Official Top 25 Poll Watch

[GoShockers89]

14th in the Coaches Poll. Creighton is 24th.

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/rankings

[Shox151]

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/mensbasketball/usatpoll.htm

[SubGod22]

Nice to see us both ranked. Could make for more publicity should we bot make the title game.

[AZ Shocker]

#15 - Sounds about right! Lotta love for the 2 Florida schools and Notre Dame. Goodness...9 losses and still #20 in the poll.

[GoShockers89]

I'm thinking we can put to bed the shrill shouts of "No Respect" for a week. #14 (2 votes behind Florida) and #15 is tremendous.

And I LOVE having Creighton ranked. We are light years better than them at the moment. Spanking a ranked team on Sunday will only help fuel our hype machine.

[ABC]

This probably deserves a new thread.

This is the first time since Feb 8 1983 when two MVC teams were ranked at the same time.

Feb 8, 1983, AP poll
Ill State #17
WSU #16

[Jamar Howard 4 President]

#15 - Sounds about right! Lotta love for the 2 Florida schools and Notre Dame. Goodness...9 losses and still #20 in the poll.

Notre Dame has beaten UConn, Marquette, and West Virginia twice... IN JUST THE LAST MONTH. With wins over South Florida, Syracuse, and Louisville prior to that, I'd say #20 is fair.

[GoShockers89]

This probably deserves a new thread.

This is the first time since Feb 8 1983 when two MVC teams were ranked at the same time.

Feb 8, 1983, AP poll
Ill State #17
WSU #16

Really makes you appreciate the rarified air we're breathing right now. We've been ranked better than 14 in one poll in the last thirty years. Two Valley teams are ranked- at just the right time, in February/March.

Really, really special. And we're not close to being done yet.

[Ixiah]

Only two votes seperates WSU and Florida. Florida also has two tough games coming up - at Vandy and Kentucky.

[The Mad Hatter]

Notre Dame has beaten UConn, Marquette, and West Virginia twice... IN JUST THE LAST MONTH. With wins over South Florida, Syracuse, and Louisville prior to that, I'd say #20 is fair.

I'm not sure why you would consider the UConn or West Virginia wins to be meaningful. UConn has lost 8 of their last 11. West Virginia has 7 of their last 9. Beating those two teams recently is what nearly everyone is doing. The other wins are legit (even with Syracuse missing Fab Melo), but I'm not sure why you would use those three games as a big part of the case for being ranked.

[AZ Shocker]

I'm just happy I finally get update my signature!

[Jamar Howard 4 President]

I'm not sure why you would consider the UConn or West Virginia wins to be meaningful. UConn has lost 8 of their last 11. West Virginia has 7 of their last 9. Beating those two teams recently is what nearly everyone is doing. The other wins are legit (even with Syracuse missing Fab Melo), but I'm not sure why you would use those three games as a big part of the case for being ranked.

Notre Dame won @ UConn, the same place that Syracuse almost lost at on Saturday night. UConn hasn't lost to anyone outside the top 100 during their recent slide. UConn isn't top 25 material right now, but I can guarantee you that WSU fans would be listing them as a "quality win" (rightfully so) if the Shockers had a win over them in the last month. We aren't talking about being ranked #1 in the country. We are talking about Notre Dame being ranked #20. Beating UConn is indeed relevent when discussing Notre Dame's recent success, especially since Notre Dame won @ UConn.

West Virginia is a similar story. Beating them isn't a huge story, but win a bunch of games like that back-to-back-to-back and suddenly you have something worth talking about.

[shocker2012]

Even beyond thinking about if WSU and Creighton both make the finals on Sunday and we beat them (which would obviously be great for us), I think its awesome to have two ranked teams in the MVC period. 1983 is a heck of a long time to go without two MVC teams in the top 25. So honestly woo hoo!!! WSU especially but also true congratulations to Creighton as well. Its something that is great for the conference as a whole and I hope it helps with publicity for the tournament this weekend.

[MadaboutWu]

I know we would have liked a third team to have some separation and have at large potential, but the two teams separating so completely has worked out pretty well too. I think we are looking at a 3-5 seed and CU at a 5-7 seed. We both could do some damage in the dance.

[DUShock]

ESPN doesn't have it on their website yet, but here's today's AP Poll. WSU at #15 and Creighton at #25:

http://www.kwtx.com/_254sports/headl...140585343.html

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