College Basketball Season 2024-2025

MHettel · Yesterday, 10:50 PM

Originally Posted by xubrew

Do you think what I'm saying is at all unfair or inaccurate?? You actually started off by furthering my point, and it was in response to me furthering XVille's point.

I mean damn!! Why are you so bent out of shape??

Just to be clear, I don't think the polls matter all that much, I don't think the voters spend much time at all following anyone that they don't play against or cover, I think it's almost silly to expect that they would, and I'm not the slightest bit bothered by any of that.

Actually what I think you are saying doesn’t matter. At the end of the day, polls are just opinions. That’s the reason college football eventually evolved to a playoff. Nobody wanted the winner to be declared via opinion!

But the reality is, in spite of who votes or how, the polls do a pretty damn good job of ranking the teams before any games are played.

You know XU had preseason votes last year, right? And we had some this year too. And I’m ok with BOTH of those assessments. But obviously the result from last year took us out of the discussion early. And we shall see if our performance from here on out is enough to get us into the top 25 discussion

**X-band '01** · Yesterday, 11:17 PM

It's starting to dawn on me that tonight's Gonzaga-San Diego State matchup is going to be the top Pac-12 rivalry in 2 years when that conference restarts. I wonder if that's really a good thing.

**xubrew** · Today, 12:17 AM

Originally Posted by Xville

My position is that for a school like Xavier it matters.

Yeah, I can see how it does. But it changes every week, and when it does change the previous week is completely obsolete. Later on, if X gets into the rankings (which I think they will) it won’t matter then that they weren’t ranked now. Almost no one is going to think “Damn, they should have been ranked sooner and it really set them back that they weren’t!” At the same time, if X were in this week’s rankings and then ended up falling out later on, then it wouldn’t matter to anyone that X used to be ranked. It would almost be like they had never been ranked at all. No one cared that Miami was in the top ten last year once they fell out and fell off the face of the earth.

Look, I was just trying to say that I didn’t think it was that big of a deal and that it wasn’t worth getting salty over. And I was agreeing with your assessment of how most is the voters probably haven’t even seen Xavier play yet. And while the polls do help drive interest in the sport, and I do think it’s kind of a big deal for programs that rarely have a spotlight on them to get into the rankings (FAU two years ago for instance), I also think that from Christmas on, it’s the weekly bracket projections that people flock to more than the weekly polls. By that point it’s like the November rankings never even happened.

**xubrew** · Today, 10:01 AM

On Friday, Nov 8th of this season, Kansas City beat Kansas Christian 124-36.

Then yesterday, that same Kansas City team did this.

https://kcroos.com/news/2024/11/18/m...n-over-calvary

They could have gone to the campus rec center and found a team of pick-up players that would have been more competitive than this...