio State (17)
3. Duke (2)
4. Syracuse
5. North Carolina
6. Louisville
7. Baylor
8. Uconn
9. Wisconsin
10.Florida
11.Xavier
12.Alabama
13.Missouri
14.Michigan
15.Kansas
16.Marquette
17.Pittsburgh
18.UNLV
19.Gonzaga
20.Vandy
21.Mississippi State.
22.Memphis
23.St. Louis
24.California
25.Texas A&M

Not a unanimous number one, but ill take it.

Yay! Just seen this on ESPN...

Apparently, there's quite a few people that still aren't convinced of our awesomeness.

^I like that it is not unanimous. Cal can use it as motivation. Hard to get motivated to play a team when you are unanimously considered the best team by everyone in the country. Players tend to think they can "just show up and win" when that happens.

RunItUpTheGut Wrote:Not a unanimous number one, but ill take it.

This is the first week all season the AP voters have given UK any #1 votes. Haters gotta hate.

Others receiving votes Creighton 104, Harvard 101, Michigan State 84, San Diego State 66, Georgetown 46, Florida State 24, Arizona 15, Illinois 13, Washington 12, Cleveland State 11, Purdue 6, Marshall 5, Stanford 3, Villanova 2, Virginia Tech 1, Northwestern 1, Cincinnati 1

Dropped from rankings Florida State 22, Arizona 23

LWC Wrote:^I like that it is not unanimous. Cal can use it as motivation. Hard to get motivated to play a team when you are unanimously considered the best team by everyone in the country. Players tend to think they can "just show up and win" when that happens.

I agree 100%. Kind of relates to me wanting us to lose at least once this season...just so we get the nasty taste of it and work hard to never taste it again.

RunItUpTheGut Wrote:1. Kentucky (46)
2. Ohio State (17)
3. Duke (2)
4. Syracuse
5. North Carolina
6. Louisville
7. Baylor
8. Uconn
9. Wisconsin
10.Florida
11.Xavier
12.Alabama
13.Missouri
14.Michigan
15.Kansas
16.Marquette
17.Pittsburgh
18.UNLV
19.Gonzaga
20.Vandy
21.Mississippi State.
22.Memphis
23.St. Louis
24.California
25.Texas A&M

Looks like there's plenty of heavy drinkers/stoners with a vote
amongst the pollsters(or heaven forbid as some have pointed out
a huge anti-UK bias). 17 1st place votes for the Buckeyes? GIMME
A BREAK. And what team are these clowns wathcing, that are voting
the Pukies #3(#1 votes should qualify for involuntary institutionalization)

Looks good to me

[HTML]AP Top 25
RK TEAM RECORD PTS
1 Kentucky (46) 6-0 1,599
2 Ohio State (17) 6-0 1,564
3 Duke (2) 7-0 1,465
4 Syracuse 6-0 1,439
5 North Carolina 5-1 1,337
6 Louisville 5-0 1,259
7 Baylor 5-0 1,183
8 Connecticut 6-1 1,055
9 Wisconsin 6-0 1,045
10 Florida 4-1 1,040
11 Xavier 4-0 982
12 Alabama 7-0 912
13 Missouri 6-0 746
14 Michigan 5-1 681
15 Kansas 3-2 676
16 Marquette 5-0 637
17 Pittsburgh 5-1 537
18 UNLV 7-0 535
19 Gonzaga 4-0 525
20 Vanderbilt 5-1 482
21 Mississippi State 7-1 277
22 Memphis 2-2 269
23 Saint Louis 6-0 149
24 California 5-1 121
25 Texas A&M 4-1 115[/HTML]

[HTML]ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll
RK TEAM RECORD PTS
1 Kentucky (22) 6-0 765
2 Ohio State (8) 6-0 748
3 Syracuse (1) 6-0 701
4 Duke 7-0 691
5 North Carolina 5-1 628
6 Louisville 5-0 620
7 Wisconsin 6-0 530
8 Baylor 5-0 509
9 Florida 4-1 493
10 Connecticut 6-1 456
11 Xavier 4-0 447
12 Alabama 7-0 443
13 Missouri 6-0 356
14 Kansas 3-2 342
15 Michigan 5-1 310
16 Marquette 5-0 309
17 Pittsburgh 5-1 287
18 Gonzaga 4-0 248
19 Vanderbilt 5-1 200
20 UNLV 7-0 186
21 Memphis 2-2 145
22 Creighton 5-0 104
23 California 5-1 98
24 Mississippi State 7-1 86
25 Saint Louis 6-0 78[/HTML]

