Mon
Dec 4 2006
08:27 pm
A Really Silly System
By: cafkia

I know it isn't important but this is just illogical enough to really irritate the shit out of me. The Lady Vols were ranked #4 and were playing the #2 ranked team. Which team would you expect to win? Well, if the rankings mean anything, you would expect the more highly ranked team to win. So why does losing to a more highly ranked team always, ALWAYS mean a reduction in ranking? I mean, I get that you don't want to punish teams that don't lose but somehow, this just seems screwed up to me.

CAFKIA

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jah's picture

I agree

Submitted by jah on Mon, 2006/12/04 - 10:14pm.

That has always bugged the hell out of me. It just doesn't seem to make sense.

Does anybody have a reason that makes sense?

Andy Axel's picture

B.I.A.S.

Submitted by Andy Axel on Mon, 2006/12/04 - 10:23pm.

Welcome to the wacky world of the AP Top 25 Poll.

Sports reporters tend to either cluster around the heroine, or alternatively, to do their best to kick her.

It's a love-hate thing with Summitt. That's my guess. Her recruiting looks bulletproof this year, so the AP denizens are slagging her.

Being a long-time Kansas fan, I've seen this borne out with Roy Williams. His stock would fall if he had a pre-conference quality win at the helm of the Jayhawks, but heaven forfend anyone utter a negative word about the job he's doing at UNC-Chapel Hill.

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Bbeanster's picture

It was a very ugly game

Submitted by Bbeanster on Tue, 2006/12/05 - 9:18am.

and the LVs looked like Candace and the Seven Dwarfs, so Tennessee is being punished. Pat Summitt has scheduled 11 of the top 25 teams in the country, not counting Georgia, LSU and Candy (SEC conference games), and is always searching out ways to expose her team's early-season weaknesses, on the theory that today's pain will bring rewards in March. Other coaches don't do that so much (except maybe those out of conference foes who schedule Tennessee), so their weaknesses don't stand out quite so much.

Usually, Tennessee climbs back into the top four by Selection Sunday, and even when they don't, their RPI/SOS make them worthy of a #1 seed. Occasionally, like last season, that doesn't happen. At those times, Summitt undergoes a lot of criticism, and sometimes even questions her own "Whatever doesn't kill me makes me strong" scheduling philosophy.

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