NCAA Basketball Rankings, AP Top 25 Poll: Cal, Stanford Return To Earth Over Holidays
After Stanford and Cal had difficult weeks, it's not surprising they are not getting any votes in this week's NCAA basketball rankings. We take a look at their respective weeks and the latest polls.
NCAA Basketball Rankings, AP Top 25 Poll: Cal, Stanford Return To Earth Over Holidays
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2010-2011 NCAA Basketball Rankings: Pac-10 Struggling In USA Today/Coaches Poll
The USA Today/Coaches poll was released for this week and as we saw in the earlier released AP Poll, the Bay Area schools are not exactly getting a ton of respect. Of course, when you go 1-2 in a given week it shouldn’t surprise folks to see your teams not get any votes and lose any votes they were actually getting before. Stanford and Cal started the season strong, but were quickly brought to earth when they stepped up their competition.
The Pac-10 as a whole is not getting a whole lot of respect at this point as Washington tumbled in the polls and Arizona is the only other school getting votes. Washington was up to No. 11 in the Coaches Poll entering a fairly brutal stretch of the schedule last week. After opening the Maui Invitational with little trouble from Virginia, the Huskies blew huge opportunities in back-to-back losses to No. 9 Kentucky and No. 2 Michigan State. Washington led UK by 1 at the half and led MSU by 10 at the half, but was unable to close the door in the second half.
The Arizona Wildcats actually gained two votes this week in spite of a loss late in the week. Arizona defeated Bethune Cookman and Santa Clara before dropping a tough one 87-79 at the No. 6 Kansas Jayhawks. The Wildcats hung close but they couldn’t close the deal.
UCLA had been receiving votes recently but they also dropped out of that category courtesy of a pair of losses to No. 7 Villanova and Virginia Commonwealth University.
The full rankings are as follows:
1. Duke
2. Ohio State
3. Pittsburgh
4. Kansas
5. Kansas State
6. Michigan State
7. Syracuse
8. Missouri
9. Connecticut
10. Baylor
11. Kentucky
12. Villanova
13. Minnesota
14. Georgetown
15. Memphis
16. Florida
17. Tennessee
18. Purdue
19. San Diego State
20. Texas
21. Illinois
22. Washington
23. UNLV
24. Gonzaga
25. Brigham Young
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NCAA Basketball Rankings, AP Top 25 Poll: Cal, Stanford Return To Earth Over Holidays
The latest edition of the 2010-2011 AP Poll was released today and it should be no surprise that Cal and Stanford are not getting love in this week's NCAA college basketball rankings. California received a vote last week, but that was quickly removed after a week of struggles in the Old Spice Classic. Stanford failed to capitalize on its own 3-0 start as it also struggled in the 76 Classic down in Anaheim.
Cal started the Old Spice Classic off with a big-time quality victory by knocking off No. 20 Temple 57-50 in its opening round match. In the semifinals California was run over at an incredibly slow pace by the Notre Dame Fighting Irish 57-44. In the third place game the Golden Bears were blown out 68-46 by Boston College.
Stanford went in the reverse direction, as it lost its first two games and won its final consolation game. The Cardinal lost a close one to Murray State 55-52 and then were handled relatively easily by Tulsa 65-53. They closed out the tournament in the consolation to the consolation bracket by defeating DePaul 81-74 in overtime.
Overall the Pac-10 continues to wait on national respect. The conference has a few solid wins, but it's not enough to get them the national respect in the polls quite yet. While the polls aren't the be-all, end-all as they are in college football, they can certainly influence the selection committee at the end of the season when at-large bids are being handed out in March.
The full rankings are as follows:
1. Duke
2. Ohio State
3. Pittsburgh
4. Kansas
5. Kansas State
6. Michigan State
7. Connecticut
8. Syracuse
9. Missouri
10. Kentucky
11. Baylor
12. Villanova
13. Tennessee
14. Memphis
15. Minnesota
16. Georgetown
17. San Diego State
18. Florida
19. Texas
20. Illinois
21. Brigham Young
22. Purdue
23. Washington
24. UNLV
25. Notre Dame