RK TEAM RECORD PTS PREV

1 Kentucky (22) 6-0 765 2
Last Week: Def Radford 88-40 (11/23), Def Portland 87-63 (11/26)
This Week: 12/1 vs. St. John's (4-3), 12/3 vs. No. 5 North Carolina (5-1) Tickets

2 Ohio State (8) 6-0 748 3
Last Week: Def North Florida 85-50 (11/21), Def Virginia Military 107-74 (11/23), Def Valparaiso 80-47 (11/25)
This Week: 11/29 vs. No. 4 Duke (7-0), 12/3 vs. Texas-Pan American (2-5) Tickets

3 Syracuse (1) 6-0 701 5
Last Week: Def Virginia Tech 69-58 (11/23), Def Stanford 69-63 (11/25)
This Week: 11/29 vs. Eastern Michigan (4-2), 12/2 vs. No. 9 Florida (4-1) Tickets

4 Duke 7-0 691 6
Last Week: Def Tennessee 77-67 (11/21), Def No. 15 Michigan 82-75 (11/22), Def No. 14 Kansas 68-61 (11/23)
This Week: 11/29 at No. 2 Ohio State (6-0) Tickets

5 North Carolina 5-1 628 1
Last Week: Def Tennessee State 102-69 (11/22), Def South Carolina 87-62 (11/25), Lost to UNLV 90-80 (11/26)
This Week: 11/30 vs. No. 7 Wisconsin (6-0), 12/3 at No. 1 Kentucky (6-0) Tickets

6 Louisville 5-0 620 7
Last Week: Def Arkansas State 54-27 (11/22), Def Ohio 59-54 (11/25)
This Week: 11/28 vs. Long Beach State (3-2), 12/2 vs. No. 19 Vanderbilt (5-1) Tickets

7 Wisconsin 6-0 530 11
Last Week: Def UMKC 77-31 (11/22), Def Bradley 66-43 (11/25), Def Brigham Young 73-56 (11/26)
This Week: 11/30 at No. 5 North Carolina (5-1), 12/3 vs. No. 16 Marquette (5-0) Tickets

8 Baylor 5-0 509 10
Last Week: Def South Carolina State 70-50 (11/22), Def Texas-Arlington 75-65 (11/23)
This Week: 11/29 vs. Prairie View A&M (2-5), 12/4 at Northwestern (5-0) Tickets

9 Florida 4-1 493 9
Last Week: Def Wright State 78-65 (11/21), Def Jacksonville 107-62 (11/25)
This Week: 11/28 vs. Stetson (3-2), 12/2 at No. 3 Syracuse (6-0) Tickets

10 Connecticut 6-1 456 4
Last Week: Def North Carolina-Asheville 73-63 (11/24), Lost to UCF 68-63 (11/25), Def No. 20 Florida State 78-76 (11/26)
This Week: 12/3 vs. Arkansas (4-1) Tickets

11 Xavier 4-0 447 12
Last Week: Def Georgia 70-56 (11/25)
This Week: 11/28 at No. 19 Vanderbilt (5-1), 12/3 vs. Purdue (6-1) Tickets

12 Alabama 7-0 443 13
Last Week: Def Alabama A&M 82-45 (11/23), Def Virginia Commonwealth 72-64 (11/27)
This Week: 12/1 vs. Georgetown (4-1) Tickets

13 Missouri 6-0 356 21
Last Week: Def Notre Dame 87-58 (11/21), Def No. 18 California 92-53 (11/22), Def Binghamton 88-59 (11/27)
This Week: 12/2 vs. Northwestern State (3-3) Tickets

14 Kansas 3-2 342 14
Last Week: Def Georgetown 67-63 (11/21), Def UCLA 72-56 (11/22), Lost to No. 6 Duke 68-61 (11/23)
This Week: 11/30 vs. Florida Atlantic (3-4), 12/3 vs. South Florida (5-2) Tickets

