Poll Smoking

by Sean Keeley on Mar 2, 2009 4:17 PM EST

Guess who's back? Syracuse basketball, that's who! (I totally gotcha!)

Syracuse re-enters both the AP and Coaches Polls this week at #25. The Orange added two wins over St. John's and Cincy and got back on the right track. With two games remaining the Orange have a chance to inch back towards the low 20's and possibly even the high teens (not that it ultimately matters).

UConn (blech) remains #1, Pittsburgh (fech) is #3/#4 and Louisville (ugh) is #6, rounding out the Big East involvement in the top ten. Marquette and Villanova are ranked in the teens. The Orange remained on the outside looking in of the Bloggers Poll, coming in at the #27 mark.

Over on the lacrosse front the Orange dropped maddively due to their loss to Virginia. In one poll they dropped all the way from #1 to...#2. And in the other poll they plummeted from #2 to....#2. Guess that's what happens when you only lose to the #1 team by one.

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I'm glad to see us back.

But I always get a laugh out of Memphis’ inflated ranking (#5/#3). I can’t be the only one who thinks we would also be 26-3 with that schedule can I? Or dare I say better than 26-3? Although it is nice to see them that high considering that we beat them (and Kansas for that matter).

by NOLACuse on Mar 2, 2009 5:04 PM EST reply actions

one of the perks

of being a good team in a bad league. If we played rutgers and depaul every league game we would only have 1 loss and be number 1 in both polls

by ryanwk628 on Mar 2, 2009 5:06 PM EST up reply actions

I know. I love it.

I really want them to join the Big East just to see what would happen to them.

by NOLACuse on Mar 2, 2009 5:09 PM EST up reply actions

Nah.

Then there would have been two Big East teams GRob could beat, and we probably would have had to deal with him for another year…

by drothgery on Mar 2, 2009 5:22 PM EST up reply actions

No. I mean now or the future.

Having them join now or future wouldn’t somehow make GRob come back.

by NOLACuse on Mar 2, 2009 5:50 PM EST up reply actions

True enough...

… but adding another really bad football team does make it easier for a bad football coach to survive.

And I kind of think the major goals of any expansion (which would be followed up by a split on football/basketball lines… and an indefinite SU/Georgetown non-conference basketball series) should have the goals of
- adding a good football team
- adding someone fairly close to Tampa so USF’s not out on an island a thousand miles from everyone else (unless we can swap them to the ACC for getting BC back, or to the SEC for the fun of having Louisville and Kentucky in the same conference)

Memphis doesn’t help with either of those.

by drothgery on Mar 2, 2009 7:22 PM EST up reply actions