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FIVE TEAMS IN THE BEST 20 CBB.
Memphis Tigers up a spot to No. 20 in AP Top 25. L'ville drops four spots to No. 11. Cincy down to No. 15. SMU up five spots to 18. UConn 19.

That's 1/4th of the 20 top teams in the nation.

Not bad. The nbe has 2 in the Top 25.

1. Florida (46)
2. Wichita St. (14)
3. Arizona (5)
4. Duke
5. Virginia
6. Villanova
7. Syracuse
8. Kansas
9. Wisconsin
10. San Diego St.
11. Louisville
12. Michigan
13. Creighton
14. North Carolina
15. Cincinnati
16. Iowa St.
17. Saint Louis
18. SMU
19. UConn
20. Memphis
21. New Mexico
22. Michigan St.
23. Oklahoma
24. Iowa
25. Kentucky

Others receiving votes: Texas 70, VCU 58, UCLA 45, Gonzaga 38, Stephen F. Austin 38, Kansas St. 19, Saint Joseph's 19, Ohio St. 17, Green Bay 13, Harvard 7, Arizona St. 5, UMass 5, Colorado 2, Pittsburgh 2, Xavier 2, NC Central 1, Oklahoma St. 1, Southern Miss. 1.

Who cares about the AAC? Isn't that the league everyone is trying to escape?

SWOLL wrote:FIVE TEAMS IN THE BEST 20 CBB.
Memphis Tigers up a spot to No. 20 in AP Top 25. L'ville drops four spots to No. 11. Cincy down to No. 15. SMU up five spots to 18. UConn 19.

That's 1/4th of the 20 top teams in the nation.

Not bad. The nbe has 2 in the Top 25.

1. Florida (46)
2. Wichita St. (14)
3. Arizona (5)
4. Duke
5. Virginia
6. Villanova
7. Syracuse
8. Kansas
9. Wisconsin
10. San Diego St.
11. Louisville
12. Michigan
13. Creighton
14. North Carolina
15. Cincinnati
16. Iowa St.
17. Saint Louis
18. SMU
19. UConn
20. Memphis
21. New Mexico
22. Michigan St.
23. Oklahoma
24. Iowa
25. Kentucky

Others receiving votes: Texas 70, VCU 58, UCLA 45, Gonzaga 38, Stephen F. Austin 38, Kansas St. 19, Saint Joseph's 19, Ohio St. 17, Green Bay 13, Harvard 7, Arizona St. 5, UMass 5, Colorado 2, Pittsburgh 2, Xavier 2, NC Central 1, Oklahoma St. 1, Southern Miss. 1.

Here are a few other #'s for you.

1 - as in # of months that your best team will still be an AAC hoops member. Don't get me started on how the others would bolt at the drop of a hat.
149 - RPI of your 6th best team. Let that sink in a moment. No BE team is below that mark. DePaul would be in at least 6th place in the AAC. So the top 5 teams basically start the year off 10-0 in league play. Yeah, that's a great league.
205 & 206 - the RPI of your 9th & 10th best teams. There are 8 other conferences in America, including the A10 and West Coast conference that cannot boast that ineptitude at the bottom of their league. Congrats.

Five great teams, five atrocious. Four great teams when you take out Louisville. Less when cincy and uconn leave. But will any of these teams have a high seed in the dance? Like a 3 seed? The rpis of the great teams is isn't as high as Nova or Creighton

GumbyDamnit! wrote:

SWOLL wrote:Here are a few other #'s for you.

1 - as in # of months that your best team will still be an AAC hoops member. Don't get me started on how the others would bolt at the drop of a hat.
149 - RPI of your 6th best team. Let that sink in a moment. No BE team is below that mark. DePaul would be in at least 6th place in the AAC. So the top 5 teams basically start the year off 10-0 in league play. Yeah, that's a great league.
205 & 206 - the RPI of your 9th & 10th best teams. There are 8 other conferences in America, including the A10 and West Coast conference that cannot boast that ineptitude at the bottom of their league. Congrats.

Just let that sink in. It's FIVE AAC TEAMS in the 20 BEST.

The nbe has 2 in the Top 25.

IMO, the nbe got fleeced when they gave all that $$$$$ up for name rights; only for the best 5/6 teams to go with the AAC. That brand is shining now, while the nbe seems to be declining fast.

I keep thinking about ARJEN FROM LEATHEL WEAPON 2, when he saw Riggs and Murtaugh blow up his Benz with the cash in it, and said:

"OUR MONEY!!!!!!!!!!"

<--- The Big Priest! LOLOLOL

The Top of the AAC will make the rest of the AAC better... just like the obe did for UCONN.

But rpi wise, only one top 25 team........

Should we play a game: Who do you think SWOLL is?

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adoraz11 wrote:But rpi wise, only one top 25 team........

This is the key point.

The polls are irrelevant. An anachronism. In a world of computers, opinion polls are just that. Opinions. But tournament teams are chosen based on accomplishments. As evidenced by actual data

Bill Marsh wrote:

adoraz11 wrote:But rpi wise, only one top 25 team........

This is the key point.

The polls are irrelevant. An anachronism. In a wolfed of computers, opinion polls are just that. Opinions. But tournament teams are chosen based on accomplishments. As evidenced by actual data

RPI they'll wind up with 3 after this week most likely. They're going to be a factor for sure. Next week, their tourney will be huge for them.

Ok, let's do this slowly:

1.) One conference is called the Big East, the other is the American Athletic Conference.
2.) The last place team in the Big East has had more games on national television than the first place team in the American.
3.) The Big East is stable and may expand. The American is losing it's top program and replacing it with Tulane and East Carolina.
4.) The Big East plays it's conference tournament at Madison Square Garden in New York City. No one cares where the American plays its tourney.
5.) Each school in the Big East makes $4 million dollars from basketball programing per year. Each team in the American makes $2 million for hoops and football.
6.) DePaul makes the same TV money as Louisville and UConn combined.
7.) The Big East has more top ten teams in RPI, has a better overall RPI, and will not have a team called Tulane in the league next season.

Really, is anyone going to say that the AAC is in a better position?