15 Michigan 5-1 310 15
Last Week: Def No. 8 Memphis 73-61 (11/21), Lost to No. 6 Duke 82-75 (11/22), Def UCLA 79-63 (11/23)
This Week: 11/29 at Virginia (5-1), 12/3 vs. Iowa State (5-1) Tickets

16 Marquette 5-0 309 17
Last Week: Def Norfolk State 59-57 (11/21)
This Week: 11/28 vs. Jacksonville (2-3), 12/3 at No. 7 Wisconsin (6-0) Tickets

17 Pittsburgh 5-1 287 16
Last Week: Def La Salle 73-69 (11/22), Def Pennsylvania 78-58 (11/25), Def Robert Morris 81-71 (11/27)
This Week: 11/30 at Duquesne (4-2), 12/3 at Tennessee (3-2) Tickets

18 Gonzaga 4-0 248 19
Last Week: Def Western Michigan 78-58 (11/26)
This Week: 11/30 vs. Notre Dame (5-2), 12/3 at Illinois (6-0) Tickets

19 Vanderbilt 5-1 200 22
Last Week: Def Oregon State 64-62 (11/21), Def Monmouth 95-73 (11/25)
This Week: 11/28 vs. No. 11 Xavier (4-0), 12/2 at No. 6 Louisville (5-0) Tickets

20 UNLV 7-0 186 NR
Last Week: Def Cal Poly 75-52 (11/22), Def USC 66-55 (11/25), Def No. 1 North Carolina 90-80 (11/26)
This Week: 11/30 at UC Santa Barbara (4-1), 12/4 at Wichita State (3-2) Tickets

21 Memphis 2-2 145 8
Last Week: Lost to No. 15 Michigan 73-61 (11/21), Def Tennessee 99-97 (11/22), Lost to Georgetown 91-88 (11/23)
This Week: 11/28 vs. Jackson State (1-6), 12/3 vs. Austin Peay (0-7) Tickets

22 Creighton 5-0 104 25
Last Week: Def Campbell 104-81 (11/25)
This Week: 11/30 at San Diego State (7-1), 12/4 vs. Nebraska (4-1) Tickets

23 California 5-1 98 18
Last Week: Def Georgia 70-46 (11/21), Lost to No. 21 Missouri 92-53 (11/22), Def Denver 80-59 (11/26)
This Week: 11/28 vs. McNeese State (3-2), 12/4 at San Diego State (7-1) Tickets

24 Mississippi State 7-1 86 NR
Last Week: Def Louisiana-Monroe 78-63 (11/21), Def Tennessee-Martin 76-50 (11/25), Def North Texas 82-59 (11/27)
This Week: 12/3 vs. West Virginia (3-1) Tickets

25 Saint Louis 6-0 78 NR
Last Week: Def Boston College 62-51 (11/24), Def Villanova 80-68 (11/25), Def Oklahoma 83-63 (11/27)
This Week: 11/29 at Loyola Marymount (3-2), 12/3 vs. Portland (2-4) Tickets


Others receiving votes: Texas A&M 63, Harvard 61, Arizona 27, Florida State 25, Purdue 25, Northwestern 23, San Diego State 20, Cleveland State 12, Georgetown 8, Michigan State 8, Illinois 7, Indiana 3, Marshall 3, George Mason 3, Washington 3, Texas 2, Stanford 1, Cincinnati 1


Dropped from rankings: Florida State 20, Arizona 23, Texas A&M 24




http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketba...s/_/poll/2

I really don't think UNC should be ranked 5th though...

DSRfan Wrote:Looks like there's plenty of heavy drinkers/stoners with a vote
amongst the pollsters(or heaven forbid as some have pointed out
a huge anti-UK bias). 17 1st place votes for the Buckeyes? GIMME
A BREAK. And what team are these clowns watching, that are voting
the Pukies #3(#1 votes should qualify for involuntary institutionalization)

I'd probably still vote them #2 if I was being honest. If I had an
actual vote I'd probably vote them 3 cause I could get away with
it. And I'm suprised given the love affair that they dropped that
far.

I just hope UK don't let it get to their head and think they are world beaters and then end up getting knocked off.

