College Basketball
Duke No. 1 again, NC State makes jump in poll
Published: 2013-01-07 13:05:00
Updated: 2013-01-07 17:27:12
Jan 7, 2013
Unbeaten Duke claimed the top spot in The Associated Press college basketball poll for the fourth straight week after an 80-62 win over Wake Forest in their ACC opener Saturday.
Duke received 62 first-place votes in the latest poll, with Michigan getting the other three and holding down the No. 2 spot.
Louisville jumped unbeaten Arizona to claim the No. 3 spot. The rest of the top 10 are Indiana, Kansas, Syracuse, Minnesota, Gonzaga and Missouri.
AP men's college basketball poll
North Carolina State jumped three spots in the latest poll to No. 20 after a 2-0 week that included wins over UNC-Greensboro and Boston College. Despite the close call in the Wolfpack's conference opener, a 12-2 record and a 2-0 week was enough to move them ahead of Cincinnati and Michigan State - each of whom suffered losses last week.
North Carolina is unranked in the latest poll, but despite losing their conference opener to Virginia, received four votes in the AP poll.
In addition to UNC, Maryland is also receiving votes with 29.
The ACC has just two teams in the top 25 of the latest poll while the Big Ten leads the way with six. The Big East holds five spots followed by the Mountain West with three. Tied with the ACC in Top-25 placeholders are the Missouri Valley Conference, the SEC and the Big 12. Arizona is the lone member ranked out of the PAC 12.
Wyoming is the lone Division I team in the nation without a loss to still be unranked.
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RE: Duke No. 1 again, NC State makes jump in poll
How could Carolina get four votes? Do they even have a real team this, year I thought the group they have on the floor is a bunch of walk-on's because due to NCAA sanctions they had to sit their real players and have lost scholarships?
Oh that's right they just play like a bunch of scrubs and are just being coached up to provide the performance we saw last night.
- Posted by labmonkey69
The same reason they are ALWAYS overrated in the preseason. Someone is unable to let go of the misconception that Carolina is a good team this year.
They have too much talent (even if they aren't playing together very well). They are going to get credit just for that. Someone out there must think they still have potential and just can't let it go. Plus, they're still getting some credit for beating UNLV probably.
This is irritating. State loses to #3 Michigan on their own floor in a very respectable, hard-fought game, and drops about eight spots. We win 9-10 in a row, and have only clawed our way back to #20 in the polls. But watch how far we tumble if and when we lose again.
Always?
lol, well not always
RE: Duke No. 1 again, NC State makes jump in poll
beat gatech and duke, the Pack will be top 10, legitimately
- Posted by duane11
Please don't mention Ga Tech and Duke in the same sentence......ever
I get what you're saying. But I think the point was that State cannot afford to lose to either of those next two teams on our schedule if we want to keep climbing in the polls -- ESPECIALLY GT. We could absorb a reasonable loss to the #1 team in the nation probably. But we wouldn't CLIMB in the polls if we did.
Sorry, I hadn't looked at the schedule when the comment was made. I get it now.
that is exactly what i was saying..2 wins this week would make a 10 game winning streak for NCSU, with the last loss to(next in line #1)michigan by 7...it would also put NCSU at 14-2,3-0...that
should get them close to top 10, if not in...not that it matters, b/c #6 was too high, and where they have been more recently has been too low...the osu debacle was in the 4th game of the season, and osu just now dropped out of the top 25 after losing to top 25 gonzaga and ksu by a combined 8 pts...its one blemish, early on, to a team that will be in the tourney
RE: Duke No. 1 again, NC State makes jump in poll
Did anyone who had anything to say about the poll see the State-BC game? How can you justify the Pack jumping in the polls after their performance? They should have lost this one.
As the old saying goes: If, if's and buts were candy and nuts everyday would be Christmas. Should of , could of ,but didn't. W means W in this sport. You are right, is was not pretty , but the end result is the win. Simple.
- Posted by jacamoe
And the "shoulda lost" part is very debatable -- BC was lucky to even keep it close... the right team won.
Keep on with those sour grapes -- make JGunn some "whine" with it!
RE: Duke No. 1 again, NC State makes jump in poll
Did anyone who had anything to say about the poll see the State-BC game? How can you justify the Pack jumping in the polls after their performance? They should have lost this one.
As the old saying goes: If, if's and buts were candy and nuts everyday would be Christmas. Should of , could of ,but didn't. W means W in this sport. You are right, is was not pretty , but the end result is the win. Simple.
- Posted by jacamoe
Coulda/Woulda/Shoulda.
DIDN'T!
RE: Duke No. 1 again, NC State makes jump in poll
Love the sour grapes -- they sure do make some good whine!
- Posted by TruthBKnown Returned
Well, if they make some red
wine, I'm good with it:)
Seriously, congrats to Duke and State.
As for the comment that State should drop in the rankings, I've seen it happen where teams win playing a bad team and they drop in the poll anyway. I think that may have something to do with how the other ranked teams fared that week. At any rate, that didn't happen to State, so it isn't an issue. Now back to those grapes:)
It's all good with some wine, isn't it, JG? :)
Sometimes teams drop even after a win. I think Carolina actually did that this year, didn't they? Can't remember which team they had just played. But you're probably right -- maybe it had more to do with what the other teams in the poll had done that week.
TBK, I hope California had a banner year pumping out that Pinot Noir, because with the way my Heels are playing, I'm gonna need it!!!:)
And I think Carolina did drop in the polls this season after beating a bad team. That may have been because they lost another game in the same week. Who knows, and like you said, the polls will take care of themselves.
Haha! Don't let the Heels turn you into a raging wino, JG!
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