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I figured I would post my Big East power rankings that I submitted to the site this morning. The tallied vote will be posted tonight or tomorrow. I will be interested to see what happens with Xavier and Marquette most of all.

1 Creighton
2 Georgetown
3 Xavier
4 Marquette
5 Villanova
5 Providence
7 St Johns
8 Butler
9 Seton Hall
10 DePaul

Notes: I tried to base my rankings on what we've seen so far and not on my preseason expectations of these teams. Creighton moves up to #1 based on two lopsided wins and the best road victory so far for the Big East. Xavier vaults to #3 based on a win over Tennessee. Marquette drops to #4 after the embarrassing loss on Saturday and I wouldn't argue if someone had Villanova and Providence ahead of them also.

I wonder what the perception of St Johns is after Wisconsin barely escaped Green Bay

But they also beat #11 Florida

redmen9194 wrote:But they also beat #11 Florida

True! I forgot about that game

Admin, can you post a link to the place those rankings will be put together?
For some reason I can't find it, although I thought there was a thread about it before.
Thanks

paulxu wrote:Admin, can you post a link to the place those rankings will be put together?
For some reason I can't find it, although I thought there was a thread about it before.
Thanks

Here ya go. I might suggest copying and pasting into a new browser or bookmarking.
http://holylandofhoops.net/category/rankings/

Bulldog_Muskie wrote:I wonder what the perception of St Johns is after Wisconsin barely escaped Green Bay

They also beat #11 FLA so it's proven that Wisc is a good team this year. SJ is a very strange team. We are not Nova or G'Town. We don't have a lot of those nice neat 20 pt wins consistently over low tier competition. We will have many close calls. Some games the final score will be 69-66 just barely getting the W, and some games the score will be 72-57 but it's misleading because the opponent was within single digits with 2 min. to play. Then other games we will play right with Duke and give them a scare like in 2012. Or pound them like we did in 2011. Then we will lose to Northeastern. Then we will beat #17 Cincy, #20 Notre Dame, UConn, and come within a bucket of beating Marquette without 2 starters including our top defender and top scorer. This team is all over the place. They are not the kind of team you bet on to win easily against cupcakes, but against the big top 15 ish teams every so often we will shock one and it can be a sexy pick. We play our best as an underdog with zero expectations. Once we get good, we don't know what to do with the hype and the ranking i.e. 2011. Don't be shocked to see us lose to Bucknell then beat Cuse at MSG.

Lavinwood wrote:

Bulldog_Muskie wrote:I wonder what the perception of St Johns is after Wisconsin barely escaped Green Bay

They also beat #11 FLA so it's proven that Wisc is a good team this year. SJ is a very strange team. We are not Nova or G'Town. We don't have a lot of those nice neat 20 pt wins consistently over low tier competition. We will have many close calls. Some games the final score will be 69-66 just barely getting the W, and some games the score will be 72-57 but it's misleading because the opponent was within single digits with 2 min. to play. Then other games we will play right with Duke and give them a scare like in 2012. Or pound them like we did in 2011. Then we will lose to Northeastern. Then we will beat #17 Cincy, #20 Notre Dame, UConn, and come within a bucket of beating Marquette without 2 starters including our top defender and top scorer. This team is all over the place. They are not the kind of team you bet on to win easily against cupcakes, but against the big top 15 ish teams every so often we will shock one and it can be a sexy pick. We play our best as an underdog with zero expectations. Once we get good, we don't know what to do with the hype and the ranking i.e. 2011. Don't be shocked to see us lose to Bucknell then beat Cuse at MSG.

I know you've gotten used to that, but you're not describing this year's team. I think they'll be better than that.

My submission would be:

1. Creighton
2. Nova
3. Gtwn
4. Marq.
5. Xavier
6. SJU
7. Prov.
8. Butler
9. SHU
10. DePaul

Mine would be
1 Creighton
2 Georgetown
3 Villanova
4 Marquette
5 Xavier
6 Providence
7 St John's
8 Butler
9 Seton Hall
10 DePaul

Xavier is really close to Marquette to me.