#1 baby!

RunItUpTheGut Wrote:1. Kentucky (46)
2. Ohio State (17)
3. Duke (2)
4. Syracuse
5. North Carolina
6. Louisville
7. Baylor
8. Uconn
9. Wisconsin
10.Florida
11.Xavier
12.Alabama
13.Missouri
14.Michigan
15.Kansas
16.Marquette
17.Pittsburgh
18.UNLV
19.Gonzaga
20.Vandy
21.Mississippi State.
22.Memphis
23.St. Louis
24.California
25.Texas A&M

looks pretty solid to me! I would rearrange some but all in all looks about right. UK is worthy of the #1 right now

This will last maybe until the UNC game. I wish we could stay #1 after the 3rd but our level of physicality is at about a 0.7 and we're not going to beat UNC like that.

We will keep this #1 ranking the rest of the year.
Top 5 is pretty accurate. I really believe OSU is the second best team to us. Duke is not the 3rd best team, but they've beat good teams, and are undefeated. So you have to give that to them. Louisville is too high at 6. They're struggling against bad teams and will lose when they play any kind of competition.

Boy, does that #1 look good! But it scares the crap out of me too! Young team, #1? Could be potentially dangerous! I pray not though.. I believe this team is the team to keep the #1 and not let it get to their heads.

I would have posted the complete rankings off of ESPN or wherever like you did Dusty, but i cant get that to work when i try it.

Ifya do, keep the link with it. I like going to the site. I end up reading about college basketball for an hour. hahaha

When is the OSU / dUKe game?

I will say this..
I think UK deserves to be #1 right now..
I do think Duke has a good team and is being over-looked by a lot of people on here..
Not a Duke fan at all, but look at their schedule and look at the teams they have played so far and who they play during the rest of the year.. They have a pretty legit schedule IMO..

UK has played some good teams and some sad teams.. This Saturday will prove nothing to me win or lose.. So what is UNC beats us? They beat us last year and we returned the favor in the tourney..

OSU was ranked #1 overall a good part of last year and we sent them home as well..
With all of that said, UK does have a real chance of going undefeated on the season after this game, but you gotta be careful about those baby teams in the SEC.. They always seem to get us unexpectedly.

[quote=Ballers]I will say this..
I think UK deserves to be #1 right now..
I do think Duke has a good team and is being over-looked by a lot of people on here..
Not a Duke fan at all, but look at their schedule and look at the teams they have played so far and who they play during the rest of the year.. They have a pretty legit schedule IMO..

UK has played some good teams and some sad teams.. This Saturday will prove nothing to me win or lose.. So what is UNC beats us? They beat us last year and we returned the favor in the tourney..

OSU was ranked #1 overall a good part of last year and we sent them home as well..
With all of that said, UK does have a real chance of going undefeated on the season after this game, but you gotta be careful about those baby teams in the SEC.. They always seem to get us unexpectedly.[/QUOTE

Overlooked? A team with no front court, that has struggled against
weak teams, couldn't win 2 out of 3 against anyone else in the top 10,
yet is ranked 3rd and getting #1 votes is overlooked? Gimme a break.
K could go out and take the girls JV from some Lexington middle school,
and ESPN would still be fawning all over him, and some idiots would still
be voting him top 10. It's nauseating.

Quote:This will last maybe until the UNC game. I wish we could stay #1 after the 3rd but our level of physicality is at about a 0.7 and we're not going to beat UNC like that.

they will beat unc's ass all over rupp!

Great!!! Now maybe they can keep it for over a week this time.

#1 is nice now, I would rather see UK ranked #1 in April.

Jarons Wrote:#1 is nice now, I would rather see UK ranked #1 in April.

While I agree, the #1 spot doesn't mean anything to me with this team going into the tourney..
Yeah you get the best seed and so on but when you are the #1 team you are at risk every night.. Those teams have it out for you and you have a target on your back.. The nation wanting to see you fall.. Teams that just barely make it in, hungry to go one step further or just to upset a team like UK would be a milestone for them.. A scary thought when you think about it like that..

#1 ranking will probably change 8 times this year......doesn't really mean a whole lot to me as long as we are a number 1 seed come March...