adoraz wrote:Going to be a great week for the 3 currently ranked teams! Not so much due to big wins, but due to poor losses.
#4 Villanova (prediction- #2): W vs #17 Gonzaga & La Salle: This is tough. I could see them anywhere from #1-3. They'll definitely pass Kansas. I could still see Duke being #1 due to BC shooting lights out. Or MSU remain one spot ahead despite playing lesser competition. I'll say #2 even though I think they should be #1. Really 50-50 here.
#13 Xavier (prediction- #9): W vs Kent St & Colorado: I expect them to pass #12 Gonzaga, #9 Notre Dame, #2 Kansas, #5 Florida, maybe #7 Texas A&M. I could see #16 ASU passing them.
#19 Seton Hall (prediction- #15): W vs VCU: Should pass #17 Cincy, #15 UVA, #14 Minnesota, maybe #12 Gonzaga (pending outcome tonight), maybe #9 Notre Dame, maybe #5 Florida, maybe #2 Kansas. Don't think they'll be passed by anyone.
So, I thought we had a shot at 3 top 15 teams last week, but this week we should reach that! At worse I see 3 Top 16 teams.
Would be great to see Xavier in the top 10. Nova badly needs competition and SHU and Xavier should give them that this year.
I got pretty close last week, just Xavier and Duke (edit: I slipped up and called Nova Duke here lol, maybe good reason for that?) off by one spot. For tomorrow:
#1 Villanova (prediction- #1): W @ Temple. Will remain at #1.
#10 Xavier (prediction- #10): W vs ETSU. Close call but got the W. #3 WSU was the only team ahead of them to lose. Honestly, WSU's resume isn't worthy of a top 10 spot at the moment. They now have 2 losses, to Oklahoma and Notre Dame. They won @ Baylor and have a few wins vs decent teams. It's a good resume no doubt but not top 10 at the moment, if you look at their RPI it is 25 (below my Johnnies at #22). That said, I don't expect WSU to drop out of the top 10, so Xavier will remain at #10.
#15 Seton Hall (prediction- #21): W vs St. Peter's & L @ Rutgers. I know Stever in another thread made a post about how they could drop out since most the teams behind them won, but that's not how the polls work. Voters won't just knock them completely out for losing an away game, even if most the rest of the Top 25 doesn't lose. They only have 2 losses and a solid resume. Teams #18-#20 all lost so SHU shouldn't drop that much.
#26 Creighton (prediction- #26): W vs MES. Unfortunately for Creighton there wasn't much movement at the back of the polls this week. #22 Florida lost to Clemson and they should absolutely drop out since they now have 4 losses. Teams #18-#20 all lost (mostly acceptable losses) but probably not enough to get knocked out of the rankings (and same being true for #15 SHU of course lol). Oklahoma (#27) will be ranked and take Florida's spot.
So will be another solid week, with SHU losing some ground but not much else happening. I think that Creighton will make it into the rankings by BE play and we should have 4 teams ranked. Nova and Xavier should have no problem remaining ranked until beginning of January. SHU will get knocked out prior if they slip up again.