Per realtimerpi.com, our SOS is 73 and there's is 71.
Granted, we have 11 Top 100 wins (3 of which are Top 25) compared to their 6 Top 100 wins (1 of which is Top 25).
Ha. That caught me off guard.
Relax;
Haven't many --- or at least some --- of our posters called this a "great" team.
And aren't we #2 in polls ... however unscientific they might be.
Nothing can go wrong, go wrong, go wrong, etc
I've been holding it back.Ha. That caught me off guard.
Kansas has 10 top 100 wins
Arizona - 8
Wisconsin - 9
Villanova - 9
Florida - 7
Wichita St - 6
UMass - 10
Mich. State - 8
Duke - 9
Creighton - 8
ISU - 7
Kentucky - 7
Michigan - 7
Oklahoma - 6
What's the point of your post? We are pretty battle tested. Once you get past the top 100 teams, they all kind of suck compared to the elite teams, so getting credit for beating 120 vs. 270 is sort of irrelevant.
after this week we will pass them and never look backPer realtimerpi.com, our SOS is 73 and there's is 71.
Granted, we have 11 Top 100 wins (3 of which are Top 25) compared to their 6 Top 100 wins (1 of which is Top 25).
And we've played 0 good teams on the road. 0. St. Johns is the top RPI team SU has played on the road, with a RPI of 74. Syracuse has 6 more road games this year, all but one of which come against teams with a significantly better RPI than St. Johns (and the last, Maryland, is at 80, so basically equal.)
Message boards tend towards extreme, so we're tending towards the AWESOME SUPER GOOD extreme right now. There's certainly reason to worry that we might be over-rating things at least a tad. And when SU loses a game or two we'll head directly in the opposite direction. So it goes.
Out of curiosity, did you happen to notice or hear/read about the games Arizona had vs. Drexel, UNLV and earlier this week at home vs. Utah? Arizona, everyone everywhere proclaims, is the undisputed best team in the land.I'm afraid I'm still something of a doubter based on watching all the games that have been televised.
I see this team as having flaws and as Boeheim said it's pretty "fragile".
I was poking fun at those who have called this a "Great" team and who seem to feel that being ranked #2 is the same as being the second best team.
There's a lot of justified anxiousness after watching Duke v. Pitt. There's a lot less chest-pounding going on.
focus more on how this team is growing instead of the schedule...
Fair needs to prove he can be a go to isolation bakset guy every night, Cooney needs to try to get hot every night, Rak needs to start averaging 10ppg, Gbinije needs to prove he can start to score some, and hopefully one of our 3 freshmen can get going. Grant and Ennis need to keep being Grant and Ennis.
We're 19-0. If we can't trend toward "awesome super good" now, when can we? At this point, why would anyone who isn't a "realist" not think that this is a great team and be confident that we are in the midst of a great season?
Can the wheels fall off? Of course, but they haven't.
I'm afraid I'm still something of a doubter based on watching all the games that have been televised.
I see this team as having flaws and as Boeheim said it's pretty "fragile".
I was poking fun at those who have called this a "Great" team and who seem to feel that being ranked #2 is the same as being the second best team.
There's a lot of justified anxiousness after watching Duke v. Pitt. There's a lot less chest-pounding going on.
So, definitively, which are the top 5 teams in the country?it is hard to say definitively right now that Syracuse is one of the top 5 teams in the country.
I don't expect the wheels to come off. And I do think this team probably ends up a 1 seed, which means it has a great shot at the NC. Mostly, I think it is useful to be a little contrarian on both ends - more optimistic when the board wants to forcibly retire Jim Boeheim (which admittedly has been rare in the last several years) and a little more pessimistic when the board wants to book tickets for the Final 4.
Just as people were wrong to think a tough game against St. Francis meant this was the worst team since 2008, I think people are over-reading the 19-0. The team has been gutting out wins - which is impressive and exciting and a very good sign, long term - playing in front of mostly friendly crowds against mostly mediocre teams. It is clear, absolutely 100% clear, that Syracuse is one of the top 15 or so teams in the country. I think just given how backloaded the schedule is that it is hard to say definitively right now that Syracuse is one of the top 5 teams in the country. (Which is not to say the ranking isn't deserved; it is.)
So, definitively, which are the top 5 teams in the country?
So, definitively, which are the top 5 teams in the country?