2/11 Rankings and Polls - CBS the eternal Gopher optimists have us at #19 (seriously)

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Pretty shocked no one commented on this. I was stunned. My prediction for today is that we are a top 5 vote getter among the teams that aren't ranked. I'm guessing Wisconsin is just outside the top 15. Which means if we can beat them this week it will be a nice win to hep get us back on track.
 

We do still have a RPI of 13, so its not super crazy.
 

After thinking about it for a while there were a lot of teams behind us in the rankings that also lost some games this week and a number of them were bad losses compared to the 2 we had this week. I wouldn't be real suprised if we are in or just out in either of the other 2 polls.
 

Finally, I read some sensible comments. FINALLY some Gophers fans pay attention to what else is going on around the country, that the Gophers are NOT the only team out there losing games a lot of fans think that they should be winning.

Granted CBS may have them ranked a little high still, but they're still better than a whole lotta teams out there.
 


#1nHkyCfbBsbDncSolarDebat said:
Finally, I read some sensible comments. FINALLY some Gophers fans pay attention to what else is going on around the country, that the Gophers are NOT the only team out there losing games a lot of fans think that they should be winning.

Granted CBS may have them ranked a little high still, but they're still better than a whole lotta teams out there.
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The biggest problem with being an actual Gopher fan is that we're not just looking at results. If you can look at only results, you'd see that while we've missed some opportunities for good wins (@Wisconsin, @Indiana, Michigan, @MSU), we really have only two bad losses (and one of those is countered by winning @Illinois- if we'd won at home and lost on the road, it'd be pretty close to par for the course).

However, Gopher fans have been understandable tainted by the last few years and see us struggling with teams like Iowa and panic and assume that we are in fact going to miss the tournament. If the tourney started today, we'd probably be about a 5-6 seed, would be my guess (maybe a 7? Not sure).

I think where we are right now, rankings wise, is about right in terms of how good we are actually are (20-30, depending on the poll). My assumption is that the attitude of fans, myself included, would be a lot different if we had our record but had mixed in a few bad losses early in the year with a few good wins, perhaps @Wisconsin and @MSU. But in terms of a resume, I think they're pretty equal.

Someone with more NCAA tournament selection experience (SS, perhaps?) would have to verify this, but would our resume look more or less impressive if we had lost to any two random non-conference opponents but had beaten Wisconsin and Michigan State? In-other-words, is a bad loss more harmful than a good win is helpful (or vice-versa)?
 

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